All user reviews for the Isp Technologies Decimator

Pedals to eliminate parasites and other loud noises on an acoustic signal.

UTILIZATION

1) This pedal can be used both to clean the noisy signal by configuring your pedals.
Examples:
Guitar tuner, Wha-wha, overdrive, chorus, flanger, phaser, pitch (ISP) Delay, Tremolo amp in

2) Let purified to the sound of a head high gain (JVM410H-Peavey-Bogner-Mesa)
Attention to be placed in the effects loop.

SOUND QUALITY

It took me two months to decide to buy.
I thought it was an urban legend, I do not believe in miracles!

And then I let go and I bought OCCAZ!

This pedal is sentationnel!
It works wonderfully.
I shut my head Marshall JVM410H

I place it in the effects loop (one foot control) only for OD1 and OD2 channels

I usually do not ever go in my effects loop!
I was told that my ISP would eat Delay
and not at all!

It takes away his job and this big when I'm PCHHHHHHHhhh disto
A yes it is transparent to 100%
No alteration of the sound when switched on or not!
GROSSSSS PCHHHhhh except when I shut it off hi hi

OVERALL OPINION

Want to cleanse your guitar sound and not hear that big PCCHHH
The ISP decimator is made for you

Go there eyes closed

ps: I also own the Boss NS2, it is lamentable to silence the amps! but formidable in your cranks!

Basically the NS2 is in my pedals and silenced my 8 pedals.
and in the loop of my Marshall JVM410H is the ISP

If you have any question PM me
I'd be happy to answer

This is a noise reduction stompbox for guitars. I never really thought about it but I assume it's all analog... Anyway the box is very sturdy, Boss-shaped and sized but WAY heavier.

UTILIZATION

Well, VERY basic setup with one mere single knob... But does it need anything more?
It doesn't provide the effects loop that its Boss counterpart does, though.

SOUND QUALITY

Well, all you expect from this noise reduction box is to... reduce noise, don't you? If such is the case, you can expect to be 100% satisfied. Whether it is a single-coil pickup noise or the typical hiss of a huge distortion box that annoys you, just find the right setting and you'll get your guitar sound -- your WHOLE guitar sound, NOTHING BUT your guitar sound. Hard to find a setting that will suit both your clean and saturated sounds though, so try to get a setting that is relatively hiss-free when distortion is off. It proved efficient in taming successively a SansAmp GT2 in Mesa simulation mode, a Zoom Tri-Metal (not too difficult though, this one has an integrated noise gate but the Decimator still removed whatever was left of noise), an EHX Metal Muff and a Big Muff boosted by an overdrive.
Since I don't use a proper amp I couldn't test it within an fx loop.

OVERALL OPINION

I've used this one for approximately one year now. A good addition to my home-studio-oriented rig, as it finally made exploitable some of the sounds that I'd been carving carefully for years (anyone who's played a GT2 in high gain settings or boosted a Big Muff will know what I'm talking about). A bit overpriced maybe (it did cost 169€ new if I remember well, but I got it used with the knob a bit messed up - but still usable- for 110 or 120 I think).

This is the first noise reducer I've used since the (very basic, sustain-killing) one that was included in my old multi-effects unit, and I'm really satisfied with it. Set it up carefully and it will respect carefully your guitar tones. Seems like a new evolution of it is about to be released, I can't wait to see what more it could bring (although I will most likely stick with this one which already perfectly suits my needs).