Betopper LB150 Moving Head Whats in the Box

0:01 The company that sent me these lights have not paid me for this review

Alright ladies and gentlemen, first things first. My disclaimer. The company that sent me these lights have not paid me for this review. This is of course the first video. They basically sent me the lights and they said do what you want. So the company's called Beat Topper. There will be info in the description. And what I like about YouTube is you can do what you want when you want. You can just upload... Any content whatsoever, so long as of course it's not offensive, it doesn't abuse anyone and the usual. I mean, in other words, just use common sense really. Now, Beat Topper have sent me a couple of moving heads. Again, they sent them to me for free. They are not paying me in any monetary way for me to upload any sort of content. They basically sent me the likes and gone, Jonathan...

Get on with it. And I'm going to do just that. So as random as I am, and you know I'm pretty random quite often, I'm in the hall in my house. Here is the box and I'm going to do an unboxing right in front of you in the hall at about 7.30 in the evening on a Sunday. So I have a knife and I'm going to open the box. Yeah, the reason I haven't been doing many videos recently is because I have been a little bit busy and I've had a bit of a break but expect a lot more. And the video I did at the casino, I don't know if you saw that, that was the last one I believe I uploaded, it was a casino in Swansea. Now again, the only reason I did a small amount of content there was, again, use... Pure logic, it's a casino and they don't like having video footage because of course there's a lot of people there betting money and they don't really want to be seen on video. But I did have a couple of the Beat Toppers Diamond Eye and I like those because they're small, they're moving heads but what I do like about the, sorry, the Demon Eye, beg your pardon, not Diamond Eye, the Demon Eye, I think I said demon, or did I say diamond? Anyway, the Demon Eye, what I like about them...

2:38 It was the light punching through the smoke, giving such a wonderful e

It's because the light in itself is eye candy. Generally with moving heads you have a beam coming out of the head and of course 99% plus, nearly 100% of the effect is the image it gives on the wall. Sad to say a lot of venues in the UK won't allow you to use smoke and really my mind, please agree or disagree in a comment. Back in the day when you could use smoke in a venue, that was the main feature. It was the light punching through the smoke, giving such a wonderful effect. Sadly now in a lot of nightclubs and venues I work in, you're not allowed to have any smoke. People aren't even allowed to vape in there, so you've got nothing. All you've got really is the image on the wall, which means that a lot of companies now have got to up the game to try and get a greater image. Anyway, enough said, so let's...

Ellaskins, The DJ Tutor Open them up and let's have a look, see what we get. Now in this video I mean I might plug it in but bearing in mind I don't have a DMX controller. I'm going to get one as I've said time and time again you know if you're gonna have a moving head really it's a good idea to have a DMX controller. It's a little bit like having I suppose A DJ controller and not using the software along with a DJ controller. It'll work, you know, you can play your MP3s if you've got a USB port, but to bring it to life, you should highly recommend you download or use the software that's supposed to be used with the controller and then all the features are there. Pretty much the same with any kind of modern day light moving head, etc. It will turn on, it'll flash, it'll do all kinds of stuff, but to get the best effect you've got to have a DMX controller. Alternatively, because the next best thing is master-slave and if they have a sound-to-light feature then the master will pick up the sound, pass the information on to the slave and they should do the same image or

5:16 This is basically like a safety chain

Opposite, depending of course on how you integrate the internal workings. In other words, the small little controller on it. So what have we got? Alright, the manual. Okay, now I like this already because what they've got there is this small, it's not really a clip, but what you've got here is this now is highly recommended for the UK and beyond. So this is basically like a safety chain. Now I believe in the UK by law any moving head or any light for that matter that you're flying, it hasn't got wings, it's the term used when you have lighting high up in the ceiling, has to have some kind of extra safety device. Now of course it comes with This bracket here where you can attach it to some kind of lighting rig, but that's not good enough because you see it could move. It's a moving head so over time if it's not tight enough it's going to start to move. That's why you need one of those because in the event which may happen once a year in every single venue in the UK, maybe, I don't know, do some research.

If one of them falls, it's not going to land on someone's head. You don't want litigation. OK, what else have we got here? That's the bottom. Right, OK, so we've got a warranty card and it's very well packaged. And I have a Speakon, sorry, start again, a PowerCon connector. Now, a lot of the lights I'm getting from Beat Topper now have got these. As opposed to the, what I call a kettle lead, is a kettle lead is easily pulled out by Mr. and or Mrs. Public. On the other hand, the PowerCon is a little bit more difficult. Yes, it can be pulled out, but let's be honest, if you're watching this video, you know pretty much a lot about DJing and you should know how to push twist. You need to pull the metal bit at the top and twist back. If you don't pull that, no matter how much you twist it, it's not going to come out. So this is a great feature for Mr. and Mrs. Public who have no idea what they're doing. And if you haven't got some idiot trying to turn your light off, they're not going to be able to because they won't know how to. Marvelous. Right. Okay. So let's take it out. What else have we got here? Ah, of course.

7:34 What else have we got in here?

