Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor

Read the manual, it helps.
Once it's setup its easy to use.
I found it a little confusing for about an hour, then it all made sense.

Read my Big Muff USA reissue review for full setup.

My effects chain is pretty noisy - Big Muff, Electric Mistress, Phase 90, Dynacomp - are all pretty noisy pedals. This fixes all my problems. With the decay at 0 and the threshold about 60% all noise is eliminated. I would say that this pedal does alter my tone slightly, it almost adds a little bit more compression, but in a good way i think, it sounds a bit punchier with this in the chain.

Boss seem to be very reliable, i have had quite a few Boss products, with very few complaints

No idea

This pedal is essential to my setup. It works exactly as i want it to and is now the most important pedal i own.

I dont think i could improve upon this.

If you use a lot of pedals, and hate to hear loads of hiss and noise everytime you stop playing, even if only between phrases in your solo, then you need this pedal. buy it....love it

How about 1 minute setup time & fixed all my problems !!!. My wireless is noisy as hell ( Samson CR-77 Airline ) when not playing. This took care of 90% of the hiss without coloring the sound at all.

Awesome, didn't kill anything. I have the Thresh set at 1/2 way, decay all the way off, & use the Mute function for my Schecter Triple XXX. For my hollowbody ( you guys know how bad hollowbody's feedback when distored ), I have the Thresh maxed out, Decay off, & use the mute function. NO MORE HOLLOWBODY FEEDBACK. I use no other pedals & my head is a Marshall VS100. I'm so stoked about this thing you have no idea.

It's a Boss pedal, what else do you need. Have mounted in the back of my rack. Set it & forget it.

Once again, it's a Boss.

Perfect for killing that little bit of Hiss I was getting while not playing. Beautiful for killing my hollowbody feedback. Overall, this thing rules.

Very easy,never read the manual with BOSS pedals the're so simple.

Great,Noise gates and Suppresors are always a tricky one as you dont want them to take anything away from your playing but undoubtibly they will slightly how ever the amount they help is completley paramount compared, as i use a guitar with Soapbar single coil pick-ups an Amp with lots of gain and an epic pedal board the NS-2 is probly the most vital piece of kit in it second to my Boss Tuner.

Havent had any problems and mine is about a year old

dont know

Great pedal effects your sound slightly when picking lightly or using your amps clean channel but never the less is helps everything else an great amount, go out and buy one!

Well, not so easy to use, it depends of your problem.
#1)Quiet amp, quiet guitar, noisy booster/drive pedal: simple. Guitar-in NS2, send NS2-in pedal, out pedal-return NS2, out NS2-in amp.

#2)Noisy amp, quiet guitar, quiet booster/drive pedal: NOT simple. Guitar-pedal-in NS2, send NS2-in amp, send amp-return NS2, out NS2-return amp. Your amp must have a (serial)loop! Normally it's the preamp part of your combo,or head, which is noisy.
Note that if you insert the booster/drive pedal between send NS2 and in amp you'll get feedback.

#3)Noisy amp without fx loop: dead simple. Get another amp, fast!

#4) Noisy amp, guitar, pedal: well, Boss is not God after all. Still, with the #2 configuration it will be okay.

#5) Noisy guitar, quiet amp, quiet pedal: I only tried this with a booster as explained in #1 and waow is it quiet!

It gets a five, but please take note: it is the very nature of noise problems that makes it difficult to cure, whatever the machine...

The unit DOES change your sound, the ones below who tell you otherwise are deaf.

It does add a lot of low-mids, and the grain of your sound is thicker hence less defined, less "liquid". Uglier in fact. Still better than noise (your basic strat...).
In the #1 configuration this phenomenon is more pronounced than in the #2 configuration. It is because of the impedance (high before the preamp, low after the preamp), high impedance signal gets way more affected than their lower counterparts.

Yes it is reliable, as long as you are careful with your cables/jacks.
Mine is , what, ten years old and never gave problems.

