WLED Studio Lights
June 2025
Tags: recording-studio, tech

I got LED tube lights from www.superbrightleds.com. The lights were great- bright, dimmable, well diffused, and provided a solid warm white channel with colors when desired. However the controller I also got from them really sucked. When looking for a better controller, I turned to a QuinLED An-Penta-Deca for analog LEDs running WLED.
WLED is super cool software, but there was a lack of subtle sound-reactive effects that look good with analog/non-addressable LEDs. I wrote my own with several parameters of control ( github ). The microphone used is an INMP441 and the reactivity works well from low to high volumes. I also made a guitar pedal switch to control the lights.

