so in the end, i made this : https://www.instructables.com/files/orig/FX5/67GS/FLROK12R/FX567GSFLROK12R.gif as audioguru warned me, the leds are kinda dimm, otherwise it works fine. is there a way to make the leds brighter using capacitors or transistors? i would also like to connect two leds in paralel at each ic output, so i would basicly have a 10 step vu with two leds at each step - 20 leds. is that possible?