Ultra:
- Jack Napalm, 5/2011: What is the advantage of using a gate block rather than the in-built noise gate? They both seem to react pretty much the same (at least to my ears).
> Bakerman: Whether it's different depends how you set & place it. Ratio can go to 20 (input gate only goes to 8 ), hold lets you get a little more note decay before any gating, hi cut and lo cut help fine-tune the response (those are just filters for what goes to the gate level detector, not the actual sound you hear), like not letting string/body thunks or squeals open the gate as much. If you're using a lot of gain and a high enough threshold (amp still heavily compressed near gate threshold level) having gate after amp and sidechain on input 1 will basically be a more severe (higher ratio) gating effect than before amp.
