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EDP gurus, I've got a tech question: During a performance last weekend, a malfunction caused my Overdub LED to light green when Overdub was engaged, red when it was not -- just reversed from what they normally are. You can imagine the confusion and bizarro loops that did (and did not :) evolve before my trusty sound guy (and EDP user) Gary Hull and I figured it out. Pretty trippy. Gary deduced that it was an eprom software glitch, and suggested a hard reset which indeed restored normal function. Yeahhhhh...sigh of relief. The question remains: are there identifiable factors that might have caused it?? The only potential variable I've noticed is that the EDP seems to be running fairly hot. (As in, too hot to touch back on the heat sink area.) Everything looks fine under the hood, however -- no toastage, solder joints look solid, etc. I bought it in Sept. '97, so it does have the clipped pin 5 on IC U12. However, as mentioned, it has a heat sink and voltage regulators rather than the switching power module on later models. Given the subjective nature of assessing temperature, does this sound normal for this particular model? Now I'll always wonder, is green REALLY green? Is red REALLY red? And what IS the nature of the Universe? That's some heavy-duty stuff to be pondering when merely hitting the Overdub button... :) All that being said, this box is totally outrageous. Big-time, ongoing thanks for all the thrills, Matthias and Kim! Laurie