Rich

Yes Sir, That's My Baby - Walter Donaldson/Gus Kahn

Me Myself I - Joan Armaplating

Single(ton) Life - Cameo

Likewise. I think the kindest thing that could be said about the bridge is 'rough and ready' I would echo BRX's comment, unless you have the cover and are intent on keeping the bass 100% original I'd replace that bridge straightaway.

Oh my word, this is wonderful. https://www.facebook.com/Gypsyguitaracademy/videos/277701971735917/

I did that, and luckily the ridiculously talented and absolutely thoroughly bloody nice bloke @Jakester answered

And you're just going to leave us in suspense? You evil man. I hope your next barber accidentally gives you an 80s hair-metal poodle perm. Hah.

Absolutely crackers. It's like the London Symphony Orchestra deciding that they don't need violins.

A drummer/producer mate of mine has developed quite a flair for writing trip hop stuff; for his most recent piece he wanted to write about AI and thought it might be interesting to get AI to write lyrics about itself. Imagine his alarm when the lyric it produced had a chorus refrain that went: It's a ticking time bomb Just a ticking time bomb As ever, I remain in awe of you guys, coming up with good original stuff month after month. I'd be ecstatic if I could do it just once.

Cuddly Troy - Roachford

Yes, it's a bit of a monster innit! Ah well.

Eddie, you're obviously a far more patient man than I (and I do mean that as a compliment). All I can say is that I hope it works out for you. Given what you've just said, my instinct would be to close the thread for now and await further developments -- as I said, it can always be reopened if you wish.

Whilst I wait for my programmable helicopter to arrive in the post another vague question has floated into what I laughably refer to as my mind... have any of you folks ever transplanted the guts of an Ashdown stomp box into a smaller more board-friendly enclosure?

Agreed, with the slight amendment added. Personally I'd be looking for closure via cash rather than an instrument that has the quite real potential to be a} shonky and b} unsellable once you get (as hiram said above) tired of being reminded every time you look at it of all the years off ballache you went through to end up with something that isn't what you wanted.

That's good (tentatively) news @EddieG, let us know if/when a resolution is found and we can lock* the thread. * but it can always be unlocked again if it all goes tits up...

Sorry to read your news NFF. I offer my condolences, my best wishes and a big BC hug. Rich

Are you assuming that's the only thing I took away from it...? What I was actually doing was comparing and contrasting it with the altogether more restrained (dare I say British?) nature of the discussion here.

Just had a glance at the TB thread... I don't know whether to be amused or alarmed by the bloke who said something along the lines of "you're lucky you didn't do that to me, if you had I'd have come over on a plane and {strong suggestion of violence}".

I rather think that ship has sailed, under the name 'RMS Titanic'.

Holy crap, he must have sinews of piano wire. Next time I'm about to complain of aching wrists/fingers, I shall think of him and then shut up.

I tried Fuzzdog's optocoupler bypass, and their buffered bypass, neither of which did much. I reduced it a bit by adding 5M pull down resistors on the send and return (I used 5M because they were the biggest I had in my resistor box), but there is still a pronounced electrical click/pop. There's only one pedal in the chain, and it's a Zoom MS-60B. I guess I'm going to find out. If it does, great, and if it doesn't, well I like to tinker anyway. Never happier than when I'm soldering my fingers to bits of wire. OK, but I still have no clue what "implement ‘divide by two’ logic" means and am too old to learn.

£37,800...

I'm still trying to de-click my send/return loop pedal switch thingy, it's better than it was but still not great. I happened across this circuit board which appears to be just the ticket -- jack input/outputs to 'Input' and 'Output', send and return to 'B_In' and B_Out', and a momentary footswitch attaches to, errm, 'Switch', and that appears to be it. Oh, and a 9v supply. On paper, it appears to be the ticket. I wish it was available as just a PCB, as all bits are easy enough to source and I like soldering . Anyway, I've ordered one to give it a whirl and will report back.