I can't see a better noise gate for guitar. It rules, especially in the #2 setting.
I have a hush(in an intellifex rocktron), and a behringer denoiser, both more signal-destroying due to their lack of detection circuitry.
Note that the boss does handle direct guitar signal too, the others just can't.
The extra dc socket is the way to go, hats off.
I only wish it didn't change your sound so much, that's what I'm asking for the NS3...
A lot of musicians I know don't know how to set this unit properly, and are unsatisfied. Hence my report, hope it helps.
One thing: don't get this to reduce feedback when playing electro acoustic guitar, get a zoom 504 or boss ad3 instead.

hella easy to use. there's a manual, didnt have to refer to it.

i'd say its pretty damn transparent, i heard horror stories about how it altered your sound. so i recorded my amp with it and without it, made no difference. no noise as far as i can see. im using it with a peavey XXL half stack, eliminates the noise.

only problem is that you have to have the threshold at max and decay at 0 in order to get immediate response to the noise reduction after sudden stops without that "fadeout" sound. this effectively elimates quiet playing. for my purposes though (metal, hardcore, etc) this is a non-issue. it does take some sustain away too, but i used a stopwatch and got around 20 seconds, versus around 30 without it and having noise seep through.

only pedal ive ever known that doesnt have this problem is the ISP decimator. wanted to get one, having online ordering issues...so i demo'd the boss at GC, works great for $50 less. so basically, if you need those soft notes and extra long sustain, get an ISP. if not, get this.

ive never had a single issue with a boss product. no back up necessary.

never needed them.

i play metal, this is exactly what i needed. no tone coloring as far as i could see, only problems that it has are a non-issue with metal. if it were lost or stolen, i'd still get this one again because the ISP costs too much more for not much more (for my purposes). excellent product, sexy looking too.

Easy to use. It does what it says it should do, it supresses noise.

Um, maybe lack of sound quality, it's pretty good. the only problem comes into play when you want to play quieter phrases, because the threshold control will only allow you to cut the noise when you're not playing, but if you play quiet notes, the backgroud fuzz is immediatley present. It's more like a noise suppressor for when you aren't playing.

I just started using a Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2, and this power source eliminates all that hum, making this pedal all but obsolete. I'm keeping it around as it will probably come in handy to cut feedback and such, but it's not a part of my rig right now.

It's a boss pedal. Always reliable.

Never called 'em.

Been playing 9 years, so I've been around the block. This is a good pedal until you have about 5 or more running simultaneously, then it's hard to play with softer dynamics, and I'd reccomend the Voodoo Lab Pedal Power 2, it's just worth it. But for feedback reduction of a 3 or 4 pedal setup, especially for a beginner, this is a great pedal.

Couldn't be simpler, really. I'd never used a dedicated noise supressor before, but I got to grips with this in a matter of minutes. Simply set how much noise will trigger the gate (threshold) and how long it takes to click off again as the sound level reduces (decay). Requires a bit of experimentation to find the right levels, which will be dictated largely by a) how much unwanted noise your rig produces and b) your playing style.

I use a Gibson Les Paul, straight into the NS-2 and then into a 50w Marshall JCM 800 Lead Series. My amp produces a fair bit of hiss, particularly on high gain settings as you would expect. I play a lot of staccato rhythm parts, so the NS-2 is there primarily to help keep that sounding tight by taking out hiss and other unwanted noise, and by chopping the chord off cleanly as soon as I mute the strings. It works great for this, and fans of Prong, Helmet etc will love it for that.

It does have a tendency to muffle quieter notes, though this doesn't affect me much with my playing style and this would happen with any suppressor. People who play more delicate styles would want to set the threshold relatively low to let those quiet notes through - however this needn't be a compromise as a player of that type will probably not be using such high gain (and therefore high noise) settings as I do.

It DOES alter the tone a little too, and at first I was a bit worried about that. But, as I've gotten accustomed to the sound I've noticed that the alteration is for the better - at least with my gear. The overall result seems to be a more focussed and punchy rhythm sound, which is exactly what I wanted.

Built well, like all Boss pedals. I don't anticipate any problems in that regard.

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Can't fault it, so far. I'd almost certainly buy another one if this were stolen or damaged, though I'd consider other brands too. It adds quite a professional touch to my sound, by making it sound very tidy and tight. My only real complaint is that I sometimes roll off the guitar volume for cleaner passages, and the drop in sound level means that the notes get muffled or cut off. For some songs, it's necessary to compromise a little and roll the threshold down a little to let those quiter notes through.

