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Tweaking abilities needed! (drone/ambiance/noise music)

Hello friendly G.A.Z.er,

I'm putting together a mixer section for ambiance/noise/drones to feel up the sonic space ('cause my breeder board isn't enough). The drum kit and the bass (or whatever other instrument which are playing with us) are going into the mixer.
There are two points in doing this:
-to have a drone sound while I'm playing the bass, with the lfos rates set low I can have it continually evolving.
-to be able to make noise/crazy sound

So far I needed/got:
a fuzz: Infanem Second voice dlx
a phazer: Pigtronix EP1 (trigger insert with the bass kick is sweet)
a flanger: EHX Flanger Hoax
an echo: RC Circuit Bent OCULUS ECHO CHAMBER
(you see where I'm going?:p)

Less tweak-able but still lots of fun:
Copilot FX Arrow
Copilot FX Caracol (use either dry signal of my bass, the kick or snare into the insert to control the frequency)
Mantic conceptual Hulk (lots of fun on the bass kick insert)


Stuff I could replace with more craziness:
EHX frequency analyser

I tried to score some Sonic Crayon but didn't succeed so far.

Something that could change be itself while I play (with lfo or trigger insert) and has lot of options for tweaking when I use the mixer section.


Basically the crazier the better. What should I look at? :chicken::help:
Thanks for any GAZ feeding.
 
I went on a purchase binge recently, and the sounds I was getting might interestest you. IE Polytope, IE Nimbus, OBNE Procession... Polytope into Xerographg into Nimbus into Procession is really something. Could use an Afterneath stacked to that ;)
 
Eventide Pitchfactor for sure. I guess you could do an H9, but the PF is just soooo good, packed with controllable craziness, arpeggiators, etc. And the octaver settings happen to have one of the best sub harmonic synths I've messed with.

Also, what about an EHX Superego?
 
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@Alien8 true I always wanted somemoogerfooger. SSince it's for table top setup this would do well.

@Swimming Bird I feel you on that. I have the super ego on my bass board with EQD organiser and magnus modulus in its loop. On my idiopan (electric tongue drum) station I have the pitch factor,mod factor and Tim factor combo. And I can definitely make sweet t sounds.
For fun here is an example it's idiopan trumpet and drum
 
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