BOSS NS-1X - Guitar Noise Eliminated!
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2023
- In today's video, Paul Drew from The Studio Rats is checking out the brand-new Boss NS1-X Noise Surpressor.
This cleaver pedal will completely change the way you think about noisy guitars/ guitar pedals and amps.
Here is what Boss says about the Boss NS-1X Noise Suppressor
BOSS introduces the NS-1X Noise Suppressor, the latest addition to the X series lineup of compact pedals powered by advanced Multi-Dimensional Processing (MDP) technology. The NS-1X intelligently silences noise without affecting the natural tone and playing feel of a guitar or bass. Speedy processing and versatile operation modes deliver superior performance for a wide range of scenarios, from gentle noise reduction for general stage and studio setups to ultra-fast gating for heavy rhythm styles and other techniques that rely on high-gain tones.
In today's video Im useing my Fender Masterbuild p90 strat with the Boss NS1X, Earthquaker Devices Palisades, and my studio pedalboard with the Ik Multimedia TONEX providing the amp tones.
The Studio Rats are core band members Paul Drew on guitar/production/mixing, and drummer James Ivey. They collaborate with singers and musicians to produce radio-ready songs.
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And this folks is how you demo a pedal. Great video Paul.
I agree wholeheartedly
For a company that could just be resting on its laurels, Boss continues to innovate! Excellent demo - I will be purchasing today.
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I can't believe they charge over $300 AUD for this and don't include a 9 volt power plug.
@@oinkooinkPower plugs are different around the world, while the pedal is the same everywhere.
Costs of packaging usually drive such decisions.
How was it? I’m trying to decide if I should get it or not
Cool. I built a pedal-board for a friend using an NS-2 using send-return which IMO, works better than a simple in-line setup. This looks great, and I love the display showing how much noise is being suppressed.
What about if the only pedal in your chain is the suppressor pedal? Then it must be in line right?
Very cool demo, at last I'm almost convinced that this one will mostly erradicate the noise I've pkagued with all these years, hope it won't break the bank, cheers, Paul.
Paul you did such an an amazing job in this review. This pedal seems to be fantastic and high quality. Glad to see Boss working in this new products! I have two overdrives with excellent noise gate built in. The Wampler Gearbox (noise gate in the pinnacle side, channel 2) and the Strymon Riverside. Both pedals are phenomenal! Highly recommend it!
Thanks a lot for this great demo. I don't have effect loop on my amp so I'm glad to see it can work anyway.
This was a superb review. Congratulations and thanks.
Cheers Simon
So far I have watched a lot of videos about this pedal. To begin with I have the ns2 and ehx silencer.
I intended to purchase NSG by darkglass which is a bit more expensive than the NS1X but I felt that something was missing. This is BY FAR THE BEST DEMO VIDEO. simple explanation of the features great guitar example as I have p90s as well. Bravo to the creator of this video. If the marketing mgr of boss sees this comment he should offer you a sales and presentation job.
Long time NS-2 user. Used to use it because I was playing a boosted 5150, and now I play much lower gain but I’m on single coils so the noise suppressor is a huge help. Not an easy kinda pedal to make an exciting video about, but they’ve helped make my life a lot easier haha
Finally someone knows how to use the pedal... Thanks Paul!
This is clever and what I’ve been looking for!
Very nice pedal and demo, Paul. Seems like a foundational piece of gear indeed, can imagine this would make the board.
Amazing video Paul, I’m sold. I have nothing but issues with gx 100 and ToneX noise gates as it relates to sound degradation. This is practically perfect. And I love that pink strat of yours, great tones and great playing as usual Paul!
Cheers Gary.
Paul, you got such a great tone. Really really awesome!
Cheers Bjoern.
Hi Paul, sorry for bothering. Did you put the tonex pedal in the loop too, or just the overdrive pedal by itself?
Very nice demo, Paul. Those folks at Boss really are rather clever ...
Yes they are
Your tone kicks ass man!
Cheers fella
Wow, that works so well!
It does.
I love the British way of making an excellent review.
This combined with a Tunter would be awsone.
Thanks great Video!
