Dantas
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Decimator II incoming. Will let everyone know how it is.
Yay!
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Hope it works fine. Let us know how it is for sure
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Decimator II incoming. Will let everyone know how it is.
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Decimator II incoming. Will let everyone know how it is.
Have you tried any of the toneprint settings to remove that frequency? I've always only used NS-2's. Have one in front of my chain, then the 1101 gate, then G Major's gate in the loop. If I were to gig again just digital, the 1101 gate would be enough.
Decimator II incoming. Will let everyone know how it is.
Nice! I've a Decimator II and an original in my main rig and they're untouchable as far as noise reduction goes.
I've also owned an MXR Smart Gate, which was pretty good but very touchy with the controls, a Boss NS-2, and a DBX 266xl. The NS-2 is okay, but not my first choice, especially if I were to only use one gate in my rig. The DBX was actually the next best thing to the Decimators IMO, but once I got my second Decimator pedal it was redundant and just taking up space in my rack.
I compared my ISP Decimator (1. Gen.) and my new Sentry for days.
I have another point I recognized and that Sentry users may check in that regard: the bypass that is used. By default the pedal is in true-bypass mode, which means the impedance is changed when the pedal is engaged because there will be a buffer in use! This slightly changes the frequency response (especially with ODs/boosters afterwards) and can be heard easily imho. Especially in terms of white noise. When I turned the buffer of the TC on, there is no such change anymore between ON and OFF.
The ISPs are always buffered, there is no true bypass. So you cannot get this effect there.
But they are anyhow always on, so what.
For my in-house noise problems I liked the Sentry more, but it was a close call.
I had the exact same problem... with a $20 Behringer noise gate. I would expect and require better from TC.
I compared my ISP Decimator (1. Gen.) and my new Sentry for days.
I have another point I recognized and that Sentry users may check in that regard: the bypass that is used. By default the pedal is in true-bypass mode, which means the impedance is changed when the pedal is engaged because there will be a buffer in use! This slightly changes the frequency response (especially with ODs/boosters afterwards) and can be heard easily imho. Especially in terms of white noise. When I turned the buffer of the TC on, there is no such change anymore between ON and OFF.
The ISPs are always buffered, there is no true bypass. So you cannot get this effect there.
But they are anyhow always on, so what.
For my in-house noise problems I liked the Sentry more, but it was a close call.
TC has not been on an upward path for a while in the QC department.
I still love the NS2. After owning a few decimators, a couple of g strings, a decimator 2, rocktron hush, mxr smart gate, pigtronix gatekeeper, a couple others, and the TC Sentry, I still find the NS2 to be the best pedal noise gate around. I get no tone suckage (I never understood this claim because I have never heard it, and Ive owned about 10 NS2s haha), 4CM lets me completely silence my rig, and the cut off always seems more natural to me than most others.
I didnt notice the white noise thing with the Sentry that I had, but I couldn't get past the fact that their marketing implied that it did 4CM, but it doesn't actually do that. So it went back.