Adj, American DJ Pinspot LED . Video 2

0:00 Now this is my second video on something as simple as a mirror ball

Alright folks, now this is my second video on something as simple as a mirror ball. Now a lot of people, what they'll do, they'll have a pin spot and they'll put it about four foot away from the mirror ball and then they'll just leave it. But did you know there is so much more you can do in a mirror ball? Now this guy here is a pin spot LED and it's a lot different from the old school pin spots I used to use. Which used a light bulb that used to blow, I mean it used to stop working every five minutes and you couldn't like just fix it. You had to take it out, put another one in that cost near enough exactly the same price as buying a new unit. So LED technology basically, you know, you're laughing because things like this will last one hell of a long time. Now theoretically what a DJ used to do years ago

1:25 How you can get a slightly

Let's say where the camera is, mirror ball there. I mean if I move back now as follows like that, they used to shine there. I don't know if you can see. Hopefully you'll get a general idea. So of course there maybe you'll start to see pins of light. But, I mean here's the deal. Nine times out of ten a DJ would have the light shining at the mirror ball, say like I said earlier, you know four or five foot away. But, what I'm going to do now is pause the camera and show you how you can get a slightly different effect by having something like this a little bit closer. So, pause the camera, hold on. Okay, now first off this is quite difficult to do because I'm trying to point the light at the pin spot and hopefully you can see it as well. But you can only see, alright, you can only see say at one time 6, 7, 8 pins of light. Now if you imagine not...

100s, but just 6 or 7 pins of light moving around the room. In a sense, even though it's only a small effect, it's slightly different as opposed to... I'll pause the camera again. Right, if I show you something like that, where you've got loads of them. Now, again, what you have to understand is that the mirror ball, you know, 9 times out of 10, a DJ would have the mirror ball moving. What he or she would have is a little motor Above the mirror ball, a small chain and that motor would move very slowly making the mirror ball itself move slowly in turn making the pins of light move around the room. Now I do have some motors but haven't attached any at the moment. Let's have a look at this guy again, the pin spot itself. Now it comes with two lenses. Now there's a reason for that but first of all let me explain something about...

2:51 Basic torch

Now let's look at a basic torch. Now what we class as a torch here in the UK is one of those handheld things, couple of batteries in it, you know, you can see outside in the dark so you don't trip over the dog and stuff like that. Now imagine you've got a wall here and the torch right next to the wall. Now two things, one is you'll only have a small area of light and also the intensity of light will be very, very strong. As you move the torch away, two things happen. One is that the light area or should I say the area where the light is starts to grow. Also, the light intensity starts to go lower. In other words, it starts to dim. Now the whole reason for having two lenses is let's say for example you need the pin spot close to the mirror ball. You'll use one lens.

Then, let's say if you need to have the pin spot further away, you use another one. Very simple. Alright, video number two on, in a sense, the mirror ball and this guy here. Practice and enjoy.

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