I don't get it. Is it only me?A noise gates function is to remove hiss or unwanted noise at idle. You set a threshold, and anything below this is eliminated.Once you hit a note or go above that threshold,the peddle is no longer in the loop,and all the noise you heard at idle is there again except now the other sounds cover most of it up due to the larger noise to music levels.If the threshold is set too high,soft passages may not be heard,or may sound muffled.You have to experiment with it to set it right,then leave there.

THIS IS NOT AN EFFECTS PEDAL.

It's a Boss,could be a peddal,could be a weapon.

the knobs are very easy to use...just get your settings, and leave em there when the noise is gone. The cords on the other hand can be a hassle.
1) guitar to "input"
2) "send" to other pedals
3) if there more than one pedal, they have to be linked (obviously)
4) last pedal to "return"
5) delay or reverb must be between output and your amp.
6) "output" to your amp

for a boss stompbox...this is confusing...however if you have the manual, and you learn what goes where, its as easy as any other pedal. just make sure you have lots of patches.

this pedal is frickin amazing. i like my setup with a huge supply of distortion. when im playing a song with breaks, or have to stop playing for a minute, it is 100% muted. ive been told its more of a tool than a pedal, and this is true. however, now with the ns-2, i can link more pedals together, and it wont fuck my signal. it seems like the possibilities are endless now aha. also i find that my distortion sounds thicker which is good, but that could be because im listening too hard, who knows.

The ONLY problem i had was this...
whenever i played solos with toggle switches.(bridge pickup has volume, neck pickup is turned to 0...flick the toggle switch back and forth from pickup to pickup), there would be a short squeal when it was flicked to the pickup with no volume. although ive had this pedal for about 4 hours now, ive tried all kinds of different settings, and couldnt seem to solve this. although it could be improper use of the pedal, or my guitar.

i now own 5 boss pedals, some new, some used, and ive never had a problem with any of them. boss seems to make very sturdy, heavy duty pedals.

cant say...never had problems

i play mostly metal....if you play metal, you should get this pedal...its just inconvenient not to have it. i wish i would have got it sooner. like i said above, ive had it 4 hours, and its definately a permanent part of my setup now. i own 2 other boss distortions (ds-2, mt-2) boss flanger (hf-2) boss compressor (cs-3) creamy dreamer, shin-ei companion fuzz wah, and a snarling dogs wonder wah 2. i have tried these all together in some form with the ns-2, and it is beautiful. my signal doesnt turn to shit when i link 2 pedals or more at the same time. this is especially true with my snarling dogs wah and my creamy dreamer...sounds great, and no fuzz-outs or feedback taking over like before...only problems ive had i mentioned above
1) the mysterious squeal (probably my fault though)
2) the number of patches required, but there really is no way around this, and its a small price to pay for suck a kick-ass pedal...id give it 11 if i could.

set it and forget it. very handy mute feature. anybody could figure out how to use it (like every boss pedal)

les paul>morley wah>boss me-50>dano fab tone>Boss ds-1>ns-2>traynor ycv 80

totally takes out the hum from my effects board, with the exception of the dano fab tone (good sounding, horrible hum). was surprised when it even took the noise out of my amp channels.

it DOES change the tone when on, gives more mid-highs than i would like, but nothing a little EQ tweak can't fix.

built like a brick. i would gig without a backup because it isn't the end of the world if it dies.

no idea

the longer the effects chain, the more you need one of these. after playing with it for a while you forget about it (good thing i think), the noise just isn't there.

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.

verry easy
whatever you feel is adiquet

guitar into boss tu-bluesdriver-whammy-fm4-phaser-flanger-marshall dsl 50-dsl fxloop ns2-line6 delay-marshalldsl50.
i have the threshold on about 80-100 percent .always messing around, youve got to fiddle!!!!
it takes way most if not all the hum away from the dsl and the pedals.
decay on minium.
depending on how much drive you use it will take all of the hum and feedback away away.
but when on i still hear a slight noise from the amp but i think its just natural, the valves or somthing i guess? no big deal at all.
definately worth the #55 pounds.
BUT...
when at loud volumes if the ns2 is on a high thresh hold and depending on the amount of origional noise i can hear when strings are pressed of lightly tapping strings i hear noise beginning to build behind the guitar sound? maybe its the way i set it up?
anywho well worthy the money, you must explore as many possibilitys as possible !i still am till i find the best!

its boss

no problems yet

primerily brought for recording
works well at what it does
the manual DIDNT REALLY help me
just mess around
if u have any tips for me or help with the problem please email me.

