can an LED be readily replaced with a small incandescent bulb in a 9v pedal circuit? what would i need to do to replace an led with this bulb?
https://www.interlight.biz/light-bulb/1812
alternatively -- is there a bulb out there that might work better?
Without knowing what this is going in, maybe..
in general yes, remove the resistor along with the LED
That is a rather large bulb and extremely power hungry, a brite LED can easily run at half a milliamp, that bulb's specs say 200ma.
Small Bear has a variety of small bulbs which are much easier on the power then the one you linked.
http://www.smallbearelec.com/servlet/Categories?category=LEDs%2C+Lamps%2C+Fuses&searchpath=26894&start=9&total=21
dave
edit: my spelling sucks
Don't forget that a lamp has a much higher inrush current than steady-state current. For light bulbs, it is about 17 times the current. For tube heaters, it is about 3.5 times the current. The rating on a lamp is for the steady state.
uh... WHY??