Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor

Unless you have down syndrome or something...you can use it. 3 knobs it explains itself.

I use my Epiphone-->Ibanez Chorus-->Boss SD-1--->Boss NS-2---->my good ol practice amp. Let me tell ya. I recently got some new pickups put in and i was getting insane feedback from every amp i tried(the pickups are high output and the nickel covers make em squeel even more). I thought there was no hope but getting the pickup replaced. I thought wrong. This thing is AWESOME. I can hear NOTHING unless im playing. The decay is great too incase i want the end of a note ringing out. I really dont see any tone or sustain being affected (what do i know im a punk kid who listens to metal right, haha). Unless you dips are sustaining for like 30 seconds in a solo bend...it doesnt cut you off. It is great, absolutly fantastic, if your looking for a noise gate buy it NOW! The best feature of this is i can power all my pedals with 1 AC Adaptor thanks to this baby!

Its Boss, yea id gig without a backup.

N/A, i would imagion it sucks cause they are a pretty big company.

I play 80s shred/metal and more modern metal. Alot of songs i do require that stop on a dime silence. This thing is soo great. No hissing buzzing humming squeeling nothing! I didnt really compare it, i compared reviews of all the noise supressors out there and this got rated the best, i see why! If you are looking for a good supressor of these go buy it now! you dont be disappointed!

If you are using a loop of effects, read the instruction and analyze the schematic of a setup carefully, because if you input->output directly, you'll bypass the noise gate. You will get some reduction, but not much. Bought new, no upgrades.

Marshall AVT 50W combo. If it's hooked up right, it works good. But in the amp's effects loop, it does not filter the pre-amp hum effectively. Not concerned with artists or what their sound is.

It is ruggedly built, but I've noticed that when it's on or near peak reduction, it hacks any guitar's sustain. Sometimes, at high volumes, it lets a a squeal through. Isn't that what it's supposed to prevent?It says in the manual that the circuitry can distinguish between noise, hum, and the guitar's signal. Uh...what?

Had to wait for it, ordered it. Two weeks. For the money, how it performs, it's fairly confusing markings, and the routing problem with other effects, it's definitely sub-par.

Their aren't too many noise suppressors out there, so you're pretty much stuck if you're in the market. I had to order it. It's metal housed, which is good, but it could be marked better (FX SEND, or AMP (instead of SEND), GUITAR IN or FX RETURN INPUT, etc. Once you get the darned thing all set, mark your cables. I'm just not impressed with BOSS products. They're overpriced, have limited life, and aren't that effective for the money.

An easy pedal to use, you just need to figure out where to set the suppression threshold.

I use this pedal with a Boss DS-1, Lexicon MXP 100, and a Cry Baby. I play through a Fender Blues Junior. It does a good job of suppressing noise and not affecting your effects. I am very pleased with it.

I have always been able to depend on my Boss pedals. I power it with an ac adaptor so I don't have to worry about batteries.

N/A

I bought this pedal used and have been using it for two years without any problems. I play rock and roll. I have compared this to a couple of other noise suppressing pedals and I like how this pedal doesn't cut out effects or alter them much. I usually have the noise threshold up all the way because I mic my amp through a system and try to have as 0 noise as possible. If I was playing in a club just with an amp for volume, I would set the threshold back a little. It's an expensive pedal, and I would look for one that is used.

I've found that this pedal is very easy to operate and configure.

Setup is a breeze. I have a number of boss pedals (boss v-wah, digital delay, flanger, chorus emsamble and tuner), and found that using these effects works best through the effects loop on the noise suppressor. I play a Les paul standard and my Marshall TSL100 that was making a lot of noise until I bought this pedal.

It's a boss!!!!

Never had to use support

Over all this pedal is a must if your having noise problems. I once had a rocktron hush and was not happy with it. It is not a fancy pedal, but it gets the job done.

This thing could have a big label on it saying "Idiot Proof". That is, if you read the manual ofcourse, which gives a very easy and detailed instruction on how to hook this up in your effects loop. Or simple between guitar and amp too ofcourse. It's a remake of the original Boss Noise Suppressor. With two easy buttons called "Threshold" and "Decay", how could one go wrong in finding a nice compromise between noise reduction and eventual tonal loss. Another nice feature is a button that turns the pedal in either a noise reducer, or a muter, which simply cuts all input by stepping on the pedal. I guess it's the easiest pedal I got here. Heck, it's a noise reducer, not a multi effects processor.

I use the noise supressor on a Roland BC-60/310 (May I use this space just to express how fantastic that Amp sounds, especially for its price?), with some other effects in the chain, the Boss MD-2 probably being the noisiest component, since it's a super distortion.

Okay, this is probably the new definition of "Enjoy the Silence". Any medium noise level gets cut out completely, without even noticeably influencing your tonal quality, which even at high levels of gating is mostly just a very small volume loss. Decay allows you to fix that nasty tone cutting that most noise gates have. The pedal knows what you are doing, in terms of which kind of sound it should filter out and which it should leave untouched. Especially those spacey high distorted solo's lose all of their noise, effectively boosting the quality in a very significant way. Also, being able to convert it into a mute pedal is bound to have some good uses.

Backup? Lol. Unless a big crack in the earth would open and swallow up my poor NS-2, no I would never even consider a backup. Heck, even the plastic buttons are attached over metal pins and placed below foot pedal level so there isn't even a change of breaking them off. As for the pedal itself, it's built like other Boss pedals: No breakable parts, and the rotation point of the pedal consists only of easily replaceable screws, no plastic parts and crap. It's built like a tank, no bottom battery compartments, the battery is located under the pedal which can be raised, and lasts very long.

