Hey, what have you been playing around with that's been fun, cool, an eye/ear-opener, even inspiring? Any cool pedals, or new- to you- pedal combinations and settings?

For example, I've been absolutely fixated on using a Foxrox Octron going into a Radial Tonebone Plexitube together, along with a Maniac Music Sustainiac gizmo (not the pickup-style driver) providing controlled feedback. A phase-shifter completes the whole chimeraic tonegasm, but isn't absolutely necessary.

I'm lovin' the touchy-feely reactive response of this combination; playing "sliding-sixths" double-stops fingerstyle high up on the 1st and 3rd or 2nd and 4th strings, brushing the strings with a just-right upstroke elicits fat yet shimmering tones somewhere between EVH's "Dance the Night Away" and that of a touch-tone phone's buttons. Love it!

Here's the whole signal-chain (the SV2 acting more as a noise-gate here than as a "swell" effect):

LP neck-pickup (volume slightly tweaked back) > Sustainiac > Octron > Guyatone SV2 > Plexitube "Rhythm" Ch 1 > DigiTech GNX4 fat/warm/Jazzy clean tube-amp-model based on the "Pat Jazz"-preset w/ compression, subtly "ducked" ping-pong analog-flavored echo timed just-right, reverb, and an on-board model of an MXR Phase 90.

If anyone's interested, I'll post a very short mp3 clip when I can.

How 'bout youse guys?