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How To Make Your Lights Sync With Sound.

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  • Updated: 29-Dec-07
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What is going to happen if you connect LED lights to your speakers? Magical will appears. Let me show you how to.

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How To Make Your Lights Sync With Sound.

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  • lol sorry but wats the name of the song/beat

    By pepotero13 1178663912 Reply Spam [+2] Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • .

    It seemes the LED's were only reacting to the deep sounds. Is there a possibility to change it up to the middle or even to only the high sounds?

    By andless 1178828824 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • DEEP BASS

      produces lots of energy therefore LED or conventional light reacts better. Fortunately LED uses very little power, so if u only turn the volume just a little, you will have a lot of power go thru your LED. IF you turn the volume higher, you will have more and more power. You can run multiple LED’s to 1 speaker.

      By yamaheart 1178847566 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • lots of LED's

    Just found this entry and know it is quite old - but - can anyone help me? Could I link up a string of LEDs lights in this way and would they need any of their own power? Thanks Kim

    By KimHart 1249640264 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Help for Beer Pong Table

    I am trying to get these led lights to be synced with the music...do you know how many I can hook up to the speakers? do you got any good ideas for it? thanks

    By Superman4422 1224231342 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • U can

      hook up as many leds as u like. Due to the fact is that LED consumes less energy. To ensure ur LED wont burn due to high wattage, use resistor. U can hook it up in parallel or series. Good luck

      By yamaheart 1224461023 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • trouble

    I am having trouble gitting this to work. i have bought the LED's and i have some speakers that use the same connection that are shown in the video is there anyway u can help me out?

    By nlh9415 1216174448 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Very cool

    Thanks for the very informative video

    By Foresttre 1213936107 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • leds

    where can you get lights like those

    By gary0008 1197431942 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • n1 work

    hey n1 work
    but for long time i test it on my right player /song player, :-) sry for my english,
    and this isnt going.
    I dont know why maybe there is no energie
    i dont know but its going only on computer boxen

    By DoMe65 1194189110 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • does it matter

    with the led light wires, do they matter with which red and black wire goes with each speaker wire?.....And those beats are wicked!

    By Tr!N!iNamErICa 1193190323 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • WoW

    5 stars for new invention...i love the ending..."Feel da club in your house..." don't forget to shake that speaker's ass. LOL :)

    By Chingly88 1192763530 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Laut Sprecher's Omnibus

    The original song is Lautsprecher's Omnibus. justr wanna give credit where it is due. :)

    By Omnibus 1182398350 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • cool

    cool

    By papsticla 1179229786 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • GO to this site for LED Calculator

    to find out what type of resistor is need for your LED, please go here http://www.superbrightleds.com/led_info.htm

    Unless posting a link up here is illegal. Please let me know. Thanks a whole lot.

    By yamaheart 1178867967 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Here are more tips,

    IF you have a subwoofer, oh man, it will produces massive power. SO therefore use a resistor. Wire your LED with resistor to your subwoofer, then each to your LEFT/ Right channel, or even CENTER channel if you have 1. You will experience differ LED flashing at differ channel. IF your system is too powerful so use resistors. Go to this website to calculate the specific resistor for your LED.

    By yamaheart 1178852516 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Tips

      Try to connect 2 or more LEDs to each speaker. And remember to set up each LED with differ resistor. For example, if u put 3 LEDs to the speaker. The 1st LED may not requires a resistor, for the 2nd LED try to use a resistor with 160-180 Ohms, the 3rd LED try to use a resistor with 280-300 ohms. It will dissipated and block away unwanted power that may blow your LEDs depends on how high your volume is at. You will see each of the 3 LEDs, each LED will glows brighter than the others. GO to this website that I found it has this easy LED calculator. And good luch and have fun with your music.

      By yamaheart 1178853176 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Theory

      I just want to understand the reason for putting resistors across the LED. Is it because of current drops across the leds that causes more power to emerge so the resistors limit the power going to the LED's?

      By latinomusician 1178885014 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • yes, the resistor

      will limit the voltage from the power sources, which will reduces the voltage, and it will make ur LED last longer. Too much voltage will burn the LED's

      By yamaheart 1197694549 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • LED needs Resistor because

      your AMP produces various power output depend on how high the volume is play at. For example the volume is range from 1 to 10, and 1 is being at 1 volt and 3 is at 3 volt and so on. Your resistor only can handle up to 6 volts/the volume is at 6. IF u crank ur system up to volume 8, that is too much power your Resistor can handle and will blow ur LED out. The resistor is overwhelming with too much power from your amp. Remember, u can find many type of resistors that can handle different voltage.

      By yamaheart 1178914391 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Great

    That is pretty cool how do i attach neon lights too it?? 5 stars!!!

    By JamaicanMahn 1178818957 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • mount

      an amplifier to the neonlights and do it as in the movie.

      By andless 1178828901 Reply Spam [+1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • Neon Lights

      work on the same principle, just add the wires to both ends from the neon lights. Be sure to buy the neon that consumes low power. For example buy the one that requires 3 to 6 Volts, but in the other hand if you have a powerful amp then it shouldn’t be a problem. Use the voltmeter to measure the power output from each speaker channel then you will know how much power comes out from each channel at different volume ranges. Good luck.

      By yamaheart 1178848388 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • LED Components

    I will like to make a very important point before any of you attempt to connect the leds. When you grab the positive line of the speaker, connect it to the the long side of the led and connect the negative part of the speaker to the short side of the led. Usually LED's dont come with the red and black wire attacked to it so you have to figure out which is positive or negative. If you connect it backwards it wont light up.

    By latinomusician 1178804985 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • sound quality

    Does it reduce the sound quality or volume

    By CameraJohn 1178659844 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • No, not at all.

      LED light is known to use way less power compare to conventional light. SO therefore you still have plenty of power left to drive your speakers. Remember, you have lots of power in that Amp, in this case, I only crank a lil power out of my system. Have fun.

      By yamaheart 1178662116 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • nice idea,

      i have a pre-mounted neon on my car sub but not on my soundsytem in my room. I have 3 way speakers with an amp running 400 watt at 4ohm, will it blow the leds if i do this? If so, what kind of resistor should i use and how should i connect it?

      Hehe, theres a good question for ya.
      Great video, 5 stars

      By cyco78 1178783386 Reply Spam [-1] Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • led fact

      leds cant blow just melt and that is at a extreamly high amp/ vlts

      By omega one 1182459030 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
    • this is weird

      I reply to this message and somehow got deleted. I even put a link down and also dissapeared. Unless....

      By yamaheart 1178867771 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
  • Thanks

    You can do that with more than 1 LED light on each speaker and pick the LED color that you like. Thank you for watching.

    By yamaheart 1178440154 Reply Spam Moderate Up Moderate Down
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