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So I tried adding the TC Electronic Sentry Noise Gate to my pedalboard, but I had a major problem. I know I'll probably get roasted for this, but right now, all of my pedals are true bypass. I know all the hoopla about having too many true bypass pedals, however, the reason I haven't added a dedicated buffer to the beginning of my chain is because my reverb pedal is at the end of the chain and is always on. I'm assuming that it's output impedance is low enough to where it's acting as a real good buffer, because I don't notice any loss of tone or highs at all. I still get that crisp, spanky sound from my Strat. Including my always on pedal, I have 9 true bypass pedals (again, still haven't noticed any tone loss). The Sentry would have been the 10th
I bought the Sentry a long time ago to silence noisy OD pedals, but took it off my board after just getting rid of the noisy ODs. Back when I used it for those pedals, it worked great (I had less pedals back then). The reason I tried putting it back on my board is because I'm now using a Friedman BE-OD as my main drive, and it's got some hum to it.
When I added the Sentry to my current lineup, no sound came out. At all. As if the amp wasn't even on. This was happening both when it was bypassed and when it was on. I tried putting the Sentry in direct series with the rest, and I also tried using the loop in the pedal with my overdrives in there, and nothing was coming out. I took it out completely, and everything came back.
My initial thought was that maybe I had finally exceeded the limit of true bypass pedals I could use, even with my always on reverb acting as a buffer, so I opened up the Sentry and turned the internal switch to the buffered bypass mode. I put it back in using the loop with my overdrives again, and it started off loud, but then quickly fluctuated to no noise again in a matter of seconds, and it kept doing this back and forth for about a minute before it settled on playing normally. However, once it settled, there was a really bad tone suck. Lost a good amount highs, no more sparkle.
What could the problem(s) be? Is it maybe just defective? Or is it not playing nice with all the other true bypass pedals there? I'd like to try adding a good quality, dedicated buffer at the beginning of my chain to see if that would make the Sentry work in true bypass mode, but I wanted opinions on this before I drop cash on the buffer. The weird fluctuation of volume in it's buffered mode concerns me, and I'd hate to buy the buffer, only for it to not solve the problem because the Sentry is just messed up now after being stored away for about a year (in it's box, too).
Any input is appreciated. Thanks!
So I tried adding the TC Electronic Sentry Noise Gate to my pedalboard, but I had a major problem. I know I'll probably get roasted for this, but right now, all of my pedals are true bypass. I know all the hoopla about having too many true bypass pedals, however, the reason I haven't added a dedicated buffer to the beginning of my chain is because my reverb pedal is at the end of the chain and is always on. I'm assuming that it's output impedance is low enough to where it's acting as a real good buffer, because I don't notice any loss of tone or highs at all. I still get that crisp, spanky sound from my Strat. Including my always on pedal, I have 9 true bypass pedals (again, still haven't noticed any tone loss). The Sentry would have been the 10th
I bought the Sentry a long time ago to silence noisy OD pedals, but took it off my board after just getting rid of the noisy ODs. Back when I used it for those pedals, it worked great (I had less pedals back then). The reason I tried putting it back on my board is because I'm now using a Friedman BE-OD as my main drive, and it's got some hum to it.
When I added the Sentry to my current lineup, no sound came out. At all. As if the amp wasn't even on. This was happening both when it was bypassed and when it was on. I tried putting the Sentry in direct series with the rest, and I also tried using the loop in the pedal with my overdrives in there, and nothing was coming out. I took it out completely, and everything came back.
My initial thought was that maybe I had finally exceeded the limit of true bypass pedals I could use, even with my always on reverb acting as a buffer, so I opened up the Sentry and turned the internal switch to the buffered bypass mode. I put it back in using the loop with my overdrives again, and it started off loud, but then quickly fluctuated to no noise again in a matter of seconds, and it kept doing this back and forth for about a minute before it settled on playing normally. However, once it settled, there was a really bad tone suck. Lost a good amount highs, no more sparkle.
What could the problem(s) be? Is it maybe just defective? Or is it not playing nice with all the other true bypass pedals there? I'd like to try adding a good quality, dedicated buffer at the beginning of my chain to see if that would make the Sentry work in true bypass mode, but I wanted opinions on this before I drop cash on the buffer. The weird fluctuation of volume in it's buffered mode concerns me, and I'd hate to buy the buffer, only for it to not solve the problem because the Sentry is just messed up now after being stored away for about a year (in it's box, too).
Any input is appreciated. Thanks!
The same thing is happening directly into the amp. So I'm assuming it's the pedal that's faulty. I guess I should have a tech look at it before buying anything else. I just didn't know if that could be a by product of that many true bypass pedals ��
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