Chauvet DJ Intimidator Spot 100 Irc Demonstration

0:01 I want to stress here

Alright ladies and gentlemen, you have in front of you a rather nice set of moving heads from a company called Chauvet DJ. Now, first thing I want to stress here is you are very lucky if you just become a DJ or you have been a DJ say for the past two or three years because if we go back 20-25 years, moving heads were hyper expensive, now they are very cheap and also they're very good quality. The Intimidator Spot 100 IRC. They're 10 watt white LEDs and also inside these, I mean just look at the size of them, they're absolutely tiny. Well they're not tiny tiny but you know they're not huge monsters, they're the sort of thing that you could quite happily get 8, 16 of these in the back of a car and just turn up and charge someone an absolute fortune for a good light show if you're using the DMX controller of course.

1:53 Again, small controller, master slave, sound-to-light or DMX

I'd say I can get, you know, my hand on around the top of the head itself. So in these we have two wheels first of all. Now if we move let's say and not talk about particular names but the cheaper small moving heads a lot of them have got one wheel and inside that wheel you've got your gobos and attached to the gobos are colours so one colour About that movement very shortly, you get this bracket so you can fit that to the bottom and attach it to your light trussing rig if you want to. Also, separately, you can get a controller. So, if you want to, you can use them via a small controller if you're not familiar with DMX. Now, again, small controller, master slave, sound-to-light or DMX. Now, at the moment, I've got them on master slave. So what that means is that this head on the left

It's picking up the sound. The one on the right is the slave, so I have a DMX cable in the one on the left on the out and then that goes to the in of the other one. So if I tap this side, this is the slave, we should get nothing at all. Thank God for that. If I tap this one here, you can see there's movement and they're both moving at the same time. That's because the microphone now is engaged on the master And the slave, no need for anything at all. So you are very lucky now having lights like this that are readily available and pretty cheap. Now I use these in a wedding gig I did a couple of weeks ago prior to leaving the country for a couple of weeks. And what I'll do in the description of this video, I'll put a link to that video and you can check them out. I actually had these...

And the super big brothers, I took the, I think it's the 450s, and they're absolutely massive. But to be quite honest, these two did one hell of a good light show as well, alright? Now if you do want any more information on the Spot 100 IRC from Chauvet DJ, what I'll do is I'll put a hyperlink in the description that will take you to the Chauvet DJ website where you'll have all the specifications. Go through YouTube and go through other videos and go and check them out. They are nice units. So what I'm going to do, I'm just going to unplug just about there and I'll pick this one up. I'm just going to unplug it. Now, if I just turn this around, there it is in all its glory. Oh, I've dropped a bit. I'll unplug that DMX out. There.

4:12 The answer is yes, and the answer is also no

Again, a lot of people are scared about using moving heads like this because people think they're very intricate and it'll take forever to set up. Well, the answer is yes, and the answer is also no. Because you can, if you want to, you can pretty much plug and play from the box. It's as simple as that. Make sure that you have sound set on the control panel, and then that's it. So even if you just buy one of them or two... You can set them to do sound to light and they'll happily move around all night to the music. So there you have your power in, you've got your DMX in and out, and also this area here, it's probably a bit difficult to see in this light, but let's say your head stops working. There's a possibility, a possibility it could be an internal fuse, and this here is an area where you pull out and you can swap fuses.

But I am 100% sure that inside there will be the fuse that's needed to run the 100 IRC, but also there'll be a spare one as well. Pull it out, swap them over, but you should never really have to do that because they do last a heck of a long time. Fan underneath there to cool all the gubbins inside and here is a rather large heat sink. So there you go. Also what you can do as well is... You'll see, notice that I can screw this in and out where we've got the lens. That's very simply for depending on what size of room you're in. So if you're in a small room and you look at the image on the wall and it seems blurred, don't worry about it. There's no fault with the head. It's probably because this here needs to be focused and you can do that by screwing this area in and out.

It's pretty much the same as using, say, a telescope. You know, you've got to set it so you get a nice clear image and not a blurred image. Alright? So there you go. The Intimidate Spot 100 IRC from Chauvet DJ. If you want any more info, like I said, check out the link in the description. And the tune in the background is by Mr Lenny Fontana. Alright? Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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