Well I tried a single gate clock gen and it works on, I get a clean-ish signal but my output from the whole lots is still bursting all over the place. Oddly I notice that it seems associated with sounds perhaps.
I've now setup with one channel on the clock, and one on the final output, the clock is fine, the output responds to sound levels from my speakers possibly of particular frequencies. At first I thought the crystal was acting as a mic but the clock it is producing is clean.