LED wiring

[Adamo]

I'm doing the Tonebender project and I was wondering if it matters how I wire the LED: using the general wiring diagram or connecting it directly to the LED pads on the pcb?

[Stomptown]

Assuming you are building the madbean tone bender that uses NPN (silicon) transistors you can wire it either way.  If you do not wire the LED to the PCB you should be able to omit R9 (current limiting resistor).  If you connect it directly to the PCB you will still need to connect the pad labeled SW to the lug on the 3PDT switch that you would connect to the cathode of the LED if you wired your led per the general wiring diagram.  I personally wire the LED to the PCB so my wiring is neater; no need to run a second wire to 9V and the current limiting resistor is on the PCB which is always easier than soldering it directly to the annode of the LED. I do this even if I don't mount the LED directly to the PCB (i.e. I will run wires from the LED to the PCB). Hope this helps!

[Adamo]

Edit. I think I figured it out. Thanks!!