unclesam93
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tl;dr, music synced LEDs run off dual splitter with 5.1 logitech speakers, reducing quality in sound
Hey everyone, I'm new to the site and hope to get a lot out of it.
I followed some instrucatables on how to make LEDs that are synced to music. Everything works as planned and its extremely cool. However, I use it with 5.1 logitech speakers with a 3.5mm headphone splitter on my laptop with one audio jack going to the breadboard that has the LED circuit on it and the other jack goes to the speakers. The sound quality gets reduced a bit. It isn't THAT bad, but the moment I take out the jack for the LEDs, the quality improves. (The left and right rear stop working, yet they are never usually loud in the first place, but I do notice a reduction in quality with the front speakers.)
I tested it with playing a song, running the speakers, and instead of having the LEDs plugged in, I plugged in some normal ear buds. This also reduced the quality. So I'm guessing it has something to do with the splitter? Any advice on how to improve this?
thanks!
Hey everyone, I'm new to the site and hope to get a lot out of it.
I followed some instrucatables on how to make LEDs that are synced to music. Everything works as planned and its extremely cool. However, I use it with 5.1 logitech speakers with a 3.5mm headphone splitter on my laptop with one audio jack going to the breadboard that has the LED circuit on it and the other jack goes to the speakers. The sound quality gets reduced a bit. It isn't THAT bad, but the moment I take out the jack for the LEDs, the quality improves. (The left and right rear stop working, yet they are never usually loud in the first place, but I do notice a reduction in quality with the front speakers.)
I tested it with playing a song, running the speakers, and instead of having the LEDs plugged in, I plugged in some normal ear buds. This also reduced the quality. So I'm guessing it has something to do with the splitter? Any advice on how to improve this?
thanks!