being fairly new at recording, some of these questions and problems may seem stupid, please be forgiving. heres my problem. When recording I am getting alot of the background noise comeing through my mic. I realize that I need some sort of noise gate. But what would best suit my needs? I currently have a sony minidisk 4 trak, and am using a sm57 to record with. I plan on getting a rhode nt1 and pre amp very soon, but am guessing that that will even pick up more noise. I also have an alesis nano compressor.... so, I want to gradually collect better equipment. Do I go with some sort of cheap noise gate, or do I get one of these master effects type of things, with eq, compressor, and gates. I also noticed that the berringer composer seems popular, but since I have a nano compressor already, would I be wasting my money? Thank you for putting up with this long post, any opinions appreciated.