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Electro Harmonix Silencer

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Pedal Effect for Electric Guitar

  • Noise gate and effect input
  • Up to 70 dB noise cancelling
  • Buffered bypass
  • Knobs: release, reduction & threshold
  • Compact construction
  • Rugged chassis
  • Power supply via 9 V battery or 9 V DC power adaptor (not included, coaxial power connector - minus on the inside, suitable power adaptor available Art. 409939)
Available since October 2015
Item number 369940
Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
Effect Types Noise Gate
$69
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Capable of handling any type of noise
Anonymous 26.09.2016
In my chain this pedal is the highest hierarchically, extending its scope over the entire chain from the guitar input to the return of the fx loop of my tube amp.
Since currently i have an twofold impedance mismatch between an amp and a cab, it produces a constant low hum, making playing a single coil guitar through the setup being excessively noisy. Implementing a noise-gate X-connection with this pedal battled every type of noise that could appear in my chain, and had just enough controls to make it sound organic.

My main points of experience:
+ The noise-gate X-connection does not damage the tone, and no phase cancellation running it through a long loop has been a problem;
+ The range of control values on the knobs can make this pedal take on more functionality than just of a noise gate, so however strange it may sound, it may be played around with as well;
+ Small current draw, as of the majority of EHX pedals, favors the owners of large pedalboards;
- Even though it can be tweaked with the proper combination of "Threshold" and "Reduction", it seems to have been more intuitive to have a separate "Attack" knob. However the pedal functions just as well without it.
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yomeyamoyo 21.03.2022
This effect is bit diferent from other noise suppresors, this could be the reason you choose it or the reason you refuse to use it, it brings you more control to adjust and, in my opinion, is more precise at this point but less efficent supressing the noise.
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Nice gate
Forever Beginner 07.10.2020
I use this pedal for Strat with overdrive and Les Paul with EMGs with distortion + boost pedal. Works very well. I like this gate design as well. No cons at all.
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does a good job at reducing noise for an affordable price!
Shawn Legaspi 14.01.2022
this pedal works really good for me - I put my distortion pedals through the fx loop of the EHX Silencer, which makes it so that the noise gate uses the clean signal of my bass to know when to activate.

easy to use, cheaper and maybe even better than a Boss noise gate!
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