Betopper LB150 Moving Head Mobile DJ Club Light Master Slave Mode

0:00 You're looking at the Beat Topper LB150

Alright ladies and gentlemen, you're looking at the Beat Topper LB150. My disclaimer, the lights were sent to me for free on the basis that I just used them. The company Beat Topper are not paying me any money and they didn't say you've got to do this, this and this. They just sent me the lights and said Jonathan, use them as you like. Now over there you should be able to see a DMX controller. I'm slowly getting used to that so bear with me. The lights aren't plugged into the DMX controller at the moment. They will be soon. In fact, I've got a very big dance night on soon and we'll have them plugged in then. But they are doing at the moment. The one on the right is picking up sound and the one on the left is slave mode.

So what you've got with these, you've got 12 gobos on a wheel and also you've got, let me have a look how many colours. I think it's 12 as well. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. Yeah, so you've got white, red, green, blue, yellow, orange, rose red, light blue. What's that? Grass green, I think it is. Cyan, 3200k. 5,600k which I presume is a different kind of whiteness which sounds really interesting and bearing in mind again with the two wheels all of the Gobos can of course have any of the colours. Now at the moment it's sound to light and something I just noticed when I plugged them in sound to light now watch this right now you can hear You can hear the motors working and the fans working. I think this is a bloody good feature. I'm now going to make a bit of noise, you can see them moving, you can hear the fans. What I'm going to do now, I'm going to be quiet. What will happen is you should be able to see and hear the lights actually not only just stop, but what they do...

Is you can hear the fans slowing down so of course really what's that that's going to do is save energy and of course uh with the lights not being in use the uh the actual led itself will turn off which means less power less heat and of course uh less stress and strain on the overall fixture so i'm going to shut up now have a listen hold on let's just let it play for a little move around for a little bit more right i'm going to be quiet now believe it or not here we go

2:50 On the lens

That one, by the way, has still got a cover on the lens. I've literally just taken that out of the box. So there you go. Right. OK, so what have we got here? We have got some rather tasty lights. Now, as I've said in previous videos, you know, if we go back sort of 20, 30 odd years, if you were a mobile DJ and you had some moving heads, I mean, you were either a bank robber or a drug dealer or you were very, very rich. On the other hand, now you can get them and they're relatively inexpensive. Now, as I've said time and time again, I need to bang this on to anyone and everyone. If you're minted, I mean literally minted, then go and buy the best moving heads and whatnot. Bugger the expense, just go and buy them. And guess what? After a year or when the warranty runs out, if they break, if something goes wrong, then yes, you can afford to get them fixed.

On the other hand, if you're on a low budget, for God's sake, don't go and buy full-on, you know, high class, really expensive moving heads. Because if you're going to be using them constantly and after the year they break, you're going to have a hefty bill getting them fixed. Alternatively, again with today's technology and everything getting cheaper and cheaper and better and better, what that means is that a light like this, if it goes wrong during the course of the year... Theoretically, you should have a 12-month warranty. If it goes wrong after the year, then you have the option of finding out what's wrong, getting it fixed because it's something that isn't that expensive. Theoretically, the parts shouldn't be that expensive. A little bit like buying a Ferrari and paying a fortune to get it fixed or a Ford and people laughing at you if you say, well, oh shit, I got a Ford. Anyway!

4:58 Moving, select, ground panning

So, what have we got? We have got two LB150s. You have to add a bit of humour. Now, what I like now about today's technology is back in the day you had dip switches. So you basically had a switch... to uh to go through the programs you wanted to select and then you had up and down so you'd say select for example dmx and then you work out the protocol in fact then it was like little dip switches but moving on from that you had four buttons one you'd select what you wanted the certain show then you would select up or down for fast slow medium rare well done you know what i mean and then the last one was press enter and away you went but this one of course now we have a nice little led screen there and it looks good if it's just i mean it's not touch screen but what we can do here we press the top one we can go through the settings now again we can go through run mode

You can have these set up so they're on a totem, so they're facing up as they are now, or of course they're on a light trussing rig, they're facing down. You can have them move fast, move slow, you can have them move at a certain angle, so for example... If, let's say, you've got these in front of you as a DJ on Totems and you don't want to be blinded by the light where you are, you can of course have them facing forward. Or maybe you want them just on the ground so you can set them so they're only panning the ground. You can set them so they're panning fast, they're panning slow. At the end of the day, it's entirely up to you. I've got a simple setup here which is basically... Master, the sound slave and I've got one DMX cable running from one to the other. Now each head will come with its own DMX cable. It will come with a small safety rope as well. Now it's not string, it's metal so of course by law if you're going to be elevating these of any height you have to have them secured.

What else do you get? You get a bracket and you get what I call the destruction manual. So, I'm not going to take that off because it's running, but these are really nice lights. And again, as I said earlier, gone are the days of just your average run-of-the-mill sort of mobile DJ not being able to afford moving heads. You can now, alright? Now, I'm not saying... Absolutely, at all, go out and buy these. What I am saying is that if you're on a budget and, you know, you're looking at maybe moving into moving heads, please don't think I need to spend a thousand pounds on each moving head because you're probably going to be wasting your money. You're better off slowly moving into the moving head kind of lighting.

8:03 Your kit and you've got millions

Testing the water, you know, dipping your little toe into the water, see if you like them, see if they're worth it. Now, again, digressing slightly, but I mean, I can speak from my own personal experience as a mobile DJ for the past 40 odd bloody years. When you come into the trade, you know, you want to be the best. You want to get the best kit. You want to get the best lights because you want to show off. It looks good and you want to be proud behind the decks. Well, let's be honest with you. If you've got a hundred people out there and they look at your kit and you've got millions of speakers and lights, it probably will look nice. It probably look very cluttered, but most... Most of the general public, most of that 100 people would not know a £1000 light from a 50 quid twister. They wouldn't know. All they're interested in is going out, finding someone, doing a dirty whatever, getting drunk and enjoying and dancing. That's it. That's all they want to do. On the other hand, what you could do is invest sensibly and still make the same amount of money. I mean, common sense, isn't it? Alright.

So there will be more on these in the very near future. LED beam, sorry, I'll start again. LED beam, of course, short LB 150 moving head beam. There will be info in the description from a company called Beat Topper. Thank you guys. Don't forget, ladies and gentlemen, carry on watching loads more demos, loads more tutorials. And also... This is the biggie. If you want to see these working, I've got a very big dance night that's going to be happening in the Feathers Aberyron on the 22nd of March 2025. It's known as World Dance. Now, I started this event in the late 90s. It followed through to the early 2000s and it was always rammed. There's hell of a buzz about it. There are four DJs. There's myself.

Playing vinyl, 90s, strictly 90s vinyl. Then a very good friend of mine, Mr Paul Rees, who's going to be playing some Ibiza uplifting classics. Then I have another good friend of mine, Matt Parsons. He's going to be playing some Italian Piano House on vinyl and digital. And then we finish off the night with Matthew Rumbelow playing some effing good drum and bass. Yes. Kicks off at 8 o'clock in the evening, that's in Aberyron in the Feathers Royal Hotel in West Wales. Finishes at 1.30pm, we'll see, we may go a little bit later in the evening. It's £8 on the door, we would love to see you there. Thank you for watching, practice and enjoy. Yeah man!

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