Using a double noise gate in pedal chain

[Kaihoro1388]

Hey guys I am attempting to run two noise gates in my setup. Either one before the amp and one in fx loop or both before the amp. Any suggestions on the best way to go about this? My gear that I am trying to run, mayones guitar-shure wireless pedal-compressor-volume expression-overdrive-noise gate-eq and from the eq either go into the amp and use second noise gate in my Mesa fx loop (with my delay and reverb) or go from eq to noise gate to amp and have just reverb and delay in fx loop. Help please!

 

[Kaihoro1388]

Btw I have a boss looper pedal I wish to use in the chain or fx loop as well. Suggestions on placement? In fx loop with delay reverb and noise gate or in front of the amp?

 

[Mike]

Depends on what's giving you noise. Either way though, I'd say your easiest bet is putting one noise gate as the last pedal in your pedal chain before the amp to clean up pedal and guitar noise, then one last in the fx loop to clean up any fx loop pedal noise and just general high gain hiss that the amp itself is producing.

What noise gates are you using?

 

[ambler3]

Why are you looking to run two gates? with a single gate are you running it in the 4 cable method?

 

[TheWarAgainstTime]

I'd put one gate as the very first thing after the wireless and the other one as the very last pedal before the input of the amp. That way there's one gate completely dedicated to silencing the guitar, which makes staccato playing much cleaner than only having one gate at the end of your pedal chain. Then the second gate will take care of excess noise going into the amp

It's not 100% necessary to have a gate in the FX loop unless your pedals or the loop itself are particularly noisy IMO

 

[Kaihoro1388]

Well I want to get rid of the noise from the compressor, so it's clean when it goes to the overdrive eq and to the amp. I just don't know if I should put my second noise gate in the fx loop which only has tc flashback and strymon bigsky or put the second noise gate after the OD and Eq right before the amp. Mishap used to do something similar he had a noise gate right after compressor, then Od then second noise gate then eq then the third noise gate in the fx loop.

 

[Kaihoro1388]

I'm not running the X pattern (4cable) I don't know it it would work with two gates. I have a boss ns2 and my decimator gstring will be here tomorrow. The gstring also has a loop like the boss ns2

 

[Kaihoro1388]

Wouldn't it be better to put the first noise gate after the compressor instead of right after my wireless? I feel the compressor OD and eq will stack to much noise not to put one right after the compressor. I didn't realize my guitar would have that much noise to have to put one right after the wireless

 

[Kaihoro1388]

I have my fx loop with delay and verb and the switch set to channel one which is clean. So when I hit clean channel all my effects are on and I don't have to stomp them. In order for a gate to work in the effects loop to get rid of hiss would I have to set the fx loop to footswich or can I keep it set at channel one so I don't have to hit the delay and verb when I go clean it's just automatically on.

 

[domsch1988]

From my Understanding the Boss has a Sensing and a Gating Circuit. So, put it after you guitar to be able to set the threshold as low as possible. The Loop of the Boss would be for everything the produces excessive noise. I personally run guitar to boss ns2, than other pre-amp pedals, after the last fx loop pedal to the loop in on the ns2 and the loop out to fx return. Works great for me. You always want the cleanest possible signal to trigger the gate and the highest noise signal to be gated... I might be wrong though