Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor

You only need to set this up once, just find the threshold that cuts your effects' noise effectively (no pun intended), and set the decay.

I use this with a Gibson Les Paul Studio, with Proco Rat and Boss Heavy Metal distortion, Boss Chorus Ensemble, Danelectro chorus and Flange and a Boss Tremolo in the effects loop. It does the job VERY well. Can't fault it.

I use my effects with a power supply rather than batteries. The 'default' when I power up my pedals is 'off' on the NS-2, so I have to remember to switch it on each time. Oddly, the reverse applies to the Boss Tremolo, which is pretty frustrating. A very minor criticism, but the only one I have.

I love messing with effects and hate noise, so this is ideal. Max the distortion and effects and let the NS-2 do the legwork. I used to have an MXR Noise Gate/Line Driver but that was complete rubbish! - simply too basic to do the job properly and constantly having to alter the threshold. I have also found, with the NS-2, you can create some crazy industrial cut-off sounds if your max the threshold and play around with the decay. Other than this, the NS-2 isn't an effect as such, so not much fun to be had unless you have already established a need to cut your noise, but it does give you more freedom with your existing effects. 9/10 (nothing's perfect!)

Easiest thing to use. Period. You'd need to have down syndrom to have difficulties with this pedal.

guitar > dunlop wah > iput NS-2 > digitech whammy > Korg DF-10 stage tuner > GE-7 Equalizer... and the NS-2 is being used as an effects loop on it's own by running my Dan Electro Fab Tone and MT-2 Distortion pedals through the send and recieve inputs..

The sound quality is wonderful! It cuts out any feedback/hum/buzz my single coil stratocastor gives off without removing ANY tone!!! This pedal will make any crapy guitar sound great! It's never noisey and the instructions are soooo easy to figure out! The sound is always great! effects are great. period.

Never screwed up yet, and I haven't owned a BOSS product that has. I would gig it without backup.

never had to call them! probably wont ever have to!!

I play every style excluding country. It's awesome. I've been playing for 9 years now, and this is the best investment i've ever had. If it wwere lost or stolen, i'd buy one that same day. GREAT PEDAL!!

Dirt Simple....Only Three(3) Knobs to worry about....and one you don't even have to move.

Guitar->Noise Suppressor->Compressor/Sustainer->Ibanez Tube Screamer Reissue->Marshall AVT-50

The Pedal itself has cut out all background noise and has sharpened up the overall tone itself.

With my other effects + a little gain on the clean setting, I can get a pretty decent SRV Tone.

or

With the Distortion setting + my effects a really BITCHIN' lead crunch.

It's a BOSS.

A friend of mine has run over one of his BOSS effects with his truck and it still survived.

Never have needed to call the company, hope I never have to either.

I typically play blues-rock of the 60s and 70s and alot of SRV but I have played some Heavy Metal.

I have been playing for 3 years now. I currently own two Left Handed Stratocasters, 1 Jay Turser Telecaster, a Fender Accoustic, and a Hondo accoustic. I play with several effects when I play on my electrics: Boss Noise Suppressor(of course), Boss Compressor/Sustainer, Boss Blues Driver, Ibanez Tube Screamer, Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face, Original Crybaby Wah, and a Dunlop Rotovibe pedal.
I either play through a Marshall Avt-50 or a 10 Watt Pignose.

I love using this pedal cause it cuts out all the noise ad unwanted sound from the pickups. The only bad thing that I can say about it s that the effect does really change when you play around with the controls (Which can be good or bad when you look at it)

There is one sacrifice you have to make when you use this pedal. I don't know whether this is intentional or not but when I use the suppressor, I can't get a very deep reverb that I used to get from the Marshall. Usually I only have to set the reverb to about 4 on the setting to get a nice rich deep tone but when I activate the pedal, I have to "jack that knob to 11" to get any type of reverb. So I wish it had a reverb knob on the pedal so I could get that deep tone.

