Just Found a Rocktek Distortion pedal - what can i do to make it gnarly?

[big bustle]

Had to move practice spaces again. A very common occurrence it seems living in NYC. Like most of the i've spaces i moved from a few folks in the sharing bands don't show up to help but this also means i get to pick up the broken museum pieces they leave behind.

So i got this rocktek dir-1. it's a got a 4458d chip in it. the switching is so bad in it that there's almost a full second delay until the effect comes on and i'm pretty sure the bypassed signal is drooped about 6-12db.

i figured it would be fun to turn it into a noise maker of some kind.

does any one have any ideas or can point me into some directions to get it to self oscillate or just turn it into something barely useless and filthy?

(i also picked up a tool box and a fostex r8 analog 8 track recorder

[nbabmf]

Rehouse it, socket the IC and some of the capacitors, and rock out!

[Processaurus]

a good noisy trick that always seems to go right is to put a 1M pot set as a variable resistor from the output of the effect back to the input,  TSA style.

I've thought about how hard it must be for rock bands to practice in NYC, space is at such a premium and apartment neighbors wouldn't stand for it.  I would totally consider  everyone using pods or v-drums, and it would all be in headphones, so you would be just raging and someone in the next room would just hear little clicks and thumps.