Well the Stairville PAR cans are OK. In hindsight, I'd have got for the 3W LED version particularly as they're a bit more feature packed in terms of control. But I made the investment in these and stick with them. The biggest problem I find is a) the XLR's on the DMX sockets can be prone to losing their release clip, b) the cable grip is of poor quality and often comes loose easily, c) most annoying the PCB the LED's are mounted to must also be mounted with rather cheap resistors.
The only thing I can suggest is getting yourself a laptop, a free copy of DMX control and one of the £80 interfaces that are kicking around the Internet. You afforded a lot more control and creativity with a PC than a traditional DMX lighting board and I'd never go back. The sheer amount of plug-ins that manipulate lights leaves you spoiled for choice and inspiration, and the MadMadMatrix plug-in that controls the animation of the vertical bars at the back of the show is my favorite. Experiment!
Do you know what people say when I do a live show or hire? "This looks amazing!", and not once have I heard "This is over kill". You design a few light shows and I'll let you know what I think! :P
I absolutely take your point. You can probably see the glow on the ceiling of the other one on the right hand side. At a gig earlier in the month someone had actually stole the silk flame, and here I was still waiting on a replacement to arrive! Can you believe someone would actually bother to do that?!
About an hour to two hours with each preset, there's about 400 channels of DMX in here in all, so you can imagine making tiny adjustments here and there is going to be very time consuming. It took about eight days in all just to programme. Packing the lot up took six hours alone!
I had a quick look on Google, and to be honest I think they were being discontinued around the time I purchased them 4 years ago. As an alternative, and this is something I've even considered, is arraying 40 flat LED par cans. Essentially, that's all you're looking at. Those vertical panels don't create those patterns themselves, I personally designed those animations in Adobe Photoshop and exported them as BMP's for the MadMaxMatrix plug-in for DMX Control to manipulate.
Я искал видео вашего световое шоу в видео сравнить мусора, но вы не должны есть.Видео и музыка не должна быть синхронизирована, и если это то, что вы ищете пожалуйста, вашу критику в другом месте!
This lot pulls about 6KW if it's all activated at once - about 25 amps. It'll run comfortably from one 32A outlet. Factor in the large strobes, fog machines and floods, it'll pull another 8KW - certainly 32 amps. Most of the LED fixtures are about 30-50W. The whole show is run from 2 x 32A outlets (at 240V) and it's very rarely that everything is actually being used together so it's quite within the load allocated to it.
The entire setup is probably in the region of £16/17,000. Possibly more now given the rate of inflation and taking into consideration all the flight cases, cabling and hardware.
All the truss is fitted with Neutrik Powercons, you can probably see 3 boxes fitted to each 2M length. Each box is fitted with a Powercon out socket. In terms of the DMX data, the signal is fired down the multicore to the stage, into an optical DMX splitter, and four lots of data are sent up each group of truss. A fifth thru output is forwarded onto about 15 fixtures along the floor.
The 2.2 is 1W blue, 1W red and 200mW green. The video doesn't really do it justice but I am considering replacing the red with something brighter. The blue and green elements are very striking, but as red is received least well by the eye the yellows and orange shades don't come out very well when colour mixing.
If you check my other videos you'll see they're inverted up right and hung. Same programmes. It was set up like that mainly because it had to look good when all the moving heads were hung due to limited stage space.
This is a great show! It's upsetting that the Verticolor Panel Bars are discontinued. Do you know something that may be similar to those that are available?
Oh my gosh... Great job dude! You make me so jealous, now I want all your lights.... ;-; I would like to see a preset where everything strobes white with no colour at all :P GREAT JOB!
Guess I should of read first. Anyways, great set up you got here. How much do you usually charge to rent it out? Also how much business would you say you get a month, how many shows? Thanks
Business varies throughout the year, but a few times a month with varying levels of light show. As it's modular, certain light units can be left out of the chain.
Fantastic and very inspiring show. But I'm curious how this is operated. On your DMX software, does each button correspond to one complete scene or are you pressing multiple buttons i.e. one to set overall colour of each scene and another to trigger the moving heads/lasers etc ?
Single buttons... basically to make it as easy as possible so anyone can operate it. Literally ANYONE! I've had 12 year olds play around with it and as long as they turn the last programme off before they put the next one on it's fool proof.
Phil Lee They do indeed both try and run at once... and as you can imagine everything starts to go a bit wild. But it's easily undone with a click tap of the touch screen or click of the mouse as both buttons are highlighted, so you simply depress the button that isn't being used.
Phil Lee It's random in terms of colour and movement... but each different preset has a matching pair; a subtle preset for a slower part of the song like an intro or a verse, and a busier faster preset for a chorus or build up. So each preset can match the dynamics of the song played and the person operating the show can respond to it and make it look as if the lighting is following the music. Each present begins to get more and more intense as you move through them to reflect the way the line up builds through a gig with maybe four acts and the headline act at the end.
+rikzel Where it is all made . I have hundreds of lighting items from CHINA and have very few things go wrong with them . When they do go wrong all I do is send them a short video of what is broken and they send me One Free replacement and I buy spares to have in stock . I have sold over 10,000 PAR LED R12 , G14 , B14 , W14 , 3watt fixtures and have to repair 9 of them . NOT BAD AT ALL ..
+BigHeartedMan65 I know, the only difference between alibaba and American DJ or chauvet or something is the quality check. adj and chauvet won't let anything through, and the more expensive the better the quality check. I myself rather pay €20 more and know it still works after 3 years then save the €20 and may have a early defect.
