I tried Flamma noise gate before buying this one and I can say that joyo is much better. There is still a little lack of gate closing speed, but already this speed suits me. Maybe I should try TC's Iron Curtain, but I don't want to experiment anymore. By the way, I bought this gate to play with heavy distortion - I have two guitars - a legator n8fp with original pickups and a fender player tele with a dimarzio fast track in the bridge - I have the gate at the beginning of my pedalboard - the trashhold is set to 15 o'clock and the output signal both guitars are enough to break through the gate and at the same time not go out abruptly on fading notes.