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Not perfect
It is a solidly built pedal with metal chassis and sturdy switches. Does not use batteries, but if you need a noise gate, that means that you have other pedals thus needing more batteries... which is heavy for the wallet, so I guess that a sensible person always uses some kind of external power. I like the size of the pedal, because it drastically reduces the space needed on the pedalboard.
One problem I have with the pedal is that it's treshold potentiometer doesn't really do anything until I crank it around -20 or -10 dB, and then it eats my sustain.
Mind you, I use high gain amps (Peavey 5150, Jet city JCA22h and H&K tubemeister 18) with OD units in front, so I should have lots and lots of sustain. I don't crank the gain all the way up, but around 4-5 which, combined with a tubescreamer-type pedal, gives a good, sturdy sound needed to play metal.
This pedal manages to eat it all. I can't find the perfect spot where it cuts the noise when I play staccato and let's enough sound to be able to let the chord ring at the end of a song, so I am forced to constantly turn it on and off which is off-putting. This problem occurs on the "soft" setting. The other one is unusable.
Long story short - it shouldn't retail for 66 euros, it works like a pedal that's half the price.
One problem I have with the pedal is that it's treshold potentiometer doesn't really do anything until I crank it around -20 or -10 dB, and then it eats my sustain.
Mind you, I use high gain amps (Peavey 5150, Jet city JCA22h and H&K tubemeister 18) with OD units in front, so I should have lots and lots of sustain. I don't crank the gain all the way up, but around 4-5 which, combined with a tubescreamer-type pedal, gives a good, sturdy sound needed to play metal.
This pedal manages to eat it all. I can't find the perfect spot where it cuts the noise when I play staccato and let's enough sound to be able to let the chord ring at the end of a song, so I am forced to constantly turn it on and off which is off-putting. This problem occurs on the "soft" setting. The other one is unusable.
Long story short - it shouldn't retail for 66 euros, it works like a pedal that's half the price.
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JS
Solid and affordable
Definitely worth the small price tag, but that gives a slight disadvantage of options/features. For the size and price, though... it's hard to beat! It cleans up the hum from my Orange Dark Terror very nicely without sacrificing tone our output quality.
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KS
Seems to do what you would expect it to do!
I bought this pedal to run inline with a hot Boss OD2 set at max gain on the dist sitting & it seems to do the job. It doesn't effect the tone which was my biggest concern. Its small size means it doesn't take up too much real estate, which means more room for fun pedals on my board!!
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PS
Does the job well enough
The cutting of the noise is a bit harsh, especially with the hiss from an OD pedal. It still works well though.
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Does the job
Good, cheap, small, and effective. It doesn't live on my pedalboard all the time, and I can't compare it to other, possibly better, definitely more expensive pedals, but for the price it can't be beat! What more do you need?
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