I followed the manual in setting it up. Easy to understand and it works.

I run my Wah through it but outside of the effect/return loop of the pedal into my amp. When I ran my Wah in the pedal loop it changed the dynamics of the Wah(Vox 847) drastically. Outside the loop like I have it and it is good to go. In the pedal loop I put my flanger and EQ pedal(use to push the gain a little more on my amp. Not EQ'ing.) I have put distortion pedals here too and it works great. With too much gain added to your amps distortion it can get to be more than the pedal can do well. You may run into sustain problems but this has only happened to me with a butt load of distortion plus amp distortion. Too much gain just ain't a good thing. My amp's distortions are good enough so no dist. pedal needed. Just a little overdrive or gain boost to thicken things up. When the pedal is off I get feedback and or hiss especially at gig level. Pedal on....hiss gone, feedback is caught by the pedal and cut off. I adjust it so it doesn't cut off notes sustain as well as have it capture any unwanted noise. I use this on a Peavey XXL Head, Behringer Jenson 4x12 cab. I use my amps effects loop with another EQ pedal to boost my leads for soloing. So I run all my other pedals through the Boss effect/return loop. No adverse effects to my tone. Only coloration I notice is a slight increase in treble. I am anal too about coloration and it is just very slight. The benefit of the pedal's noise control far outways that slight coloration. Again...does not change my tone for the worse.

Been using for about a month now. I most definitely use it at gigs. Hell yes. It continues to work as it should. Doesn't eat batteries as bad as some pedals I've tried. I'd say it has an average appetite for batteries. If it craps on me I will be back to tell.

The style of music our band plays would be hard rock mostly...old school metal. Been playing off on for 20yrs. Own 4 other amps, 4 guitars and numerous pedals. This is the most useful pedal and necessary tool I have. It takes away unwanted noise period. When you have rhythm lines that stop and start again with guitar volume maxxed you know if it works or not. It does.

simple... three knobs... no problem!

well... i play with a gibson les paul trhu a fender devile 410 with big muff, ds2, bf2,zoom 505II and the ns2...
it's one of the most useful pedal i've ever bought... BUT it cuts some low frequences and it increases the volume...
if you are looking for a quite noise reduction, this is perfect. but be carefull about it's problem...
note: for use it, you must have a boss psa or an ibanez ac-109 or other regulated eletric generetors...

i don't know

usefull.

Quite easy to use, it's really a question of proper positioning in the effects chain and getting the most out of it's built-in effects loop. Just plug it in properly, tweak until you get the right balance between noise suppression and proper tone.

A big big thumbs up for noise suppression! When I run my guitars straight to my amp (Class A tube amp, Gibson Les Paul or Takamine GZ-300 solidbody), I use the pedal on it's reduction (not mute) mode and it cleans up the sound nicely without affecting sustain or tone noticeably. In my effetcs chain, I use it right between my guitar and my compressor, and the distortion pedal I patch through the send and return loop of the NS-2. Things are nice and quiet that way, and if I need to do really chunky rhythm work (Green Day-like), I put the pedal on "mute" instead of "reduction". Works great!!

It's BOSS, so I don't think I could ever break it.

Never had to deal with them.

Love it! It does exactly what it's supposed to, but you have to take the time to plug things up properly to use it to the maximum of it's capacities and not totally kill your tone.

easy to setup.

godin radiator into a mdx1400-ns2-ph1r-ls2-(1)>fz2-hm3-(2)>ds1-sd1-H&K ats120 valve head-fxloop-mdx1400-hf2-smallclone-pds1002 into a 2/vintage30 cab. I like this pedal a lot. i believe that it sounds better than the noisegates in my behringer rack gear. i switch it off when i do feedback and on when i play normal riffs. like most boss gear if you turn the knobs up to their max settings things just aren't as sweet. this unit is very clean sounding and doesn't adversely affect my tone.

very dependible

not needed

this is a saviour if you like distortion. and lots of it.