Did I mention my "drums"?
So, years ago I bought one of those toy electronic drum pad things at a thrift shop.  My intention then was to take out the loudspeaker and replace it with a 1/4" mono jack, so I could use a guitar cable to run it into the four-track.  I finally got around to doing this a couple weeks ago.  It works, but it's noisy and some of the drum sounds are far louder than others.  So I plugged it into the Digitech pedal, and played around with the compression and noise gate, so I can get a decent input level.  There's still a slight noise problem, but other instrument sounds should probably mask it in the mix.  Besides, these "drums" are a supplement to the Digitech's built in patterns, not a flat-out replacement.  If I want to say, switch to half-time, I'll just play along on the drum pad, and then take out the Digitech pattern during mixdown.  Any step towards increasing the dynamic range of my recordings is a good one, even for the lowest-fi.