TC Electronic SENTRY NOISE GATE Multiband Noise-Gating Pedal with Hard-Gate Mode and Built-In TonePrints*, Compatible with PC and Mac

The TC Electronics SENTRY Noise Gate is a very sophisticated noise gate with three controls that allow setting and fine tuning of the gate itself. With many advanced details too numerous to list here, do yourself a favour and read up online all the info about this gate if you are in the market for a Noise Suppressor. One detail is the side chain that allows you to put all your noisy effects into a loop and the gate is then triggered by a separate input for your guitar or keyboard etc, so the Noise is suppressed more quickly and accurately by only working when a signal is seen on this input, making for a far quicker and smoother operation in keeping Noise, hiss and hum to a minimum in your signal chain to the amplifier. Great value compared to other pro brands, great quality in a small pedal footprint. Talking of which, the SENTRY also supports TC's Tone Print technology that allows you to fine tune the gates operation via computer or phone and send the tweaked responses directly into the pedals memory to make it even more accurate in it's dealing with your Noise.

Wowsers, this pedal works. I play my guitar through my computer mostly and as such have come across alot of unwanted rfi from the computer itself picked up by my pickups. I've tried alot of things to remove this such as faraday cloth over the computer, basically modifying and lining a small cabinet with copper foil(and earthing it) to put the computer in, power conditioner, pedal psu with isolated outputs and even an ifi silencer to break power to the soundcard and provide it with seperate power from the conditioner(there's more I've done I'm sure but can't remember what) and nothing has worked. Although this pedal isn't going to completely eradicate the noise it does a damned good job trying. I use the hiss setting(toggle switch down) and have the damp and threshold about 12 o'clock and the gate cuts perfectly and the hiss is massively quietened, it's basically working as a filter but doesn't seem to affect tone too much(I also have it set to bypass not buffer mode, pretty sure I have other buffered pedals on my pedal board and one pedal is on all the time so it acts as a buffer anyway).Straight out the box I managed to very simply get what I wanted from this pedal so I'm really impressed, I've replaced an ehx silencer with it and though that pedal would work fine without the pc's rfi it didn't work as well as I needed it to. The only thing I haven't really liked so far is the toneprint software. The interface is easy to use but I think the options could have been named better, it quite often didn't seem as straight forward as I'd have liked and found that I wasn't able to get as good a setup as the hiss option. I also found that the the pro guitarist toneprints didn't work for me at all, I couldn't get anything past the gate(and I stack pedals when possible, I had an overdrive set at mid gain going into a distortion pedal at near full gain going into a bass od pedal that I use as a kind of preamp). Not a major issue and as I'd only had the pedal for about an hour by then I was maybe doing something wrong.So far this is the 3rd noise gate I've owned and it is definitely my favourite. It works extremely well, has a ton of features on toneprint that you could take the time to learn about and hasn't affected my guitar tone at all. I would strongly recommend this pedal to anybody struggling with unwanted noise in their signal

I’ve used an NS-2 for 20+ years. Never had reason to change, but since using a ToneX pedal and battling the rubbish built in gate I had to look for something else. The NS-2 is still perfectly fine in its application. It just doesn’t cut it with a ToneX. That’s where the Sentry comes in. There’s a YouTube video by Riffs, Beards & Gear featuring Rick Eller that exactly demonstrates why the Sentry is a sleeper unit that’s absolutely killer.

This pedal is awesome! It does way more than I need it for, but is great for my purposes. I just wanted to get rid of all the hums and noise that comes from the leads and pedals in my board, I put it in line at the end, before it goes into my 100 watt Marshall plexi, had a quick look on Youtube at a few tutorials to suss out the controls, and bingo! Now my set up is really quiet. The controls allow you to easily adjust it for each room you set up in, and it is easy to set it so it doesn’t clip the signal at all. I don’t notice it is even there most of the time, except that I don’t hear any annoying hiss or noises. Highly recommened.

Not quite as great as it's hyped to be. I did a lot of research on noise gates within my budget and was swayed by the abundance of glowing review's this pedal recieved. I'm left wondering just how much confidence you can really have in reviews. There are good and bad aspects to this pedal. It is beautifully constructed for sure solid enclosure,nicely rounded edges, smooth potentiometers and switch with a sterling paint job. Three operating modes and the ability to fine tune and upload settings certainly give you options. Just how much you will actually use these features is another matter. Like all noise gates it will need tweaking every time you alter the gain settings in your chain, for me anyway too many options result in a lot of wasted time fiddling. Does it kill the noise? Yes it does a decent job taming single coil hiss and cleaning up a boosted muff but does it do a better job than a Behringer or Donner pedal at less than half the price probably not. On the negative side there is absolutely a distinct colouration of tone when engaged which is annoying particularly as tc electronics make such a big deal of their equipment not doing this. There also appears to be a relay/solenoid that energises when connected to a psu you can hear it click inside the pedal - I don't know if my pedal is faulty because this causes a current spike causing the psu to overload when powered on requiring the dc jack plug to be removed and replaced before it and my other pedals will function. So at the moment it requires a seperate power adapter which kind of defeats the purpose of a dedicated pedal psu. Which brings me to my final complaint namely tc electronics customer service, there isn't one. There is no way to contact them directly. You must first register an account with 'music tribe?' Then complete a lengthy irrelevant form just to raise a customer ticket, I was fortunate and eventually recieved a response. They ased for the pedal to be returned for inspection. Complaints about customer service seem to be a common issue that I was unaware of till after I bought the pedal, responses seem to be a bit of a lottery, at least you have that information if you want to risk a purchase. I have updated the review as I can confirm that there is indeed a current spike when powering on in excess of 100mA for this particular pedal, so if your psu has a current limiting feature it will overload on starting and require the disconnect/reconnect workaround or if you have a free 500mA connection it shouldn't cause any issues. Not ideal really. Good pedal but far from perfect I'd really award it 3.5 rather than 4.

