led pulse with music project
Posted: August 15th, 2010, 9:23 am
ok so i have finally got funding to build my bpt race car. and i got a little extra money to put into my gsr. right now i have my sound system hooked up running great. and i want another wow factor besides being insanely lound inside and out. so i deicided to start this project.
basically i am doing just what the subject says, im making led or neon lights pulse with the bass.
so far ive done a little research. and i could go the easy way with crappy results and buy a music interface that just plugs in to 12v power has a mic on it and hears the sounds and makes the light pulse accordingly. well after watching many videos of 3 different types of music interfaces. ive realized that it takes alot of fine tuning. and it still isnt just bass line being pulsed. some people are saying hook them into my amp. but from what ive heard (i am pretty dumb when it comes to electronics other than how to hook up and use.) that creates a unnessacerry load on your amp and can also blow your leds or neon. so pretty much i am trying to find a music interface that instead or a mic could plug into the rca's. or what im also wondering is if i could but a interface with the mic and take it apart and hook the wires that are for the mic into some wires comming from rca's. like i said i dont know much about the science of electricity, so i dont know if this is possible. but i need input on this and if modding the interface would work or not? and if not how else could i do this without either being hard on my amp or blowing led's. i also read something that said i could run leds off my amp without creating a great load and without blowing leds using a 12v resistor. dont know exactly what i need to do that. but i am off for wyotech in about 10 days. and i want to have this done b4 then. so all the help i can get it appriciated. i just want this idea to work.
so basically the setup i want it my car is 3 different colors of leds all though out the car inside and out. all being able to either be turned on flat(no pulse) with a switch. and another switch to turn them on pulse. and mabye a like 2 switches one for interior flat other for exterior. and same with pulse.
basically i am doing just what the subject says, im making led or neon lights pulse with the bass.
so far ive done a little research. and i could go the easy way with crappy results and buy a music interface that just plugs in to 12v power has a mic on it and hears the sounds and makes the light pulse accordingly. well after watching many videos of 3 different types of music interfaces. ive realized that it takes alot of fine tuning. and it still isnt just bass line being pulsed. some people are saying hook them into my amp. but from what ive heard (i am pretty dumb when it comes to electronics other than how to hook up and use.) that creates a unnessacerry load on your amp and can also blow your leds or neon. so pretty much i am trying to find a music interface that instead or a mic could plug into the rca's. or what im also wondering is if i could but a interface with the mic and take it apart and hook the wires that are for the mic into some wires comming from rca's. like i said i dont know much about the science of electricity, so i dont know if this is possible. but i need input on this and if modding the interface would work or not? and if not how else could i do this without either being hard on my amp or blowing led's. i also read something that said i could run leds off my amp without creating a great load and without blowing leds using a 12v resistor. dont know exactly what i need to do that. but i am off for wyotech in about 10 days. and i want to have this done b4 then. so all the help i can get it appriciated. i just want this idea to work.
so basically the setup i want it my car is 3 different colors of leds all though out the car inside and out. all being able to either be turned on flat(no pulse) with a switch. and another switch to turn them on pulse. and mabye a like 2 switches one for interior flat other for exterior. and same with pulse.