Electro Harmonix Silencer 5-stars Reviews

Does what it says. Great value

A very affordable noise gate, excellent build and great quality. Can highly recommend it for any guitarist who are looking to add a noise gate pedal to their pedalboard

Great budget noise gate!

Does its job absolutely great and does what it's needed. Tried a few gates, and i am more than satisfied with this one. Only gate i would rate higher is the TC Electronic Sentry!

Really Good Noise Gate

I am surprised and very exited with this pedal..

Works perfect and you can adjust your tone as you like..

It cuts the noise very gentle with very easy settings..

I wanted to buy the more expensive one,but i decided to give a try to this one first..I am very sutisfied with my choise..Secure buy,worth every penny..

Essential Tool

Perfect noise gate, no sound quality issues, works a charm, simple to use. Very useful for high gain and/or noisy setups. Run it early in the chain, and use the loop on it, for best results.

SImple, effective

I'm using this mainly for creative use - chopping off the ends of decays and swells to give a stuttering effect. It works great for this with lots of treshhold control. I tested it as a hiss suppressor as well and it cleans the signal up really well.

does a good job at reducing noise for an affordable price!

this pedal works really good for me - I put my distortion pedals through the fx loop of the EHX Silencer, which makes it so that the noise gate uses the clean signal of my bass to know when to activate.

easy to use, cheaper and maybe even better than a Boss noise gate!

Great product!

Loved ths noise gate, medium price with great quality.

Pro: Easy to use, comes with included battery, it's a bonus.

Cons: Wish the plugs were easier, needs an extra push compared to other pedal.

Great piece of gear! This pedal just does what it's supposed to do: clean the incoming noise. It's basically a noise gate, so it's not analysing your signal to suppress any interference. I would recommend it if you want to clean your setup just a little bit!

Nice gate

I use this pedal for Strat with overdrive and Les Paul with EMGs with distortion + boost pedal. Works very well. I like this gate design as well. No cons at all.

Not a gate for Djent but a good solution for hiss

This is a very good gate for the price and it gets the job done without degrading your tone. At this price class, the only step up would be an ISP Decimator.

This is not a gate for Djent or players with extreme gain in order to achive tighter sounds, but it?s a very good gate if you want to get rid of that irritating hiss in between the songs during the gig.

It gets some time to find the sweet spot and the sweet spot is rather narrow but once you find it, it will be the perfect pedal for solution especially at this price.

I was very proud of never having felt the need of a noise supressor. But when I switched from playing guitar in a bass amp with a distortion pedal (EHx Metal Muff) to using a real guitar amp with its built in distortion... my Needs changed.

The amp (Peavey Bandit) isn't noisy, at least with my settings, but I like to use flanger in front of the amp and my Neo Mistress, when was turned on and I wasn't playing, made a lot of noise, I guess it did before but, since my bass amp lacked in the mid range when compared to the Bandit, I never noticed that much. So I had to swallow my pride and search for a noise supressor.

I knew about the Boss one, since my old PW10 Wah had some NS2 inspired noise gate functionality in its drive selection mode, but I never liked that implementation on the PW10. So I did what I usually do when in need of a new type of pedal: see if EHx has one, and they did! And, as usually, it is cheaper and with all the essentials.

It took a while for setting it up correctly, I read about the X method (using the amp in the Noise Gate's FX loop), I tried what I read online but I figured that my problem wasn't the same as most people had. Usually the problem reported is that the amp is noisy, mine isn't, so I tried to isolate the noisy pedal.

The best placement I found for the Silencer is right before the amp, I have Wah -> Compressor -> Phaser -> Flanger -> Soft OverDrive -> Silencer, than a volume pedal (mostly to soften the amp's distortion in some parts and to volume swells) and then the Bandit. If I turn the Silencer off I hear the Mistress and the Compressor, but with it turned on they stay silent.

I tried the Silencer in the FX loop but I couldn't find the right threshold, since what worked to the distorted signal was too much for the clean signal. So I ended with this solution, I cut the noise the clean signal path and then I apply distortion, it works for me! And I can still play around with letting notes ring for a long time and generating feedback with distortion and flanger.

The Silencer is a great tool, with a FX loop its versatility is on pair with the more advanced and expensive Noise Gates I think. I really find it useful, competent and makes me sound more professional without unwanted extra noises.

Excellent pedal

First Noise Gate pedal that I've bought and I am pleased with the product. I needed one as the ground noise was way too much..

It can be a bit frustrating until you get the perfect configuration for your setup. But if you search on EHX forum you will find what you need.

The control under my feet!

Sometimes I couldn't be free in high-gain tones, while the amplifier, overdrive pedal and boost were working together, there was a noise I couldn't control.

After meeting this product, I don't fear to use an effect, because I know that it eliminates all the noise for me.

Sustain-Loss is right, but, besides the advantages it is ok for me.

The effect loop connection method is a great addition, I have been started to get better quality than with all my pedals.

Now, High-Gain is under my control :)

Great noise gate

Does the job perfectly but has a few milliseconds shortage for wait before silencing when compered to the NS-2. Otherwise its very well built.

Very good gate

Got this because I wanted a gate with a built in loop. I have a solid state high gain amp and a guitar with insane output pickups that translates into a very noisy rig. The loop is crucial as it gives the posibility to isolate noisy pedals and I have been able to reduce the overall rig noise to a very acceptable level.

The pedal is sturdy and comes with a battery and it's a huge improvement over the simple on know gate I had before.

This is the most affordable gate with a loop I could find and I'm very satisfied with it.

Very flexible

I needed a noise gate for a very noise compressor+overdrive, and it does its job. The regulations are very effective to fine tune its effect on the noise, to get the best compromise between noise and reducing cutting off the tail of the notes. The double in-out (with the send/return) makes it easy to silence both guitar and dynamic effects such as compressors/dirt boxes. It can cut a bit the tails if your boxes are very noisy. It helps feeding it a high input signal. Recommended.

Capable of handling any type of noise

In my chain this pedal is the highest hierarchically, extending its scope over the entire chain from the guitar input to the return of the fx loop of my tube amp.

Since currently i have an twofold impedance mismatch between an amp and a cab, it produces a constant low hum, making playing a single coil guitar through the setup being excessively noisy. Implementing a noise-gate X-connection with this pedal battled every type of noise that could appear in my chain, and had just enough controls to make it sound organic.

My main points of experience:

+ The noise-gate X-connection does not damage the tone, and no phase cancellation running it through a long loop has been a problem;

+ The range of control values on the knobs can make this pedal take on more functionality than just of a noise gate, so however strange it may sound, it may be played around with as well;

+ Small current draw, as of the majority of EHX pedals, favors the owners of large pedalboards;

- Even though it can be tweaked with the proper combination of "Threshold" and "Reduction", it seems to have been more intuitive to have a separate "Attack" knob. However the pedal functions just as well without it.

Noise Free

At last! Electro Harmonix Silencer is The Best ! No more Hiss or Hum.

Usage

I use the silencer at the output stage from my Zoom G5 effects processor, some of the effects can be very noisy especially when used in conjunction with the on board "Tube booster"

I found it to be brilliant in noise reduction without loosing actual punch in the output signal, over the years i have used noise reduction systems but always found then to be compressors and limiters as oppsed to actual noise reduction without dramatic loss of imput signal power, this is by far the best add on i have used and will recommend it to any serious guitarist who likes to use high end sustain, definately a 5 star product