have you guys ever priced out a decent power conditioner? they are a lot more expensive than a noise gate. the "power conditioners" that are $100 or less aren't really power conditioners, they are just glorified power strips.
Every noise gate I have ever tried sucked the life out of my tone and I hate how they close and open. I would rather have the noise than use one of them that's just my opinion. There's only one club I've ever played where the wiring was an issue and using a guitar with humbuckers cured that.
That's why I suggested the TC Electronics Sentry. It's a multi-band and that's all adjustable. You only kill the frequencies that are causing noise and you can let the rest ring out naturally.Every noise gate I have ever tried sucked the life out of my tone and I hate how they close and open. I would rather have the noise than use one of them that's just my opinion. There's only one club I've ever played where the wiring was an issue and using a guitar with humbuckers cured that.
Ok, I finally had a chance to hook it up, and I have a question.Plug guitar>tuner>o d pedals/noise generating pedal>g string(guitar in)
G string(guitar out)>non noisy pedals/amp
Then
Fx loop send>Dec in
Dec out> pedals in the loop>fx loop return
That's my basic setup. Hopefully I didn't type it wrong
Run you reverb/delay in the loop after the gate so it won't cut off your trails.
In the above post you have it as "the instructions say to place any gain pedals in front of the amp and dec In on the pedal"Ok, Sweetwater finally got some in and shipped me one.
How do I hook this thing up?
I have a tuner pedal, this new Decimator II G-String, and a Fulltone OCD pedal.
I'm guessing that I plug my guitar into the tuner pedal > noise gate > overdrive > amp? The instructions say to place any gain pedals in front of the amp and DEC In on the noise gate. The DEC In and the DEC Out get hooked up thru the amps effects loop. And to place any delay pedals after the noise gate but before the loop return. The DEC In goes to the loop send of the amp, and the DEC Out goes to the loop return of the amp.
Kind of confusing, as you are plugging into the amp twice thru the Decimator G-String, once thru the regular in/out & into amp chain, and the 2nd time thru the amps effects loop.
Damn, I'm glad I don't need one of those. Way too complicated for me.Ok we need to start from scratch. Remove all the pedals and only run the ISP. Guitar goes in guitar in...guitar out goes to amp input.
Amp send to dec in
Dec out to return.
Yeah....this is a hot topic on a lot of forums. I participate in a couple of other guitar forums and easily, once a week somebody has trouble with this.Damn, I'm glad I don't need one of those. Way too complicated for me.
Yeah, it's hooked up with a wall-wart power supply. Red light comes on.
Try it with a battery... seems like this guy is having the same issue:
http://www.harmonycentral.com/forum/forum/guitar/acapella-28/1443265-