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  • August 3, 2018 at 3:44 pm #85412
    DaBillys
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    Hello,

    I recently just added the Silencer to my board. My issue is that when i turn up the threshold to where it cuts the noise from my OD pedal i have in the loop, i am unable to roll back the volume on my guitar. I have to keep my guitars volume knob all the way, otherwise play incredibly hard on the lower volume…..which defeats the purpose of rolling back my volume! Its almost like there is a delay from when i hit the string to when the gate opens. If i turn the threshold down, then its not enough for the noise.
    I have tried the pedal at various places on my board, and it makes no difference. Even at the front of the chain.

    I am using a PRS Tremonti Signature…….so output signal is not a concern there!

    Cheers

    August 3, 2018 at 8:42 pm #124157
    EHX STAFF
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    Sorry,that is the way it works. when the signal falls below a set level the gate kicks in.
    Try setting the gate with your guitar out set at its lowest and see if that works.

    August 3, 2018 at 9:53 pm #124158
    EHX STAFF
    Keymaster

    You could put a signal pad or volume pedal in the loop before the OD…
    just thinking.

    August 3, 2018 at 9:55 pm #124159
    gvelasco
    Participant

    That’s basically the way noise gates work.

    Sources of noise: Very hot pickups, single coil pickups, bad grounding, bad shielding on the electronics, lots of gain, poorly shielded cables, fluorescent lights, electrical equipment, noisy effects.

    EHX makes a box, the Hum Debugger that is NOT a typical noise gate. Instead, it looks for a signature hum in your signal and “subtracts” it. The Hum Debugger doesn’t work based on a volume threshold to “open” the circuit, so you can have a much larger dynamic range without noise. You should look into it.

    August 3, 2018 at 10:11 pm #124160
    EHX STAFF
    Keymaster

    The hum debugger samples the AC line current and cancels out the AC hum.
    It works wonders for hum. Pat Metheny uses it live.
    But for noise it does nothing.

    September 27, 2018 at 5:08 pm #124355
    inexac.t
    Member

    Hi. I have two question about experimental uses of the Silencer’s effects loop.

    In the last sixty or so seconds of the Silencer demo posted to YouTube by EHX in October 2015, Jon Skibic demonstrates an intriguing combination of the Silencer with the Superego Synth Engine. The Superego is connected to the Silencer’s effects loop. There’s a sustained, organ-like chord, produced by the Superego in latch mode. When Jon plays, the sustained chord swells up to accompany him. When he stops playing the chord fades away.

    Would it be possible to connect other instrument-level signals to the return of the effects loop to achieve the same result (assuming the same settings)? I’m thinking of something like EHX’s Random Tone Generator or a Trogotronics synth pedal. (I think—but can’t tell—that the Superego is connected to both the send and return of the Silencer’s effects loop in the video only because Jon was using the same guitar to generate the chord captured and sustained by the Superego.)

    Separately, is it possible to use the effects loop—I presume the return—as a sidechain trigger for the noise gate? My idea here would be to connect a reamped kick-drum signal (i.e., instrument-level) to affect a guitar signal live, rather than doing so at the mix stage.

    I recognize that these are a bit weird and not the standard hum-killing application. Thanks for your patience and help.

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