ISP Technologies Decimator G String Noise Reduction Pedal

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ISP Technologies Decimator G String Noise Reduction Pedal, Main
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The ISP Decimator G String offers top-class noise reduction. With its own effects loop, the ISP Decimator G String can eliminate any noise in your chain.

The Decimator G String noise reduction pedal was designed for those who want the ultimate performance in a foot pedal and delivers performance like that of the renowned ISP Decimator ProRackG. The Decimator G String provides a totally independent channel of Decimator noise reduction that can be inserted into a series effects loop or after a preamp section with the advantage of having the Decimator level detectors track the guitar signal directly.

Flexible and Powerful

With the G String pedal you can set the threshold and no matter what level of noise the Decimator will track perfectly without any side effects. And the amazing thing is that you can switch from high gain to your clean channel and never have to switch the Decimator G String off due to the threshold being set too high. It's simply transparent.

Before Or After Effects Loops... Or Both

The G String noise reduction pedal has an input to connect a guitar directly and a buffered output signal to feed the front of a guitar rig directly while providing a separate audio channel of Decimator that can be inserted in the signal chain of any guitar rig. You can insert any other pedals between the output of the Decimator G String and the input of your guitar amplifier. This allows the Decimator G String pedal to remove any level of noise you may have even with overdrive pedals at the front end of the amp.

Input Impedance: 500K ohms

Maximum Input Level: +12dbu

Effective Noise Reduction: greater than 60db

Dynamic Range: greater than 100db

Total Harmonic Distortion: .05% typical

Power consumption: 35mA @9VDC

Release response: Program dependant based on Time Vector Processing

For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Phone: 248-673-7790
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Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars. (8 ratings)
Submitted June 5, 2011 by a customer from gmail.com

ISP Decimator G String Customer Review

Overall: 4 out of 5 stars
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The first section of the pedal tracks the guitar sound only, and everything you hook up between the guitar out jack and the "Dec in" jack gets gated. There are obvious benefits to this method, in that it doesn't have to track the guitar through the noise of everything you're trying to silence. I tried just bridging the guitar out to the jack in with a cable and it made a ton of noise. I then put a Route 66 overdrive and compressor in the chain at full gain with my JSX also cranked and it worked better than I could have expected. I've also tried this in an effects loop (must be series obviously) of a Fender Metalhead, but I had to set it really high and was getting cutoff at both ends. I was in a really small room and probably would have had better luck in a larger area. This pedal is best for someone who runs a lot of pedals. The only pedal I run live right now is a tuner so I would say I'm going total overkill but it works excellent just as a feedback killer.

Sound
When set correctly this pedal works as intended. Attack is really only cut off in the highest settings, makes a little (emphasis on little) noise when closing the gate, but in a live situation you never hear it. Even at high settings, it seems quite responsive to sustained notes and I haven't had a problem with cutoff. Does not seem to "suck" tone, but I have had better luck with some configurations than with others.

Features
Pedal features… read more one switch, one knob, and 4 jacks. And magic. How they've managed to make it work as good as it does with just one control is frankly quite impressive.

Ease of Use
Hook it up, power on your entire rig, kill your guitar volume, and turn the pedal up until you hear the noise level drop significantly. You then just fine tune until you have the decay that you're looking for. The knob is VERY sensitive and extremely small adjustments are required with this unit.

Quality
Excellent quality. Keep it in the box so you don't bump your knob.

Value
Expensive but probably the best.

The Wow Factor
Bright chrome. I hide it.

Musical Background:
I'm in a band.

Musical Style:
Metal read less
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