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This looks awesome.

@2PLAYER: The only thing is there appears to be (not visually, I mean audio-wise) lots of static when it's turned all the way downwards (as in turning it towards you if you were to hold it normally. I can't remember if this is volume up or down).

@kineticturtle: Yep, and, um, the iron is 30w, and sometimes I hold it there for a bit... It makes sense that this could have damaged the parts around there at the 3 points you're required to solder to for the prosound mod. I held it there for a bit on other hard-to-solder parts too, but that didn't seem to affect anything...

Thanks again, and, no no, the glitchy sound surges happen REGARDLESS of weather the pitch mod is on or not. It's just, when the pitch mod IS on, the frequency of the general static changes. So it's all static either way, otherwise it would be obvious that it is the pitch mod at fault. So I'm still kinda lost with that... (Unless you still disagree? I'll try desoldering the 3 points on the board and see if there's sound.)

Oh, thanks. It looks like I'm going to rewire the Half Clock crystal oscillator first then, because as far as I can tell, my ground wire for the potentiometer is wired solid and correctly. Then I'll see what problems I'm having and act accordingly or ask here.

As a side sort of off topic thing, when I did the prosound mod I think I accidentally severed one of the leads at the location you solder the wires to. The left headphone doesn't work at all on the new jack, and on the old jack the left headphone's output is significantly decreased. It seems really hard to get in there to fix the potentially severed wiring so I was thinking it might be easier to just solder an extra wire from where you solder the left headphone wire to, to an easier place on the board. It's hard to see where the lead gos though, because the copper plate covers it. Any ideas?

Thanks for all of the help! I'm getting there.

Here is a random picture. The reflection was completely accidental which makes it all the more awesome:

Now, for my post:

I don't know how to install the half-clock mod seperately (but that might be a good Idea - read on)... Also, I ran into a problem. First I'll draw the circuit (the one I have currently soldered all up and stuff), then I'll explain what it's doing:

(That little chip is from Get Lofi - The 5 is +5, the O is output, and the G is ground. Extra note: I actually soldered the Half Speed crystal oscillator to the O on the Get Lofi circuit directly, but in the image above I drew an extra wire and made it separate because that was easier to draw, and it's still, as far as I'm aware, correct.)

Ok. So. The Half Speed switch doesn't seem to affect anything... Er, well, there seems to be a very slight difference in the mid-clock speed range but I'm not sure if I'm just hearing things because I want there to be a difference or not. When the potentiometer switch is on, everything seems to function correctly. I can bend the pitch and everything right. But, when the potentiometer switch is off... Regardless of how the Half Speed switch is, the clock speed just like, stops. I don't want to say 'crash' because, when I turn the potentiometer switch back on it continues correctly. At the moment I just want to be able to turn the potentiometer off, enabling the stock crystal oscillator, but I don't know which wire I'm meant to be putting the switch on since I thought where I was putting it was ok. Should it be on the output one? Or the ground? Or what? Then, if the Half Speed switch doesn't seem to be doing anything I want to install it separately (but I don't know how).

Thanks again for your help and support!

Oh... Thanks but the switches have only two pins, otherwise I'd do something similar to what you suggested (Your diagram shows what I'm trying to achieve; ON-ON switch functionality. But I only have ON-OFF switches) Also, how/where is the short-circuit?

The idea with my diagram is that the regular crystal is always on, but the 2nd crystal is only on if the switch is in the ON position. As for where the Pitch Bend pins are meant to connect... Well, I'm not sure, and I'd follow a proper tutorial to know where they go, but the general purpose for the diagram was to show the idea of bypassing the second crystal and the pitch mod always, but then being able to make the current go through those paths as well, with use of a switch on each path. So then my switch would (I think), in one position be cutting the line to the 2nd oscillator, and in the other position be joining it up, meaning both of the crystals are connected ... I wonder if this is a problem. I really don't want to try something without knowing and screw it up >_<

Oh also, that 3rd thing in the diagram is this.