Anybody using the Decimator?

[crankyrayhanky]

This may be sacriligious, as noise reduction units typically rob tone. But I tried this at my buddies house through a Mark iv and came away impressed.

I have a rm100 playing in a part of town where the electricity is real noisy, especially compared to my last place. I play high gain, so I'm thinking this pedal may come in handy

Or keep my tone and just deal with other ways of handling the noise, including just living with it.

 

[Soulinsane]

I actually love mine. I got it years ago because it doesn't suck tone. For high gain purposes its awesome but on cleaner stuff it can reduce sustain if left on, unless you got one of the G units.

 

[raz311]

I use the pedal version in the series loop of my Lynch Box. Using the KH2 and KH3 requires a good gate and this one does the trick.
However it does need to be switched off for cleans, so having it as a pedal is conveniant.

 

[NCdan]

I know there is a new version out that leaves the clean unaffected while gating the distortion signal; something with two inputs and outputs. I haven't tried the decimator, although, that's the pedal people are raving about. I use an MXR smart gate, and it works fine for HARD gating, and with an EQ section after it, it does the job fairly well.

 

[crankyrayhanky]

on cleaner stuff it can reduce sustain if left on

Looks like it's great for high gain. The setting for high gain would have to be different than low gain/clean tones...

How about in a studio setting, how effective is the Decimator in cleaning up a noisy clean strat sound?

 

[Jaded Faith]

I swear by mine. I use it on my board in front of my RM4, RM100 and RM50 with great results. I also use the Hush gating in my Xpression in the serial loop on the RM100 and RM50 or between the RM4 and RT2/50 in my rack. Using two gates is nice because I don't have to use exteme settings on either and the is very little loss this way. I can always stomp the pedal off if I need to as well.

 

[JKD]

I replaced my tone sucking POS NS-2 witha Decimator a long time ago...it gates better, less likely to cut off and doesn't affect tone anywhere near as much.

Use it infront of amps to kill feedback/pickup noise.

 

[tonymustang302]

I replaced my tone sucking POS NS-2 witha Decimator a long time ago...it gates better, less likely to cut off and doesn't affect tone anywhere near as much.

Use it infront of amps to kill feedback/pickup noise.

What? I got pissed with the ISP after playing with it for 2 day's i couldn't get it to work, so i went to my trusty NS-2 amd a, happy.

 

[crankyrayhanky]

I'm now the newest member of the Decimator club- this pedal rules

 

[mike]

I'm now the newest member of the Decimator club- this pedal rules

I've found all noise gates somehow changes/suck tone..I used some in the pass but just hated them!! but never tryed the Decimator.

but do you really need one :?:

 

[NCdan]

I've found all noise gates somehow changes/suck tone..I used some in the pass but just hated them!! but never tryed the Decimator.

but do you really need one

This really depends on the rig. For someone playing moderate gain with EMG's, then no. There are also some misconceptions out there that a rig should be 100% (or pretty close to that) quiet, which isn't true. I need a pretty hard noise gate because I play hi gain with passive P90's. For most humbucker rigs that aren't playing extreme distortion, it comes down to how much gear do you want to haul around and worry about powering and maintaining? The noise gate definitely quiets a rig down, but idk if it's absolutely necessary most of the time.

 

[crankyrayhanky]

It's liberating to have a huge saturated gainiac sound with full singing sustain just come to complete silence on command. And now I can actually use the far end positions on my Mexican Strat single coils

Again, my neighborhood electric is poor- built before everyone had cable tv, internet connections, computers, etc. I've had ground rods put in and invested $ into Equitech to try to clean up my sounds with very little improvement.

So far I don't notice any tone suck or anything deterring from my sound

 

[crankyrayhanky]

For most humbucker rigs that aren't playing extreme distortion

Who's playing Randall without going to high gain?

 

[JKD]

For most humbucker rigs that aren't playing extreme distortion

Who's playing Randall without going to high gain?

If you haven't checked out the JTM, Tweed, Plexi, Super V... you're really missing out..I know you were tongue in check but these modules kill for low/medium gain :twisted:

 

[crankyrayhanky]

:shock:
You just named my shopping list

 

[Steel City Psycho]

I have the ProRackG, got it a month ago.

I live in apartment complex built in the 60's so my rig was beyond noisy, I had an NS-2 and even bought a power conditioner surge protector, both did very little.

It's awesome, no tone suck I can tell. All my notes ring through until they die naturally (it's not actually a gate, it has some chip that tracks your guitars signal and lets it decay naturally then the noise reduction kicks in) and when I'm not playing all I hear is the fan on the RM100.

 

[tonymustang302]

Then what the ****, why did i have such a hard time getting the squeel's quieted with the fricken thing. IMHO the NS-2 did a better job quiting my amp?

 

[Steel City Psycho]

Then what the f*&k, why did i have such a hard time getting the squeel's quieted with the fricken thing. IMHO the NS-2 did a better job quiting my amp?

I have no experience with the pedal, the pedal version of what I have I think is called the G-string?

It's two channels and provides front end and loop noise reduction.

Your guitar goes into channel one and then channel one goes out to your amp.

Then channel two goes in the loop and they're designed specifically for those two functions.

The rack was insanely expensive, but every review I read spoke of how it was "pure magic" and the "best investment they ever made."

 

[tonymustang302]

Then what the f*&k, why did i have such a hard time getting the squeel's quieted with the fricken thing. IMHO the NS-2 did a better job quiting my amp?

I have no experience with the pedal, the pedal version of what I have I think is called the G-string?

It's two channels and provides front end and loop noise reduction.

Your guitar goes into channel one and then channel one goes out to your amp.

Then channel two goes in the loop and they're designed specifically for those two functions.

The rack was insanely expensive, but every review I read spoke of how it was "pure magic" and the "best investment they ever made."

How much?

 

[Steel City Psycho]

Then what the f*&k, why did i have such a hard time getting the squeel's quieted with the fricken thing. IMHO the NS-2 did a better job quiting my amp?

I have no experience with the pedal, the pedal version of what I have I think is called the G-string?

It's two channels and provides front end and loop noise reduction.

Your guitar goes into channel one and then channel one goes out to your amp.

Then channel two goes in the loop and they're designed specifically for those two functions.

The rack was insanely expensive, but every review I read spoke of how it was "pure magic" and the "best investment they ever made."

How much?

Got mine from Musician's Friend $405.