This sounds like a nightmare - so much studio equipment now uses LEDs in
arrays of greens to indicate normal levels and reds to indicate the
levels are peaking or are overall too high, or even colour LCD displays
etc that replicate the older hardware ... and most audio software
pacakages tend to try to replicate the hardware too.
I.m not sure colour detection equipment is going to help in a practical
studio-based setting. I guess with hardware, unless someone wants to get
busy with a soldering iron replacing the LEDs for ones with different
colours (!) the filtered lighting / filtered glasses idea just to
establish some kind of contrast between the two colours must be worth
trying and also ensure equipment has alternative methods of displaying
data e.g. on an analog or digital level/db meter.
on computer I guess you'll have already tried screen masking / colour
tinting software to see if that might help?
If it's Logic on his own computer it does appear there can be some
hacking into the various gui colours so there might be something in here
- earlier version of logic but might still be worth exploring:-
http://www.logicprohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=97685
Not practical if he has to use it in the studio though, unless someone
can device a small app or macro that changes the colours then sets them
back to standard afterwards.
Ian Francis
On 28/07/2015 16:29, Kevin Brunton wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've received a a query that's completely new to me so I'm hoping that
> someone out there might be able to comment. I've copied the query
> exactly as it was explained to me:
>
> "The student has a red green deficiency which is effecting his ability
> to distinguish LEDs on studio equipment. He struggles to discern if
> equipment is on or off and if LED signals are going into the red. This
> also applies to Logic software where distorting signal paths are
> indicated with red. I don’t think these red alerts in Logic can be
> colour customised.
>
> This also effects him in the environment at large which is increasingly
> using red green or tonally similar alerts, eg, Oyster card tapping (when
> wearing headphones which cancel out the additional audio alert) and even
> if the locks use red, green switching (similar to those sometimes found
> on toilet doors)".
>
> If anyone has any ideas for tackling this issue then they would be
> gratefully received.
>
> Thanks
>
> Kevin Brunton
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