Is there such a thing as a good LED light ?

[DJNutter]

Ok remove Par cans’ from the equation ..(Up lighting and wash they’re great)
I’m talking about effect lights and scanners.
All the lights I’ve seen are not getting me excited... can anyone point me in the direction of an amazing LED effect light?
The worst I have seen are scanners trying to look like a gobo, look like bad patchwork cushions. No the Derby’s aren’t floating my boat either.
Happy to be converted.

Nutter

[DJ Jules]

The american DJ range of effects are the closest I've seen to good LED effects so far, but their claim of their Tri-LED having the same output as a 250w Halogen lamp is stretching the truth a bit:

Aggressor

LED Quest

Sunray

Tri GEM LED

Vertigo Tri-LED

X-Move Plus

X-Scan LED Plus

Note the "Plus" in the last two items where they promise that they're "Up to 30% brighter than the previous versions". So I guess they're catching on

Julian

[Digitalsounds]

in answer to the question

excluding par cans NO there isn't they don't cut it and since when were dots any good

[Pe7e]

Thet've got a long way to go yet before they challenge propper effects, flashing dots just don't do it for me either.

[DJ James Lake]

American DJ make LED based moving heads which produce proper gobos not dots

[Digitalsounds]

indeed and so do show tec but to be honest i would say most ofthese would cost a packet.

They will get there but still early days i think

[DJNutter]

The american DJ range of effects are the closest I've seen to good LED effects so far, but their claim of their Tri-LED having the same output as a 250w Halogen lamp is stretching the truth a bit:

Yeah I know what you mean, I'm just setting up a light show for a 18th and one of my scanners blew a bulb, I slapped a cheepo Soundlab bulb, same watt but wow... It's about 30% less brighter than my quality bulbs

Need to stock up on some more quality bulbs... twice the cost but.. man it really shows !

Lesson learned.. use cheapo bulbs for setup

[DeckstarDeluxe]

sorry but I think there are good led lights

Acme mircaleds and ADJ Mystics for starters. If you got smoke they look great!

YouTube - LED Setup

Yes from the djs point of view looking at all those dots does get annoying but for customers they'll in the large part be impressed.

It takes awhile to get your head around but lighting isnt something the customer looks for in a disco but what most djs do.

[Dynamic Entertainment]

indeed and so do show tec but to be honest i would say most ofthese would cost a packet.

They will get there but still early days i think

Erm.....ADJ X-Scan LED Plus is only £250 ish

[DJNutter]

sorry but I think there are good led lights

Acme mircaleds and ADJ Mystics for starters. If you got smoke they look great!

Yes from the djs point of view looking at all those dots does get annoying but for customers they'll in the large part be impressed.

It takes awhile to get your head around but lighting isnt something the customer looks for in a disco but what most djs do.

Well that is a prime example of what I hate about LED's "if you got smoke" yeah 20% of venues, then swing the camara round and waddya ya get ?

Coloured dots... Woop! do any of them even spin the 'gobos' or dot cluster ?