I’m still GASing for this thing.

If you need any suggestions for upcoming effectologies: A couple pedals I’d like to hear in combo with the Ravish Sitar:

Frequency Analyzer or Ring Thing (so you could tune the sympathetics to all the upper and lower sideband notes of a particularly gongy sounding chord) + the ravish I think would sound pretty cool.

HOG – maybe with some half-cocked freeze glissed 5ths? I’ve always found that can get a pretty far out eastern sound by itself, I’d like to hear it in combination with the Ravish.

Microsynth – I don’t know, I just suspect it’d sound cool.

My thought on pedal size is that I can always make a bigger pedal board, or have two pedalboards.

If I ever get a 2880, I think I’d have it up on top my amp & have a midi controller on the floor for it.

on the HOG, half-cocked gliss gets some really great sounds, that’s definitely one of my favorite settings.

As for HOG revisions:

I would like more options for tonally sculpting the octaves, the filter’s nice but I wish there was a way to tweak the tonality of each octave. I find a lot of the upper octaves just a tad too shrill, but the low-pass sort of just blankets them all. Ideally I’d like a multi-mode filter for every voice with a pitch tracking option. Or maybe on future iterations they could just make it sound better. I accept that the tone of the HOG isn’t always 100% awesome & on some settings can be a bit obnoxious because it’s so awesome in so many other ways.

Midi control would be awesome too, I could program some awesome effects into it if I had midi-control of all the effects at once.

I miss my stereo polyphase. I loved the slow envelope & the expression modes. I thought the LFO modes were cool & I could get cool effects in conjunction with the expression pedal opening and closing the phase, but I thought it could have been a bit more pronounced, more like a small stone. Also I liked it for clean but not for dirty tones & it would have been ideal if I had a nice way to switch on my fuzz & switch off my phaser at the same time. I still have problems with tonal transitions, although generally now that I run parallel effects chains it’s not so messy.

This is actually a very common problem between amps & PA systems. It’s a shock that you get from discrepancy between the grounding on two different systems. There’s either charge on your guitar strings that is finding ground through your microphone, or vice versa.

A lot of PAs & some amps allow you to select your ground. Finding the correct ground in this way helps reduce shock.

hmmm, I think you’d want to have it in the effects loop, but it might be fine out front, depends on how you use the pre-amp in your amp. If you use it for tons of gain, I’d say you’d probably want it in the effects loop.