New setup

[Imagine]

OK - I'm a year into my big comeback now....things are going well (better than expected) and the confidence has grown to the stage that I'm now more than comfortable with weddings. My rig, however is not.

I'm not, and never will be a wedding specialist (I prefer to tackle ALL types of party for a bit of variety....possibly why I have a shipping container full of kit)

However....I have three times the number of weddings booked this year as I did last (and it's only January), and I'm looking to create a classy wedding rig if that makes sense. The objective being to be simple and effective (i.e. less is more).

I've just obtained some very nice 1m and 1.75m trussing at a more than reasonable price The plan being to spray it white to match my all new singing and dancing booth which is dressed in white with a star cloth behind it, and obviously uplight it.

My thinking is to use the 1m trusses next to the booth with TriLED Spherions on it for the old fasioned mirror ball effect (look good where haze is allowed too!)

I'd like to put moving heads on the taller ones which will stand behind the rig to give a little colour wash to the floor....it's here where I'm stuck. I don't have a massive budget to work with at the moment and I've been looking at the Equinox Fusion 50's to do the job.

Does anyone have any experience of these ones? How bright they are etc....

All comments and ideas more than welcome

[DJ Jules]

Equinox Fusion 50's to do the job. Does anyone have any experience of these ones? How bright they are etc....

The short answer is "Very bright". I was going to suggest looking at the Stagg Headbangers as these are pretty much the same fixture, but it turns out the prices are now the same as well

My thinking is to use the 1m trusses next to the booth with TriLED Spherions on it for the old fasioned mirror ball effect (look good where haze is allowed too!)

Just to point out that if you're looking to get a good clear white, you need the White Spherions as the TriLED versions don't overlay the colours cleanly so you'll get three coloured spots on the walls, not white.

One other comment... if you've bought 29cm square truss the Fusion 50's are going to look a little lost on top of it. These fixtures are quite small.

[Benny Smyth]

One other comment... if you've bought 29cm square truss the Fusion 50's are going to look a little lost on top of it. These fixtures are quite small.

I was just about to say something similar. I'd probably look at something bigger, or maybe go a different way and choose a different style of fixture. I've seen setups that have just two plinths with uplighters and a Spherion on each, and it looks nice enough.

[dicky]

How do the Fusion 150s compare with the Fusion 50s? There only seems to be about £40 difference in the price

Rich

[DJ Jules]

How do the Fusion 150s compare with the Fusion 50s? There only seems to be about £40 difference in the price

Rich

Larger chassis and one has 12 x 12W LED's and the other has 7 x 8W LED's (144w vs 56w with the same 40 degree beam angle).

I haven't seen the 150 in operation, but I'd expect it to be crazy bright!!

Julian

[Imagine]

OK- lots of money spent today then

The trusses are 23cm triangular, so the moving heads are going to look a little lost.....we shall see (went for the Headbangers in the end).
I've also just invested in four of the Chauvet wedges to uplight them.

Haven't got the Spherions yet...the jury's still out on those and at the moment I'm tempted for this weekend at least to try them out with my pair of Jellydomes on the front podiums. The bit I like about the tri-colour ones is that they have a couple of effects in them rather than just spinning around. I think I'm going to need to go over to my local supplier and see them in the flesh before I commit to those.

Got a 60th birthday this weekend in a nice hotel....might have to treat them to the wedding rig so that I can get a few photo's and start promoting it to recoup some of the cash

[dicky]

Larger chassis and one has 12 x 12W LED's and the other has 7 x 8W LED's (144w vs 56w with the same 40 degree beam angle).

I haven't seen the 150 in operation, but I'd expect it to be crazy bright!!

Julian

I didn't probably phrase the question well, I meant how do they compare in real terms rather than the spec

If this is a logarithmic scale they should be somewhat brighter rather than 3x as bright, for the extra £40 per unit - which still sounds like good value.

Though my gut feeling is if you are gonna spend the money then you will most likely only spend it once so may as well go with the more powerful ones for an extra 25%-ish cost. Is that about right?

Rich

[Benny Smyth]

OK- lots of money spent today then

The trusses are 23cm triangular, so the moving heads are going to look a little lost.....we shall see (went for the Headbangers in the end).
I've also just invested in four of the Chauvet wedges to uplight them.

Haven't got the Spherions yet...the jury's still out on those and at the moment I'm tempted for this weekend at least to try them out with my pair of Jellydomes on the front podiums. The bit I like about the tri-colour ones is that they have a couple of effects in them rather than just spinning around. I think I'm going to need to go over to my local supplier and see them in the flesh before I commit to those.

Got a 60th birthday this weekend in a nice hotel....might have to treat them to the wedding rig so that I can get a few photo's and start promoting it to recoup some of the cash

Are you still going to paint the plinths white?

[Imagine]

Are you still going to paint the plinths white?

Not at the moment. They're in fairly good nick (might actually give 'em a polish and laquer them). I think being silver they'll probably have a better effect with the wedges in them....white might make them look a little tacky, especially if the paint gets chipped.

[Benny Smyth]

Not at the moment. They're in fairly good nick (might actually give 'em a polish and laquer them). I think being silver they'll probably have a better effect with the wedges in them....white might make them look a little tacky, especially if the paint gets chipped.

In my humble opinion, good decision (although I would still have been interested to see how they turned out)!

If it helps, I use silver gaffer tape to permantly tape my IEC and DMX cables to the ladders of my plinths. Easier on the cables than cable ties and and since it's silver, nobody is the wiser. Really helpful for a quicker setup too.