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I've owned Eventides, Lexicons, and tc gear, which are all certainly fun, but they've all been sold over the years;...what I can't part with in my arsenal of weird-makers are my Digitech Space Station (best damn backwards delay I've ever used; factory patch #10--I never use its other patches but they are pretty whacked for poor-man's VG-8 type sounds), and my GT-5.... I know, I know, it's billed as a guitar processor/amp-sim, but I've upgraded these features with a GT-6 and a DG-Stomp (neither of which come close with built-in fx)...That 5 is a killer effector, complete with internal LFO and one-shot ramp modulator, a short (1.8ms) but effective looping delay, mono-synth voices, the incomparable "intelligent" Ring Mod mode (which makes outstanding clearly-pitched bass sounds) and a very configurable version of Slow Gear (both these suck, comparatively, on the GT-6), plus an external i/o loop, all in an infinitely-reorderable signal path with powerful EQ, wah, and formant filters, pan-chopper, noise-reduction and compression/limiting...and reverb'n'chorus, of course. GT-5s are now being widely blown out and dumped because the GT-6 is so much better at basic guitar/amp sounds, but the 5 was the FX king, make no mistake...I can't make these gargling, schreechy, flickering boom'n'sizzle noises quite as well any other way... Also seen a lot on for-sale lists these days is the powerful Korg AM-8000, which has nice filters, step-phasers and pitch-shifting, but needs two Korg control pedals to be most flexible...the GT-5 can do it all with just a couple of added DP-2 momentary switches. (Of course, the ALL-TIME king guit-weirder is the original VG-8EX...but I digress) Good hunting! David