So far I have watched a lot of videos about this pedal. To begin with I have the ns2 and ehx silencer. I intended to purchase NSG by darkglass which is a bit more expensive than the NS1X but I felt that something was missing. This is BY FAR THE BEST DEMO VIDEO. simple explanation of the features great guitar example as I have p90s as well. Bravo to the creator of this video. If the marketing mgr of boss sees this comment he should offer you a sales and presentation job.
Cool. I built a pedal-board for a friend using an NS-2 using send-return which IMO, works better than a simple in-line setup. This looks great, and I love the display showing how much noise is being suppressed.
Long time NS-2 user. Used to use it because I was playing a boosted 5150, and now I play much lower gain but I’m on single coils so the noise suppressor is a huge help. Not an easy kinda pedal to make an exciting video about, but they’ve helped make my life a lot easier haha
Paul you did such an an amazing job in this review. This pedal seems to be fantastic and high quality. Glad to see Boss working in this new products! I have two overdrives with excellent noise gate built in. The Wampler Gearbox (noise gate in the pinnacle side, channel 2) and the Strymon Riverside. Both pedals are phenomenal! Highly recommend it!
Very cool demo, at last I'm almost convinced that this one will mostly erradicate the noise I've pkagued with all these years, hope it won't break the bank, cheers, Paul.
I have a real love/hate relationship with the original NS2, I used it in X mode, it did encourage me to tackle/eliminate all my noise sources at source just to get rid of it off my board.
I like what this pedal can do. So I preordered 2 from Sweetwater for my gigging rigs. I’ll use my NS-2’s for my home rigs. Looking forward to using this pedal. Boss is the best in my opinion. 🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽
Amazing video Paul, I’m sold. I have nothing but issues with gx 100 and ToneX noise gates as it relates to sound degradation. This is practically perfect. And I love that pink strat of yours, great tones and great playing as usual Paul!
Thanks for the concise demo/review of this pedal. Yeah, I'm a "don't need any stinking digital" snob.... but the advantage of the technology with this pedal is quite obvious. Gonna have to rethink my prejudices on this. Thanks for zeroing in on the important points!
To be honest, testing a noise reduction pedal by alternating between strict full volume and silence, without showing how the pedal handles the full decay down to gate closing, tells us nothing. There was one instant here where the demo almost showed this @ 5:34, but then was again interrupted by manually muting the strings.
I have NS-2s all over my place. I use DOD250s, YJM308s, and Fender Malmsteen Overdrives. They’re like a “can’t have one without the other” thing. Count me intrigued, but cautious. If it ain’t broken don’t fix it, but… it could be better.
This video is actually a great help in demonstrating the pedal and in signal routing. I was always a humbucker guy, never really needed or wanted a noise suppressor before, but after buying a new strat not to long ago, I'm digging the single coil tones but cannot live with the 60 cycle hum. It just kills me. I've gone down the noiseless single coil route before, and I can live with them but I'm ready to try anything before I resort to those extremes. Going to try a noise suppressor to see if that works for me, bought an el cheapo behringer for 30 bucks off Amazon. It was the cheapest I could find that still had an effects loop, I'm not expecting much from it but if it doesn't work if I may try adding a dummy coil. If it does work for me, then this new Boss pedal is on my radar in a major way. If all else fails, then it's back to noiseless single coils.
Reading some of the other comments, I can see how a follow-up video could be very useful. (cracks the whip)😅 One case - how a pedal like this is used when you like to roll the guitar volume back on a pedal. I personally wouldn't use it in that scenario as most likely the drive pedal wouldn't need noise reduction in that case. In a noisy high gain situation, I would think it would be wiser to not mess with your guitar volume and to use a volume pedal after the noise reduction. Another thing is the use of reverb after the NS-2. I think if you're going to use noise reduction, you definitely want reverb as part of the system because it helps smooth and mask the cutoff point. And then if your guitar is extremely noisy, I'd get that fixed first, particularly, if you're using high gain pedals. That's a job for my venerable late 80's Charvel loaded with active EMGs.😊
It would be better to demo a noise reduction pedal without reverb or delay. Those effects hide any glitchy, static artifacts on the decay of your guitar signal.
