How many lights?

[Corabar Steve]

No no advice required, just a question.

You're working in a room around 8-10 ft wide by 20ish ft long. How many lights would you use?

[Andy Collins]

1 wizard extreme.

[Creature]

probally 1x star cluster - for coverage

then poss 2 x quad flower - have them set to fill the room

[Jim - Scotland's Party DJ]

Couple of jelly domes and KAM gobolaser.

[Shaun]

1xpowerbar

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

1 wizard extreme.

Agreed. Quality not quantity. With one controlled Wizard, you can do exactly what you want.

[DeckstarDeluxe]

Two EFX 600s or if I was to buy equipment to suit more than likely go with one of the parbar products.

[Excalibur]

1xpowerbar

A perfectly suitable solution. Or the two moonflowers I have. Or two EFX500s. From your description Steve, it's not a big room, so wouldn't need a lot.

The audience/type of function has a bearing also. Powerbar is probably the most versatile option, added to which, if there's little or no ambient lighting, you're covered. I've lit large halls with only a Powerbar before, no problem.

[chrisj]

Pair of Martin Acrobats.

[DJ Jules]

Pair of Martin Acrobats.

More than one? :D

Agree with the above, quality not quantity. I've done a 16th before in a venue that was a similar size, but I didn't know anything about in advance. I took 2 x Jellydomes, 2 x Cougars, 2 x LED Mirror scanners and a small cluster laser. Luckily I had all the fixtures under DMX control as with everything on it just looked a royal mess! Under DMX control it gave me loads of different effects to play with and on average I had between 2 and 3 fixtures on at any given time.

Julian

[Sapphire Disco]

Three 1x EFX600 and 2x Colour changers on the ceiling.

[lazersounds]

Thats a small room! x2 par 56 LED and probably a magic gobo would do the job

[BeerFunk]

I'd imagine one or two lighting fixtures would suffice, but would need to know what type of gig it is to give any sort of answer. All of the above answers could be wrong!

[Corabar Steve]

OK let's add some more i nfo into the mix.

It's a pub gig.

[paulg]

OK let's add some more i nfo into the mix.

It's a pub gig.

What difference does that make? Is 8-10 ft wide by 20ish ft long a different size in a pub?

[BeerFunk]

What difference does that make? Is 8-10 ft wide by 20ish ft long a different size in a pub?The difference is in the audience. You wouldn't take the same lighting to a 21st as you would a wedding, for example, would you?

In answer to the question, well, that's about the size of my living room, so I'd be happy to take a single Revo Burst. I would have something else there as backup though.

[ukpartydj]

I'd go for 3 uplighters behind me and one energetic "disco light" (equinox triclops would be my choice).

[chrisj]

I was in a pub last night for a surprise 21st booked by the landlady. I had a 2m x 1m white starcloth wrapped around the deck on the stand and a pair of tripods with 1.5m triangular bar across with a pair of Martin Acrobats controlled by MC1 and an ADJ mega tripar sound to light in the centre lighting the ceiling.
21st birthday girl said it was great together with the almost constant mixing of music tracks from 90's to date.

Plenty of light as the Acrobats are all round effect with multi gobos and colours.

[paulg]

The difference is in the audience. You wouldn't take the same lighting to a 21st as you would a wedding, for example, would you?

In answer to the question, well, that's about the size of my living room, so I'd be happy to take a single Revo Burst. I would have something else there as backup though.

Eh? Personally, I go with wizards and DMX them accordingly - older end do's - slower panning settings. Younger end - faster pan / rotation. Although they have been on the market for years now, there is nothing to top the flexibility of the wizard. For a room of the size quouted, 1 high monted wizard along with a couple of uplighters would be adequate for any occasion .

[Corabar Steve]

Are there a lot of pubs around your way with high ceilings then Paul?

[paulg]

Are there a lot of pubs around your way with high ceilings then Paul?

Ah, so it's a pub with a low ceiling. You should have said so.

Not that I do many little pubs but of the ones where I might have a pint, some have low ceilings and some have high ones and some are just right. A room is a room.

[Corabar Steve]

OK, time to reveal all.

It's a room that I have done gigs in literally hundreds of times. The vast majority of which have been with one light (Acme Hallucination) or 2 / 3 DMX controlled (a par & an Acme InvincibLED (x2 on special occasions) ) on my uprights / cross bar, sometimes with a tiny bit of haze other than my e-cigs. Darren, Ian(8Limelight) Charlie (Brown), Jason & Lee have all been in the room concerned, everyone except Darren when we've had one of our rigs in opperation & will know than anything more is really overkill.


I had cause to be there socially the other week & I actually felt nauseous when I turned the corner into the area concerned. I was assaulted with a barrage of dots from various (at least 5 or 6) LED fixtures all doing their own sound to light thing, a par & small cluster laser. None of these were on stands. Some were on the floor others on various shelves (that they didn't quite fit on) around the room. As you can imagine, nothing was secured to anything, as there was no means to do so.


Thing is he was an OK DJ, although there wasn't much dancing (possibly down to the fact that nobody wanted to stay in the dancefloor area for longer than they had to for fear of having a fit, or possibly down to the fact he wasn't playing the sort of stuff that has traditionally gone down well at that venue), but somebody really needs a word with him about the lights.