any suggestions?
HI,
i’m looking for noise gates to use on both bass and electric guiar, anyone have any suggestions of ones that I may try out. Free is always good but any ideas are welcome.
Thx
Not really what you’re asking for, but any guitar amp/cab modeler, like a Johnson J-Station, will have a noise gate built-in as one of the effects. Looks like they’re going for $50-$75 on ebay.
If you record guitar, an amp/cab modeler like this is very handy.
Jeff
Hardware or software? “Free” would have to mean software. You already have a software gate that works just fine, it came with the program.
Remember the Blue Line plug ins? I know folks had mixed feelings about some of them, but I though that the noisegate is as good as it gets - it comes with ADSR envelope controls. Very useful. 
For hardware, there is a 1/2 rack dbx noisegate that shows up on ebay all the time - what its it, the 663? 263? Anyway, they go cheap, like 25 bucks US. Lemme go look it up…
edit: I think it was the 363, but there are none for sale right now…
Thx for the replies, yes I meant software. Sorry.
Yeah. Any software compressor in which the GUI involves an upward slopping “line” can be used as both a gate and/or compressor. Some comps using other gui’s do as well. For example, the mda dynamics FX has a “gate” control. But the fasoft works perfectly well. In fact, a lot better than, say, the mda one. IMHO.
fish
Well, I use the fasoft one, it does what’s needed ususally. On the other hand, you don’t really need a gate, if you can stand hand-drawing volume evolutions. that often works better anyway, since signals vary so much over time, and it’s hard to find the optimal setting on a gate - that’s always sort of a compromise.
But do check out the blue line one, it really does have some unusual options.
Well, i dont want to appear stupid, appearances are deceptive though, but what GUI. Thx
Andybot,
GUI = Graphical User Interface. Or; what the screen looks like. Took me a while to figure out…then I asked! 
Peace,
-Ed
Oh, Yeah, I forgot floorfish! Shame on me… just remember that it doesn’t play well with some other plugins. But it’s very useful.
I’ve had the same experience, Tom. All the DigitalFish plugs seem to conflict with PeakCompressor (which i really, really, really like).
Anyway, the FaSoft Compressor works quite nicely as a gate.
tj
I don’t know what the deal is with PeakComp. There seem to be a lot of plugs that blow up next to it. Everytime I get a crash in N I can look at the crash report from XP and it is almost always peakcomp.dll that is at fault. But it is such a great plug.
Thx for all the replies. I tried out the BlueLine gate and it seemed to work very well, ill try some others later.
Thx all