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So this might be pretty far out in left field... so far that we might not even be playing the same sport...

But what about the Flanger Hoax?

Yeah; it’s massive, it’s noisy, and it’s got a dumb power supply, but holy hell does it mutilate a signal in all the right ways!

You’ve got some weirdy millisecond delays, warbly madness (not your bag, I know.), and some neat comb filtering,

AND, it self oscillates beautifully as its own sound source.

I’m not doing anything structured like BoC; mainly dense, drifty noise, but the blips and gurgles float very well in and around my mix, and you can EASILY loop them to build hypnotic Silver Apples style beats!

On a more realistic note, I second some of the Meris stuff, particularly the Enzo. I was ready to pass it off as another synth pedal until I started catching the demos that Ron from Bongripper was posting on his Instagram!

i want y'all to know that i have a list in my "pedal and board ideas" Google Doc of everything suggested so far. my biggest HOLY SHIT moment so far was the Flanger Hoax. that thing looks like more fun to play with than a PLL, no lie. i don't really want to talk about the specifics of the pedals too much because i'm finding that if i go back and listen to the same demos again i hear different things.

Used to GAS for a Flanger Hoax but man, the size of that thing. I mean, I guess all you really need is a HOG, a Flanger Hoax and a Pedaltrain Grande and you are good to go, right? I kid . . . . it's not THAT big. Not by a long little bit

The Enzo is awesome, I love it. There are so, so, so, so, so many sounds in that little box. Each knob interacts with the others in different ways, I can never reconstruct any of the sounds in my recordings exactly and unfortunately, I will never find any of them ever again because of Meris' crappy preset system. Love you Meris but damn, fix that shit.

update:

i found some things from you folks' recommendations that are both great and useable. i already bought a ROYGBIV, and am on the T-120 wait list. the Rubberneck is new to me, and i actually like it better than the Delay Llama which is saying something. i'm going to have to order a Instant Lo-Fi Junky for the front-end board; i literally said "holy shit!" out loud while watching a demo today. the Bitquest and Tensor don't appeal, but the Particle has a ton of possibilities. with the ILFJ (ILF Jambox?) added i could more or less use the reconfigured front-end board as a Boards of Canada module:

Octave Multiplexer->Attack Delay->Acoustic Simulator->ROYGBIV->[ILFJ]->Muza FD900

i decided that two roughly similar delays was one too many, and the Muza is way more versatile than the Flashback and has a charmingly cheap sound. it's quite beautiful with the ROYGBIV. with the reconfig everything will fit in relatively normal order without having to Tetris something together that looks like the psychogeographic roadmaps Stanley Donwood painted for Hail To The Thief. i have to hit the brakes, though, because Pladask is about to drop a batch of Febers with Fabrikats coming later in the month. what sucks is that i won't be able to afford both right now-it's debatable whether i can afford one--and both are pretty essential.

manymanyhaha wrote:Used to GAS for a Flanger Hoax but man, the size of that thing. I mean, I guess all you really need is a HOG, a Flanger Hoax and a Pedaltrain Grande and you are good to go, right? I kid . . . . it's not THAT big. Not by a long little bit

The Enzo is awesome, I love it. There are so, so, so, so, so many sounds in that little box. Each knob interacts with the others in different ways, I can never reconstruct any of the sounds in my recordings exactly and unfortunately, I will never find any of them ever again because of Meris' crappy preset system. Love you Meris but damn, fix that shit.

I had a board idea like that when i was really obessed with Mick Karn. DI bass boar that was a flanger hoax and a good chorus, maybe an RV-3 fuh size

ognoy wrote: Boring suggestion:
Zoom MS50/70/100?

I would look at these, since you do get some effects found in the "big boy" units like strymon and eventide. Not many, but some of the more out there ones.

Might I also suggest a Zoom G3? Ton of mostly standard effects, but it's got some filters and other stuff too. The magic is in being able to stack up to 9 effects, including multiples of the same. Not the newer G3n or whatever, but the older box that came out before the multistomps.