Sonicake Portal with Noise Wipers

Portal is a useful mixer-style pedal by Sonicake with options to invert, stack or parallel the inputs. 

My initial idea to use it like a buss didn't go as planned, but I thought to try adding a gate in the form of the Noise Wiper pedal.

The result has been a lot more use of the Alexander pedals, Reverse delay and Space Race reverb.

With the Portal blending in those Alexander effects when my guitar play gets louder, it makes the experience so much more dynamic.

I'd been pondering dynamics and gated effects in recent months, and another moment was hearing the EarthQuaker Devices Data Corrupter through the gate on the Coppersound Triplegraph -- which made an overbearing effect a lot more musical.

Anyway, as someone who is sick of seeing the word "freeze" on pedals, I've been wondering why more effects don't have a gate?

And, yes, I have started using an oven rack as a pedal board.