This video is actually a great help in demonstrating the pedal and in signal routing. I was always a humbucker guy, never really needed or wanted a noise suppressor before, but after buying a new strat not to long ago, I'm digging the single coil tones but cannot live with the 60 cycle hum. It just kills me. I've gone down the noiseless single coil route before, and I can live with them but I'm ready to try anything before I resort to those extremes. Going to try a noise suppressor to see if that works for me, bought an el cheapo behringer for 30 bucks off Amazon. It was the cheapest I could find that still had an effects loop, I'm not expecting much from it but if it doesn't work if I may try adding a dummy coil. If it does work for me, then this new Boss pedal is on my radar in a major way. If all else fails, then it's back to noiseless single coils.
Killer sounding guitar! 👌
Think I have to get one of these as a single coil player! I got an NS-2 used about 2 years ago that kinda crapped out on me before I could really get used to it with my rig and haven’t delved into the noise reduction field since. I remember liking the NS-2 but even running it with the loop, it would be quiet when I wasnt strumming, but I would get the hum I was trying to elimate whenever I was actually playing. This seems like it functions so much better
I like what this pedal can do. So I preordered 2 from Sweetwater for my gigging rigs. I’ll use my NS-2’s for my home rigs. Looking forward to using this pedal. Boss is the best in my opinion. 🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽
Paul how could any Gain guitar player not love this pedal? By the way the P90's sound amazing !
Thanks for the concise demo/review of this pedal. Yeah, I'm a "don't need any stinking digital" snob.... but the advantage of the technology with this pedal is quite obvious. Gonna have to rethink my prejudices on this. Thanks for zeroing in on the important points!
Thanks Paul! Clear and concise video.. perfectly explained and demo'd.. (not like Andertons 🤪)
Haha cheers Simon!
I have a real love/hate relationship with the original NS2, I used it in X mode, it did encourage me to tackle/eliminate all my noise sources at source just to get rid of it off my board.
Brilliant demo Paul, this came as surprise to me. Should be on everyone’s board right? - would love you to do a Head 2 Head demo of new Blackstar HT 100 Mk3 Head -v- Boss Katana Artist 100 Mk2 Head. Cheers, Mitch.
Superb
MAN !!!!! those Soap Bars sound GREAT !!!!!
I have NS-2s all over my place. I use DOD250s, YJM308s, and Fender Malmsteen Overdrives. They’re like a “can’t have one without the other” thing. Count me intrigued, but cautious. If it ain’t broken don’t fix it, but… it could be better.
I concur…that was an excellent demo which showed clearly how to use this pedal. The X series are great…Boss are really pulling some rabbits out of the hat.
Cheers JP
Been looking for a easy fix to tame the 1, 3,& 5 positions on my strat, without having to change pickups and redoing the shielding.
Great vid but could you please explain how you are actually using the signal chain thank you
I’d love to see a demo of Seymour Duncan’s new noiseless P90 pickups.
nice one
Boss keep breaking new ground all the time ❤
Reading some of the other comments, I can see how a follow-up video could be very useful. (cracks the whip)😅 One case - how a pedal like this is used when you like to roll the guitar volume back on a pedal. I personally wouldn't use it in that scenario as most likely the drive pedal wouldn't need noise reduction in that case. In a noisy high gain situation, I would think it would be wiser to not mess with your guitar volume and to use a volume pedal after the noise reduction. Another thing is the use of reverb after the NS-2. I think if you're going to use noise reduction, you definitely want reverb as part of the system because it helps smooth and mask the cutoff point. And then if your guitar is extremely noisy, I'd get that fixed first, particularly, if you're using high gain pedals. That's a job for my venerable late 80's Charvel loaded with active EMGs.😊
Drew, who makes those sweet looking leads you use in this video ?
Wonder how this improves on or works better than ISP Decimator G String which is already phenomenal. A comparison would be worth watching
I would imagine at gig volume at a venue, this pedal would be beneficial to have in your arsenal so the sound guy doesn’t blow a fuse.
Sounds great ! I have a rig that I really like but is noisy, in my case this pedal won’t help :
I have a vintage 5 watt tube amp that is noisy. That’s sad because without the noise this amp would totally be my rehearsal amp and even giging amp if miked!
