Noise Reduction Pedal
Noise Reduction Pedal
ISP is a great product. It really does the trick, and I believe it is worth every penny. My buddy had an amp that made quite a bit of hiss when he played his distortion. I brought the pedal to one of his practices and set it up for him. The whole band's mouths dropped they were astonished it killed the noise and didn't affect his tone. I give it 5 out 5 stars!
Cole
I owned both, and I sold the ISP. The Boss has separate controls for threshold and release, the ISP does not. As such, I was not able to find a setting on the ISP that allowed my notes to ring out, but cut off the noise as soon as I stopped playing. Granted, I use very low gain, but at rather high volumes. The NS-2 just felt more transparent. Not tonally...I didn't notice a tonal difference with either pedal. But the Boss operates smoothly and the ISP was kinda choppy.
If youre concerned with noise, the ISP.
If youre concerned with Feedback, the NS-2.
Trust SSHS on this one, the NS-2 is good at what it does, and if you just roll your volume down you can get rid of the noise.
And if you have seen the Petrucci setup vids on the D'Add site *I THINK* the dude who is doing his rig has it up to stage volume and its not that quiet due to noise, and that is using custom and high grade units, so compaired to that the NS-2 will do for me.
I have and use both. I have the NS-2 as last in my signal chain and then I have the ISP as the last in my loop since my 5150ii can hiss and whine like crazy at times. The NS-2 does it's job though, it kills the feedback from the guitar. If you're running a high-gain setup, you'll probably be better off with the ISP though. I just like both running together so I know I can get rid of the guitar feedback and the preamp noise.
But yeah, all in all both seem to fit the bill but it just depends on the rest of the gear as far as what my experience with both has taught me.