Tone Sucker, Volume Dropper

This pedal has a few YouTube reviews out there that make it seem like some "secret weapon" for killing noise in your signal. These guys must either have depressingly cheap, sub-par rigs that are already devoid of tone, because I slapped this thing in my FX loop (where the noise is at its peak and this type of pedal can actually do its job) and it not only reduces the volume, but there is some tone loss.

I'm not new to the world of noise suppressors, I used to own an MXR Smart Gate and didn't have any of the issues I'm having with this pedal. It seemed promising based on what I was hearing from reviewers, and the "hard/soft" switch for the gate clip was a really attractive feature. That particular feature seems like it works well enough, (hence 2 star review instead of 1), although not great. The actual noise gate also just falls too short to be usable.

Cranking the knob all the way to the right completely kills the signal, which I've never seen in a noise gate before. I've had those signal squashing, erratic gates before that make it sound like an 8-bit arcade game, but this design flaw is out of place in a noise gate since no signal passes through at all. This noise gate is also really short on range of effectiveness, you essentially have an 11 o'clock to 1 o'clock spread where you're getting any difference from the top or bottom of the knob without it not either being totally on or off.

So basically this pedal was a real bust for me, but if you just have a loud, noisy economy rig and need some form of a noise gate, for around $30 this probably gets it done for you. Otherwise, look elsewhere.

Surprisingly Good for the Money

I picked this up from an online store in China and wasn't expecting much for the price, but it's actually pretty good all things considered.

It doesn't clamp down on single coil noise as fast as you might hope, but it does a pretty reasonable job of taking out the hum from noisy dirt pedals if placed immediately afterwards in the chain. Not bad. Not bad at all.

Works better than I expected.

For real, this works much better than I expected it too. Used in multiple rigs, reduces noise in pedals and high gain channels. Helps eliminate 60 cycle hum in single coil guitars too.

BETTER THAN THE ISP DECIAMTOR

I SWEAR IT. IT EVEN HAS A SOFT AND HARD SWITCH THIS IS A $40 PEDAL THAT IS THE BEST NOISE GATE OUT THERE

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