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Hi Crew- This is way OT, but I'll bet one of you loopers just might be the DIY brainiac to solve my problem. I just purchased a Carvin V3 amp head - great sounding 100-watt EL34 monster, by the way - but the channel-switching footswitch has no LEDs on it. There are three channels plus a "boost" function, and all four footswitches are simple SPDT switches with one lug unused. I figure it would be fairly easy to swap the SPDTs for DPDTs or, if necessary, those groovy Fulltone triple-throw DT switches, drill holes in the switch housing, add LEDs and a 9V battery, and I'd be rocking. The problem is, I can't find a schematic that would cause just one channel light to be on at a time. I'm boggled about how to wire it so that if, for example, I'm using Channel 1 and want to change to Channel 2, when I press switch #2 (for Channel 2), the LED for switch #1/Channel 1 goes off and the LED for switch #2/Channel 2 goes on. So among the three channels, only one LED can be on at a time. The 4th (boost) switch would remain on or off regardless of which channel is on (that one's easy). I spent about an hour the other night doing Google searches on all kinds of guitar and amp DIY sites, and I checked my Craig Anderton books, and I couldn't find anything for this other than to get into some kind of solid state switching chip, which I'd rather avoid. It SEEMS like it would be a simple enough circuit WITHOUT any chips or boards, but I don't do this kind of thing often enough to figure it out for myself. HELLLLLLLPPPPP! Douglas Baldwin, coyote-at-large www.thecoyote.org coyotelk@optonline.net "Life! Life! Clouds and clowns! You don't have to come down!" - Sly and the Family Stone