That doesn't cost an arm and a leg and doesn't
mess with the signal much.???

any suggestions crew?

DBX used to the half rack kind they are pretty cheap I have a couple of them and never spent more than $60-100. Check it out on ebay. I find them much better than the pedals although I still use the MXR on stuff too.

http://cgi.ebay.com/DBX-363X-2-CHANNEL- ... dZViewItem

They also have a one slider version called the "scilencer" as well they have those small rails modules.

sonikBOOM wrote:That doesn't cost an arm and a leg and doesn't
mess with the signal much.???

any suggestions crew?

The MXR Smart Gate is one of the best for its size and price. I bought one a year ago and have been very pleased. I think the guy who wears a hat and plays guitar in Shellac has one of these too, maybe.

Best,
Justin

The Rocktron HUSH is pretty decent. I have the rackmount version and it works great.

The Boss unit is cheap and great.
Loads of 'em on Ebay at any given time.
They gots a light on 'em so you can tell when they's on, unlike the MXR.
Do it! You know you wanna...

-A

kewl thanks for the help. that mxr one up here in canda is almost 250$ so eff that one. if i can score a used boss im on it. though i secretly hate boss pedals. haha

Oh yeah my brother has the Boss pedal. It is not bad. I like the HUSH better though, it doesn't really sound as gate-y to my ear. I think there is a pedal version of the HUSH, too.

The Hush pedal is nice. Have seen a lot of the hush stuff at pawn shops so you should be able to get a buy.

Think that S. Albini is useing the noise gate at the begining of his chain to shape his volume attack as the Trav Bean has to be the loudest output of any guitar I have encountered. So loud that one has to use pads when DIing it.

yea id be running it at the begining of my signal path too basicly to get rid of single coil hum , i run alot of brittle gain and it really picks up the hum factor if im on either neck or bridge pickup.