I stick with my ac15 for the giging side but that’s a shame to keep this sound in my basement !
I've been using the isp decimator g string for years now... but I'm very interested in this.
Boss is still the Boss!
How does it do with trails? I always have trouble with these pedals cutting off my long held notes.
Great video again! I have a Boss Katana MK11 100 which has a lot of noise. It drives me crazy!! I use a lot of your tone patches and have recently purchased a Morley HUMNO, but it seems that the noise comes from the amp. Will this pedal work without taking away from the tone and sustain? Thanks Paul!
The Katana has a noise gate/suppressor built-in. Have you tried it or does it not work for you? You do have to use the Tone Studio to access it. It's towards the end of the signal chain, "NS".
Thanks for the reply! I do use the NS at 50/50 However the high gain tones always have background noise. I was just wondering if this pedal is the boss!@@CraigCrider
Hi class demo love it, could you please let me know were in the chain of pedals would you place it , I thank you in advance.🤘👍
Cheers yes, guitar into the NS-1X drives in the loop, out of NS-1X into your timebased fx (delay/ reverb etc)
A new pedal (DC2W) just came today. What excuse am I gonna tell the wife for this awesome pedal I want?!
i guess i put my tuner first in line out of the send ... that's the best way i can figure.
the site says something about the output of "optimized tone" ... *i want to hear an out of phase coil split through it*
I could omit all my other pedals, but my NS-2 needs to be on my board.
I am wondering which one to buy between this one and the ISP decimator II G-string. Which one is the best? (I'll use a 4 cable metho for both)
Pedal of the year imo
Can you tell me if this would be useful for the Katana MK2? I hate that I have to use tone studio.
I saw an A B comparison between this new NS-1X an the original NS-2 & after hearing them side by side, I still prefer the NS-2 I had to sell 4 or 5 years ago.
Any idea if this is the same noise reduction tech that is in the SDE3000?
That intro sounded like cc deville! ...... It might be said if you have noise you could look to change something before getting a noisegate.. . Is the reason there is loads of echo in there the sound try to disguise the'' kicking in' '? I re ord vocals with loads of gain and it can sound weird if you get rid of the hiss immediately after a line.
It would be better to demo a noise reduction pedal without reverb or delay. Those effects hide any glitchy, static artifacts on the decay of your guitar signal.
I am playing and messing a lot with the volume pot on my guitar to get clean sounds and in between.
Does it still work this way or is the guitar OFF when turning the volume pot for example to 7
Thanks from Germany
Matz
If i need to plug my guitar strait into it, THEN WHERE DO I PUT MY TUNER ??? ( after my gain stages, in the Output ??? is that going to work ? is that going to be ok? )
or do i put the tuner first in line out of the Send ?
Will this suppress noise caused by bad power supply?
what are these patch cables you're using?
I hope they'll add an NSx in the gt1000/gx100
If I had to guess, those algorythms for gating have been tweeked and updated a lot over the years. If anything this release is Boss trying to get the NS-2 on par with what already exists on the flagship multifx units.
Will it help with 60 cycle even with the gate open?
Just saw Yngwie Malmsteen in concert last night and on his pedal board was a BOSS NS-2
Yeah it’s funny how many pro players use it.
@@TheStudioRats It must work good for a player like him to use it!
Will this shut my Fender Super Champ 2 up? It has uber hum and noise.
I have the good old NS2 and it works but ends up eating up sustain.. So if I understand correctly this pedal is almost as good as buying noiseless single coils or P90 pickups... Which is obviously great because I could keep my existing single coils and P 90's..
I’d say it’s much better than buying noiseless pickups. Noiseless pickups will only sort a noisy guitar not the pedals as well.
@@TheStudioRats Makes sense thanks!
Boss is pushing this pedal hard, there's like 6 videos in a row on my feed for it
What's your signal chain on this video? Sounds harsh and digital.
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To be honest, testing a noise reduction pedal by alternating between strict full volume and silence, without showing how the pedal handles the full decay down to gate closing, tells us nothing. There was one instant here where the demo almost showed this @ 5:34, but then was again interrupted by manually muting the strings.
