CHAUVET INTIMIDATOR SPOT LED 350 A look at master slave set up

0:00 Original moving heads that came out

Alright guys, you have in front of you a set of Chauvet Intimidator Spot LED 350s. They are 75 watt LED moving heads. Now first of all, let's have a bit of a history lesson. Let's rewind a little bit and talk about the original moving heads that came out. They were hyper expensive. You bought two of them, you might as well have bought a brand new car. They were very good, but inside they got a bit hot and they weren't half as good as the bits of kit you get today. Now the 350s are very advanced. They come with moving gobos, the gobos turn, not only do the gobos turn, but you have a prism so you don't just get one image. You can get three images at once. You can get three images of the same image and it moves. It's crazy. Not only that, the mind boggles, you can put your own gobos in there. Not literally your own, but what you can do is, let's say for example, you have a client phone you up and they've got a really big wedding and they want the bride and groom's name in lights.

1:41 What could anyone ask for?

Now how about this? Imagine that you can say to your client, I can get the bride and groom's names in lights. And that's cool. And that's exactly what we're going to do. That's exactly what you can do with the 350s because I'll put a link in the description, take you to Chauvet website anyway. But what you can do, you can get custom made gobos with phone numbers, names, anything. So if it is the bride and groom's name, stick it in a gobo and there you go. First dance, their names gently moving along the floor. What could anyone ask for? What more could anyone ask for? Okay. Now again, a lot of modern day lights, there's many ways to set them up. You can just like plug them in and let them do sound to light master slave DMX.

Now to be quite honest, if you're going to invest in a set of three fifties, it's pointless just doing them sound to light. Now the moment I've got the master slave, I am getting a DMX controller very soon so I will be able to take these to the extreme now master slave. Now first of all, what does that mean? Well, master slave, the master is in control. Slave does what the master tells it to do. It's very simple, but that's pretty much how it is. Now this three 50 I set to be the master and this one here is the slave. Well actually this one at the moment is just doing sound to light so this one is set to slave. So this one will copy pretty much what that one does if I tap here you can see they're doing an exact replica of each other.

Perfect. All right, so that's pretty good. All right, let's imagine now you have those two either side and it looks good. They're following each other fantastic. But how can we change it to make it slightly different? I'll show you move one of them around 180 degrees. First of all you can see also you'll notice as well outside it's still daylight. The idea there is very simple. I wanted to show you exactly how bright they are. All right, I mean if it was pitch black, they'd be bright daylight. They're still bright. Okay, so I'm going to move a slave around 180 degrees now we've got a slightly different effect. So if I do that then are doing the opposite of each other but the opposite of each other perfectly.

4:32 Slave input, intimidate spot

So you go now again I need to check and I will put it in the description. I'm not sure exactly how many heads but what you can do is instead of having separate power cables, to each head, you can have one power cable to the one and then you can go from the out into the input of the other and so on. Now I just want to talk a little bit about DMX or DMX cables. Should we say all right if we just have a look at this is the slave unit. So if we just if I turn the box around here on bear with me a second there we go. Right if we have a look here, that's my power input. That's my power output that goes into my power input. Very important when you're doing master slave the master head DMX, you will go from the output and then you will go into the slave to the input.

But you don't just have to have the two. You can then go from the out. Put on the first slave to the input of the second and so on and so on. But again, it's a good idea to check to find out how many heads you can do master slave exactly the same with the power output to the input. Okay, so there they are. The intimidate spot led 350 now I'm pretty sure as well show they have got a competition for the USA and Canada where some lucky people can win some of the intimidate spot series. So I will put a link in the description of this video that will take you to that video where you can be within a chance of winning some of their kit. So big ups to show they three fifties in the house. I'm going to be using them in my next gig log,

Which hopefully will be this weekend and I will finish off with practice and enjoy. Thank you. Boom.

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