CHAUVET DJ FREEDOM PAR QUAD 4 IP Demonstration 1.

0:08 In this video we're looking at the Chauvet DJ Freedom Park Quad 4

Alright guys, in this video we're looking at the Chauvet DJ Freedom Park Quad 4. Now they are a quad LED, RGB and A, red, green, blue and amber. Very bright and if I just open up this here you can have a look there is no DMX in or there's no XLR in. Now that's because they're wireless so Gone are the days for these guys of having to have cables all over the place. Now there's lots of stunning features, first of all they're really heavy because they are battery powered. Charge time for these is around about seven hours and if you have them set on one light they will last for 20 hours that's right 20 hours on one light and if you have all of the lights running you've got an eight hour run time so

That's pretty much an entire long gig, so it's not too bad actually. What I do like about them is that they are IP tested. What that means is that you can put them outside as well, so even if it's absolutely hammering it down, you can have these outside against a marquee, against a house, poking up below a tree and give one beautiful effect. So imagine Turning up to the, or let's say the guests turning up to the bride and groom's wedding and all of a sudden the outside of the venue is lit up. It just looks absolutely stunning and it's another way of maybe earning a little bit more revenue. Okay so freedom part. Freedom is you're pretty much free to put them wherever you want to. I'm going to show you a couple of the features now and then there will be

2:27 Alternatively, you can still do master-s

I'm going to sort of link parts of this video together. You can angle them slightly as well because, you know, alright you've got them against a wall, fair enough, but it's good to be able to angle them as well. You have got a hole there so you can attach a G-clamp and have them on a light trussing rig. Let's have a look. If I just open this here, now that is magnetised And inside here, you've just got a small gasket area that houses the electrics. So if and when you do have them outside, make sure that is down securely. Now being wireless as well, that means that you can use a wireless DMX controller, set them up. The best way is to get them to 503 and then you're not good to go. Go and check out a link that I'll put in the video

But in this video that will take you to the Chauvet DJ website where you can get more info on setting them up for DMX. But being wireless, you can, as I said, set them up to a DMX controller. Alternatively, you can still do master-slave so you can have one as the master and then all the others, so long as they are connected wirelessly, will do exactly as this one will do. Now if you're not familiar with DMX, The lights also come with a small controller so you can use this as well. Now the pickup for the controller is here, so you know you are going to have to sort of I found make sure that you are pointing directly at the pickup but it's fine it works. Now these are really, really bright. I will put all the info in the description. They are exceedingly bright to the extent where when they're on full you can't physically look at them because you'd probably burn your retinas out so not a very good idea. I'm just going to open this up and I'll give you a couple of small pointers. Now again we've got on off which is self-explanatory really and we've got the menu up down and enter.

5:10 Again, that is important to close that down if you're using these outs

This is what happens with quite a few people. They will go to menu and they'll go up and down and they'll get to sound to light or something like that and then it'll work and they think great close it up and away you go but what will happen if you don't press enter it will revert back to the original setting so it's really important no matter what you're doing once you've set it to press enter then the fixture itself will go ah that's what you want. Now I don't know if you can see here we've got one two three Again, that is important to close that down if you're using these outside. I'm going to be doing another part of this video outside and give you an idea of the brightness. I mean, that is really crazy actually, exceedingly bright. So there you go, outdoor rated, which is absolutely fantastic because, I mean, I'm just visualising now.

You know, I'm a guest and I'm going to a wonderful wedding in a marquee. And if I relate to, you know, going back sort of even 10 years, maybe even less than that, you could have lights outside, but you'd have cables all over the place. And this is the irony, the expense of the cables getting to the light is probably more than one of these or all of these that you see. That is the crazy part because you couldn't just have a kettle lead, you had to have proper cabling going to proper outdoor plugs etc etc. Nowadays you can pretty much grab one of those put it somewhere and leave it there. The only disadvantage there and again this is where you have to be very clever and also very cautious is you don't want it to be say in the way of light fingers now that would be my only concern but you know that's the problems we face in this day and age I'm afraid so if you are going to have your fixtures outside or away from view make sure that they're in a place that is is in view but isn't

What do I mean? Well, if it's completely out of view, then there's a possibility of someone coming along and taking it. But if it's sort of in view, that means if someone had to go up to it to try and take it, there would be other people who would probably see that person. You've got to, pretty much straight away, you don't have time to think, oh where am I going to put kit? You've got to start placing your kit as you're thinking about placing it there. You know, you can't turn up to a venue and spend two hours deciding where to put your bass cabs and your lights. You have to because you may only have an hour to set up. So you've literally, as you're bringing the stuff out of your van, your vehicle, you've got to start going right. The speaker's there, the light's there, da-da-da-da-da. So you've got to think quick. Okay, Freedom Power Quad 4, this is part one. You'll be seeing these gigs. I've got a few gigs coming up very shortly and I'll be taking these with me. And I'm going to give them a run for their money. So there you go. Like I said, great for outside and also cables. Who needs them? Right, I'll see you in a bit.

8:21 I'll tell you what, forget imagining it, let's try it out

Okay, there is the Chauvet DJ Freedom Power and there it is lighting up a tree. So at the moment the tree itself, the part where it's lighting up is probably only about, I don't know, say three meters above the Freedom Power but imagine if that was let's say a bigger tree with a greater distance. I'll tell you what, forget imagining it, let's try it out. Okay so There it is on the ground and now it's hitting that tree a good 10 meters up. It's a shame really you can't get the extent of what it's doing because of the video footage but this is in full HD so hopefully it'll give you an idea, but here we go. That's not bad actually is it? I like that a lot. Right that's green let's change the colour.

Let's go to a yellow, and we'll do a red. There you go. That actually is exceedingly bright. Not bad at all. I think actually there should be one more challenge. The water. Okay, so, there it is. Let's put a bit of water on it. You got it? Oh, there you go. Fine. What's wrong? You don't think I'm that stupid, do you? Let's put some water on it. Come on. This, this. Tip some water on the damn thing. They say it's as good as it is then. Let's put some water on it. Here we go. Right, Freedom Power Quad 4 is fully waterproof. Practice and enjoy like it.

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