Simply put, if an earthquake destroyed my town, then got hit by some nukes, then flooded (yeah i live in the netherlands) n then cleared out by some bulldozers, this would be one of the things that is still intact.

Never had to deal with customer support.

BUT, IF it got stolen, bashed, beamed up by aliens or vanished, I would buy it again, it's kind of a must. One of those things that you simply WANT in your guitar setup. It's very basic and any setup can use it.

First I hit all the distortions, and get plenty of noise. Then, I hit this, and poof, quiet. Quiet until I start to play, which still sounds exactly the same and uninfluenced. If you dislike noise or even excessive feedback, don't hesitate to get it.

Very easy to use...Manual does a good job of expaining how to do an effects loop with the pedal..other than that it's not really even needed..easy to figure out..

Does a good job of cutting out noise when I'm not playing...My only complaint is finding a happy median of a good threshold, and not cutting my sustained solos off to early..

It's boss....It has never gone out on me..and I don't expect it to..this is the only Noise Suppressor that I run..

I like having all of my hiss and swirls of my pedal cut out when i'm not playing...It also allows for a lot of my pops and clicks to be removed from my playing when accessing certain pedals...The nice thing about this pedal is that it allows you to power other pedals with it if you get the proper adapter...currently I have it powering 8 of my other effects pedal, which has helped me save a great deal of money...
If been playing for 12 years now and this pedal has greatly improved my live sound.

A high IQ is not required to operate this pedal. Simply takes a little trial and error to get the threshold and decay just right. I have both knobs at about 3 or 4 o'clock.

Guitar: American Fender Strat. Effects chain: Line 6 Delay modeler, DOD Juice Box, Boss Tremelo, Boss Octave, MXR Phaser, Vox Wah, Sabine tuner all run through a Marshall JMP 50-watter w/master. The NS-2 has become the most important pedal in the chain. I can't believe I didn't get this pedal sooner. Does exactly what it's supposed to by cutting out unwanted hum and noise during breaks in playing. Also powers other pedals with a daisy chain cable. Has a nice mute feature that, well, mutes everything. Great for tuning without wanting to be heard doing it.

Not sure about the quality of boss pedals now that they are NOT made in Japan, but I haven't had any problems so far. Still the same sturdy looking design.

Never had to deal with them. I guess that's a good sign.

If you have a noisy set up like mine, you need this pedal. I've been playing for about 15 years and like I said before, I can't believe I haven't been using it all along. I always had noise problems at gigs, especially with single coil pick-ups. Not anymore. I would buy a replacement in a heartbeat.

Very Simple. Just hook it up and adjust the threshold until noise is reduced to where you like it. Adjust the decay only if needed, or try to keep it as low as possible.

I use Crate GFX-212 amp and Crate 4x12 cab, with Dunlop Cry Baby and PRS Custom 22. With the amp, I was gettin much noise in between breaks, and was having trouble playing music with a lot of rests. The NS-2 cured it, but I do have to keep the threshold high which seems to reduce wanted feedback.

Never had a problem, works great. The power adaptor also keeps from burning up batteries. I don't gig with a backup.

Never needed it

For my High Gain style, the NS-2 is an invaluable addition to my setup. Unwanted noise during breaks, etc, is not a problem. However, noise is actually more likely to be caused be poor left and right hand technique, and therefore I've learned to control noise through my last 2 years of heavy playing. I'd never gig without it.

Very easy - just three knobs that will probably remain in the same position for the rest of your life.

My setup is: Ibanez JS100 -> NS-2 -> CS-3 -> CryBaby -> NS-2 (use the loop, dude!) -> Laney TF100. The NS-2 solved the problem that I had with the compressor (CS-3) while playing with heavy distortion: too much noise. I was surprised how this pedal filtered the bad stuff - my leads are much cleaner now. The loss of punch or gain is not significative, and the noise gate is also very effective. Now, I don't have to push the compressor off while I'm not playing (before, the noise and feedback were terrible).

It's a BOSS. Made in Taiwan but still a BOSS.

Never needed. But the website is very cool.

This little white box helped me to solve a problem that was a pain in the ass for the last three years: the noise generated when I added compression to distortion. If someone stole it, I will have to buy another, definitely it's an important part of my rig now.

Not a whole lot to figure out here. The knobs are pretty easy. I'd keep the decay as low as possible, and turn the level to around 12 or 1 o'clock.

It's just about perfect. Silence is the key, and you'll get plenty of that. I had a pretty noisy rig, and it took just about all the noise out of it. If it took it all out, I'd give it an 11, but that's not possible theoretically.

I had some really noise stuff (Boss OD-20, Fender Princeton 65 amp), and this thing just about killed the noise. I was amazed. I didn't notice any loss of tone or dynamics. There's an LED that will tell you when it's "reducing" and when it's not. It goes off as soon as you start playing, and I mean as soon. I didn't see any loss of sustain either.

It's a Boss. I don't expect ever see it die. It will live as long as the cock roaches have!

As compared to the other noise reduction products I saw, the NS-2 is pretty cheap. I'm sort of a Boss guy. So, I may be biased a bit. That said, the closest thing to it that might have worked as well was almost twice that much. You'll get a small power supply built-in if you need power for a couple small effects. I'm convinced. This pedal will cure the noise problems.