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I think I've already reviewed this once before but I liked it so much I bought another for my second board. It's easy to use, has all the features I need. I almost went with the Noise clamp but the smart gate does something that I doubt most pedal type gates will. If you set it correctly you can get subtle volume swells for the pretty stuff. I hardly use it unless my comp is on but I like it. I play country, rock, blues, and 70-present top 40 and I use a fair amount of gain for much of my lead stuff. Noise free!
This pedal works really well at keep feedback suppressed at high volume and high gain settings. It's simple to operate. There are a few settings so just try them and you get it down quick. It really works well so you have to realize that you have to turn it off if you want to sustain feedback. And if the settings are too high it will not let the sound come out right away it slowly builds to full volume which can be useful. But is easily avoided setting the right levels.
I tried another brands noisegate pedal and although it did a great job of killing unwanted noise it altered my guitar tone. I checked out a few reviews of the MXR Smartgate on you tube and bought one online. I am only impressed with it - it works well. It,s built to last like all MXR pedals. There's no need to read a manual to work out how to use it - just isolate the kind of noise you want to eliminate with the selector switch and adjust the trigger level to suit. If you are using reverb or delay pedals the smartgate will kill the tail of these effects so I have positioned it on my board just before the delay and reverb units and after all the modulation and distortion units ( of course ). I am powering it with the MXR DC Brick. I like everything about the MXR Smartgate - it,s design and functionality and that it keeps your hard earned tone intact.Read full review
Very good noise suppressor....I Recommend it.....also works nicely with p90s....tames noisy overdrives...
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I needed a good noise gate, but didn't have a big enough budget to drop $200+ on something like an ISP Decimator G-string. I found this little guy for a very reasonable price. For its size and price range, it does its job very well. Though it doesn't cut feedback and noise as well as I hoped it would, you can't beat a 70 MXR noise gate. Eventually I may upgrade to the ISP, but until then the smartgate is more than good enough.
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