DIY Noisegate

[akc1973]

Hey Folks,

I know this has probably been asked many times but I'm interested in recommendations for a DIY Noisegate that people have had good success with?

akc1973

[deadastronaut]

some members made the 'decimator' with good results a while back...

[Kipper4]

I did the DOd FX30 works a treat

[antonis]

I used something like this sometimes ago with a BigMuff in a wooden enclosure with great results...
(but I had relative small amount of "hiss" and a reasonably excpected "hum" to eliminate..)

You better bridge the pot to both ends of R14 for best results...

I suggest a value of 1M so you will not decrease much the total value of the biasing resistor...
(maybe you'll have to trimm it to a value of 100k - or less - resulting that you'll have to decrease the upper voltage divider resistor if you want to keep the same bias voltage..)

[Mark Hammer]

Where do you want/need to insert it into your signal chain, and what sort of "noise" are you trying to control?

Important considerations.

[akc1973]

Where do you want/need to insert it into your signal chain, and what sort of "noise" are you trying to control?

Important considerations.

Hi Mark,

I've read your recommendations in the past of having two noise gates (at the start and end of the signal chain for guitar-induced and effect/gain-induced hiss/hum, respectively). My guitars are pretty quiet so I want one for the end of the chain so that I can try out some higher-gain effects.

akc1973

[Mark Hammer]

So you are basically wishing to tackle accumulated hiss?

[akc1973]

So you are basically wishing to tackle accumulated hiss?

Yes, that's exactly what I'm after. And one other condition I have ( ) is that I use vero or buy pre-etched PCBs (I don't etch my own)...I notice there is a vero layout of the MXR noise gate floating around which looks relatively feasible.

akc1973

[akc1973]

I guess it's going to be the MXR noisegate!  :

akc1973

[josephtrex]

I bought the Collete noisegate pcb from tonepad, but I've been afraid to tackle it. There are a lot of build reports that are contradictions so that's why I'm putting it off. have a ton of other projects to do before I get to it. So if you have success with that, let me know!!!

[akc1973]

I bought the Collete noisegate pcb from tonepad, but I've been afraid to tackle it. There are a lot of build reports that are contradictions so that's why I'm putting it off. have a ton of other projects to do before I get to it. So if you have success with that, let me know!!!

Will do!