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It has been a long time since I ran two gates. The control it gives you is incredible. However there isn't a lot of information on how to do it with two Decimator pedals.
With the four cable method and a decimator g, you would run straight from guitar into the input and output goes to pedal board, and then you put the loop through your pedal to have total silence. This beats the zuul in my opinion, because it has natural sustain and decay.
However, it has a link possibility if you have a second decimator. If you link the two, then you can run another at the end of your pedal board. With the decimator gstring, because it is a through signal pedal, if you run it in the loop, you need an isolation transformer to prevent a ground loop.
But now, I have natural sustain with the loop and silence from the preamp section with the gstring and I can set the second decimator to just control how fast the gate shuts my guitar signal before the amp for the tight percussive stuff. So it won't activate with sustain going, just when I silence the strings.
I really cannot brag about this situation enough. It is by far the most transparent way that I have found to have the gate perfect for me.
With the four cable method and a decimator g, you would run straight from guitar into the input and output goes to pedal board, and then you put the loop through your pedal to have total silence. This beats the zuul in my opinion, because it has natural sustain and decay.
However, it has a link possibility if you have a second decimator. If you link the two, then you can run another at the end of your pedal board. With the decimator gstring, because it is a through signal pedal, if you run it in the loop, you need an isolation transformer to prevent a ground loop.
But now, I have natural sustain with the loop and silence from the preamp section with the gstring and I can set the second decimator to just control how fast the gate shuts my guitar signal before the amp for the tight percussive stuff. So it won't activate with sustain going, just when I silence the strings.
I really cannot brag about this situation enough. It is by far the most transparent way that I have found to have the gate perfect for me.
