Well the SMMH isn’t just a looper with a bunch of weirdness. There’s some nice subtle echo, delay, verb, and flange/chorus sounds to be had from the box. You have to know the controls though, if you turn one or two knobs up too far it gets very weird. That’s what a lot of people like about EHX over Boss. A lot of Boss pedals don’t give you that freedom (also in my opinion a lot of them just sound really cheesy.)

with your budget you could get the Tone Tattoo and the Holy Stain. then you would have most effects covered that you need for now, especially for your style.

you would get distortion, noise gate, chorus, and delay from the Tone Tattoo.

and tremolo, overdrive, pitch shift and reverb from the Holy Stain!

http://youtu.be/CZ03ekeVbso

at 3:22 he places the distortion knob all the way down so you can hear it. this is the larger stand alone metal muff but its the same circuit in the Tatoo but with extra boost and separate 3 band EQ, but the drive will sound the same.

well the cheapest thing EHX has to offer is the stereo memory man w/ hazari, mainly its a delay, but as mentioned above it can do a lot more if you take time to explore, and i personally i use mine mainly for the looping function.

then there’s the 2880 but i think its discontinued, i think sum people still have it in stock, or you can get a used one on ebay or sum thing, but its very pricey!

or if you really are interested in the 2880, you could wait if your penitent, we all here in the forum assume its discontinued because they may release a newer version soon.