I found this very easy to use. People should have no problem. That is, if they bothered to read the manual as it's very easy to understand and explains everything. A cool feature is that this pedal can power other effect pedals so you don't tons of adaptors or an expensive multi-pedal power supply.

Amazing!I used to have real problems with noise in my set-up, but now, thanks to this, I don't have any unwanted or unnecessary noise. Sounds great together with my Boss CS-3 (compressor). I don't know how I survived without it for so long.

Bulit like all Boss eg. like a tank. Had no problems in the years that I've owned it.

Never needed to get in touch with them and hopefully I never will.

Anyone who uses high gain distortion pedals or vintage pedals should get this as it cuts all extra noise. Also essential for those who gig a lot as it reduces loud hums and feedback. An amazing pedal that every guitarist should own.

A complete dumbass can figure this thing out. It's just a couple of simple knobs.

I play a Fender Sam Ash Costum strat and a Marshall MG250DFX amp. I also have a MT-2 that i run through the little effect loop thing. This thing does what is suppose to. knocks out all the buzz from my humbuckers (when the distortion is on). but it doesn't get rid of all the buzz from my single coils when the distortion is on. but it makes them bareable.

Its boss. All their stuff is solid. don't drop it on the knobs though cuz i did that with my MT-2 Metal Zone and it kinda messed them up. but it still works

This is amazing. theres no reason to buy somthing more expensive unless your recording.

This little grey box is extremely versistile and easy to use.
You have to tweak the decay and threshold nobs around for a few minutes so you can get a natural decay and not kill your sound.
The manual only tells you what the knobs do so you have to find your own settings. But other than that it's a really simple and cost effective unit.

I use a Squier Standard Stratocaster (with single coils so it can get pretty noisy) that i run through a Boss Metal Zone, Boss Tuner, and the Boss NS-2, (all the pedals are hooked into my Boss BCB3 pedalboard) then I run all that into a Marshall 100 watt Half Stack.
so it goes Strat> Metal Zone> Tuner> Noise Supressor> Stack. The sound is incredible thanks to the NS-2 cutting out all of the hiss and buzz from my pickups and amp, the Metal Zone's distortion really rings through and shines because you can only hear the distortion and no hiss or buzz, plus you get no feedback. Believe me when I tell you that your Distortion will sound twice as good once you add the Ns-2 to your rig it improves everything. This thing is never noisy unless you dont set the threshold knob clockwise unitl you get total silence. This thing is awesome

I would most ceartainly depend on it. I play in a Skacore/ Grindcore band and we use Strats in order to get that nice brightness and midrange. And also single coils are great for grind because their sharp and goodd for that gritty distortion. I bought this about 3 weeks ago and I have played 4 shows since then. This thing has overall improved my sound and noise problems and it lets me concentrate on my vocals, and guitar playing. I would use it on a gig without a backup.

I play in a skacore band called Jolly Roger. This is ideal for anyone who uses single coils and plays at very high levels of distortion. I've been playing for a little over 2 years I started when I was 15 and now m 17. If this item were stolen or lost I'd hunt the guy down and beat him senseless.

Its really darn easy, just make sure you read the manual about what threshold and decay does. I find all boss manuals very helpful.

It does what its supposta really well! Cuts out a hell of alot of noise... Maybe its just me but this seems to work better when playing at really loud volumes, it seems as though there is more noise when I have my marshalls and fenders on 1 as oppossed to 10. So by saything that, it really does its job in keeping you sound very nice at high volumes!. Come on... Gretsch hollowbodys thru a Ibanez ts9 and a marshall plexi/fender deville.. Yes that creats alot of crappy hum but the ns-2 gets rid of pretty much all of it. (Of course your always gonna hear the speaker noise tho!!)

Yes I totally depend on this.. Built like a tank. Only a 9 cos of platic knobs but you'd seriously have to go out of your way to break em'

Not too sure... I heard it takes a while but then again even if you take something to your local tech that takes a while too. So with a rating im undecided.

Ive mentioned it all above... I absolutly recommand this pedal. Sure it cost be $200 AU new but I know im gonna be lending this to my kid one day (im only 18 so yes thats a long way off!!) so it is worth it.

