Noise gate

[kpinks]

I have a Splawn Quickrod, and was wondering if people were putting their noise gate out in front of the amp or in the loop?

 

[Smash]

If you put a gate in front of the amp, the staccato will be brutal (in a good way). If you have a serial loop, it will completely quiet the preamp hiss and feedback between notes or chords when you put it in the loop.

Most people do both. What type of gate do you have?

 

[kpinks]

I have the MXR Smart Gate

 

[Smash]

If you have a parallel loop, then the answer is you need to put it in front of the amp. If you have a serial loop, then try it both spots and see which you like best. If you dont mind the preamp hiss and the feedback, it will probably be pretty powerful in front, but it is going to be a lot more pleasing to your ears at high volumes in the loop

 

[kpinks]

I am not sure if the Quickrod is a series or parallel loop. Most likely a series loop

 

[Smash]

I am not sure if the Quickrod is a series or parallel loop. Most likely a series loop

Throw the gate in the loop. If it silences the hiss, it is series. If it seems to make no difference, parallel.

 

[311boogieman]

All Splawns have a serial loop. I had a SmartGate a long time ago. If you intend to keep that pedal then just put it where you have the most hiss as Smash is saying. If you don't mind ditching that pedal for something that will do both front and loop at the same time, then get something like a Boss NS-2 or an ISP G string Decimator. Those have the capability to do both at the same time.

If I had too much hiss coming from the amp, I would try to eliminate it. Like a bad preamp tube or bad power feed. If I had too much hiss on the front end, I'd be looking at my guitar, pickups (height mainly), proximity to amp, cables, pedals, etc that all hit the front end. I hate hiss.

My Quick Rod is super quiet, even without a gate, but I use a NS-2 so it is covering my front end of the Splawn and the Recto and the loop of the Splawn. Recto is still a hissy bitch no matter what

 

[kpinks]

All Splawns have a serial loop. I had a SmartGate a long time ago. If you intend to keep that pedal then just put it where you have the most hiss as Smash is saying. If you don't mind ditching that pedal for something that will do both front and loop at the same time, then get something like a Boss NS-2 or an ISP G string Decimator. Those have the capability to do both at the same time.

If I had too much hiss coming from the amp, I would try to eliminate it. Like a bad preamp tube or bad power feed. If I had too much hiss on the front end, I'd be looking at my guitar, pickups (height mainly), proximity to amp, cables, pedals, etc that all hit the front end. I hate hiss.

My Quick Rod is super quiet, even without a gate, but I use a NS-2 so it is covering my front end of the Splawn and the Recto and the loop of the Splawn. Recto is still a hissy bitch no matter what

It is more like a hum than a hissing sound

 

[Jack Luminous]

Hum is often a technical problem, either ground loop or local EMF radiation, badly grounded guitar/amp/wall plug, faulty preamp/power amp tube, badly balanced/biased power amp, too old/leaky capacitors, cold solder joints etc. I recently recapped a Marshall 9200 power amp that gave low-level hum in speakers. With new caps, the hum disappeared.

 

[kpinks]

I have a rather large pedalboard with many wires underneath, I am assuming this is the cause for the hum

 

[311boogieman]

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