Chauvet at MBLV16 2012

0:00 We've got a gentleman here from Chauvet

All right, here we go, guys. We've got a gentleman here from Chauvet. Your name, sir, I believe is Alan Rees and you're to do with product development. Is that right? That's right. Okay, we've got two products here. First of all, can you tell us what they are, please? We have the Freedom Par. And the Freedom Strip Mini. And they also work in conjunction with an existing item, which is the DeFi 2.4 GHz. Okay, straight away, wireless DMX. Wireless DMX, right here. Beautiful. Can you give me a bit of the spec? You know, what we're looking at, the color of... Sorry, the power of the LEDs, etc.? Sure. Both products contain 5mm or quarter watt LEDs. And what makes these products so unique...

It's the ability to put the light anywhere you want. It's the freedom from cables and that's where the name came from. Freedom from cables, freedom from headaches. You can literally take this light and put it anywhere in your entire rig or anywhere in the entire room and control them wirelessly with DMX and also power because there's built-in lithium ion batteries inside. Nice. Power-wise, how long will they last for? You know, you charge it up. What sort of time scale are we looking at? You're looking at about 8 hour run time.

2:32 It does all the hard work for you

For more information, visit www.ellaskins.com The normal master slave, sound to light, etc. Absolutely. Not only do you have all of that, but you have something extremely unique that's never before been done in a product and it's done here for the first time in the industry on these Freedom Strip Minis on the Freedom bars and that's wireless master slave. That's neat. What you'll do is you'll set the first unit to master and then typically you'll have to set your slaves up and then you have to run a DMX cable to each one of them. Yes. But with these, you don't have to do that because each one has a built-in wireless antenna. Got it, yeah. It will transmit the wireless signal to them wirelessly. Gotcha. So you set up your master, you set up your slaves and the master does all the work to the slaves wirelessly. How many slaves? Up to 31. Wow. Can you just flip them over? Absolutely. Let's have a look. Absolutely. Flip up the antenna here.

So on the back side you have a battery life indicator which is very useful, which will explain to you how much battery life is left and also will explain how much battery life is, you know, it's the opposite when you're charging it. Sure, got ya. Antenna for your wireless DMX, power switch on and off so you can set the light, turn it right back on before your gig. A digital display which sets all of your settings, your master slave modes, DMX, that sort of thing. Nice. And then when you're using the DeFi 2.4 transmitter here... You have the auto function, and you press this button and you push this button, and it will automatically find the frequency and it will select it automatically for you and lock it in. Fantastic. It does all the hard work for you. So again, I'm thinking off the top of my head, for someone who likes up-lighting, we've gone past the stage of, damn, I can't put that up-light there because I haven't got a power supply or power plug. You can literally just...

Take that and you can put it anywhere. Anywhere you want. Wow. No cables. Fantastic. Walk around with it on your head if you want to. Yeah, and it is very bright actually. They are. Excellent. And if anybody out there has the ColorStrip or the ColorStrip Mini, these will also work MasterSlave with those products as well. Those are number one and two selling products from Cheve. Very nice. And this works with it in MasterSlave mode. Okay, so yeah, that's wireless, so then you would have to then have a cable from that to the others. Correct. Yes. But if you have multiple Freedom Strip Minis, then there's no cables whatsoever. Fantastic. Can we just have a look at the other unit? Absolutely. This one here, you can change the angle, so if you could just give a demo of that, please. Sure, man. So here's the Freedom PAR. It's all the same software, same LEDs, but what makes this guy unique is the ability to adjust the head to angle it up or down the wall to get the best look.

5:34 You also have power linking

And then for transportation, we have a little lock here. So if you push it down and that will prevent the head from moving. Good. Can you just flip it over? Sure. And have a look underneath. Oh, sorry, the underside. The underside. There you go. Yeah, yeah. Check it out. Okay. Fantastic. And again, up to 31 of these? Same. Exactly the same software. Okay. And then presumably we can have, say, five of these, ten of these, link them all together. Absolutely. Fantastic. Okay. Thank you very much. Can you finish off with practice and enjoy? Practice and enjoy? Nice one. That'll do, thank you. Here we have the Pixpar 12 and the Pixpar 24. And what makes this product so unique is the ability to control each LED individually. And that's the name Pix for pixel control.

