I want to make sure I have the best noise gate, so what's the best one you guys know?

I want to eliminate all electrical humming the best way without deteriorating my tone.

try reagate and floorfish.

gates will eliminate noise when you're not playing... hum will remain in background while you're playing.

Fretted synths made some good guitar gates, found them at Rekkerd.org.

reafir will do a good job by convoluting the hum and substract it from your sound, but it introduces latency

I've been searching for a week and found nothing really convincing.

Maybe the Waves Noise-X at $250 is good, but I can't afford it.

At this time, the best results I have is with old plugs that can be found here :

http://membres.multimania.fr/jeje1999/plug.htm

Waves Noise-X has SERIOUS latency.

i like G8.

http://www.platinumears.com/plugins.html

I like GGate, personally, actually the whole G- lineup is pretty impressive. Love the ducking delay, too.

It would help to know what setup you are using (host/fx/etc) as it's hard to simply say "gate x"....so to speak.

Since I don't know, I thought I'd point this out as they have a gate AND a hum canceler. http://www.toneboosters.com/

GreenGate by Wurr Audio - really good.

Green Gate! never used anything else. the best and smoothest gate around, and free!

Xhip's gate is what I use most. Smooth, flexible and good for regular purposes as well as effects such as inverted gating.

http://xhip.presetexchange.com/effects/

Re. getting rid of electrical hum though, can't think of anything VST-wise you could use in real-time. I've heard about shielding the connections cavity in your guitar with copper foil helps.

In my case, my guitars are quite hum-free once I turn off my giant CRT; so if you've got a dinosaur monitor in a smallish DAW room like me, give that a shot.

I just use the gate/expander in the SSL e-channel. I don't really use gates all that often though... sometimes ill do a *little* expanding. My position on the subject of guitar noise is that the noise is part of the sound, but I don't use crazy high gain nor do I go for ultra clean sounding productions a la Metallica 'Black Album' where I suspect all guitars were heavily gated.

The upcoming Shred from Acmebargig has an excellent noise gate, and is a killer ampsim.

Apart from that, I saw a thread with a hardware solution, called "floating ground". You have to find a hifi cable with 2 conductors and a ground isolator around them. On the amp side, you solder the first conductor to the hot point of the jack, and the other one to the ground of the jack. On the guitar side, you solder the first conductor to the hot point of the jack, and you solder both the second conductor and the ground isolator to the ground of the jack.
Hope it makes sense...

Can not find a plug-in gate for my guitar needs and therefore before going into a HiZ or DI box i always use one of my trusty Boss NS-2 noise suppressors. Just work and i have tried all the other hardware and software gates/suppressors but nothing touches the Boss NS-2 that is available at the moment. Course that may change but it has not for aslong as i can recall. Should be able to find one cheap on ebay used

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Dean/Nekro

Hey, make sure you account for VAT in that!!



I also run external noise reduction first and foremost, in my case an ISP Decimator G-String before, to handle all my dirt pedals. Bringing out the big guns before the DI so it has dead silence going in, then if necessary I'll get out G-Gate if the sim itself has self-noise (which is actually a good sign, especially for high gain amps - high gain preamps are freaking noisy, the power supply and preamp tubes DO make noise in the physical world, if a high gain amp sim is dead silent I raise an eyebrow, not that it stops me from using it if it sounds good).