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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)

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Available since October 2015
Item number 369940
Sales Unit 1 piece(s)
Effect Types Noise Gate

$73

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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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Honest talk about this gate.

liguana_freak 28.02.2026

I have this gate for a while now and i have to say that for me this pedal is probaply a mid range quality product..it does the job fine, but it has some problems too, let me explain.
Firstly to be very clear, if you want to make a simple noice cancelation for high gain sounds etc. it will work fine to that but, Holy crap this pedal has way to sensitive threshold and a lot of tweaking for no particular reason. I think that is reasonable to spent a little more money to buy something better than this. I'm sure that you can find noice gates that when you get your volumes down in you high gain channel would not cut your signal so aggresively like this pedal does. For me the only solution to keep having this pedal is that i will use it only for my full volume high gain sounds and i will open and close it with my boss es-8 switching gear or elso doen't worth the struggle for tap dancing and sh*t.

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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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