EHX Double Muff hiss solution w/ noise gate?

joe2517

Hey guys,

I've noticed there's a lot of hiss and noise with my Double Muff, especially at higher gain settings; I'm told this is a common gripe with this pedal and why it's pretty under-used. Has anyone tried using a noise gate with it with any success? In particular I'm interested in the Roctron Micro Hush - and also the other 1590a sized pedals - as this would fit my pedal board perfectly.

Cheers

ICBM

Not sure about noise gates, but this pedal is notoriously sensitive to other pedals with buffers before it, which make it hiss and sound horrible, so if it's not the first pedal on the board you may be better to change that first.

Unlike most other fuzzes with this problem it even seems slightly affected by a buffer *after* it too. I had one and loved the sound of it on its own, but it just wouldn't work with my other pedals.

joe2517

I've got it first in my chain but presumably then putting a noise gate after it could affect the tone for worse as well, just like any other pedal would. Thanks for the help

ICBM

I'm not sure. It didn't seem to like going into a Boss distortion pedal, so I would steer away from their noise gate, but a different one might be OK.

cj73

I feel your pain @joe2517 . I've got a nano double muff and I absolutely love it....apart from the hiss.  I'm sure it even mentions it in the instruction booklet!

If they could hush the hiss and make the two options foot switchable it would be a really cool pedal

lasermonkey

I wonder whether soldering a capacitor across the base and collector of the first transistor would help with the hiss? People often use them on silicon Fuzzfaces, which aren't a million miles away. Something like 220pF should help. It's a balance between removing the hiss and taking off too much top-end from the fuzz.