@RG Well yes no pedals for me and I like to use 2 gates (before, after the MP-1)
And BTW I still own a Japanese NF-1,it was my first noise gate and never got rid of it.In my pedal board I have a NS-2.
Now I think of it I also have a Hush in my Rocktron patchmate but I never used it.
@ MJMP
I've heard of a technique called double gating before, and read about this but not in a guitar setup, this was for recording vocals actually.
So I guess you are employing a similar technique by using two gates. So you have two decimators in your rack?
I dunno how strange it is of me to do what I do, but I use noise reduction on my FX unit (GT5) as loosly as possible and I just have it after the preamp in the FX chain. I use it loosley so as to be very clear of any tone degradation. Usually around 45%. Just enough to take out the noise. I could take it to about 55-60% I guess if I wanted. To help things naturally I've made my guitar as anti feedback as possible, i.e sponge under the pickups, wax potted the pickups to my own standard, dampened the tremolo springs.
Since I got rid of the ground loop also, life has got waaaayy better! But I'll update that thread seperately.