Pedals in sunlight

Started by webephishin, August 10, 2013, 12:07:02 AM

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webephishin

Does anyone have any remedies of making your pedal LEDs more visible while playing a midday show outside?  Ive recently played a cpl shows outside during the day and its been tough to see which pedals are on and which are not.  Usually I can tell by the sound from my amp and/or monitors but when the sound guy isnt doing a good job and the sound is f'ed,  its tough to figure out on the fly.
Guitars: Schecter c/sh-1 (SD 59 PUPs), Michael Kelly Valor CT, Fender Montara Acoustic/Electric

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Heady Jam Fan

The only thing that comes to mind is shielding some of the light somehow... it sounds funny, but maybe setting up one of those beach umbrella's, or attaching some cardboard around part of your board (which ever side faces the sun - maybe cutting 3 sides off of a box).
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Happyorange27

If you have a soldering iron, replace the LEDs with bright ones. They are cheap and are rated by brightness. Only two leads to swap. I did it on my ts-9s and it makes a huge difference. Night and day you could say.
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Heady Jam Fan

Quote from: Happyorange27 on August 10, 2013, 09:32:22 AM
If you have a soldering iron, replace the LEDs with bright ones. They are cheap and are rated by brightness. Only two leads to swap. I did it on my ts-9s and it makes a huge difference. Night and day you could say.

Good suggestion too, but then they might hurt your eyes when playing in doors ;)
Headless Hollowbody > Mesa Boogie MK III > TRM Trucker 212 w/ V30's
Whammy 5 > Mini Wah > 74 Script Phase 90 > CP9Pro+ > 82 TS9 > 83 TS9 > Ross Compressor > Turbo-Tuner > 83 AD9

fulltone1989

I put some white painters/masking tape over them, it make enough of a difference I guess. The tuner is the worst though!
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sour d

I use the bright blue l.e.d's when I mod pedals. In a dark bar you can see the knob settings.
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