Brilliant demo Paul, this came as surprise to me. Should be on everyone’s board right? - would love you to do a Head 2 Head demo of new Blackstar HT 100 Mk3 Head -v- Boss Katana Artist 100 Mk2 Head. Cheers, Mitch.
I concur…that was an excellent demo which showed clearly how to use this pedal. The X series are great…Boss are really pulling some rabbits out of the hat.
Think I have to get one of these as a single coil player! I got an NS-2 used about 2 years ago that kinda crapped out on me before I could really get used to it with my rig and haven’t delved into the noise reduction field since. I remember liking the NS-2 but even running it with the loop, it would be quiet when I wasnt strumming, but I would get the hum I was trying to elimate whenever I was actually playing. This seems like it functions so much better
I saw an A B comparison between this new NS-1X an the original NS-2 & after hearing them side by side, I still prefer the NS-2 I had to sell 4 or 5 years ago.
I have the good old NS2 and it works but ends up eating up sustain.. So if I understand correctly this pedal is almost as good as buying noiseless single coils or P90 pickups... Which is obviously great because I could keep my existing single coils and P 90's..
I have riddle for you my friend Paul. I have a boss Pedalboard that has the following pedals TU3W WITH BUFFER SWITCH ON AND OFF NS1X NOISE SUPPRESSOR CP1X COMPRESSOR TB-2W TONE BENDER WITH BUFFER ON AND OFF . when buffer on it's after the fuzz circuit SD1W OR DS1W OR OTHE BOSS GAIN PEDAL PLUS CP1X COMPRESSOR! GE7 EQ OTHERS LIKE DM2W CE2W DIMENSION C, VIBRATO The given things are All boss pedals use buffer by pass Tone bender must be in the beginning of the chain due to germanium transistors sensitivity A. Would you use NS1X AFTER ALLA GAIN PEDALS B. WOULD YOU USE GAIN PEDALS IN THE FX LOOP OF NS1X? C. WOULD YOU LEAVE TB2W FUZZ OUT OF THE FX LOOP? D. WOULD IT BE RIGHT TO FX LOOP ALL GAIN AND BOOST LIKE PEDALS? CP1X GE7 PLUS ODs and DISTORTION? my current signal chain is TU3W TUNER BUFFER OFF TB-2W FUZZ BUFFER ON OR OFF NS1X looping CP1X COMPRESSOR, SD1W, PB1W BOOSTER GE 7 EG AFTER THE LOOP AND DM2W DELAY CE2W CHORUS DC2W DIMENSION C MY MAIN AMP IS A HIWATT TUBE 20 OR A BLUES JUNIOR CUSTOM SHOP what is your advice? I would appreciate any help Regards Paul Athens Greece
Sounds great ! I have a rig that I really like but is noisy, in my case this pedal won’t help : I have a vintage 5 watt tube amp that is noisy. That’s sad because without the noise this amp would totally be my rehearsal amp and even giging amp if miked! I stick with my ac15 for the giging side but that’s a shame to keep this sound in my basement !
@@TheStudioRats Yeah... That sounds... Terrible. Bad enough I got 1 cable coming out of the guitar lolz. Have you tested it with a wireless rig set up?
i guess i put my tuner first in line out of the send ... that's the best way i can figure. the site says something about the output of "optimized tone" ... *i want to hear an out of phase coil split through it*
Great video again! I have a Boss Katana MK11 100 which has a lot of noise. It drives me crazy!! I use a lot of your tone patches and have recently purchased a Morley HUMNO, but it seems that the noise comes from the amp. Will this pedal work without taking away from the tone and sustain? Thanks Paul!
The Katana has a noise gate/suppressor built-in. Have you tried it or does it not work for you? You do have to use the Tone Studio to access it. It's towards the end of the signal chain, "NS".
