Show your light setup

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Show your light setup

Hello everyone,
I am looking to buy some lights for some gigs, and I was just wondering if you. Could post a picture of your light setup so I could get some ideas thnx :slight_smile:

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So. This is my full setup, except instead of the bar, I usually have two cans.
So we have:
Claw (tri) light, bar (or cans) but the bar is AMAZING! , a red green laser in the one unit. And a strobe on the left on the table.

I also have my two pa speakers, sub underneath the table, and grooupies :smiley:
Oh and me :stuck_out_tongue:

Edit: HOW COULD I FORGET MY SMOKE MACHINE!?! :open_mouth:. That also.

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takes me a while to set it up

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Thanks heaps bro, u helped me out with the speakers in my other thread and now u helped me with lights, u really are a great person for helping me

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I bet that does take a while to setup:wink:

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Im at work and cant post new pics, but here is a link to my old setup but my lights are the same

Chauvet Facade
LEDShadow under the controller
Scorpion Storm Fx
with Obey 70

nothing special, but its fun :smiley:

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I don’t have pictures, but I’ll try and get some on NYE. I’m Running a pair of American DJ megabar 50’s and a pair of Chauvet Q-Spot 260’s. It’s minimal, but looks very classy, as it’s simple… though I could always use a couple more intelligent lights. That being said…

KEEP IT SIMPLE!
Granted, if your budget doesn’t allow, do what you can, but tons of guys make the mistake of getting a bunch of budget lighting. For a little more than you spend on 6 cheap lights, you can get a couple of really good intelligent lighting fixtures (scanners or moving heads). 2 of those and a few wash lights are always going to look better than a truss full of effect lights. A properly DMX programmed show looks classy and tasteful, while effect lighting generally looks like someone vomited a truck full of skittles all over the dance floor in the form of light.

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Dude how come those girls look 13

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I have one strobe that I take to most of my parties. The special thing about it is that I’ve modifed it to accept the fader-start action from the mixer xfader.
Then I cut-trigger strobe in a different rythm.

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HOW!?! Would be very interested in a build log or instructions for something like that. I need a controller of mine, but I’m too stingy to buy one.

@kave, it was an 18th birthday party, but I think the girls on the right are just short :stuck_out_tongue:

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i just glove after im done djing

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I have inserted a 5V optocoupler in place of the trigger-signal flow.

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I believe that 1/4" jack is triggered by 12V signal. You should gogole the exact model. It very well could be that by varying the voltage on that input, you can get different strobing speeds. If so, it should still accept 5V fader-start signal. [if you are testing it, please use some old, disposable mixer, I wouldn’t wanna be held responsible for anything]

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Sorry for the derail…

So hypothetically, I could get an RCA out to 1/4" jack from a mixer (running music?) and then plug the jack into the strobe, and play with the cross fader… It should strobe?

Edit:
Even more to the point, would it be possible to have a separate box containing a button and a 5 or 9v power supply, and when you press the button, it completes the circiuit… Making a “pulse” or would that be too long?

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Alhough, with my mod, that too worked for me (in a very brief test, with lowpass filter on a hedphone-preamplified output) I was talking about fader start, not RCA/main/cue output.

This second option would be more feasible. You could most probably run it if a 9V battery for increased portability (maybe event that tiny 12V).
Again, depending on the model of your strobe, and purpose of that 1/4" input.

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Cheers. I might play around with some stuff later these holidays and see I I can get this to work :smiley:

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That girl standing next to u is hot, how was the after party :wink: