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Ok, so I play in a trio and things can get a little hard [as in not enough going on sonicaly] in slow paced instrumental parts. So I am always looking into ways of spicing it up.

And I don't think tweakable like "I hope I will turn this knob with my shoe and that it will sound musical" but more in terms of dedicated footswitches, rocker pedals, sliders, or volume wheels, things like that. Momentary stuff too, like holding your foot down to activate a tremolo sound and the moment you lift your foot the tremolo stops [actually I have this, made it myself] that sorta stuff... They don't have to be truly unique pedals, it can be a simple cheesy chorus but the main emphasis here is handsfree real-time sound tweakage or synthesis.
Of course, expression pedals can do a lot, but I don't have a single pedal that has an expression pedal input, but I guess ideally, the thing for me would be a board consisting of various delays and modulations each with it's own expression pedal...

I really like the Vox VDL1 idea on this, though a lot of people say it's hard to use and lack some important options. But, loopers aside, what else is out there?

With the line 6 m series you can control any and all parameters with an exp pedal. The eventide pedal can as well.

grow moar arms!!!!

CV, LFOs,

moogers?

Ah... I see I am being ILFed already. No hussle, but throw in a meme or two, those I love

you can getcha one of these

i got to start using mine more
also the boss ps6 takes expression
and gets pretty wacky when hooked up
i only did it once
cause i wanted to play and not set it up correct
but theres a million sounds within one sweep

Cortex wrote:Ah... I see I am being ILFed already. No hussle, but throw in a meme or two, those I love

The Dr Scientist Tremolessence and Cosmichorus both have two expression inputs. They both also have hold functions, where they can be active only when you press them, and even have an adjustable swell time for when you press them.

That said, I always adjust the rate know on my Tremolessence with my shoe. *shrug*

HAha, right. Good to know! Dr sCientist makes some crazy good stuff. Love em. Love Pigtronix more.

Maybe look into some feedback loops as well?
Utter stutter
Or rainbow machine
Delays with momentary feedback

Also a DL4
I have mine modded for double presets and you can get some wacky sounds by alternating between that

Digitech Time bender has an awesome hold function, when you hold the left footswitch down I think for two seconds it freezes the repeated sound, the coolest part is that it responds dynamically to the way you play so it gets quieter when you play and then builds back up when you are quiet, works really well.


also if you get a boss PH3 you can use the tap tempo to go from slow phasing to crazy wobble super quick

I also use a rotovibe,

and if you can change the oscilations on a fuzz factory with your volume knob and pickup selector

Inversely, (thinking outside of the box here) the Dwarfcraft Great Destroyer is the most tweakable pedal without even touching the knobs on the pedal. Turning the volume knob, tone knob, changing pickups, even moving closer to the amp creates crazy ass sounds. I recall once being able to jump near my amp, and the feedback would suddenly tremolo faster as I neared closer to my amp. The thing's a beast.

Anything controlled via a Source Audio Hot Hand?
They have a new one that works with any expression input.

The tremolessence has exactly what you'd like.

Moogerfooger line features cv control over almost everything. Get some expression pedals.

Strymons line of pedals allows you to set any knob to a expression pedal. Although unlike the moogs its one expression pedal only. The timeline and mobius have midi controls as well.

The digitech rp line with the built in expression pedal can control any parameter.

The line 6 M series...

Hmmm...

THanks guys, some really nice ideas out there!

I should have set a rule though - no expression pedals I mean, let's play that game, so what are the most tweakable pedals handsfree with no expression pedals usage, but just with their own controls?
That Digitech Time Bender looks like it.

Tremolessence with an expression though, seems mighty fine. I have a feedback looper I should have mentioned that...

I also made a digital delay with momentary feedback switch but it's on my second board. I use two boards, one is for my main sound and the other comes in to form a stereo picture with the first just on some parts of the compositions.