What is your favorite guitar silencing or noise gate / reducer vst?

[james rector]

Free or Paid,  and if you can, comment about why it is your favorite. Thanks.

[mettelus]

There is no real complexity to a gate. It is simply a threshold trigger, volume reduction when enabled, and how fast it opens or slams shut (attack/release). A default of around -50 to -55dB is usually good in most cases with a fairly hefty reduction when closed, quick opening (fraction of a millisecond), and slow to close (roughly 200-300ms or even longer so notes decay naturally). Just about every amp sim I can think of has a noise gate built in, but even the built-in Sonitus Gate will perform that function.

[Will.]

The stock gate plugin that comes with CbB works great. Its my go to gate plugin. I could use othere, but why when the one built-in works just as great as the others. 

[james rector]

Ok thanks everyone.