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Hi Loopers- Slightly off topic, but it may have applications for looping hardware and/or FX used with same. I recently purchased a Carvin V3 guitar amp. (KILLER amp, by the way.) The footswitch (Carvin's FS-44) has no LEDs to indicate which channel is in use, or whether the "boost" function is engaged. (LEDs are on the head but not the foot switch. I can't be turning around in the middle of a gig to see which channel is on, nomsane?) I would love to add LEDs to this footswitch, and I've been asking and searching on a lot of DIY sites, but I haven't yet been able to find a schematic to do so. The current switching system uses SPDT switches functioning as SPST switches. In other words, each switch has three lugs but only two are wired up. They function as simple on-off switches, probably triggering a logic circuit in the amp head. Each switch is a big ol' stomp switch, and the four switches are housed in an extruded aluminum housing that has plenty of room for, say, a 9V battery and a little circuit board. I'd like to add LEDs for each of the three channels plus the "boost" function so that only one channel light would be on at a time (d'oh!) but the "boost" function would be on-off independent of the channel (I THINK that's how it functions - gotta check out that detail ;-) ). It should be easy to power the lights with a 9 volt battery, and I'd like to wire it up so that it's totally independent of the current circuit. I have a dark suspicion that some kind of solid-state switching logic chip will be needed, which is where my brain siezes, having no experience with DIY solid-state stuff. There's plenty of room in the foot switch to do this. If necessary, I can swap the current stomp switches for DPDT or even TPDT if necessary. Can anybody cook up a schematic for this? Or is there one lurking on the Web that I haven't been able to find? Thanx in advance, 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