Chauvet 4PLAY Video 1

0:04 Video number one on this light from a company called Chauvet

Alright guys, video number one on this light from a company called Chauvet. It's known as the 4Play. Now in video number one, where better to do a first demo than from the comfort of my own front door? Why not? Punk style, eh? Right, first of all, don't know if you noticed but I've got a tripod there and the light itself is not at the top of the tripod which basically tells you it's not on a T-bar. But think about it, what do you normally put on top of tripods? Not bananas, no, speakers. So, if you think about it... Speaker on the top of there, your light underneath, Bob's your aunt or Fanny's your aunt, it's doing two things at once. Now I don't know if you noticed but this particular unit here is not just your stereotypical one light one direction or two lights one direction, you can move these around. Now in video number one we're just going to have a basic look at it.

1:21 I've got my disco set up here, so there I am with my kit

Video number two, three, four and whatever. We're going to do it in the dark, slightly more technical, and take it into gigs or take it on gigs and stuff like that. So what I'll do is... No, stay there. Right. Well, first of all, as you can see, you can move these guys around. So just think outside of the box. Don't just think, oh, I'm going to have one of those and put it that side and point it at the crowd. No, no, no. Think about it like this. Let's imagine... I've got my disco set up here, so there I am with my kit. And there's my light, there. Like that. Just like that. So that's facing the crowd. Well, you've got four lights, so why just have four lights at the crowd? Guess what? People want to see you as well as looking at other dancers. So you could in essence turn that one there. So now I've got that guy on my decks, so I can now see flashy bits on my turntables.

If I had another one of those the other side, I could have exactly the same. A mirror image of that guy here facing down on the other deck. So if I've got a turntable here, a turntable there, or one light there, one light there. Alternatively, if you've just got your laptop and a mousey bit, you only need one of them, don't you? Now this guy here will do red, green, blue and white. Now what happens is the lights will flash but also you can see the lights duck and dive and move around, that kind of thing as well. And again, think about it. You could have one or two on the crowd, or you could have, like I said, one on you, or you could have them maybe one up on the ceiling. Or maybe you could have them all on the ceiling. Maybe all on your decks. All on the crowd. Or maybe just have them off. Choice is yours. Okay, so if I turn that back around, like that. Right, I'll tell you what we'll do. If I just turn that like so.

3:17 In other words, that there is to secure it, twist

Secure that, otherwise it's going to go like that, which we don't want that to happen. Right, in fact, what I'm going to do now, I'm going to pause the camera and we're going to have a closer look at the back. Hold on. Right, now this guy can be as basic or, to a certain degree, as intricate as you want it to be. Sensitivity dial there, well what does that do? Well let's say hypothetically, you know, you want this unit right next to your speakers. Turn the sensitivity down. If, on the other hand, this guy is going to be, I don't know, 10-20 metres away from your speakers, turn it up. DMX in and out and your microphone, so your microphone will pick up the sound from your speakers. There is your small little display and you've got a menu down, up and enter. So, in other words, if you haven't got a DMX controller, you can get quite a bit of a show just from there. That guy there is to secure it on the pole and that logically is your power in.

Right, what I'm about to do with this one, you can do with all of them. So in other words, that there is to secure it, twist it like so, up and down, and around and around. There you go. Right, you notice these guys here. Now, these are basically so you can attach clamps to it. So if you want to, you could attach this guy to a light trussing rig. And there you go, comes in its own bag as well. Now, I would class this really in a sense an all-in-one light show. Practice and enjoy. Thanks.

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