almost colouring the sound in the low mids
Interesting you should mention that because I felt my tone was more... pure with the gate on. I thought it was my imagination but maybe not.
Cheers
sorry I meant the noise itself not the gate! gate is awesome
@Scott
As I understand it, the noise gate kills the noise when you are not playing but when you play it does not "filter" the noise. Am I right?
What would be way cool would be to implement something like the Waves Z-noise & X-noise from their Restoration suite. That way you could sample the noise & have it eliminated all the time, not just when you stop playing. You also wouldn't have to deal with the gate killing your sustain on hi-gain patches.
I have an LP with EMG81. I will try "Tone Control" idea of "taping adhesive aluminium foil all round the sides of the control cavity (and making sure it was earthed)". In fact noise changes a lot when I move around with my guitar so something is interacting with my pickups, I think. I tried turning off my router, cordless phone, child monitor, the fluorescent lights and it does not seem to influence the noise : when I move around with my guitar noise always changes a lot.
I suspect that part of the problem is coming from my guitar (pickup's wiring and jack) but since it was not that noisy on my podxt i can't only be my guitar.
In the mean time I will try the foil around the control cavity, filter block, input impedance and continue searching the forums
It is better to isolate the cause and rectify it rather than to just treat the symptom. IMHO, YMMV.
You note that with the guitar unplugged, there is no noise. That means the source is your guitar (probably combined with environment factors in your playing area).
see
http://forum.fractalaudio.com/axe-fx-ii-wish-list/45771-noise-elimination.html
I've used such a tool before in Protools, I think it would probably damage the tone, it needs a lot of hand-tweaking to get noise reduction acceptable during the musical passages, it can easily sound like badly compressed cellphone
I used the demo version of the Waves program back in 2004 to get rid of tape hiss & it worked great! The song was just guitar using a long, ambient reverb/chorus/delay patch & sax so the noise was very evident. I was also able to easily get a good, solid sample of the noise & it was very easy to get rid of the hiss & to negligibly affect the tone of the guitar & sax.