Moderators AMZ-FX Posted September 27, 2005 Moderators Share Posted September 27, 2005 Blue LED backlash: http://www.dcontinuum.com/content/news.php?id=209 "Blue tends to cause more discomfort and disability glare than other, longer wavelengths," said Dr. David Sliney, an expert on the harmful effects of bright light sources at the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine in Maryland. regards, Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GuitArtMan Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 I've always wondered what the fascination was with these. There's so damn bright, it's like having the landing lights from a 747 shinning in your face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brian Marshall Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 Originally posted by GuitArtMan I've always wondered what the fascination was with these. There's so damn bright, it's like having the landing lights from a 747 shinning in your face. i agree... that is actually true of a lot of clear LED's in general... blues also tend to make swithing pop louder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chriss Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 Blue LED's are beautiful to behold. They bathe you in the sublime essense of universal love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cantoXIII Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 what's there to wonder about? blue led's are just way more cool than any other color. granted, clear/white ones are classy, but nothing beats a blue led. however, i think i'm just biased because i am so sick of seeing {censored}ing red led's on everything. is it really that much more expensive to use different colors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kerb Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 Originally posted by cantoXIII what's there to wonder about? blue led's are just way more cool than any other color. granted, clear/white ones are classy, but nothing beats a blue led.however, i think i'm just biased because i am so sick of seeing {censored}ing red led's on everything. is it really that much more expensive to use different colors? yes, and I prefer red LEDs. Blue ones are a marketing gimmick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Blungo Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 I put white paint over my blue leds to dim them a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Great Waldo Pepper Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 Great to see you're doin well Jack! Did you get much bad weather in your parts? Folks out west have no power and riddiculous heat. FEMA is passing out ice, water and MRE's. Heat without power to run the AC makes for an uncomfortable situation. Blue LED backlash. That is way too "metro" to value. First blue LED's I saw on consumer warez was when the PS2 came out. They were the diffused type, I dunno if they were really blue. Anyway, I think I spent $8 on a water clear blue for my PC's HD at Radar Elec back when they were on Queen Anne. So cheap now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 I think a little variety in LED colors is a good thing... and it makes locating certain pedals easier in a dark studio or on a dark stage. I got tired of always seeing red jewel lamps on Fender amps, so I replaced the one on my Princeton II with a green jewel ... IMO, much cooler. I'd like to see some green LED's on pedals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members State 6000 Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 Originally posted by kerb Blue ones are a marketing gimmick. I think they did well to carve the Keeley brand, but now yes, they're kinda lame-o now that they're everywhere! I prefer regular red, green, and amber. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members capnbringdown Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 I kind of like the old faithful red led, besides the fact that those blue ones are super bright and really hurt my eyes. All I need is to be looking down at a pedal and have my eyes adjust to the blue led, then look away and not be able to see clearly. Fortunately, I only have one pedal in my collection that I can think of off the top of my head that has a blue LED. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mrbluetone Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 A blue glow rising from Keeley's is indeed tonal bliss and you all don't wear dark sunglasses??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GuyaGuy Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 i like 2 LEDs... i like one color to tell me that a pedal is on and another one to tell me that i'm rockin the free world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chriss Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 Originally posted by capnbringdown I kind of like the old faithful red led, besides the fact that those blue ones are super bright and really hurt my eyes. All I need is to be looking down at a pedal and have my eyes adjust to the blue led, then look away and not be able to see clearly. Fortunately, I only have one pedal in my collection that I can think of off the top of my head that has a blue LED. Maybe you shouldn't do acid when you gig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RockNote Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 Many people reviewing the Dunlop EVH Phase 90 complain about the brightness of the blue LED. To me, it's self-defeating to put out a product like that, especially as it is quite often used in dim lights. If they have to go out on a limb like that in their product design, may I suggest they make a more conventional alternative available? Well, I haven't tried it, I'm just shooting the breeze based on the reviews I've read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Merkin Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 Originally posted by Chriss Maybe you shouldn't do acid when you gig. Where's the fun in that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kleen-x Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 Nothin beats an effects processor. Bask in the euphoric rainbow glow of red, green, orange, blue, anything you could imagine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members capnbringdown Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 Originally posted by Chriss Maybe you shouldn't do acid when you gig. I'm not gigging right now. No one wants to play with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jeremy Skrenes Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 Originally posted by Phil O'Keefe I think a little variety in LED colors is a good thing... and it makes locating certain pedals easier in a dark studio or on a dark stage. I got tired of always seeing red jewel lamps on Fender amps, so I replaced the one on my Princeton II with a green jewel ... IMO, much cooler. I'd like to see some green LED's on pedals. Green LEDs are readily available at your neighborhood radio shack! i was going to redo my pedals with bigger red LEDs but they didn't have enough of them, so I bought some green ones. Pretty cool looking.J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Yup, I know I can get 'em at Rat Shack, but I'm too busy / lazy to replace them... but I should have put a green LED into the BYOC fuzz I just built... but I didn't think about it until I was finished. Next time I'm at Radio Shack I'll grab a few - IF I remember to. Thanks for the tip though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members doug deeper Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 blue is my fav color... thats why i use them. ({censored} that other guy!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators AMZ-FX Posted September 27, 2005 Author Moderators Share Posted September 27, 2005 Great to see you're doin well Jack! Did you get much bad weather in your parts?Folks out west have no power and riddiculous heat. FEMA is passing out ice, water and MRE's. Heat without power to run the AC makes for an uncomfortable situation. It definitely rained more with this hurricane... the wind was not quite as strong but there were still a few trees down around town. We lost electricity for 24 hours this time... not too bad. I rigged up a couple of power inverters to my car so we could run a light and a fan... and the boys ran a TV and a PS2... gotta keep 'em busy... regards, Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Originally posted by cantoXIII is it really that much more expensive to use different colors? Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Speeddemon Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 I like to use different colors too.My MiG*Boosts use YELLOW LEDs! How often do you see THAT, huh? And diffuse blue ones are nice, but they're still more expensive than the clearlense ones (those are around $0.15-0.20 now).Oh and about the brightness, just use a bigger {censored}in' resistor! I use 22k's on my clearlense blue and pure green ones, and 4k7 on my orange ones. I do have a cheesy pair of Baywatch-Eddy sunglasses on my workbench, just for testing LED brightness and stuff. Oh, a good tip: NEVER place a 6000mcd clearlense LED without a resistor on a 9V block! 1) you'll probably fry the LED2) you'll be halfway frying your retina's too. So be like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Robert Keeley Posted September 27, 2005 Members Share Posted September 27, 2005 That article is funny...I don't get that feedback from the thousands and thousands of folks using our pedals. Trust me, if they didn't like it they would let me know. I will continue to use blue LEDs like we always have. They help identify our pedals. I'm proud we popularized them in effects pedals. We had them before every HP/Compaq computer had them, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, ...okay enough of my pride already! ;-) rk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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