For some time, I’ve been struggling with the tone of the QC with leads and mostly higher gain settings. The tone was very thin and low sustain. I have been tweaking the noise gate on the input block and noticed even when set to 0%, it still aggressively attacks the noise and cuts the guitar signal, making it sound very thin. I finally stopped using the input noise gate block, and started just using a simple gate on the first block, and it has made a huge improvement to the tone and sustain. I think there may be a problem with how the noise gate on the input block functions that NDSP might want to look at.
How did you turn off the input noise gate? I am having the same issue and it’s pretty annoying Built-in noise gate degrades weak signals?
It kills the sustain more than a analog noise gate does imho. Been looking for a solution without external pedals (although I have one sitting in a box doing nothing…) but no luck. Something Neural should fix!
You can turn the input blocks noise gate off. Additionally try an adaptive gate s/c late in your chain with the side chain configured to take the signal from the beginning of your block chain. That does work very well for me - it replaced my analog Fortin zuul I had in my FX loop up until the addition of the side chained noise gates.
Hi David, I tried all that, also the side chaining. But nevertheless, when the tone fades out it sputters a bit and then stops beyond a certain threshold which it doesn’t do when the noise gate is not used. In which case the tone sustains much longer as well. Guitars used: strandberg boden plini, suhr modern, schecter nick johnston custom shop.
I’ve had the same issue from the beginning. Very irritating. I’ve managed to deal with it.
May be a good idea to write a mail to support@neuraldsp.com about that to make them aware of the problem if you haven’t already. Sadly they do not read the posts in this forum.
Haven’t done that yet. But good idea, I’ll mail them.
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