Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor

2 knobs.. not very difficult, the only thing semi, difficult is setting this suka up to a multieffects unit, with the send/return loops... the manual explains how to do it though...

i play mostly metal and with emg-81 pickups, the pedal eats at sustain, and since the emgs are based on high volume and tons of sustain, my tone and some of my dynamics are covered up. this pedal also depends on the transparency of ur amplifier and cables... i have moster cables, and a mesa tube amp, and my sound is noticeably altered... however... its the best nosie suppressor i have used.

boss pedals never break... ever

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definately the best noise suppressor i have used

It dosn't get any easier than this...
Plug 'n Play...

I use it to kill the noise that's coming from my Metal Zone and
also to suppress the hiss from the pickups.
It's a killer!!!

Can you depend on it?

Hahaha... hell yes !!!!
I would NOT preform a gig without it.
I can realy clean up your sound.

Ok... here we go again.
Ok, everybody, 1 , 2 , 3 IT'S A BOSS !!!!!!!

One of the best box ever made by boss.

Very easy to use.
Decent manual.
Read the other reviews for more details. Does require about 15-20 minutes of tweeking to get it right. Using this unit is like a trade off between noise silencing and sustain. The more your turn up the noise reduction the less sustain youll get on your single notes. Once you set it, its set for good though.

Just run my guitars through the NS-2 and into my cranked Peavey Supreme 100W head. This peavey is a very high gain unit, Like a Soldano, much more gain than my carvin X100B. So it picks up all kinds of hum and buzz when you stop playing.

Ths NS-2 kills all that noise. GREAT
Great sound quality, does exactly what its supposed to without altering my guitars tone.

Seems reliable. but I have only used it for band practice once. We'll see how long the battery lasts.

Havent had to contact Roland yet.

Great unit.
Kills hum and buzz through high gain amps, at high volumes.
Does not noticeably alter guitar tone.
It is a little expensive like all BOSS effects. But in this case you get what you pay for. Try and get one used on E-bay before buying it new. I'd give it a 10 if it were less than $85.

Very easy to use...took a couple of seconds to find the setting that kills the nasty, unwanted feedback I was getting when playing loud and with lots of distortion.

This thing has been a life saver...I play loud and with LOTS of gain. The only drawback that I run into is having less sustain on notes, most noticeable while playing lead...all you gotta do is tweak the adjustments for less decay...resulting in a little more feedback.

I beat the crap out of this pedal and it still works perfectly.

Never had a problem with any of my Boss pedals.

This pedal is a MUST have for anyone playing loud and with lots of gain. I use Les Pauls through a Vox wah into a Marshall Valvestate. Before I had this pedal I got crazy feedback anytime I took my hands off the strings...the NS-2 almost entirely eliminated the unwanted feedback.

The easiest Boss pedal I've ever used. I only used it with distortion. My EQ-7 was alright without it.

Works immediately to clean up sound. Very cool.

Seems the studiest of the Boss Pedals I own simply because it has the fewest nobs/adjustments. I would still be careful with it.

Haven't talked with them. Went to American Music for it and got a great price with free shipping (save your pennies and elegibility is easy)

A must if you color your sound with distortion (The digital distortion on my SX200D is good enough without it, but my MT-2 requires it). I play Rock, Blues, and some harder stuff on my 7-string. I only bought it because I bought an MT-2. Otherwise I'd pass on it--very limited window of use.

Very easy. Two modes, two knobs, and two indicator lights, one for power, and one for noise reduction

It does its job pretty well. It acts a noise gate, and it does it well. Right now im infront of my computer playing, and it sounds just fine, so that is the perfect test. There are some bad things though. If you use to much distortion, or something that will cause a lot feedback, it does a little squel and then the noise reduction kicks in, so I have chosen not to invoke a lot of feedback! It colors the sound a bit. TO the well trained ear it compresses, and also cuts from the mids, to me this helped my sound, but it may not please somebody who had the perfect setting before.

Its a Boss made in Taiwan, it seems as though they change the casing every couple of months, sometimes its a little harder or a little softer. This pedal seems to be a little heavier than the GE-7 I bought a couple months back. Of course this is a Boss, they are tanks

don't try Boss's customer support, you can't get anything done

Its a good pedal, it serves the purpose for me. I use a Peavey 5150 which is very noisy, and this really helps it out a lot. I haven't compared it against other noise gates, but to my ears its a good pedal

It's only a noise-gate,it only has two knobs...HELLO??

Very good sound quality.It does shorten the sustain a bit but that doesn't bother me too much.For recording,I use it on my cymble tracks.
The NS-2 response well and doesn't change the tone of the crashes, rides or high-hats.I think it's better than the NS-50!But here's the real kicker.IT CAN POWER ALL YOUR PEDALS AND STILL ACT AS A NOISE-GATE!! Simply plug in the PSA adaptor(for juice),run a daisy chain to your other pedals(from out jack),but leave the NS-2 on reduction mode.COOL,ain't it??

Very dependable and versitile.

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The NS-2 does the job very well.Depending on your settings it can take away some sustain,so be careful when using it on cymbles(I have a cheap set up).For guitars,I think everyone should have one.The noise reduction alone is very useful not to mention the "Pedal Power" function makes it soooo PHAT!! It has a really nice response for a stomp-box and has a very subtle decay rate.Two thumbs up!!