We have got our XLR and quite short but of course you should have a whole bunch anyway and I think the reason for this, pure logic, if you're going to have two or three hanging or four, you know, ideally you're going to have them pretty close. So let's take this out, bad boy, and have a look. Okay what else have we got in here? We've just got the rest Should be, it should be good quality. And there it is. So we've got a little bit of plastic covering on the lens to keep that in good condition. We have our power con in, which is blue. The white one is like a master slave. So what you can do here, basically it's like a link system. So if you've only got one power con in, get yourself a bunch of white to, sorry, white to blue, beg your pardon.

And then of course you can go from white out from head one into blue in of head two, white out of head two, blue into head three and so on. Now there's definitely going to be an amount that you can get to but of course that should be in the description. So don't start putting 20 of them in one go because I mean at the end of the day... You're going to be running them from one 13 amp fuse, so of course look in the destruction manual. And on the other side that's what I like to see a nice by the looks of it LCD screen and you have your regular controls, you've got one button there to go through the settings, you have up and down to choose the settings and then okay to confirm the settings so pretty straightforward now i would hazard a guess to say that yes you can use this by itself you know and what i'm going to do in video two is we're going to be plugging it in now i can see here a small tiny what looks like some holes uh there's

10:44 You may want the moving head to run quite fast

One, two, three, four, five of them. And I would say that that is going to be a microphone. Now if I bring this a little bit closer, there it is. So there's your LCD screen. That top button there is going to be where you can run through the programs up and down and okay. So the reason we've got the programs up and down and okay is for example, you may want to Change the angle of the tan, the tan, I nearly said the tan in the pilt. Oh dear, I'm trying to be a cunny fun now, aren't I? Anyway, just think about that one. So for example, pan and tilt. You may want, for example, to have a small pan but a large tilt. So of course you can go into the workings, the settings. And you can choose. You may want the moving head to run quite fast. You can do that here. Slow, you can do that here. Let's say you want this on a podium and you want it to, say, turn not horizontally, vertically. You just want it to turn around like that. Well then you can set that. Alternatively again, if you're hanging this...

Then, there's no point having it moving around. You want it pointing down. So of course, all that can be done in the settings. But again, as I did say at the beginning of the video, if you've got yourself a DMX controller, then you should be able to have all singing and all dancing. Okay, so there it is. There's the manual. There it is. LB150. So this is video number one. It looks rather good and I'm going to have lots of fun with this. Now, again, it's from a company called Beat Topper. I have used a lot of their lights and I have to admit, so far, so good. Now, a lot of people say, again, sort of a disclaimer, you know, how come, Jonathan, you never do any bad reviews? Well, it's very simple. The reason you never see any bad reviews...

12:28 Again with Beat Topper, very simple

It's because if I get a piece of kit sent and I don't think it's any good, don't get me wrong, you know, I'm not the be-all and end-all. There'll probably be a hundred people saying the product, the same one as I've had, is fantastic. But if I personally don't think it's any good, then I won't review it. I would prefer to not review something instead of reviewing it and just wiping the floor with it because it doesn't do anyone any good. What's the point? All I'm doing is wasting your time by you watching some content where someone at the end of it is going to go, don't bother buying it, it's a load of crap. On the other hand, if I have a product and I think it's bloody good, of course I'll review it.

Now again with Beat Topper, very simple. They make good quality stuff at affordable prices. So 20 or 30 years ago a moving head came out and it was an absolute bloody fortune. Nowadays you can get moving heads for peanuts but then of course what are peanuts? Who eats peanuts? Monkeys! So if you're going to be a monkey you might as well get peanuts and get crap. On the other hand Beat Topper I feel what they're doing is they're in that intermediate. Guess what? We're going to make some good products, affordable, that will last. And again, I need to drill this into you. Now, this is pure, pure logic, right? Trust me, pure logic. And I know you'll agree. If you don't agree, put it in a comment, let me know. And believe me, I'll read your comment and I'll say, yeah, I get it or maybe not. But let's say you spend...

A thousand pounds, euros or dollars on one moving head. Now it could be brilliant. It could be 10 times better than this. But here's the deal. If it say breaks after 18 months or two years, then potentially you could be left with a very large bill to get it fixed. On the other hand, if you had a thousand euros, pounds, dollars and you bought, say for example, four moving heads. and something went wrong after say a year or a year and a half you've got two options one is to use that for parts for the other one or the other option is to maybe sell it cheap throw it away I don't know your choice but you see the beauty all right the beauty about mid price is if it goes wrong during the year okay of course like with more expensive stuff

You're, I believe, it depends again where you are around the world, but you should be in your legal rights to either get a new unit or get it fixed. But, you're spending £1,000 on something that goes wrong after a year, it's going to cost you a lot more to get it fixed. You're spending say £250 on something and say it malfunctions after a year and a half, theoretically it shouldn't cost you that much to get it fixed. I'm just thinking common sense. All right, so thank you for watching. All right, more videos to come on these lights and of course we like eye candy, don't we? But I'll just sort of give you a sneak preview and show you opening the box and what we've got. So two of these babies in the next video, we'll see them working. Thank you for watching. In my hall, practice and enjoy.

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