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Thanks to you all for your comments. I have combined my answers into this one mail-box friendly packet!! 1. David- Ta for the concern, maybe I am a young hick but my edp has always lived on the floor , it used to just sit on the stage floor so I guess my little EDP thinks its in heaven with a whole 1/4 inch of ground clearanceJ basically the edp is anchored at the sides to the left hand side of the board and a middle support. Round the back is a big powerstrip for all my plug, so if beer does go on it I’ll have more to worry about then the edp!! Point taken though, I may as some point make a back for the whole shebang with angled slats for ventilation. 2. Todd- From a standing position I can still see the readout over the top of my edp controller, so far so good with regard to that. (although I got caught out with my homebrew controller which dosn’t have any notation of buttons when I accidentally stopped the whole loop rather then going into reverse, I looked but silly!!). Again this may make some of you shudder, but when the EDP sat on the floor I often ended up putting some stomp box on top of it to save room, therefore I had a good idea of the height I would be able to use live. If you are thinking of making a two layer board I would surgest raiding your bookshelf and making various layouts with steps using books just ot get a feel for what you can manage with. For me this is the better of two evils as all my effects used to be in one long row leading to some monty-python esque leg movements to trigger my OC-3 and remain singing in the mike! Two levels rock!! Although I should again warn, think of where the mike stand legs will go when you design, this has taken a bit of figuring out for me, I now have it set at the far back right corner and the boom arm extended fully coming diagonally up, (not totally attractive) as for putting the whole thing inside something the duvet-cover cover is working for me as it is light and can just be unzipped and curled under the edges. Some of he gigs I get have litrally a 3minute setup rule so this is important if you have a good bag, build to that size spec, one less thing to worry about. Go for it!! 3.Ted. At the mo I am using tap tempo rather then midi synch as I can be very choosy about where I use the beat synch stuff and its hard to just turn it off mid song. However at home I have tried both, I found both work for different applications. If a beat synch is important in the first loop, obviously it has to be set by the Linn to the edp but if you intend to start with non synch stuff then suddenly drop in a Arpeggio or something (my fav way) the an edp master works great. Be carful about the 8th settings though as they can interact with stuff really weirdly, for instance on a four beat bar at 120bmp the delay effects sounded great, but I switched to chorus and of course I got a mushy wobble!! 4.Tim. What can I say, the bitrman rules!!! I loop an acoustic and I actually had a guy wander to right infront of the mike and get down on his knees to watch the pedals as I summoned some deamon-from-hell for the grand-finally (god I love that ring mod!!) anyway thanks to you all Phill _________________________________________________________________ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters