Description
High-gain amps and stacked distortion pedals are noisy by nature — the MXR Noise Clamp exists to shut that hiss up. It reads your guitar’s dry signal and uses that as a reference to clamp down on noise inside your effect loop, so even a wall of fuzz or a maxed-out gain stage can stay quiet between phrases.
Setup is deliberately simple: one Trigger knob sets the threshold where the gate kicks in, and a green LED lets you see at a glance whether it’s open or closed. Dial it in right and the Noise Clamp works invisibly, cutting hiss without dulling attack or squashing your pick dynamics — riffs still cut through with their edge intact even at extreme gain settings.
Where you place it matters. Running the Noise Clamp in an effects loop after your gain pedals means it’s cleaning up the noisiest part of the signal chain right at the source, before that hiss ever reaches your amp. For pedalboard builders juggling multiple distortion/overdrive stages, that placement is the difference between a rig that breathes and one that hums.
- Reduces noise by up to 26 dB
- Single Trigger knob sets the volume threshold
- Green LED indicates gate on/off status
- Preserves riff definition and dynamics at extreme gain levels
- Designed to run within an effects loop for maximum noise control
Small footprint, one knob, one job — and it does that job well. If hiss and hum are eating into your high-gain tone, the Noise Clamp puts a stop to it without adding another layer of tone-shaping complexity to your board.
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