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Room filling light effect
Seen a few threads about this from a while back but nothing too recent ... so:
I'm looking into "room filling" effects which aren't too big like the revo lights to be mounted in the middle of a T-bar in this configuration:
PAR - Moving Head - ??ROOM FILLER?? - Moving Head - PAR
Currently I'm looking at either a jellydome or a cluster laser (shudder) which I don't personally mind.
Really I want a white light and don't care too much for other colours It'll just be used by itself during slow parts in tracks or to simply give a different effect.
It's got to be DMX, Fill dancefloor (ideally room) and not a huge effect as It's gotta fit in the middle of all those lights.
Having never seen a jellydome I've been interested but not convinced. Are there any better alternatively though?
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I have just bought two of these. They are excellent and at 32w they are very bright and have a 65 degree spread. They work in any of 15 colours including white. The two of them will fill any venue.
http://www.whybuynew.co.uk/lighting-...phase-hp_1.htm
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IMHO Jellydomes are very effective at filling large spaces - I much prefer them to the likes of the dotty Revo (though I've yet to see one tamed with DMX) - but they just look cheap. Where domes win over Revos is they give movement to the light rather than a hypnotic concentric shape effect. If there was some kind of fusion of the two, we might have a winner.
The LED moonflowers I've seen just don't have the same kind of throw as a jellydome or Revo type effect - probably something to do with optics & space limitations
People are doubtless going to chime in with "why not get a Wizard type fixture" but they ain't small or light.
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Originally Posted by
DJColsie
Look good! Might be a little big for what I'm thinking though. I'll have to measure see what I've got to work with as I want to leave it on the T bar
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I have a Jellydome and personally wouldn't recommend it. Not bright enough and unless you DMX it the strobing on the auto programmes come round far too quickly.
I would spent a few more one something like Kam Stratosphere
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I've got two Jellydomes and use them at almost every event. I like them because they do cover a room well and they give a good ambient colour glow too (so I don't usually use pars on my bar) and work well on a slow rotate early in the evening. I do think you need two for anything more than a small room as they don't have a huge number of lenses (unlike the stratospheres). I'd also say you need DMX as they tend to strobe a LOT by themselves.
Double derby (mini Kinta) type effects are also good if you're looking at good room coverage from a single light.
Julian
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Last edited by yourdj; 20-12-2015 at 09:52 PM.
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I don't think you can go wrong with a couple of Revo's. Each to their own and all that but when they are linked and controlled properly they are fine.
The Swarm FX's are good too. They are 3 lights in one and also have the strobe and cluster laser. I don't use the program that has the strobe in it but again, 2 linked together looks pretty good.
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Originally Posted by
DJ Jules
Double derby (mini Kinta) type effects are also good if you're looking at good room coverage from a single light
Thanks for that suggestion - Never really considered those types of lights but it's put me onto the ADJ mini dekker which for £60 and 2x10w LED seems very good value and a nice compact lightweight fixture.
Originally Posted by
yourdj
I just bought two quad phase HP's and properly DMX'd they are excellent. Probably pone of the brightest LED cheaper fixtures and i have a white only setting on them as that gets requested from time to time. Great with haze, they fill an average sized room and are not dots. In terms of a cluster laser, I got the blue Lanta one (hard to get hold of now) and the spread is awesome, with a much classier colour than red and green. I just wish they would bring out a bright white cluster, that would be amazing on DMX.
Indeed, surprised they've not done it already, maybe mixing RGB lasers together is tricky?
Do you dismantle that T-Bar? I remember before you've said about putting the whole lot in a case but that seems like it'd need a big old case!
I have my T-Bar all prewired etc and in a case hence why I want a compact one so it still all fits.
Originally Posted by
Shakermaker Promotions
I don't think you can go wrong with a couple of Revo's. Each to their own and all that but when they are linked and controlled properly they are fine.
The Swarm FX's are good too. They are 3 lights in one and also have the strobe and cluster laser. I don't use the program that has the strobe in it but again, 2 linked together looks pretty good.
I like the look of the Revo, for this lightshow I don't think it'd fit well but If I didn't have the moving heads I'd consider them. I'd no doubt spend hours designing stupid pixel mapping images for them though so maybe best I don't buy any!
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Last edited by yourdj; 21-12-2015 at 06:35 PM.
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