wierd pedal response question

[dronerstone]

hm.. are they pretty sensitive? my worry is itll close while im playing quietly! theyre a bit of a PITA trying to use them after the fact recording, for sure!

Placement is the key, if you're using one with a loop that gets triggered early in chain but is gating after the drives, it shouldn't be a problem at all.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Placement is the key, if you're using one with a loop that gets triggered early in chain but is gating after the drives, it shouldn't be a problem at all.

As he's fine with how things are like when using humbuckers, he might still get away with a traditional (hence cheaper and less cabling effort) gate in front of the drives, so that gate would only kill some of the single coil noise.

 

[dronerstone]

As he's fine with how things are like when using humbuckers, he might still get away with a traditional (hence cheaper and less cabling effort) gate in front of the drives, so that gate would only kill some of the single coil noise.

I don't disagree, although in the long run, a loop gate might come in handy to not only kill single coil hum, but hiss generated by drive/boost/preamp units as well.

"Buy once, cry once", and fortunately a decent loop gate doesn't have to be hellishly expensive either.

I've been using the Ibanez PT Gate and am completely satisfied with it.

PS: if a simple AF, non-loop gate is the goal, I recommend the Mooer Noise Killer.

 

[Chocol8]

P90's are the noisiest pickups of the common types. If you want lots of gain and P90's you really want to get noiseless P90's, a large open dummy coil (Illitch), or plan to deal with a noise gate. Personally I hate noise gates because I use the guitar volume control and picking dynamics a lot. The other options have their downsides as well though. Pick your poison.

 

[newholland]

P90's are the noisiest pickups of the common types. If you want lots of gain and P90's you really want to get noiseless P90's, a large open dummy coil (Illitch), or plan to deal with a noise gate. Personally I hate noise gates because I use the guitar volume control and picking dynamics a lot. The other options have their downsides as well though. Pick your poison.

Same here. We'll see how it goes but that may be a nuclear option if I need it. I'm not really using a lot of gain and my single coils of the traditional type aren't fussy at all. I do use a loop attenuator, and I'm wondering if something in that is causing noise as well though it's usually dead silent. More experimentation inbound

 

[Sascha Franck]

Personally I hate noise gates because I use the guitar volume control and picking dynamics a lot.

Same here. But noise gates rarely get in my way. But then, I usually use humbuckers (or pseudo/noiseless single coils), so that defenitely helps.