TH2 effects on/off

There is a very effective gate in the global Master section of TH2. It should be set every time especially with distortion (I believe this is mentioned in the manual). Just adjust it until the hiss just barely goes away with your guitar turned up to recording level but with your hand muting the strings. Your effected signal will still be nice and full.

Must be getting slow. Usually I refresh to see if someone has already posted before committing my post. Did not do that this time.

The TH2 Master gate can be automated too.

In general I like TH2, but I think their gate sucks. I don't use much distortion (a little crunch), so it works fine for me. Once you've recorded a track automate the fader - start off with volume off, bring it up before solos & down after.

It just needs to be set very very carefully. One little bit too much or too little and yeah... it won't be so great. It is a very hard gate.

There are several ways...A Track Volume Envelope, inserted at the Clips pane in the track view. allows you to place dots on the line and lower the volume off at points where you have the noise in blank areas of the track. However when you insert an envelope it is there and does not allow you to use the fader in the mix area of the tune.
 
I prefer to just do a "Split" on the track, right before the solo, and right after the solo. Highlight the track or tracks you want to split, right click and "Split", the track. Then highlight, right click, and "Cut" the areas where you want silence. Afterwards, you can then fine tune by dragging the track to the first and last note of the solo. If for some reason you want this to be a full length track even with the blank areas? After you cut all the unwanted areas out of the track, Bounce it to a new track, and that will fix that. This method doesn't invlove having the envelope control the fader.
 
The Gate in the Master Pane of the TH2 can help a bit, but as mentioned it is a hard gate and can interrupt the effect if not carefully adjusted.

He is talking about using a volume envelope. There are a couple of videos about automation in X2 at Cake TV.

Beepster
It just needs to be set very very carefully. One little bit too much or too little and yeah... it won't be so great. It is a very hard gate.

I was using the master panel, but, as you say, it's a very hard gate. I wasn't really careful with it, just played with it a bit and wasn't real happy with it. Although it seems to work fine at lower settings if the amps aren't too distorted.

Beepster
 
scook does have me thinking about automation though but perhaps in a different way than is his intention. I usually trim everything anyway so I realize now after I do that I could ease up on the gate a bit but if there ends up being small sections of "silence" I could just boost it back up again at those points. For the most part though when I'm playing at those kinds of screecher levels I'm relentless so there won't be much silence in the first place.
 
 

Nope, automating the gate as you describe is exactly what I was thinking although I have not bothered to automate the gate myself. I usually use a very light setting on the Master gate and deal with any noisy bits that get though with a combination of the PC gate/expander and envelopes (mostly envelopes).

The gate in the master area of the TH2 works very effectively. Thanks for everyone's help. What a difference it makes. It was off before and just turning it on to the first position made a significant change for the better...