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Needs an expression pedal to get the most out of the whammy sounds, but so does everything. Can do very decent delays and may be able to cover whatever your synth/octave pedal does too. Its ability to do all of those jobs is enhanced by an expression pedal, so definitely money well spent.
Has presets too, which makes using one to cover several jobs much easier. £80 brand new.
The only issue is that different effects might be better at different points in the signal chain, so you either have to compromise, find a way to move it around the chain, or buy more than one!
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I don't have any complaints about the durability of mine, but I'd love an HXFX equivalent of the M5.
There's really nothing else out there, even now, that does the things the M5 does for sensible money. Only thing that comes close is the H9 MAX.
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And here's me calling myself "stuck record man". I'm small time.
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But it's a completely serious suggestion - it does have pedal-controlled octave up and down, as well as fixed pitch shift, and it does *a lot* of other things too...
Its only disadvantage is that it's huge by pedal standards, but it does so much you could easily replace most of your pedalboard with it. It also runs on a completely standard 9V supply, if that matters.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
As well as a cheap expression pedal off Amazon.
I've got one output into the FX loop of the FX switcher and the other output into the front end loop so it can be anything.
It's a great utility pedal.
I've had an M13 for years and it's my current method of switching my Kemper profiles and I've never had any issues over the last ten years with it, although I have heard switches can fail I've never experienced it.
I think there's a surprising lack of pedals like this that don't take up a *huge* amount of room but can be used to "fill in the gaps" in a pedalboard- all the stuff you don't want to pay for a standalone version of.
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I have two, hooked up to an ES-5. I can use MIDI to switch patches/parameters and change the loop order depending on what the M5s are doing.
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I still have to select a different effect on the M5 but it's handy to have one pedal that can do either depending on what I want.
I haven't dipped me toes into full midi yet, and the big boy switchers are beyond my feeble brain to work out!
That's a nice low-tech, low faff, lot cost solution to the problem of getting the most out of the M5.
It was one of the reasons I went for a "big boy switcher". It was a lot to take in, but fairly intuitive and not actually that difficult to figure out. I bloody love it and wouldn't go back. MIDI opens up all sorts of possibilities with the M5.
It was this guy's videos that sold me on the ES-5 (I already had the two M5s....)
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How good does the pitch function need to be?
https://www.guitarworld.com/amp/news/boss-updates-its-classic-octave-circuit-with-the-new-oc-5-pedal
The Behringher US600 is a clone of the PS-5 too - I had one of these before I bought a digitech Whammy and it did a decent job - it will do the bend for Lonely Boy and not take up too much board space or pocket money.