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ISP Decimator Noise Reduction Pedal Price Paid / Price New: ~$120/$120 Year Manufactured: No idea. Probably pretty recent. Specs: Chrome finished steel casing Rubber/plastic pad on pedal portion Anti-slidy nubs on bottom LED Threshold knob Uses a 9 volt battery, or essentially any adapter that works on any other effects pedal quote:Dimensions: 5" x 2.7" x 2.3" Sound: 5/5. This thing sounds absolutely incredible. Now, it doesn't add to your guitar sound. Not at all. It takes away from it, in the best way possible. There is absolutely no background hum, feedback, or anything whatsoever no matter your distortion level or closeness to the amp. It uses time-vector processing to keep track of the noise and eliminate it at all stages of the sound, instead of operating as a noise-gate and cutting off your sustain to kill the background noise after playing a note. Not only will it not cut off sustain at all, it removes background noise during your playing, making your sound infinitely cleaner. Equipment Quality: 5/5. Great quality as far as I can tell. I have yet to gig with one, but I know Rob Arnold of Chimaira swears by his, and Christian Olde Wolbers of Fear Factory uses the rackmount version, so I figure it must be able to take some sort of beating. As far as I could tell just from using it during band practice, it's a nice, hefty little steel box, so it's pretty tough. That, and there's only one knob, an input, an output, the pedal and its tightening screw. And an LED. Pretty simple, so there ain't much to break. Usefulness: 4/5. It's about the most useful pedal I've ever seen. There's just one issue I had with the ease of use. Dialing in the threshold knob so that it gets rid of all the background noise, but doesn't cut into the good parts of the sound is a bitch. Took me about 20 minutes worth of frustration and testing, but it was so unbelievably worth it. Overall Value: 5/5. Extremely worth the price I paid for it, I'd say. Besides the few minutes of frustration to get it working right, it's a goddamn miracle in a little chrome box. helly fucked around with this message at 09:33 on Nov 5, 2005 |
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