TC Electronic IRON CURTAIN NOISE GATE Ultra Fast and Efficient Noise Gate with 2-Knob Interface

Wowsers, this pedal works. I play my guitar through my computer mostly and as such have come across alot of unwanted rfi from the computer itself picked up by my pickups. I've tried alot of things to remove this such as faraday cloth over the computer, basically modifying and lining a small cabinet with copper foil(and earthing it) to put the computer in, power conditioner, pedal psu with isolated outputs and even an ifi silencer to break power to the soundcard and provide it with seperate power from the conditioner(there's more I've done I'm sure but can't remember what) and nothing has worked. Although this pedal isn't going to completely eradicate the noise it does a damned good job trying. I use the hiss setting(toggle switch down) and have the damp and threshold about 12 o'clock and the gate cuts perfectly and the hiss is massively quietened, it's basically working as a filter but doesn't seem to affect tone too much(I also have it set to bypass not buffer mode, pretty sure I have other buffered pedals on my pedal board and one pedal is on all the time so it acts as a buffer anyway). Straight out the box I managed to very simply get what I wanted from this pedal so I'm really impressed, I've replaced an ehx silencer with it and though that pedal would work fine without the pc's rfi it didn't work as well as I needed it to. The only thing I haven't really liked so far is the toneprint software. The interface is easy to use but I think the options could have been named better, it quite often didn't seem as straight forward as I'd have liked and found that I wasn't able to get as good a setup as the hiss option. I also found that the the pro guitarist toneprints didn't work for me at all, I couldn't get anything past the gate(and I stack pedals when possible, I had an overdrive set at mid gain going into a distortion pedal at near full gain going into a bass od pedal that I use as a kind of preamp). Not a major issue and as I'd only had the pedal for about an hour by then I was maybe doing something wrong. So far this is the 3rd noise gate I've owned and it is definitely my favourite. It works extremely well, has a ton of features on toneprint that you could take the time to learn about and hasn't affected my guitar tone at all. I would strongly recommend this pedal to anybody struggling with unwanted noise in their signal

I have a Telecaster with a humbucker neck pickup and a Fender single coil bridge pickup. Having the humbucker highlights how noisy the single coil is. I don't have a lot of distortion just a touch of overdrive, now and then, so my noise issues are mostly with the guitar. I've researched noise gates and the TC Electronic Sentry and the Iron Curtain are both highly regarded. The Sentry tops the IC but at 3 times the price, is it worth it if the IC will do the job? And yes, it does. It works very well, no 50 cycle hum and no unwanted interference. However, one small quibble, when you play a note with a long sustain, eventually, the volume drops through the gate and there's the hum lurking in the background! This can be alleviated by adjusting delay nob, but you can't quite get rid of it. The Sentry has a hum setting and I wonder if that sorts this issue? There's some debate as to where to put it in the chain. As my noise source is the guitar I started with it at the front, but having tried it at the end I don't hear any difference, it works just as well. This is good because I can locate it with the amp. There's no point having it on my board because it's on all the time and I'm not going to be turning it on and off. Also it's a big pedal and takes up a lot of space. I'm 90% happy with the Iron Curtain, I may try a Sentry at some point but, I suspect it needs a lot more twiddling and can't be put in the corner with my amp. db

Great noise gate. Toneprint is a wonderful feature to use. For best results you need to run your guitar into the input, then in the loop run everything ahead of the power amp, then return into power amp. This allows you to filter the noise far better and get less drop off in the signal. The input on the front end gives the clearest trigger to control things. Just running a dirty noise into the front of the pedal, and expecting it to come out unaltered except hiss taken out doesn't work - well it does, but it sounds heavily manipulated. So my signal chain goes: - GUITAR - SENTRY INPUT - SENTRY LOOP OUT - ALL PEDALS VIA BOSS ES-8 - INTO PREAMP - PREAMP OUT INTO PEDALS VIA FX LOOP - LAST PEDAL IN FX CHAIN INTO THE SENTRY LOOP IN - OUTPUT INTO AMP FX RETURN This way you can really control the trigger and separate the dirty noise from the noise you want. Great product if you have a noisy signal chain due to too much gain. Obviously won't fix earth loops

Para lo que necesito funciona perfectamente, con el método de 4 cables se consigue quitar todo el ruido, además con los 3 reguladores que tiene, puedes dejarlo a tu gusto, el precio que tiene es muy bueno, seguro que hay puertas de ruido mejores pero valdrán el doble o más.

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TC Electronic never disappoints. This pedal is a quality investment that, if used properly, will remove the noise due to pedals from your signal chain 100% of the time. It'll also take care of any noisy cables you put inside of its loop, but you should check for and resolve any issues with noisy cables in your rig before buying a noise gate. To use this pedal, wire your noisy pedals (typically distortion/overdrive/fuzz) into its send/return loop, use the dip switch to select your gate, and fine tune with the knobs. It took me less than a minute to dial in; here are my settings: 'Hiss' mode, "Threshold" at 10 o'clock, "Damp" at 1 o'clock, and "Decay" maxed out. A note about the available gates: 'Gate' is a digital noise gate modeled to behave like a traditional noise gate - Think ISP decimator. You will hear the pedal's gate when it engages in this mode, but you're supposed to. It's great for heavy metal/djent. 'Hiss' is TC's proprietary multi-band noise gate, capable of removing low-frequency noise (60 cycle hum from your pickups) and high-frequency noise (pedal hiss) from your signal at the same time. You won't hear the gate shutting in this mode, either - It's transparent yet extremely effective. It's really quite magical. No matter which mode you've dialed in, when the gate is off or the pedal is disengaged, the pedal will not color your tone at all thanks to TC's true bypass. No cheap Chinese buffer circuits here. However, the feature that puts this pedal a level of quality above the rest is TC's TonePrint. Let's say 'Gate' or 'Hiss' are not doing the trick for you. Perhaps you want a multi-band gate like 'Hiss' with a hard shut like 'Gate'. Maybe you can't find your gate's sweet spot without sacrificing your guitar's sustain. Or maybe you just cannot find the sweet spot at all. With TonePrint, you have access to a significant amount of parameters inside the pedal, beyond the 3 knobs on top. The options are quite limitless and will allow you customize the perfect noise gate for your rig. TL;DR: Have you removed all cable noise from your pedalboard, yet are still stuck with annoying hiss when you aren't playing? BUY THIS PEDAL.

真空管アンプのサーって言うノイズに悩んでました。特に空間系のエフェクターをオンにするとノイズが倍増。普通にアンプ前に繋いでも全然使い物にならなく失敗したと思ったのです。駄目元でアンプのセンドリターンに空間系エフェクターとセットで繋いでみた所、見事にノイズが消えました。しかもツマミはゼロの状態です。ノイズゲートをオンにするだけでノイズゼロです。ディレイの後に繋いでますがツマミゼロなのでディレイ音に影響は全くありません。とても良い買い物をしました。 そもそもノイズの種類と原因を突き詰めてからそのノイズ処理に適した対処をするのが基本ですので、私の場合はアンプからのノイズに効果的面でした。