Carbon Copys are cool, but EHX is coming out with their response to it within month or two, so wait for that, I’d say. And tuner after fuzz so it can be used as a mute, but before modulation or delay.

I mess around with pedal order a lot. One sound I LOVE is Leslie Sim (I have this great Lexicon rack unit with this great Leslie patch that gives you this control over whether the highs or lows are being rotor’d. It’s amazing) into a long feedback slapback delay into a Big Muff. It sounds HUGE. I tried that going into a Super Reverb with the reverb maxed out, it’s amazing.

Anyhow, my guitarist’s chain:
Guitar->Volume->Red Witch Fuzz God II->Bassballs->Small Clone->Big Muff->Small Stone->Holy Stain->SMMwH

The dirt spaced evenly throughout the signal gives lots of flexibility; you can get really trippy, weird effects by running the SC and SS into the Holy Stain, or more standard sounds by going BMP->SS. The reason the volume goes first is a) tuner out is more precise and b) to control the oscillations of the Fuzz God better. It’s a weird chain, but I think it works.

Now that ya mention it, it DOES sound like a synth wah… that gives me an awesome idea. Enigma->POG2!

You get twice the octave effects of the Microsynth, plus detuning, attack decay wah, attack delay, and a fixed filter. And if the distortion on the Enigma is a square wave…

Goddam, I love EHX so much.

Yes.

Yes.

It also needs a Fuzz Factory. And probably an Octavia. It’d legitimately be The Best Thing Ever. ™

Sorry, I disagree (mostly). The amp advice is good; def go Mesa Boogie, ‘specially if you have an Ibanez, ESP, or other guitar of the sort.

Whatever you do, don’t go BOSS multi. They sound shitty, are overpriced, and are no fun to play with.
The one Digitech series that I endorse is Hardwire. A good dirt section would be Hardwire Valve Distortion/Metal Muff; the VD has some amazing bluesy tones, and also works as a nice (almost) clean boost for even more MM craziness. And it’s cheap. So, let’s revise that board I suggested:

Valve Distortion (which is true bypass)->Metal Muff (buffered bypass, which I find better)->SMMw/H (Can’t remember, but you have a buffer in front of it anyway, so it should be fine). You prolly’ll want a Wah in there, as well. I recommend Vox. And yes, all of those pedals are battery enabled.

Okay, so knobs on the Enigma/Riddle: Blend, Mode, Attack, Decay, Start, Stop, Q, Sensitivity. Dry out and wet out, foot-switchable distortion and expression pedal in.

QTron+: Mode, Response, Range, Peak, Gain, Boost, switchable polarity, and FX loop.

In short, they’re bascially for different types of music: I’m guessing the Q-Balls is for more experimental stuff, whereas the Q-Tron is for that classic funk sound. Just my guess.

The Wiggler does a stunning Leslie, but I don’t recall it having an expression in… I’ll go check.