CHAUVET DJ EZpin review by the DJ Tutor

0:00 This is my product review for Chauvet DJ for the Easypin IRC pack

Right guys, this is my product review for Chauvet DJ for the Easypin IRC pack. It comes with six units and a charger, a couple of other bits and pieces in here as well, which I will show you, demonstrate. It's light at the moment, in a bit during the course of this video it'll get dark and we'll have some fun. Now, as you know, LEDs are virtually everywhere. Over time they have got smaller, they've got brighter... With different forms of powering them, they will last a lot longer. So what Chauvet DJ did was they thought, how can we make an LED that's battery powered suitable for a DJ, nightclub, bar, but make it different? Make it so it's a stunning light, does what it's supposed to do, Now, first of all let's have a look at the pack itself. So, you get six and they come in a nice bag and there they are. Now, first thing they thought...

Is instead of like having the charger stuck somewhere and having them dangling all over the place you can charge them in the bag and as you can see the cables there's three either side short medium and long go to this one the next one the next one small tip when you're charging them in here make sure they're off all of them off if you leave them on What happens is you can't actually see them on and you probably won't charge them. I'll give you a demonstration. So if I put that like that there, I'm going to turn that on. Now with that facing down it's really difficult to see if it's on but if I pull that up it's actually on now and you could sit there for about 10 years and turn it on and you think how come it's not charged because it was on it should be off. It comes with

2:56 Small tiny point, but very valid

The IRC remote. So yes, they're remote controlled as well. You can turn them on, you can dim them and of course you can turn them off. Comes with six packs of what are known in the industry as gels. So you can if you want to. You can have a nice subtle sort of, that's like, it's almost like a reddy kind of pink, a dark pink come red. Got green, we've got blue. And we've got orange. I don't know if you could see, there's a tiny little bit missing at the top there. No one's come along with a punch and just thought let's take a little bit out of the top. What that's for is it's to just go over, I don't know if you can see that black dot there, that is for the remote control. So, small tiny point, but very valid.

So there they are, happily chugging away and charging up. Takes approximately three hours to charge up and they'll last for six hours. So I think, right, don't quote me, I think what I will do once I've done this clip, I'll check and make sure. Now what I've done here with this one is I have taken off the clip. Now you'll notice that. What is it? It's a magnet. Now, be wary because if you do suffer from any ailments and you've got bits of metal in your body, do not put these near you because these magnets are bloody powerful. And so long as where you want to put them to is magnetic, they'll virtually stick to anything and they won't fall off. You really do have to yank them to get them off. So they haven't thought, let's just stick a little magnet on there. No.

4:56 Squeeze that in and just sit it up onto the ceiling

I would say that magnet could probably easily, easily hold three kilograms and these are not three kilograms. Also you've got this bracket here like so. So if you are in a venue that's got a false ceiling, not sure exactly what it's called but you've got these sort of panels with this sort of, I don't know, it's almost like cardboardy stuff and you lift it up. Well, if you can see, all you can do is you can... Squeeze that in and just sit it up onto the ceiling. And there, you've noticed that as well. That fits there. So what you've got is you've got, if I just unplug that one, there, like that. Now again, you've got that part which you can put maybe a safety chain onto. And I don't know about the rest of the world but in the UK...

Any light that is elevated in any way should, by law in the UK, have a safety chain on it. So that's just on the off chance that it falls off and if it did fall from the sky and bang someone on the head then you could be liable so make sure you've got that. Alright so it's pretty much sort of covered. The lights themselves. This stuff here, again, is silica gel. Do not eat it because your mouth will start to froth and your brain will explode. Bag for the charger. Now, I'm quite sure that you can buy these separately. I think I've seen on a website, on a store that I won't mention, them going in the UK for about £65 each. But I'd recommend you buy a pack because you've got everything. What else is there to say really except give them a bit of a demo. Now they are very, very bright. I've known people to use these at weddings where they've maybe had them pointing at the wedding cake or maybe for the centre of tables. So let's imagine you're a mobile DJ. You've got your set price for your gig. You could maybe say to your client, well, if you want to...

7:13 Maybe even you could highlight the top table

I can add on to the fee, but also to add another effect for their venue. You could say I can give the tables centre lights. I could maybe put a nice sort of glow, maybe a subtle sort of orange or something like that. It depends what the cake is, or maybe just white on the cake. Maybe even you could highlight the top table. So, you're just using these for the top table. Now, because they're battery powered, this is the key, there's no nasty cables all over the place. You haven't got to have four ways and adapters and big cables. It's just charge them up and away you go. Small point, remember to have them charged before you go to the function. There's no point turning up with a fantastic item like this and then thinking, I didn't charge them. Right, pause this part of the video and the next part of the video will be these in the dark and I'll be doing strange things with them. Not sexual by the way, excuse me. Boom! Right, it's nearly dark outside. I'm going to test this out on my bike. OK, so it's pitch black.

You're in the middle of Wales, country lane, and you can't see a goddamn thing. What do you do? Turn on your easy pins. There you go. Other than bearing in mind, the camera is set to picking up low light. It's pretty good actually. Oh my goodness. I'm pretty sure people are seeing me coming now. Let's just turn around. Right, I'm going to turn around, pause the camera and show you in a bit more light. Right, there you go. I'll put pictures on Facebook. I'm going to get in now because it's raining. Bloody typical, mind you, we are in Wales. But one point here as well is that it looks like they'll take a little bit of rain but I wouldn't put them outside. There you go. Easy pins, Chauvet DJ. Time to put them inside. Practice and enjoy.

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