Thanks for the reply! I do use the NS at 50/50 However the high gain tones always have background noise. I was just wondering if this pedal is the boss!@@CraigCrider
I am playing and messing a lot with the volume pot on my guitar to get clean sounds and in between. Does it still work this way or is the guitar OFF when turning the volume pot for example to 7 Thanks from Germany Matz
Boss pedals get a lot of hate because they are the go to corpo pedal basically. The pedals that most people know of. And like any corporation they have produced some real trash. Take their acoustic electric pedal lololol. Thing sold for close to 100 bucks and now sells used on ebay for like 20 bucks. No one wants that trash hahaahaha. And many custom made pedals do beat boss pedals in many regards so there's that, despite being often more expensive than boss pedals... That being said. Sometimes boss kills it. Recently they launched the CE chorus 2 model. It brings back the glory days of the best CE 1 pedal that they stopped making and then some. Amazing! Arguably their best pedal ever made. They recently did the waza model of the super over drive and the orange distortion pedal. VERY good work here. I even got their newest fuzz waza pedal and it's pretty dope too. So they been on a roll lately is my point. I think I'm gunna get this thing haha. I play loud with single coils red hot chili peppers style so this should be handy for me. But I'm not sure... 200 bucks is bs over priced lol. Maybe for 100?
The review doesn't test what is typically the main problem for all noise gates - using the guitar volume control. With a noise gate, if you want to use the guitar volume to clean up a distorted sound, you typically run into unwanted gating/reduction. Would have been interesting to see if this pedal could handle it better...
This is only a problem if you use the pedal first in line, including using the effects loop because that put the detection circuit first. The solution is to run it later (This is pretty much the default in studios to run gates/expanders after compression rather than before), the problem then is its the wrong type of dynamics processing because guitar pedals tend to be gates rather than expanders, which are far more natural.
That intro sounded like cc deville! ...... It might be said if you have noise you could look to change something before getting a noisegate.. . Is the reason there is loads of echo in there the sound try to disguise the'' kicking in' '? I re ord vocals with loads of gain and it can sound weird if you get rid of the hiss immediately after a line.
If i need to plug my guitar strait into it, THEN WHERE DO I PUT MY TUNER ??? ( after my gain stages, in the Output ??? is that going to work ? is that going to be ok? ) or do i put the tuner first in line out of the Send ?
never understand reviews where people use a delay to show another effect pedal. Just hearing a dry signal (I mean without delay or reverb, obviously you need drive) would be more true to hear the noise suppressor... in all respect ofcourse 🙂.
The problem I have with digital is not so much the degradation of tone, but the latency which makes it more difficult to play and messes up the feel. It would be interesting to try this pedal to see if it would affect my playing as much as other digital effects have (i.e. Kemper, Helix, etc). I have just purchased one online, so I hope it will play good and stay on my pedalboard.
If I had to guess, those algorythms for gating have been tweeked and updated a lot over the years. If anything this release is Boss trying to get the NS-2 on par with what already exists on the flagship multifx units.
Noise suppression, not so sexy.. until you have to stop dead silent and look like an ass when you feedback. So noise suppression is one of my favorite things these days especially with my single coil loving metal mind.
I don't know how I'm supposed to take your word that there's no signal degradation one of your very first example with the pedal off and then on, and neither case did you allow the instruments to sustain into Oblivion. You stopped it both times with your picking hand.
@@TheStudioRats perhaps you could elaborate. Immediately after killing the D with your right hand, you said obviously there's no signal degradation. Could you clarify that statement please? The reason I ask is I have tried every type of noise suppression device available in the past and never used one in the long one because if it kept a high gain sound quiet, it cut off the sustain of lower gain sounds. When you said there was no degradation, I assumed this is what you're referring to. If that's incorrect, that's fine. I don't mind being wrong, that's how we learn. But I would like to understand. Thank you.
