Flamma Innovation Flamma FC10

The Flamma FC10 is a compact noise gate, a pedal whose job is to silence the hiss, hum and feedback that sits between the notes you play. Flamma sells it as the "FLAMMA FC10 Gate Noise Reduction Pedal", and it is one of the simplest gates around: one knob and one switch, in a small metal box. It lists at $59.90 USD on the maker's page as of 26 October 2026, with a sale price of $39.90 USD shown alongside¹.

What it does to your signal

A noise gate mutes the signal when you are not playing, so the noise floor of a rig, especially a high-gain one, disappears along with the sustain of each note. Flamma's page describes the FC10 as offering "Two modes to choose from Hard/Soft"¹. Pedal of the Day, reviewing the pedal on 27 August 2021 as part of its Flamma Fridays series, described the intent plainly: "Helping to tame harsh tones and get rid of unwanted hiss is the name of the game with these pedals"².

The reviewer's verdict on how it carried out that job was positive:

The same review concluded that "the Flamma Innovation FC10 Noise Gate performs flawlessly in this regard" on noise reduction².

Controls

There is very little to learn. As Pedal of the Day put it, "There's not a lot to the FC10 Noise Gate: one knob and one switch"².

The Threshold knob is the one you will ride the most: set it low and the gate stays open through quiet playing, set it high and it clamps down harder but can cut off notes that decay slowly. The Hard/Soft toggle changes how aggressive that clamping is, giving two degrees of reduction rather than a continuously variable one².

Power and bypass

The FC10 runs from a DC 9V adapter power supply, according to Flamma's product page, which lists no battery option¹. It uses a true bypass switch, so the gate is entirely out of the circuit when the pedal is off¹.

Not to be confused with the Ibanez FC10

The FC10 name has history. The Ibanez FC10 Fat Cat, part of Ibanez's Power Series 10, was a different animal entirely: TONEHOME describes it as a pedal that, "Like the TS10 and DS10, gives extreme level boosts to incoming signals, creating an overdrive distortion effect", with enough gain to overdrive weak signals such as single-coil guitars³. TONEHOME also ties the Fat Cat to the Pro Co Rat lineage, noting it "was Ibanez first take on the Rat"⁴. The Flamma FC10 shares the initials and nothing else: it is a gate, not a distortion. If you are after Ibanez-flavored noise control, the related Ibanez NB-10 Noise Buster is a separate page on this site.

Where it sits among noise gates

The FC10 belongs to the crowded compact gate field covered on the Noise Gate Pedals page. Its one-knob, one-switch layout puts it at the simple end of that range, next to pedals like the Donner Noise Killer and MOSKY Noise Reduction, while gates such as the Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor or TC Electronic Sentry add more controls and loop features. If your needs are a high-gain rig that hisses between riffs, the FC10's two-mode approach covers the basics without a manual's worth of settings¹².

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