And I'm pleased! I've never been happy with the Decimator, TBH. If you're looking at noise gates, I feel the Sentry is a better noise gate than the Decimator.
It's not a night and day difference, but I feel the Sentry can be set faster and tighter. In fact, it just can overall be tweaked, while the Decimator can't. Neither is 100% transparent, though. I've yet to try any of the boutique offerings, but I keep reading the Zuul isn't transparent either.
The Decimator's bypass sucks too. It's noisy. With the Decimator in the signal chain, but turned off, there is more background hiss than with it out of the chain.
So yeah, if you don't mind a bit of tweaking (not even that much as Gary Holt's preset just works right with minimal tweaking), the Sentry is a better gate for metal than the Decimator.
Just wanted to say.
It's not a night and day difference, but I feel the Sentry can be set faster and tighter. In fact, it just can overall be tweaked, while the Decimator can't. Neither is 100% transparent, though. I've yet to try any of the boutique offerings, but I keep reading the Zuul isn't transparent either.
The Decimator's bypass sucks too. It's noisy. With the Decimator in the signal chain, but turned off, there is more background hiss than with it out of the chain.
So yeah, if you don't mind a bit of tweaking (not even that much as Gary Holt's preset just works right with minimal tweaking), the Sentry is a better gate for metal than the Decimator.
Just wanted to say.
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