In the pedals deffense I was trying to quiet a fender stratocaster with noisy pickups (non humbucker)

With guitar "IN" and pedal chain on "SEND", I can set the threshold at the minimum -- it doesn't get confused between 60hz pickup noise and noise from effects pedals then.

but I have also used the reduction mode when my pickups were noisy

I keep it on all the time because I have a guitar with extremely noisy pickups and this does not color your tone at all

Due to digi-tech metal master.hit and miss I guess.on the + side, I recently aquired the