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KAM LED PARBAR video 2 How to set it up! LOL

Lesson Beginner Stage 7: Software & Gear November 2008

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0:00 I did it in one take and hopefully you'll get the joke

Alright folks, what you are about to see is quite funny actually. I did it in one take and hopefully you'll get the joke. But anyway, this is video number two on, well, you'll see. Sorry. By the way, I do apologise for the sheet there. Simple reason, it's like a backdrop so you can see what exactly is going on. Anyway, video number two. On something from a company called CAM, it's known as the LED Power Bar. Now in video number two what I'm going to do is just put the damn thing together, that's it. So in real time, now the reason I'm doing this, if you're like me, you know, you turn up to a gig and the main thing first of all, by the way, to set up first is the sound system. Forget about your light show because if you've got your sound system set up, you can put some music on then you can twiddle away fiddling with your lights.

1:28 No one's paying me to do this sort of thing

If you put too much time into setting your lights up first, spend loads of time on that, and then you go into your sound system and you can't get your sound system working, people are going to be looking, ooh look, lovely flashy lights, and they're going, where's the music? So get your sound system sorted first. Anyway, I digress, right. The main reason for this video is to sort of show you how quick you can put this light up, right. Now again, this is no commercial. People aren't telling me to do these videos. This is me doing my thing. That's it. No one's paying me to do this sort of thing. It's just because I want to do it. Ah, there you are. Right, okay. On the count of three. Three. Right, here we go. Right, so what I'm going to do now, I'm going to open the bag that contains the £50 notes! Just kidding. Right, this is the stand. So I'm going to put the stand there, like that. I'm now going to get the foot switch out.

All the foot switches, as I say. That's that. Open the big bag and of course, you know, you would be doing this with a smile on your face. And bearing in mind it's very rude to have your back up to people. Ah, right. Okay. So take that and I better put that up. I should have done that first actually. Like that. There. Like that. I'll just move the camera like that so you can see. I need to get this now and put that in there. But bearing in mind, I think this is probably about the second time I've done this. So turn that, screw that in there like so. And then plug the mains in there and plug that in there. Right.

3:47 Oh, God, you're going to laugh

There you go. So there it is. That took not long. The reason that... Oh, God, you're going to laugh. Now, that's another fine mess you've gotten me into, Stan. You need a screw-in thing like that. You put the... What? The hell is going on? There you go. Right. There you go, sorted. Right, video number two for you on this guy here. By the way, if you didn't catch what I said earlier on, I sort of plugged it in and I was thinking like, why isn't it working? And then I followed the multi-socket and it was like, ah, it should be plugged in somewhere, so I plugged it in. So of course when you do get to your function and maybe you turn things on and nothing happens, always check to make sure it's plugged in at the wall as well.

Sorry about that. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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