Pretty sure the boutique guitar pedal industry would not have any LED indicators if they couldn't have those blinding things.
I use the blues (or the retina burning greens) almost exclusively, and Bon can always tell when I've left pedals on because even though there's no lights on in the basement, it's still well lit enough to see from the main floor.
Are there really side-effects on the retina....?!? Why did nobody warn me...?
Yikes, I have to stop glaring at this....
...or at least wear shades 8)?
(http://i.imgur.com/b5bmRLS.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/56CGwul.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/TTZWsA4.jpg)
(I had posted this yonks ago, sorry if I stressed your eyes yet again... ;))
That is awesome, but if you're going to use that many LEDs, they have to be flashing, so not only do you go blind, but you also had a seizure.
There was a time when blue LEDs were an indication of quality, because they were rare and generally only used on high-end equipment; plus they were pleasantly dim. Now it's just a marketing ploy to sell cheap Chinese accessories. The nobel prize should go to the person that decided the blue ones should be 10,000 times brighter than the sun.
I'm sorry, were you trying to drive your car? LOOK at your cell phone charger!!!
Quote from: GermanCdn on October 07, 2014, 07:53:13 PM
That is awesome, but if you're going to use that many LEDs, they have to be flashing, so not only do you go blind, but you also had a seizure.
but the kicker is that before you're exposed to these blinking lights, you have to snort a tin of curiously strong peppermints :D
Quote from: Haberdasher on October 07, 2014, 08:56:36 PM
Quote from: GermanCdn on October 07, 2014, 07:53:13 PM
That is awesome, but if you're going to use that many LEDs, they have to be flashing, so not only do you go blind, but you also had a seizure.
but the kicker is that before you're exposed to these blinking lights, you have to snort a tin of curiously strong peppermints :D
Believe me, if that had been my worst experience with Altoids, I'd probably still consume them to this day. But it wasn't, and I don't.
Quote from: GermanCdn on October 07, 2014, 09:01:17 PM
Quote from: Haberdasher on October 07, 2014, 08:56:36 PM
Quote from: GermanCdn on October 07, 2014, 07:53:13 PM
That is awesome, but if you're going to use that many LEDs, they have to be flashing, so not only do you go blind, but you also had a seizure.
but the kicker is that before you're exposed to these blinking lights, you have to snort a tin of curiously strong peppermints :D
Believe me, if that had been my worst experience with Altoids, I'd probably still consume them to this day. But it wasn't, and I don't.
haha, i'm scared to ask. perhaps it's better to leave itto the imagination. tho tbh, i can imagine some pretty twisted stuff. :P
Quote from: GermanCdn on October 07, 2014, 09:01:17 PM
Quote from: Haberdasher on October 07, 2014, 08:56:36 PM
Quote from: GermanCdn on October 07, 2014, 07:53:13 PM
That is awesome, but if you're going to use that many LEDs, they have to be flashing, so not only do you go blind, but you also had a seizure.
but the kicker is that before you're exposed to these blinking lights, you have to snort a tin of curiously strong peppermints :D
Believe me, if that had been my worst experience with Altoids, I'd probably still consume them to this day. But it wasn't, and I don't.
Tell us the rest of this story. Now.
My then girlfriend (now wife) read an article in Maxim magazine about the conjugal benefits of Altoids. Being that she tends not to do things half assed, she deduced that a) if one was good, six would be better and b) this would be much better as a surprise rather than consult me on the issue. One might be good, I have no idea. Six burn like the fires of hell on my oldest dearest friend. Spent 42 minutes in the shower trying to end the pain.
Nuff said.
Sweet mother of bj's. Like having mrs. Clause do the deed
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Well, they are curiously strong....
At least you were minty fresh
At least her breath was fresh for the first time after doing that. ;D
Quote from: GermanCdn on October 07, 2014, 10:23:55 PM
My then girlfriend (now wife) read an article in Maxim magazine about the conjugal benefits of Altoids. Being that she tends not to do things half assed, she deduced that a) if one was good, six would be better and b) this would be much better as a surprise rather than consult me on the issue. One might be good, I have no idea. Six burn like the fires of hell on my oldest dearest friend. Spent 42 minutes in the shower trying to end the pain.
Nuff said.
Ice cubes are more appropriate for that freshness purpose. ;)
It is interesting what discussions a nobel price can bring about.... :o
Quote from: GermanCdn on October 07, 2014, 10:23:55 PM
My then girlfriend (now wife) read an article in Maxim magazine about the conjugal benefits of Altoids. Being that she tends not to do things half assed, she deduced that a) if one was good, six would be better and b) this would be much better as a surprise rather than consult me on the issue. One might be good, I have no idea. Six burn like the fires of hell on my oldest dearest friend. Spent 42 minutes in the shower trying to end the pain.
Nuff said.
I hear there are people who apply this kind of logic to all sorts of things. Like taking medicine.
As for the OP, I like blue LEDs. They're my default LED in all my builds as I learned the hard way that red LEDs become completely invisible on stage whenever the light tech gets enthusiastic with his red lights. And light techs seem to LOVE using red lighting on stage. At least blue LEDs cut through that rather well. Especially blindingly blue LEDs. 8)
Forget the light tech and his red lights, try playing on an outdoor stage in full sunlight and trying to work out what you've got switched on.
So the inventors of blindingly bright Blue LEDs won the Nobel Prize?
Bet they didn't see that coming. ;D
I ... wish I hadn't asked.
Now my thread about the noble proliferation of eye-destroying lights has been tainted.
heh, I said taint.
They had Brian Greene on NPR yesterday talking about this. My first thought was "wait, those blue leds?" They were discussing how the award not only goes to more abstract concepts like the discovery of the Higgs last year,, but also towards science with a very practical application that will impact our lives in a significant way. I love how relevant this is to us! Not that the Higgs isn't either though. Good post jon