Doesn't make any sense to me.
Why would you want all that noise to go thru the amp in the first place? My gate is the last thing in the chain in front of the amp.
Wouldn't the gate just work that much harder to shut out noise that has already been amplified?
after the preamp and before the FX
So in the loop before the fx??
Unless I fundamentally misunderstand what a noise suppresor does.
If you are using strictly pedals for OD/Distortion and running into a clean amp, then putting the noise reduction in front of the amp will work fine. If you are using the preamp's gain stages which tend to create noise ,then running the noise reduction after the preamp and before the FX will work better in most cases.
Well a big problem for me is single coil hum when I play with distortion. 60 cycle hum being distorted = unpleasant. Of course you don't notice it when you play notes, but it can creep in when the note fades out.
Is there any diff between a noise gate and a noise suppressor? A noise gate won't remove noise from your signal; it will just close and keep any sound from going through the chain once the amplitude falls below threshold. When it's open everything passes through it, noise and all.
Speaking of noise suppressors, has anybody tried the EH Hum Debugger? The product description says its not a supressor, not a gate. Just curious if that'd be a good remedy for 60-cycle hum from a single-coil like your situation TelePaul.
I use that same Boss noise gate pedal, but I have double humbuckers and don't usually have too bad of problems with hum. Great pedal though, had it forever.