@@jordansguitarchannel3809 Yeah I saw the comments on the Mesa page. The NS2 is terrible. Lots of tone suck with that one. I’d say try a TC Sentry if you’re looking at a new gate or the Fortin Zuul plus.
I never liked the effects loop on my triple rec. I did the loop bypass mod and its still just meh. To get it dead quiet can be a fight depending on where I'm getting power, but I usually bring an ebtech hum eliminator and use a ground post lift plug. Sometimes I'll have multiple noise gates like a hush in my rack and an ns-2 4 cable around my pedals. I had a lot of success also using a dbx 166xl in front of the amp. It takes the place of a compressor and noise gate, and also can add gain like an overdrive.
Thanks for the input man. I was beginning to think I was crazy troubleshooting this amp and effects loop. This setup I’m using has worked with Engl, Diezel, EVH, Blackstar, and Krank among others but not with the Mesa. I’m beginning to believe they need to do a simple serial loop, no knobs just return and send.
quick update Jordan... tried the tc sentry and I am really impressed. I pulled out the triple rec to play some Cannibal Corpse stuff/ metal zone boosting a triple. Put a new sentry in front of the amp and dead quiet with gain on amp 90%. I will probably get a couple more of these for all of my boards...
Run your gate 4CM and it will help. Also watch how much gain you use.
Thanks man, it is running 4cm already. Doing some research it appears this amp only likes certain gates.
@@jordansguitarchannel3809 Yeah I saw the comments on the Mesa page. The NS2 is terrible. Lots of tone suck with that one. I’d say try a TC Sentry if you’re looking at a new gate or the Fortin Zuul plus.
I appreciate that man. Into the tone lab I go.
@@jordansguitarchannel3809 You’ll get there. I have a sentry if you want to try it. I could ship it to you.
Thanks man, I really appreciate that. I’ll definitely let you know.
I never liked the effects loop on my triple rec. I did the loop bypass mod and its still just meh. To get it dead quiet can be a fight depending on where I'm getting power, but I usually bring an ebtech hum eliminator and use a ground post lift plug. Sometimes I'll have multiple noise gates like a hush in my rack and an ns-2 4 cable around my pedals. I had a lot of success also using a dbx 166xl in front of the amp. It takes the place of a compressor and noise gate, and also can add gain like an overdrive.
Thanks for the input man. I was beginning to think I was crazy troubleshooting this amp and effects loop. This setup I’m using has worked with Engl, Diezel, EVH, Blackstar, and Krank among others but not with the Mesa. I’m beginning to believe they need to do a simple serial loop, no knobs just return and send.
quick update Jordan... tried the tc sentry and I am really impressed. I pulled out the triple rec to play some Cannibal Corpse stuff/ metal zone boosting a triple. Put a new sentry in front of the amp and dead quiet with gain on amp 90%. I will probably get a couple more of these for all of my boards...
Thanks for the update man, I’ll have to grab one. 🤘