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Alrighty kids, here's the finished product! Thanks all for you great input!

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I like it, Front. I think going with the single color per letter was a good choice.
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Excellent!

What are the odds I can get you to send me the sequencing for the LOR on this project?
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I like it, Front. I think going with the single color per letter was a good choice.
Yeah I think it looks a TON better... The multi colors for each letter just wasn't doing it for me!


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Excellent!

What are the odds I can get you to send me the sequencing for the LOR on this project?
Sure! Just send me an e-mail at frontyardfright@msn.com and I'll send it to ya!

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Zach, love your sign from last year and your final bulb placement really was the best. You always do such great work.

I'm working on a few ideas for a circus theme and found this thread during a search. I really like the sequencing of the lights on your sign but don't have anything as sophisticated as an LOR system, although I do own a Gemmy Holiday Light Show (6 outlets).

Do you guys think I could create an Mp3 file which would have 6 audio tracks to it that could reproduce this effect using an Mp3 player and the Light Show? I would only be able to write the word TICKET (since only 6 channels) on my sign and each letter would represent a separate light strand plugged into one of the 6 outlets of the box. I bought my HLS last year after season to use with an inexpensive singing pumpkins display but haven't had a chance to experiment with it at all so not quite sure if I get how it sends the music signal out to each of the plugged strands in the device. I assume it senses tracks and when there's a sound on that track sends a "On" signal through a plugged strand for as long as it senses a sound. And brightness would depend on volume of the sound? No need to really create any music as such and I wouldn't need to connect any speakers to it since I really just want the light sequencing effect. I would loop the track to get the repeated effect. To me it seems like this approach would work, but I'm really clueless.

Hope someone can give me some pointers. Thanks guys.

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Spookie....if I understand the holiday light show gizmo, it reacts to sound like a color organ. It doesn't actually sequence lights by controlled signals. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)

For sequenced lighting, you normally use a controller. Although you can probably simulate something pretty well with a set of christmas lights that have a chaser effect.
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