ok so im visiting with some fam. and my grandpa was admiring my 404 and said how cool would it be if we put different lights in there! has anyone tried this or anything? my grandpa is good with this kind of shit being a contractor/electrician and a whole bunch of other shit as well as a model train enthusiast, so im not worried i just wanna know if anyone else has? i got till christmas to pull it off so we might not. but i just wanted to see if anyone else has!

haha the buttons are fricken pink

i say go for it, but if it was my 404 i'd say "fuck off Gramps"

lol na he has every album i ever made and his friends enjoy them cuz they know the samples

nah i'm sure he's a sweet dude, just not too sure about anyone modding a SP

That's what I absolutely love about some old people. I remember I was making a beat once, and this old stranger starts nodding his head to the beat and mentions that the melody sounds a bit familiar.
Awesome

they love the beats, this old lady wanted some of my ish, thoguht it was catchy.

you know they just sat there smokin prescription greens diggin through the lp's and 45's.


with the lights, surely it's just a case of opening it up and replacing the LED's. The theory is easy but i've never seen the inside of an sp, is easy on a mpc.

well today im going inside of my sp to look. and yeah man i been giving em to older cats and they like it because they say it "reminds me of a good time in my life"

or
"hey i can really jive to this!"

haha

Just a heads up... I'm sure your gramps knows whats up but just let him know the leds are all surface mount. It's beyond my skills but I know alot of people who don't have any trouble working with them. My hands just not steady enough with a soldering iron for that shit haha

we took it all apart. we were gonna go buy other lights and covers...but i gotta keep it semi regular...lol its all black with a body kit.

maybe you can slap a layer of thin color plastic somewhere between the outside pad and the led on the circuit board. it would save having to rip to out the leds. i have never tryed this but it seems practical, however red mixed with other colors usually turns brown.

i think someone mentioned this before now that you talk about it...yeah i wonder if that would work. we both looked at the lights and were like fuck it haha

I bet 50bugs that you screw it! Ever seen those tiny LED's? Phuck these are the smallest I've seen so far... Keep in mind that you need to replace like 53 LED's... with an solder iron thats as big as a needle...
Pretty hardcore plan you got going on... I wouldn't risk it!


not if you're speaking of lights:
red and blue makes purple / red and green makes yellow / red and green and blue makes white


mixing paint --> subtractive mixing (red+green=brown)
mixing lights --> additiv mixing (red+green=yellow)

I would try a spotlight foil first and chop it up...
but I dunno how to get the foil into small buttons like DEL or the A-J BANKS... cause you can't lay down the foil under the pad-mat...

Last tip: Wear colored sunglasses!

i just aint doing it. lol on my way back to cali. sitting in the aiprot as we speak

sorry drinkin and postin again