stumbling around in the dark.....

[goddard.duncan@mtvne.com]

Title: stumbling around in the dark.....

....& accidentally stepping on a midi volume pedal & waking the whole audience up with an unintentionally loud blast of notes?

here's one of those pre-coffee, first-thing-in-the-morning ideas I have from time to time.

most midi volume & expression pedals have three conductors connected to the parent device. two of these are a ground wire & a source of 5V from inside the device, while the third is the voltage returned from the potentiometer inside the pedal.

so- the pedal has a supply of 5V readily available.

this means that you can add a 500 ohm resistor inside & a nice bright LED somewhere on the outer surface of the pedal. you could extend this idea to multiple pedals or footswitches, & even colour-code them.

hmm....... I'll have to have a look & see if this is workable on the standard footswitches we use with jam-mans & repeaters & the like.

the fcb1010 has it's own power supply & one could easily make the whole thing light up like a christmas tree without taxing the circuitry unduly.

of course, I'd advise against any such modifications if a) you can't work a soldering iron & b) the equipment concerned is under a warranty you wish to preserve.

naturally, I shall be taking the rest of the afternoon off & rushing home to try this out.....

duncan/r.m.i.

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