Laserworld Show Net Inside the tarm 2 Plug and Play

0:01 You've got in front of you the LaserWorld Tarm 2

Right, you've got in front of you the LaserWorld Tarm 2. Now this is one of their high-end lasers. It's definitely not the most expensive. Also it's not one of the cheapest. It's the Tarm 2.5 and you're guaranteed 2.5 watts of power. So one of the great features of this laser is it's got shownet inside now normally with a laser you have to have an external dongle you have elder cables and so on not with shownet inside because you can go via earth net so you'll notice i've gone from here directly into the laptop there is the software and we're good to go so That is pretty much it. Now again, this is a very powerful laser indeed. At the moment I'm only on 51%, okay? So you can imagine what it would be like if it was 100%. If you're interested in getting... Alright, I'll start again. Let's say you've got your run-of-the-mill garden laser or you've been to the local DJ shop

2:22 Something like that now that's

And you've got something for sort of 50, 60, 150 quid but you want to take your laser show to the next level then consider something like this because the the Tarm 2 is the beginnings of the high-end laser these are pro quality they're not toys by far and You can do practically anything with this. You can do video mapping, there are preset programs, you can put your own programs in, text, drawings and so on. So at the moment I've got it set to its own sort of shows. Now we can see F1, 2, 3, 4 and so on. different shows so we can press on one of the keys on the keyboard and we can run through different shows now again something that is really important with lasers and I'm learning all the time if you say look at something like that now that's a long line so let's imagine the laser light is being stretched along that long line okay so

If that was, let's say, in a working environment, depending on the power output, you would have that power output, of course, along that solid line there. But if you have the same power, let's say in dots, the power in those dots, depending on how many there are, it's going to be more concentrated. So you've always got to be careful about positioning the laser. And also, if you're going to have the laser go over the crowd. Now, I don't know if this is law, but if you look online, you should have your laser set up at least three meters above the crowd. above the crowd now i'm not going to go into details here because of course it depends on a lot of things one important fact of course is how powerful the laser is so for example something like this uh you could maybe let's say for for argument's sake you could scan the crowd uh with an image like that at 20 but then if you've got a laser that's double the power

4:48 We've got a whole bunch of effects there

Then you have to consider that that 20% in the Tarm 2 would be different, let's say, for the Tarm 7. So it's not as simple as setting it to 20% and going for it. You always need to look at the instructions. The thing is with lasers is these aren't like your regular LED lights where you can point them into a crowd, wash the crowd and everyone enjoys the motion of the lighting and the smoke and whatnot. Lasers is very different because if a laser light hits your eye, it could damage your eye forever. So you have to be really, really careful. Let's have a look. So we've got a whole bunch of effects there. Let's go to F4 and we can see some more and 5 and we can preset our own anyway. There is so much to this, believe me. I'm only just sort of scraping the surface here, really.

But anyway, I will put info in the description. This, as I said, this is the Tarm 2 from Laser World. Right, so what I'll do, I'll turn that off there and I'm also going to turn that off there. So now that'll calm down. Okay, so one other feature of the Tarm 2 is we have the fans here, of course, sucking cool air in and blowing it out. But the laser diodes themselves are in a separate housing here, so you don't get any residue on the small mirrors. In cheaper lasers over time what happens is you will get maybe smoke and debris from the atmosphere. Getting into the housing and then maybe sitting on the front of the diodes, also onto the mirrors. And of course over time that's going to start to dull the laser light. So if you do have a lower end laser and you're thinking hold on it's not as bright as it used to be. First of all, and I'm not recommending you do this, what I am...

6:52 Once tarm, were, warranty

Possibly saying it might be an idea, so long as you know what you're doing, is to just have a look and see if any of the mirrors have got some dust on them or they don't look as bright as they used to. If that's the case then the first option is to maybe clean them off and then of course put all of the laser back together. And try again. But of course, if you're going to pull any kind of electrical appliance apart, first of all, just check the warranty because if you do, you could void the warranty. And also, the most important thing, apart from the warranty, is to make sure that, of course, it is not plugged in in any way, shape or form. All right? So I don't think I'd even want to... Well, I would open this up.

But I wouldn't want to mess around with anything inside of here because I have practically no idea on what anything does, so I don't want to mess around with it. Alright, so if you want any information on this, I will put a link in the description. Once again, this is the Tarm 2 from LaserWorld. This is an absolute beast. And all I can say is that this is a high-end, good quality laser, ideal for big mobile DJs, for mini to medium-sized nightclubs, for bands on the road. That's the sort of event where you just want to highlight your light show for example. If you are familiar with the secret rave I did over the summer at Lakefest, I actually had two of these. Admittedly they were not three meters above the crowd but we did not have any of the laser light covering the crowd. The lasers themselves were pretty much

I would say at least seven or eight meters above, sorry, eight feet, sorry, above the floor. So unless someone physically jumped up they wouldn't get hit with a laser light and also as well I believe the setting of the master power was below 50% as well so we were always very wary about The power output of the laser. Okay, so once again this is a Tarm 2. It's Shonet ready and like I said earlier in the video you don't need any external dongles. It's pretty much the cable from your laptop into the laser and you're good to go. But again there's a lot more info on the web and there'll be more videos on the Tarm 2. Thank you very much. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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