Thread: Christmas FX for Lighting Machine

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Hey if anyone is interested LTD Commodities has the Christmas FX for $9.95.
My 4 just shipped. Here is the link. How much longer till Halloween???

Christmas Tree FX - LTD Commodities

I have 2 of these, I need a few more I think.......gotta wait until the wife falls asleep tho

i used something like this to make my lights flicker in my Haunted House this year. I just turned down the volume all the way.

Can you string several of these together? They look like they would be great! And a super price! Nice post!

what do you mean "together"?

Originally Posted by Scott N.

what do you mean "together"?

Sorry I didn't make that very clear. If I were to have two different sections of lighting, like across a yard or something. Could I have two of those boxes (one for each set of lights) and then connect them? This still may not make sense! Sorry!

well, what you can do is plug in an output into the back of each box then set sensitivity to where ever you want them and both will react off the same sounds........is that what you mean?

Originally Posted by Scott N.

well, what you can do is plug in an output into the back of each box then set sensitivity to where ever you want them and both will react off the same sounds........is that what you mean?

Yes that is exactly what I mean! Thank you very much! =)

I'm doing that with two of these boxes, but I've had a concern about how my sound system (a Sony 120W amplifier) will react to the load. I know that adding speakers, for example, in parallel on the speaker outputs will cause problems with impedance matching. Just wondering if there is a similar situation with multiple FX boxes.
I use a splitter to divide the pre-amp level output of one thunder channel to the two FX boxes (I use a split thunder track with a 1 sec delay), and adjust the sensitivity so that they power the lights at the same levels.
Does anyone have any insights as to how an amplifier circuit might perceive the FX box load (inductive or resistive, for example) and whether running 3-4 of these boxes in parallel might damage the amp?

These boxes accept a line-level signal, not an amplified one. No need to worry about resistance and amplifier loads. If you're using an amplifier, connect it to the RCA jack output (tape out should work), or just split the signal coming out of your CD player (mp3, dvd, etc) to go to the amp and the FX boxes.

For my lightning and thunder, I use a portable CD player that has a headphone jack and a line-out jack. One output goes to my mixer (and then on to the main audio amp), the other goes to my FX box.

-dgm