Great noise gate. Toneprint is a wonderful feature to use.For best results you need to run your guitar into the input, then in the loop run everything ahead of the power amp, then return into power amp. This allows you to filter the noise far better and get less drop off in the signal. The input on the front end gives the clearest trigger to control things.Just running a dirty noise into the front of the pedal, and expecting it to come out unaltered except hiss taken out doesn't work - well it does, but it sounds heavily manipulated.So my signal chain goes:- GUITAR- SENTRY INPUT- SENTRY LOOP OUT- ALL PEDALS VIA BOSS ES-8- INTO PREAMP- PREAMP OUT INTO PEDALS VIA FX LOOP- LAST PEDAL IN FX CHAIN INTO THE SENTRY LOOP IN- OUTPUT INTO AMP FX RETURNThis way you can really control the trigger and separate the dirty noise from the noise you want.Great product if you have a noisy signal chain due to too much gain.Obviously won't fix earth loops

My husband say best pedel purchased

Did the job, but it eats batteries overnight. So what bought a cheaper one and it's still going.

Para lo que necesito funciona perfectamente, con el método de 4 cables se consigue quitar todo el ruido, además con los 3 reguladores que tiene, puedes dejarlo a tu gusto, el precio que tiene es muy bueno, seguro que hay puertas de ruido mejores pero valdrán el doble o más.

TC Electronic never disappoints. This pedal is a quality investment that, if used properly, will remove the noise due to pedals from your signal chain 100% of the time. It'll also take care of any noisy cables you put inside of its loop, but you should check for and resolve any issues with noisy cables in your rig before buying a noise gate. To use this pedal, wire your noisy pedals (typically distortion/overdrive/fuzz) into its send/return loop, use the dip switch to select your gate, and fine tune with the knobs. It took me less than a minute to dial in; here are my settings: 'Hiss' mode, "Threshold" at 10 o'clock, "Damp" at 1 o'clock, and "Decay" maxed out.A note about the available gates: 'Gate' is a digital noise gate modeled to behave like a traditional noise gate - Think ISP decimator. You will hear the pedal's gate when it engages in this mode, but you're supposed to. It's great for heavy metal/djent. 'Hiss' is TC's proprietary multi-band noise gate, capable of removing low-frequency noise (60 cycle hum from your pickups) and high-frequency noise (pedal hiss) from your signal at the same time. You won't hear the gate shutting in this mode, either - It's transparent yet extremely effective. It's really quite magical. No matter which mode you've dialed in, when the gate is off or the pedal is disengaged, the pedal will not color your tone at all thanks to TC's true bypass. No cheap Chinese buffer circuits here.However, the feature that puts this pedal a level of quality above the rest is TC's TonePrint. Let's say 'Gate' or 'Hiss' are not doing the trick for you. Perhaps you want a multi-band gate like 'Hiss' with a hard shut like 'Gate'. Maybe you can't find your gate's sweet spot without sacrificing your guitar's sustain. Or maybe you just cannot find the sweet spot at all. With TonePrint, you have access to a significant amount of parameters inside the pedal, beyond the 3 knobs on top. The options are quite limitless and will allow you customize the perfect noise gate for your rig.TL;DR: Have you removed all cable noise from your pedalboard, yet are still stuck with annoying hiss when you aren't playing? BUY THIS PEDAL.

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I don't have any other noise gate to compare this to, but here's my setup. I have a Nu Tubescreamer, OD-1X, DS-1X, Eartherquaker Hoof Fuzz along with MXR chorus and TC HOF2 reverb pedals. The gain pedals create quite a bit of noise. Love all these pedals but the noise was getting to me so it was time to get a noise gate. I also have p90 pick up and so there was quite a bit of humming going on. I researched a lot. And after a long time decided on the Sentry.I've only had it for one day. But I'm already really blown away by this pedal. With the setting all set to 12 o'clock and the pedal put in after the gain pedals it was eliminating almost all of the noise. But if i had both overdrive and a distortion pedal on I'd get some noise still and I wanted to see if i could eliminate all the noise without destroying the tone.Then I changed things up and tried the included effects loop (see the manual for how to use it properly with you're pedals). Still have it set to 12 o'clock and voila, noise completely gone even with all four gain pedals on!! This thing is very impressive.No question this is a good purchase; it works really well for noisy pedals and those humming p90 pickups. I had read this before but couldn't appreciate it until now: playing against the backdrop of a dead silence is beautiful. This might not seem like a "fun" pedal, but it'll do more for your sound and playing than most pedals. So excited to play and use my pedals more now without having to worry about noise anymore. Can't even tell this pedal is on. Great pedal, zero complaints!

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