American DJ LED Beacon blue
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Alright folks, some history on lighting first of all. Now many years ago when I started DJing we didn't have much of a choice of lighting effects. In fact, you know, if you're a mobile DJ you didn't have much money. You were lucky to have a mirror ball, a pin spot, some fan lights and if you were very lucky you'd have a load of power cans. But one light a lot of DJs aspire to was something called a fuzz light. Now first of all, if you don't know what I'm all about... Let's think about a police car. If you look on the top of a police car, you'll see quite often a light that will be moving around like so. Well, how that works? You have a bulb in the centre, you have a mirror and the mirror will move around the bulb. What basically happens is the light from the bulb hits the mirror and then it bounces off the mirror and points in that direction. So that's why you can see it going around.
Now a DJ many years ago would have one or two of those, and we always wanted the blue ones so we were like the police. But the trouble is the bulbs always went and they got, well they didn't get boiling but they did get warm. Now we've got these guys here. That is known as the LED beacon. It's got six, alright some spec for you first. It's got six operation modes, seven speeds, 56 LEDs, a 30 degree beam angle. And theoretically, if you look after it, that's the important thing. If you look after it, it will last for 50,000 hours. Underneath it, you've got all your switches so you can set it. You can set it to just have one running around, two, you can have them all on, you can have it moving fast, slow. The only thing it won't do for you is probably feed the cat but it'll do a lot of other things. Now this is the sort of thing you could just stick
To the side of you, and it's a nice effect. It's a bit of a feature. It's not all singing, it's not all dancing, but in my eyes I've been DJing for a long time and I do like this sort of effect. Practice and enjoy.
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