American DJ LED Messenger What can it do?

0:00 It's the LED Messenger from American DJ

Alright folks, another video for you on this guy here. It's the LED Messenger from American DJ. Now Brian Estrade in the States has done one quality in-depth video on it so what I'm going to do is I'm going to bung that as a video response underneath this video so go and check it out. Now first of all, for all you actual tech heads out there, this is what this guy can do. Alright, features, create and edit 15 phrases, 30 characters letters per phrase. 10 factory install editable phrases, 5 empty phrase slots, 16 program patterns, flash strobe rate control, phrase scroll and program speed control, built-in microphone, DMX512 protocol, 3 DMX channels, standalone or master slave configuration, 4 operating modes, select run program or phase, auto mode, sound activated or DMX control, coffee demo test. That could be all crepe suzette.

First of all, there you go. What does that actually mean in English? I'll explain. Right, we've got a whole bunch of actual programmed messages in here. For example, the likes of happy birthday, happy Christmas, happy Halloween, that sort of stuff, etc. But what you can actually do, you can put your own little wording in there. So let's say for example, I don't know, let's say Aunty Megan turns up and she's going... Could you say happy birthday to Dorothy who's 103? Well, you better do it quickly before she drops dead. But you can actually put happy birthday Dorothy and there you go. And then within, theoretically, when you get used to using it, within a minute or so, you can have happy birthday Dorothy scrolling across the wall and she'll probably be able to crook her neck and just about see if she's got her glasses on.

1:48 You can have it scrolling fast, you can have it scrolling quite slowly

But what you can also do, you can have it flashing. You can have it scrolling fast, you can have it scrolling quite slowly. But don't panic because it's not just a messenger, it's also just a basic light as well. So in other words, you can use it as a normal disco light as such. Alright, DMX, what does that mean? Well, you can fit this, plug this into a DMX controller so you will have control of it through a DMX controller. What does master-slave mean? Well, let's say you've got two of them. You can have this one plugged into another one by using an XLR cable. So, for example, this one, say, will be master, the other one will be slave. So what that means is that the microphone on the master one will pick up the sound and then it will work the two of them together. So there you go, master-slave. What else have we got on there if I can explain? I checked that all over there, didn't I?

3:15 5 empty phrase slots

Right, what have we got? Built-in microphone. I've explained that. There's a microphone in there so in other words when let's say for example you're in a disco environment, a nightclub environment and you don't want to use an actual DMX controller this guy here will pick up the sound from around or it'll pick up the sound from the speakers and it will flash according to that. Okay, what else have we got here? Flash strobe rate control. In other words you can get it to flash, you can get it to flash quite fast or slowly. 5 empty phrase slots. In other words, you can put your own phrases in there as well. 10 factory installed editable phrases. So in other words, it's already got 10 phrases in there, like I said, the happy birthday etc. Right, you can create and edit 15 phrases, 30 characters, letters per phrase. So in other words, you can create 15 of your own phrases.

Alright, four operating modes. Select run program or phrase. You've got auto mode, sound activated or DMX control. Alright, there you go. Now hopefully I've given you maybe a tiny bit more of an insight into this particular guy. Now over a period of time we'll be going slightly more in depth. I'll be taking it to gigs, I'll be giving it demos and also I'll be showing it people, see what they think. Now also, there's this little thing here. Now it's not a tail. This here is the pickup for the actual control unit. Now what I do like about this is, let's say for example, that is hung up on a light trussing rig somewhere and you don't have to touch it, you can just use this, you can program it and you can get a little message coming through. It's quite cool. Also what you can do is you can plug in a keyboard into it as well.

Second video, a little bit of an insight. And by the way, there was a guy out there who wanted his name in lights. So if I just put that like that and I go up here. Shit. So there you go my friend, your name's in lights. Practice and enjoy.

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