I wish someone had told me about this when I first started playing. This and an EQ pedal, two of the most overlooked effects. I'm a pedal junkie and have lots of old noisy effects. Put this pedal at the end and set the threshold to a setting that doesn't cut off quiet passages, and you're ready to forget about this thing and just play. There are some signal routing posibilites offered here that I love, and didn't know about when I bought it at first, so READ YOUR MANUAL. One thing I've done is eliminate an A/B box that switched to my tuner, and ran a line from this pedal to the tuner, which is on all the time. This is cool for writing, cause I can see what notes I may stumble upon as I go, but the signal isn't degraded. Also, it saved space on my board.

That's just it, there's no sound (unless your signal is just over the top end, which means you'll be getting major feedback once its turned off). My Ibanez RG goes to a Dunlop WAH/Volume, Electra Phase shift, Ibanez TS-9, ProCo Rat, Boss GE-7, MXR compressor, and then this pedal into my Carvin MT3200 100 watt head. Even in close quarters with everything up, this thing will stave off the nastiest sounds (just don't brush the strings, because it can be very responsive). Used with a volume pedal or knob it'll save you a few more years of hearing, at least. Like I said, brushing the strings or having a really shitty, noisy setup will defeat it, but why would you want your rig to sound that bad, anyway?

Put this thing in mute mode and leave it on all the time, you'll forget its in your chain. So, you won't be stomping on it, etc. Besides the fact that Boss pedals seem pretty sturdy anyway, this one will RARELY see any physical use. Probably will last forever.

I doubt anyone would steal it, cause people don't think about pedals like these as desireable. But I'd definately get another one. I guess I play rock music, standard stuff. I've been playing maybe 7 years now. To newer players I reiterate, check this pedal out AND check out a GE-7 or something similar. The EQ pedal can transform any crappy distorion you've got into something beautiful, and this Noise Suppressor will rein it back in. May not be for all players, but for experimenters and tweakers you get tons of new sonic possibilites.

This is essentially a simple Noise Gate inside a rugged metal stompbox. It came to me brand spankin' new from Grandmas Music & Sound in New Mexico and the salesguy told me that this was a very good addition to my setup to help get rid of the annoying noise. He said he ran this very same stompbox through his Marshall DSL-100 and that it worked very well. Needless to say the price was shockingly low and I snapped it up. It has 3 knobs, 2 of which control the Threshold and Decay settings and one knob to select either Reduction or Mute mode. Overall this pedal is very simple to use and the manual it comes with is not even necessary because of its simple layout. If you buy this pedal and cant figure out how to operate it, you are either 4 years old or need to spend another 10 years in grade school.

The current setup I am using this pedal with is a Gibson Les Paul Classic w/ EMG-81 pickups and a Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier Trem-O-Verb 2x12 Combo. This amp needless to say dials in some very heavy, high gain tones and needless to say it is very noisy as the volume goes higher. I moaned to my band and my friends on how annoyingly noisy it was and it was unpleasant to stop playing for 2 seconds and get hissing and feedback. I didnt resist much to purchasing this Noise Gate as would be expected. I plugged this box into the front end of my amp, turned it on and BOOM! the noise was gone. I decided to play it safe and I jacked up the volume to halfway on a high gain setting...NO NOISE! except for some light background hissing when the volumes are off all the bad noise is gone from my sound. This worked extremely well and it is effective just like I hoped it would be. Plus, I didnt feel like shelling out 2X my purchase price to buy a Rocktron Hush which would do the same thing. The only reason I did not give a 10 in this category is because of the still-present light hiss when the volume is off but frankly..who cares??

Ok..this thing is a Boss pedal. These things survive nuclear weapon blasts. No backup pedal necessary here.
The only reason this category received a 9 instead of 10 is because i hate flimsy little plastic knobs on pedals, or for that matter, anything!

I never dealt with them.

I play Metal/Hard Rock music and having my amps gain maxed and the volume cranked is necessary most times. I was sick of the noise I was getting without the gate and now that I have this pedal all of that is solved. I have owned a few Boss pedals in the past and i continue to own a Boss EQ pedal and they are great little boxes that are well worth the money. Try this thing out before you look at unnecessary rackmount HUSH systems and such. I think you will be surprised on what this little thing can do.

Fairly easy to use ... but does take some fiddling with to reach an optimum setting. Threshold and Decay knobs along with reduction/mute knob.

Well ... there is no perfect noise gate, or at least I haven't found one yet. All noise gates require compromise (between the amount of noise reduction, and the decay rate), including this one. I initially purchased this unit because reviews said it was the best of it's kind. It does reduce noise quite nicely, but it has a couple flaws. First, I have noticed that it slightly cuts off delay repeats and sustain depending on how you have the decay set. Second, after coming in from a period of no sound, there is a slight volume swell ... slight, but noticeable. This is actually a neat effect, but I don't like it all the time. Third, the unit slightly reduces the overall volume of your sound. Aside from that, it is very useful. I don't think it degrades the original tone too much (maybe slightly more metallic), but some people do complain of this. I am going to try and Ebtech AC Hum Eliminator and see how my rig does w/ that, but I will keep this unit around (I use a 5150, and these amps produce a lot of noise on high volumes). Like I said, overall, a pretty decent effect.

Like every one says, Boss pedals are pretty tough ... although some times the knobs get bent.

never delt w/ em

Pretty good unit, despite some flaws. I think in this technology age though, someone should be able to build a better noise reduction unit than this. Oh well, good enough for now.