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Jack Luminous
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Just a repost from TGP but I thought it was useful as many people here are into high-gain and potentially interested. So I got this thing yesterday evening. After thorough testing, I can safely say it's the best noise-gate I've layed my hands on until now. Over the years, I've used : Boss NS-2, various hush units, Decimator, and more recently KMA Pylon, Lonewolf Audio Endless Blockade, Guptech Sun (both slightly modified Zuul clones, itself a clone of Marshall 2203KK noise gate etc.).
The hush units work great but hurt the tone. The NS-2 works great but is kinda crude. Decimator works too but not perfectly. KMA Pylon is just like hush. The Zuul-like clones are better than aforementionned units. But...
The AMT NG-1 is really superior to all the others IMHO. It preserves the overall guitar tone better on all accounts. The core tone is unchanged. The decay is so natural it's amazing. No stuttering, no abrupt end, no artifact of any kind, just natural decay. Without any noise in the end ! Leave it on with clean tone, it works perfectly. Grab the neck, total silence. Great headroom. It works at line level (handles my Soldano preamp output with ease !). It's perfect. it's very small too. The only drawback I can see for now is it needs 12V instead of 9V but nowadays, with modern power supplies, it's not much of a problem. I can only advise to anyone looking for a good noise gate to take a hard look at this small chunk of metal.
So at the moment, I kept Endless Blockade, Guptech Sun. All the others are long gone. The AMT is now in my main Soldano rig.
The hush units work great but hurt the tone. The NS-2 works great but is kinda crude. Decimator works too but not perfectly. KMA Pylon is just like hush. The Zuul-like clones are better than aforementionned units. But...
The AMT NG-1 is really superior to all the others IMHO. It preserves the overall guitar tone better on all accounts. The core tone is unchanged. The decay is so natural it's amazing. No stuttering, no abrupt end, no artifact of any kind, just natural decay. Without any noise in the end ! Leave it on with clean tone, it works perfectly. Grab the neck, total silence. Great headroom. It works at line level (handles my Soldano preamp output with ease !). It's perfect. it's very small too. The only drawback I can see for now is it needs 12V instead of 9V but nowadays, with modern power supplies, it's not much of a problem. I can only advise to anyone looking for a good noise gate to take a hard look at this small chunk of metal.
So at the moment, I kept Endless Blockade, Guptech Sun. All the others are long gone. The AMT is now in my main Soldano rig.