That's what makes these guys stand out. They come with a ton of automated programs built into the unit. So everything you're seeing here is actually going to be exactly what you're going to receive as well. There's no fancy programming here, there's no fancy control. This is literally built into the unit so you get full control of the unit. You have nice rotation effects, clock wheels, everything fades back and forth. The housing is extruded aluminum, it's heavy duty. It's going to give you a... Digital display with nice rubberized buttons and a locking power input to prevent the cable from falling out. You also have power linking. Small features as well that mean a lot. Yes, absolutely. Robust, durable as well. The overall power output then of both units? Each LED is 3 watts. It's 1-1-1 for each color. It will definitely outshine most of the competitors' products. We drive the LEDs.

7:52 Those 750 watt strobe lamps require about 15 amps of electricity per r

How many channels on DMX? Very basic mode if you want, which is three channels, which is just red, green and blue for the whole thing. That'll work as just a regular wash light. Then you can step it up into seven channel mode, and that will allow it to work in master slave with a bunch of Sjude's other products. Then you have other mode that'll give you quadrant control. So you have red, green and blue of section one, two, three and four. Nice. So you have good quality color mixing, don't you? Yeah. Very good quality. Excellent. And then you step it up again and you have 36 channels here and 72 channels here. This is the Impulse 648, and what you have here are 648 white If you're looking to replace your 750 watt xenon stove tubes, this is going to be the unit for you.

Those 750 watt strobe lamps require about 15 amps of electricity per room. Yeah, sure. And this is just as bright and it only consumes 2 amps. Wow. So you can fit a lot more on there. Can we give this sucker a demo? Right, prepare to be blasted. Alright, we do strobe, yeah? Yep. Alright, there is going to be strobing effect now, so if you are affected by that, watch it. No, turn off! Okay, go. There you go. That is sweet. Very bright. It will strobe up to 30 hertz as well. Nice. Very good. Don't forget, pause the video and count those pixels. Thank you. Oh! What can you tell me about these guys? These are brand new and they're also in the Pix range of products as we discussed earlier. These are the Colorband Pix and what you have here are 12 tri-color LEDs with individual pixel control and with the same lenses as the Pix parts as we saw earlier.

10:29 Alan, thank you very much indeed

You have individual crystal controls so you can do low res graphics when you mount them together and you can scroll text across multiple units as well. The DJ Tutor offers a ton of different mounting options, both 3 pin and 5 pin DMS connectors, power looping, the whole 9 yards. So if you're looking for a real good crowd getter, crowd pleaser or attention grabber, this is definitely going to be the product for you. You can take them down, use them around the room at uplights, mount them together and then do some low res graphics through them. And the best part is you can all control this with Show Express, our DMX lighting software. Do you know what? I can see these. You get array speaker systems, don't you? I can imagine these in between the speakers. Oh, totally. That would look cool, wouldn't it? Totally. That would look sweet. Thank you very much indeed. That is the new Intimidator Spot LED 350 and it's kind of tough to see from the video but it has a ton of features inside and this guy here is going to meet or exceed and then replace all of your MSD 250 discharge features. Not only is it brighter...

But it has the same features in there as well. This is powered with a 75 watt white LED. It has a gobo wheel, a color wheel, three-sided rotating prism, focus and even a five degree manual zoom. Sweet. So if you're installing it in a high ceiling or low ceiling, it has all the features you need to shoot your custom gobos and zooms and everything for just about any event you can think of. Fantastic. And best part is it only weighs 20 pounds. That's good. That is good. Alan, thank you very much indeed. So you're looking for a value-conscious new LED washlight? Then the Slimpar Tri-12 and Tri-7 IRC, those two fixtures are definitely going to be for you. As the name suggests, it has 12 and 7 tri-color LEDs. It gives you extremely bright and powerful output, really nice color mixing, and the best part is you can control it with a wireless remote control. So if you set them up master-slave, you can take the IR remote and trigger your sound active programs.

Show Express is a universal DMX controller that will work with any DMX product out there on the market. So the software is both PC and Mac friendly, and the software is also free. You can go online right now, download it, play with it, see if you like it, and when you do like it, because I know you're going to, you can head over to your local Chauvet dealer and pick up the interface, which is what you're actually paying for. That interface is the link between the computer and your lights. Okay, for a noob out there who doesn't know at all what this program is... In one paragraph, can you explain? Okay, someone has just come from Mars and you have to tell them what it does. What does it do? It controls your lights. There you go. It's as simple as that. Good. It will control any DMX fixture. If you have a coffee pot at home and it has DMX control...

This will control it. Anything with DMX. If you do want any more information on this particular software, I uploaded a video a while ago because I will be uploading this video when I get back home. I will put a link in the description to the video where you did a PowerPoint and you explained everything through the actual program. So if you do need any more information on this program, follow the link and you will get this guy. Pointing fingers at the program and he'll show you how to use it. Thank you very much. Practice and enjoy.

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