Noise suppression, not so sexy.. until you have to stop dead silent and look like an ass when you feedback. So noise suppression is one of my favorite things these days especially with my single coil loving metal mind.
I really want it but $199 is kinda steep tbh
Waiting for a price drop or used model for close to 100. I agree. 200 is bs. That's more than what I paid for my ce chorus 2 yo!
The review doesn't test what is typically the main problem for all noise gates - using the guitar volume control. With a noise gate, if you want to use the guitar volume to clean up a distorted sound, you typically run into unwanted gating/reduction.
Would have been interesting to see if this pedal could handle it better...
This is only a problem if you use the pedal first in line, including using the effects loop because that put the detection circuit first.
The solution is to run it later (This is pretty much the default in studios to run gates/expanders after compression rather than before), the problem then is its the wrong type of dynamics processing because guitar pedals tend to be gates rather than expanders, which are far more natural.
That said, the other solution is to run a volume pedal after the noise gate.
Boss pedals get a lot of hate because they are the go to corpo pedal basically. The pedals that most people know of. And like any corporation they have produced some real trash. Take their acoustic electric pedal lololol. Thing sold for close to 100 bucks and now sells used on ebay for like 20 bucks. No one wants that trash hahaahaha. And many custom made pedals do beat boss pedals in many regards so there's that, despite being often more expensive than boss pedals...
That being said. Sometimes boss kills it. Recently they launched the CE chorus 2 model. It brings back the glory days of the best CE 1 pedal that they stopped making and then some. Amazing! Arguably their best pedal ever made.
They recently did the waza model of the super over drive and the orange distortion pedal. VERY good work here. I even got their newest fuzz waza pedal and it's pretty dope too. So they been on a roll lately is my point. I think I'm gunna get this thing haha. I play loud with single coils red hot chili peppers style so this should be handy for me. But I'm not sure... 200 bucks is bs over priced lol. Maybe for 100?
Cool, but too expensive. Would have to a necessity for whatever reason
wow and omg
The problem I have with digital is not so much the degradation of tone, but the latency which makes it more difficult to play and messes up the feel. It would be interesting to try this pedal to see if it would affect my playing as much as other digital effects have (i.e. Kemper, Helix, etc). I have just purchased one online, so I hope it will play good and stay on my pedalboard.
never understand reviews where people use a delay to show another effect pedal. Just hearing a dry signal (I mean without delay or reverb, obviously you need drive) would be more true to hear the noise suppressor... in all respect ofcourse 🙂.
Thanks alot!! This video just cost me $200! 🙄
Soz, but you won’t regret it.
Good demo but I'm NOT excited about this pedal since I use good cables
Why not build that into guitars ?
Because you’d have 3 cables coming in and out of the guitar.
@@TheStudioRats Yeah... That sounds... Terrible. Bad enough I got 1 cable coming out of the guitar lolz. Have you tested it with a wireless rig set up?
Cool, but I wish boss would stop procrastinating this stuff and crack on with making a Blues Driver with the GE7 eq instead of a tone knob.
Does it add any latency?
Not at all
@@TheStudioRats Killer! Might have to get one
no need reverb...
I don't know how I'm supposed to take your word that there's no signal degradation one of your very first example with the pedal off and then on, and neither case did you allow the instruments to sustain into Oblivion. You stopped it both times with your picking hand.
When I did that I was demonstrating the A to D conversion not the noise suppression in the pedal. I think that was quite clear.
@@TheStudioRats perhaps you could elaborate. Immediately after killing the D with your right hand, you said obviously there's no signal degradation. Could you clarify that statement please?
The reason I ask is I have tried every type of noise suppression device available in the past and never used one in the long one because if it kept a high gain sound quiet, it cut off the sustain of lower gain sounds. When you said there was no degradation, I assumed this is what you're referring to. If that's incorrect, that's fine. I don't mind being wrong, that's how we learn. But I would like to understand. Thank you.
can't read knobs
It’s a set and forget type of pedal I guess, but I’ll concede it’s not easy to see here
It’s white on mirror, it’s not easy to see anywhere.
@@TheStudioRats But it looks sooo kool!
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This video would have been much more useful if there wasn't so much reverb....
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