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Great Post, Mark. I've got to check out your new box. I looked for the Red Effects one but they are very rare over hear and hella expensive, I imagine from you paid for yours. I remember, mentioning the Electric MoFX, when a lot of guitarists I knew were unimpressed by it because the effects were very perfunctory and not special. As a drummer, however, the ability to play those large Momentary buttons that you can either assign to take the effect off when momentarily pressed or to put it on , momentarily when momentarily pressed and the fact that Electrix really designed those large buttons very robustly (so many drum machine buttons and those pesky EDP buttons just can't take drummistic abuse) made this unit very exciting to me. It's been a long time since I just did a straightforward groove gig, but I hang on to that box and the Filter Factory against the day when I go out into the territory again.........funny, I"ve grooved heavily all of my life as a studio musician and as a performer and the past 5 or 6 years of my life have just not taken me to that space. It's still in me and I still really think a lot like a drummer and am excited about drummistic things. Speaking of the devil, the Filter Factory can also be set up with radical fillters and then 'played' in an intelligent Tremelo fashion. Towards that end, I've spent a lot of time with my Rhythm Intensive material learning how to 1st, identify a rhythm and then, 2) quickly identify what it's negative rhythm is (given that everything is being played in relatively quantized feels). This of course, has been efficacious as a producer for using side Chained noise gates that are frequency controlled to make a track "PUMP" the rhythm you want it to play. (you know....program the negative linear rhythm on a drum machine and have it drive a overcompressed Droney Synth or Guitar so that the instrument being effected will appear to play the ostinato you want it to play. This is Tremelo-istic as well. ***** While we are at it, the new KAOSS 3 pad has a lot of abilities to do this kind of material. I just don't know mine enough to give it a proper review here..............Any takers? ****** Oh, and while we are talking about physical Tremelos..................it's always fun to play a volume knob or pedal on a guitar, or a pedal controlling feedback in an EDP or Looperlative, or using no input to REPLACE in both of those instruments (I"m sure Mobius too, but again, I don't use it) ****** I still have plans on the table for the Walker Manual Glitch Pedal which will have a switch (pass all sound/pass no sound) and four EDP styled momentary switches so one can positively create rhythms out of ambient or even abstract loops or to manually chop or glitch them. Someday! In the meantime if Bill is reading, he figured out a really novel approach to do that.