Chauvet DJ FXpar9 Review for the Mobile DJ

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Alright guys, you have in front of you the FX Par 9 from Chauvet DJ. We have on the outside, we have nine quad LEDs, we have 21 white LEDs circling a tri-cob LED in the centre. Now this is a very, very compact light for what it can do. Look at that, I mean that's like three inches, gotta be. There you go. Right, what I'm going to do now is make it a little bit darker in here and let's see what this baby can do. It's rather dark at the moment. The effects par 9 is on sound to light. So as soon as I increase the volume, which in my case isn't that difficult, we should start getting some effect. My God, getting some effects. Right, now this is a wash light as well as a strobe. There you go. Now that is very, very bright indeed. So let's put that up to there. I mean, that's pretty much now lighting up this entire room. Bearing in mind this is just one head. Now price-wise people are always asking me price. Don't quote me because things do change as time moves on. But at the moment we're in October 2016 and at a rough guess the par is...

2:19 At the moment we're on sound to light

One hundred and forty nine pounds. OK, so there you go. All right, that's a nice Cobb effect there we go. Let's give it another tap. Now again with the effects part 9 what you can do is you can run it as I'm running at the moment which is just sound to light. If you see in the background apart from the children making lots of noise in the other room you have a fan in here cooling Now, this is a wash as well as a strobe. So for example, this is great to set up on a proper DMX unit and then you can get it to just have one colour. Being quad LEDs around the outside means that you can do true colour mixing, so you don't just get your red and your green. You get your purples, you get your violets, you get your oranges, you get your whites, you get intense direct colour, not a mishmash of colour. Now that is very bright. Okay, so at the moment we're on sound to light. I'm just going to pause the camera.

And put the light on in the room, bear with me. Alright, so let's imagine you are a mobile DJ, you do not want to use DMX, you just want to buy a light, plug it in and have some form of a light show. Now very quickly, what's just happened here, this is the little readout at the back which will give you an idea of what setting it's at. Now, I don't know if you noticed but bottom right we've just got a red dot there. Now that's not telling me there's anything wrong with the light, That it's got its program and what Chauvet DJ have done, they have made this light and a lot of others they have. Once you've set the program, you will have the program read out on the screen there for a minute or so and then that will disappear.

It just means that there's less light around. Let's say for example if you are using a proper DMX controller, the last thing you want is lots of little light shining behind. Click on the menu button on the far left hand side. Press that. I've got the option of changing the program. Sound 1, we can go to sound 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and so on. Very important, when I have selected another program, I need to press far right. Enter. If I do not press enter, it will go back to the original setting. Now bearing in mind at the moment this is just sound to light, let's take it to the next level. Imagine you had two FX-PAR 9s. What you could do is you could go from the DMX out into the next one, the DMX in, then whatever you set this one at, the other one will copy. So there we go.

4:47 Face it in that direction

Face it in that direction. I don't want to face it directly at the camera because I don't want to knack at the camera. I don't think it will, but it is very... Still on sound-alike mode. The objective here is to give you an idea of what it's like against a white wall. At the moment we've got a light on in the room, so you'll see this with a little bit of light on in the room and then... With just the effects par 9 giving the light. So, a bit of a tap there. Now at the moment as well, not all of the quad LEDs are on. There's only two, four, six there. And that is giving off quite an intense bit of light. Okay, so that's with the light on. Turn the light in the room pitch black. Completely pitch black. There it is, wow. Now that is very bright and that is lighting up the entire room. Look at that. And again, not all of the quad LEDs around the outside are on so this proves how bright it is. He's got to try and annoy the neighbours. Now bearing in mind this is not IP rated so...

You don't want to be putting this outside unless, of course, it is completely covered from the elements. So, there you go. That's not bad, actually. That's pretty good. Again, you know, you're only viewing this through the camera's eye, but that is very right indeed. If you do want any more information on the FX-PAR 9, then check out the link in the description. There will be a direct link to Chauvet DJ website to the FX... Part 9 itself. All being well, I'll be using this in a gig in the near future and I'll finish off with practice and enjoy. And yes, very, very bright indeed. Thank you very much.

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