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vurt wrote: Sat Nov 08, 2025 11:31 pm
Constructed Identity wrote: Sat Nov 08, 2025 3:23 am Get one of these:
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or you could get a Korg NTS-3 and a bunch of Sinevibes effects
metasonix did some cool shit! are they still around?
They’re in stock at Analog Heaven!

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My current favourite guitar FX pedals for putting synths through are:
Endorphine Ghost https://www.endorphin.es/modules/p/ghost
& Strymon Big Sky https://www.strymon.net/product/bigsky/

I also use "vintage" Yamaha FL-1 Flanger and BOSS CE3 chorus pedals. They sound great on pretty much anything.

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I had some fun with Red Panda Tensor and synths, before I decided to give up on pedals and stick with plugins & Eurorack.

And then I changed my mind again. My current pedal collection:

Walrus Audio Slöer: really lovely ambient reverbs, with or without warbly woozy modulation. Despite all the reverb plugins I have, I feel like nothing quite sounds like it. It's just one big sweet spot as far as I'm concerned.

OBNE Dark Star V3: the reverb itself might not be anything to write home about, but in combination with its lo-fi granular pitch shifter, filter, and overdrive or sample rate reduction, it's pretty fun. It probably *is* something i could get close to duplicating with plugins, to be honest, but I still enjoy it.

Pedal Partners x Maneco Labs Mesmeriser: shoegaze-oriented lo-fi, dirty, distorted reverb, with a knob that slows the clock way down. It's not good for general purpose reverb, but it's extremely good in its own lane. (Actually I have two of them -- it's supposed to be stereo but my first one only worked in mono; they shipped me a second one as a replacement and it was also only in mono, and Maneco said just keep them both and now it's stereo.)

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Eventide pedals. They all sound really good and you can find some of the *Factor pedals for less than $200 second-hand. My favorites are Timefactor, Pitchfactor, Space and Rose.

I also love a ton of EHX pedals. Deluxe Memory Man, ModRex, Super Pulsar, Overlord all work great with line level synths without having to use an attenuator. I really want to try their Ocean's Abyss.

I'm a big fan of Empress effects, particularly ZOIA, Echo System and Reverb.

Don't sleep on Line6 stuff. I frequently use my Helix for synths, the ToneCore pedals, and things like the DL-4 are still great as far as I'm concerned.

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Big fan of Zoia, and own one...

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