This is simply simple to use. It's a tool not an effect.
The manual eXplains how to use the loop function well enough for a monkey to understand.

I run the NS-2 2'nd in my chain with a compressor in front of it and a wah, eq, and an overdrive after.
This pedal adds ZERO noise to the chain. Infact, if there is any tone suckage it's not audible. Maybe some of you got a bad pedal.
One other thing, Many of the previous posts remarked about it chopping off their notes pre-maturely. If thats happening, you dont have it set right. I play Clean tones to saturated lead tones and the NS-2 NEVER cuts out single note lines, even with long bends it wont mess with my sustain/decay etc. The cleans are just the same. Quiet finger picking or lite picking with big spaces between notes never get cut. When the pedal starts its magic, it does so in a smooth manner and is really undetectible.
9 because there must be something up Rolands sleeve for the neXt model.

No problems are forseen because Boss builds their pedals to stand up to the clock.

Never needed to and strange enough, I dont think I will ever have to.

This pedal is a very great tool for any player who wants to keep things quiet when they need them to be (when you stomp the pedal it goes from noise suppressor to deactivating the signal).
I love this pedal and if it were stolen or stopped working, I would get another one.

Very easy to use. I've looked through the manual a couple of times.

I'm using my NS-2 with my Marshall AVT150. I've yet to work any other F/X's in with it, but I'm putting together a chain of Boss pedals and the NS-2 is will an essential part of it.

Noise? The great thing about it is that it CUTS OUT the noise!!

I can depend on it and will gig without it because right now I cannot afford a backup.

I hope I NEVER have to deal with CS for ANY company!!

I play a variety of music. My main "gig" right now is Sunday mornings in my church. We have a contempeary service and when I play that service, I can and will use the distortion settings on my Marshall. I've also played with a 50's cover band and will be playing with a rock and blues band in the near future. I plan on using my NS-2 from now on or at least until I can move up to racks.

I've been playing for 25 years, seriously for the last 5-7. I play mostly "classic" music. Classic country, classic rock, 50's rock, classic metal, and even classic Christian/religioius. I've little use for most "modern" music. Especially country, rock and metal.

If my NS-2 was stolen, I'd be burning the web on Ebay looking for another one.

My favorite feature about it is that I can run my distortion channels on my Marshall full crank with it on and not have that EXTREMEMLY ANNOYING racket a distortion channel can make. Another thing I like about is that I can finally take my hands of the guitar and not get the annoying sound my pickups make either. We're using "in ear" at church and the rest of the musicians are glad I've fixed it also! lol!!!

Anything I wish I had? A Boss GT-6 or the Roland VG-88. Those and STACKS of Marshalls and Fenders.

I don't know about it helping to make music, but it makes playing music easier because now I don't have to worry about extracurricular noise going on.

Easy to use. I have second in my chain behind my wah, then just loop all my other toys, back in the return socket, and finally to my amp. Adjust the level and decay and your away. Monkeys could operate it.

I had a real problem with noise in my setup before I tried the NS2. I use a Firebird, Les Paul and strat into an Orange AD30 for my clean sound, and a '77 Marshall half stack for my 'Give it some teddy' sound. I use some pretty fizzy pedals - a RAT box, fuzzface, HAO Rust Driver, Electric mistress - as well as some quiet ones and this little beauty cleaned the lot up.
I have the level set at about 75% with just a little decay and it just lets my tone sing without choking it at all. You can set it up so it cuts out all the dirt, but I think this sounds a bit sterile, besides noise isn't always a bad thing!
I have this thing on all the time and can't imagine life without it! It really is THAT DAMN GOOD!

It's a Boss - which basically translates to "would survive a nuclear blast". I have a few other Boss pedals and never had any problems with any of them.

Never had to contact them.

If you use any sort of pedal overdrive then you really do need one of these. All that hissy garbage just disappears and when you hit your guitar, you wonder where it came from. I never thought that a noise gate could be this effective.