Behringer noise gate

[The Unavoidable]

http://www.thomann.de/se/behringer_nr_100.htm

Anyone tried it? Cheaper than your mom, so it's gotta suck right? I just want something to shut my fuckin amp up while me and the guys talk shit between songs.

 

[if6was9]

I own a few units from that line- tuner, octaver, EQ and wouldn't recommend anything other than the tuner. They're noisy and not very robust. I've had the switch break on an EQ and 3 of us in my band got the tuners, each of which developed a different problem.

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

Used it on one gig, immediatelly threw it to the backstage's wall after the gig. Crap, don't waste your time.

 

[Harry Hughes]

Not all Behringer stomp boxes are bad, but I ended up selling my NR-100 to this young beginner player. It works okay at bedroom volumes, but just save yourself the pain and get an ISP Decimator or something else really good for serious applications.

 

[crosstalk]

I have it and 6 other Behringer pedals. Just for fun as I don't play live and if I did I wouldn't use stuff like Vibrato or fuzz. Don't see dropping big bucks on pedals; live it's just amp, tubescreamer and gate. I've had them for several months with no issues. All of my Boss pedals (8 of them) take a number of stomps to get them to turn off or on. I don't notice noise issues either and I mainly run them with single coils.

Anyway, it does the job. Clone of the Boss NS-2, which many hate to begin with. For $23 it's hard to not give it a shot. The plastic is durable, but being a noise suppressor, it's not like you'll be stepping on it anyway. Does the job for me.

 

[MarkG]

Havent tried it, but maybe this one is a tad better?

http://www.thomann.de/se/harley_benton_ng100.htm

 

[abigor731]

i have an older behringer noise gate (a rackmount one, "guitar denoiser snr201" or something)
sucks tone a lot, but for rehearsals i don't care and live i don't use it

i'd buy the pedal if you really need a noise gate for cheap, it probably sucks lots of tone but for rehearsals it will work
but if you're totally sure you're gonna need it live buy something better if you have the cash
the tone sucking probably isn't that drastic though, its more about the reliability

another option would be using the gate of a multi fx, chances are its gonna sound better

 

[theRev]

A noise gate gear that IS NOISY for me falls immediately in the EPIC FAIL realms.

 

[hoehlentroll]

this pedal makes things more noisy than before

 

[StefTD]

It actually worked very well for the rhythm guitar player in my old death metal band, he's still using it
without a problem, and he bought it like 2 months after the release date, so he uses it since a few
years.
Yeah it sucks tone, but there aren't many people who realize that and for me 5% less tone is better
than 20% more feedback.
It never broke down on him and he played at least 100 shows with it and 2 rehearsals a week, not
that bad in my opinion.
Order it at thomann, if it sucks to much, send it back...

 

[The Unavoidable]

Huh. Worried about that tone-suckage, even though I'd probably not hear most of the time I'd would nag at me. So what's this about the NS-2 being unpopular? I thought everyone used it.

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

Huh. Worried about that tone-suckage, even though I'd probably not hear most of the time I'd would nag at me. So what's this about the NS-2 being unpopular? I thought everyone used it.

I had additional noise and some really strange cut-outs with no apparent reason (and yes, I can tweak a two-knob noise gate ) with the Behringer. Never had such trouble with an NS-2.

 

[bryan_kilco]

Pretty sure I recall a dude I know using one of these and it was no good.

Actually, he couldn't get rid of natural white noise of his amp, while running the pedal before the amp....so he went and bought a second pedal (same exact one) and ran it after the first gate.

Gating a gate.....reallllllllly?!?!

Anyway, I own the Boss NS-2 and it works great. I run it in front of the amp though....and people have told me I should be running it in the Loop....

The ONLY time I notice it sucking tone is with cleans or slightly dirty tones, such as if I have my guitars volume knob down really low.....if I'm cranked and full gain distortion, I don't notice any tone suckage.

 

[BlackSA]

Just got the Harley Benton NG-100 as a birthday present. It's 25€, but all in all im quite satisfied and it seems to be build very durable. The only annoying thing is the levelknob, because it's only really working for me in the first quarter, everything above brings so much output, my amp feedbacks as hell, so i have to adjust it quite sensitive.

http://www.thomann.de/se/harley_benton_ng100.htm