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I'm happy to wait.

Come over and build pedals so I can goof around with the Spin!

I would honestly love to. This is the second invite I've received from an awesome builder to build pedals with them. Destiny is calling me and I cannot continue to deny her.

Haha cool! Maybe we should come to you though... we've never been to Ireland and we'd love to...

You're more than welcome here! I think you'd like it. Although the summer is only the time I'd recommend visiting during, it's still got a lot to offer during the spring and autumn months. This country really does come alive when the sun shines. It would honestly be one of the most beautiful places to live if it only had more sun, particularly during the spring season. You must be used to the cold, though, so I imagine it wouldn't be as drastic as someone who lives in Australia coming over to revisit their heritage.

The great thing about Ireland is its size. If you want to see the Giant's Causeway and you're in Dublin, a three-hour car drive and you're there. If you then want to walk around the Ring of Kerry, you can catch a six-hour bus to the other side of the country and BAM!, you're there. To experience all that America has to offer you'd need months and months. Ireland is so centralized, but isn't nearly as heavily-populated as places like England and Belgium. Also, the culture is insane. I take it for granted because I live here, but the culture is so unique and boisterous. If you're a 'fun loving' dude then it'd be right up your alley. Still, if you prefer quiet walks in the countryside then you're also going to be in heaven.

I'd love this country if I didn't hate it.

I think it's one of the most beautiful and interesting looking places too... love those huge cliff coastlines! Terrified of falling off one though... I'd have to rent one of those brilliant sheep-herding dogs! I'd give you similar advice, don't visit Alberta in winter haha but our summers are really nice, mostly.

Growing up in the 80s Ireland seemed to me like a pretty scary/chaotic place, is it still pretty rough in some cities? Do you live in Dublin?

80's Ireland was indeed a strange place to live in. Some didn't have television or even telephones.

As far as being scary, yeah, in some areas of the North it was. My sister's friend's father was an electrical engineer hired to sweep the buildings for bombs. But that was in a rough Belfast area, there were many outer cities and towns that had little to no violence or trouble. However, to this day there are streets that if you are English you don't want down, for fear of being attacked, and there are streets that if you're Irish you don't walk down. But that's the same for many areas of America, and even Canada I imagine. If you're white you don't want down some streets, and if you're black you don't walk down others.

The funny thing is, and I don't mean to accuse you of ignorance at all, when I was planning to go to Israel two years ago, all my family members, particularly my Granddad, were worried sick. He thought Israel was a worn-torn country full of gun-toting Jews. But I felt really safe there. I absolutely loved it. My town of Sligo with a population of 20,000 has worse areas than I ever experienced in Israel. Of course I stayed mostly North away from the Egyptian border, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, but the only time I felt unsafe was in a really busy area of Jerusalem. And even then I had my Israeli friend with me who I knew would look after me and never put me in any danger.

Anyway, while I was in Israel, all my friend's friends were asking me how I was coping with living in Ireland during such a tumultuous time. And I was confused, at first. It wasn't until they explained the troubles between the North of South that I clicked on to what they meant. I've been bullied at school for being English, yeah. I've had people shout "Up the IRA!" when they overhear my accent from afar. But it happens so rarely. The point is, the media blows problems way out of proportion. OK, yes, recently Israel is going through some troubles, but I emailed my friend and asked whether she was OK and she said she was fine. This is the truth for 90% of the population. People in Tel Aviv are still going to University, eating out, sun bathing, and those in the many Kibbutz's scattered throughout the North are still planting crops and watching CSI:NY on TV in their cute little houses. For many life goes on. Despite humanities efforts, people find a way to live on.

Awesome post, thanks Danny!

I have a really limited world-view.. I've only left Canada once when I was 12 to go to Disneyland and I've only been to two provinces here. It's funny you mention your family being worried about you going to Israel, that's how I am when I hear about friend's trips... I have 80s kid-watching-tv-news ideas of a lot of countries that just aren't the case anymore, places I think 'whoa you can't go there!' but they're beautiful safe places. I had a buddy go to Central/South America and the 80s kid in me thought, 'good grief you definitely can't go there!' but he loved it and felt safe the whole time, even in places like Panama where I was sure he was doomed.

I just need to get out more! *smile*

Ireland would be an easy step into the world of... the world. It's full of life and everyone is usually nice and friendly.

AngryGoldfish wrote:Ireland would be an easy step into the world of... the world. It's full of life and everyone is usually nice and friendly.

Haha, I read that as "Ireland would be an easy step into the world of... the world. It's full of life and everyone is nice and user friendly."

I've been working too long at the computer...

I sometimes have a split-second moment of idiocy and try to find the Ctrl+F button when searching for a word on the page of a book. I know that feels.

If I'd have ever met a woman with a Irish accent wed have never got outa bed!!

allicio wrote:If I'd have ever met a woman with a Irish accent wed have never got outa bed!!

That comment was a real tongue-twister, but yeah, guys and girls from outside of Ireland usually love the Irish accent. It gets on your nerves after a while though.

I like the Irish accent, not like attracted to it, but I like it. Now a nice classy brit accent on a thin dark haired girl is another story

Accents are funny things in regard to attraction. I don't have much of a southern accent, even though I can turn it on at will, but on the occasions I ventured outside of the south as a younger single-er man I did pretty well for myself based on accent alone

Ryan wrote:

misterstomach wrote:I have read most of this thread trying to figure out the feature set of this proposed delay. I'm really in the market for a delay with foot switchable modulation, which it seems this will have. I'm really really dying to find one that's also stereo in and out, but a simple delay, not like a timeline or something. Is this going to be stereo?

This seems awesome. I love the doctor's pedals, and if it's stereo I will stab my own eyes out in a fit of joy. If it's not, I'm still interested.

vidret wrote:Looking forward to a delay that can be for echoes what the tremolessence and cosmichorus were for trem and chorus, not to forget elements for hi-gain!

Thanks dudes, much appreciated, but this isn't that delay. This is just a slightly modified 5 knob SDD, I'm not even getting new pcbs for it, just using the most recent SDD pcb. No stereo, no new features, nothing really different at all from a normal 5 knob SDD except it'll have footswitches for modulation and oscillation.

It won't have trails either... trails needs to be planned into the build with the circuit set up for it and the SDD isn't.

I will make a powerful stereo in/stereo out delay one day though, based on the Spin chip, but that's a story for another day.

well, i'm still pretty interested in this one. sdd sounds great and footswitchable modulation would be killer. and i'm really really looking forward to that day when you blow all other delays out of the water.