Our implementation of a Poor Man’s Light Show consists of an input from any audio source through the ‘Line In’ port on the Altera DE2 board. With this audio signal we separate the signal into its various frequency components and use these specific frequency ranges to turn on corresponding Light Emitting Diodes. This can then be scaled up at a later time to include actual stage lightning equipment. Our algorithm is one that tries to mimic the visually intense lighting sequences, which typically are designed by a sound engineer, that you would normally see at a concert. The Light Show was designed to be fully portable as for one to be able to take the Altera DE2 and the LED external circuit to any environment which could supply a ‘Line Out’ audio source which could be tapped into our system