Liteconsole XPRS with Gantry and Laserworld EL-500RGB Key Tex Laser

0:01 At least the ladies' backside anyway

Hi guys, welcome to my front room that is an absolute bloody tip because we have these small little people that run around everywhere cause lots of problems and issues shout scream and keep us up all night they're called children and we have three here in the building and if any of you out there do not have any children then you have a nice clean house and you're thinking of getting them Then please make note of your wonderful clean house as it is now because it will not be once they pop out of your backside. Well, at least the ladies' backside anyway. Right, okay, so we have here the XPRS from Light Console and I'd also like to show you this which is a little part of their new lighting rig. Now I did a gig log, well not a gig log actually, I did a gig a while ago and I took some pictures of just this attached to the side of the XPRS but I didn't have the top bit so I'm thinking now why don't I show you what it's all about. What it's for, what it does, how to set it up.

1:43 You might just go like soju and go away

What it's good for, what you can do with it, how it looks, etc, etc. Now of course you know in my videos anything can happen, literally anything can happen. So if it all goes tits up then who cares because it's about being real. So this is one part of the gantry. Now there it is and I'm now going to show you how you set it up on the XPRS so don't go... Oh, you're not going to anyway. Well actually you might. You might just go like soju and go away. But right, excuse me. Right, I don't have all of the XPRS here but what does take seconds to set up is great. That's the XPRS. What takes a little bit more time, only a little bit more time, is the gantry itself. Now the XPRS, if I... If you imagine that's concertinaed in like that. So all you have to do

Pull it out, extend like so and then of course the back as well. Then you'll get your platforms to fit on the top of it, you'll get your frontage and you'll get a nice platform at an angle where you can put your laptop. I might do that during the course of this video but I don't really want to show that. The emphasis really is on the gantry itself. So I'm just going to pause the camera, take the camera off the tripod The XPRS. And as one can see, very simply, there you go, that is it. So of course if I concertine this in, you can see how you put the other one on. And a small tip, very very small tip, for anyone who's thinking of getting the gantry has got the XPRS. If you set up your XPRS up first and then put the gantry on, you just might.

Have this at a different level to the other side but very logically if while it is concertinaed in you put these two bits on first then because they're closer you've got a better idea of that they are well they're going to be at the right height and if you could see there you see instead of moving this you know pulling it out and having to look from right to left And checking to make sure that they're the same level. Alternatively, what you could do, thinking about it just now, is once you've set your gantry up or these two side bits at the level that you want them to be, then what you could do maybe is just get a little pen and do a little mark there, mark on the other side, and then the next time you set it up, bang, you just go to the mark. I'm thinking of new ideas all the time. Isn't that amazing?

Right, the gantry itself comes in one two three four five parts. The two parts you've seen already that attach to the XPRS. Then you have two of these that will go into the parts that are already attached. Then you have one of these that will go and span the width of the XPRS itself. Now there's a couple of ways of setting this up. I personally think One way is slightly easier than the other. You may need a chair, okay? You just might need a chair. But what you can do is you can firstly attach these into there like so. Now, what you've got, if I can just show you here, is a little simple genius. It's not an invention. It's just something that's very simple. Two small parts that you push in. I don't know if you can see there, they're all sort of sprung attached. And what you need to do is you need to push those in and while your fingers are sort of still on them, slide in place. Okay? So am I going to do that now? No, I'm not actually because I'm going to do it a different way. So I'm going to pause the camera for one second and explain why I'm going to do it this way, how, who, which, why and when and why it's better. Hold on.

5:32 Just take my shoes off, go away

Right, once again I am in the front room. I am limited to, well with space, so I have set up these three pieces. Just take my shoes off, go away. I've set it up like that. So why have I done that? Well this just solves the problem of having to stand on a chair. Now one way could be easier than the other. There are pros and cons but I prefer to do it this way because... All I've got to do now is bring this one up here and attach, just actually fit it on there. And then bring this other one up here and then put that on there like that. Push that down, fall off there. That's clicked in. Put the other side in there. See? Professional having the back to the camera. Marvellous. That's it. The two side panels on first, but then of course you've got to climb on a chair, put the top bit on. Either way, it's not easy, easy to set up, but what you do have is you've now got somewhere to put your lighting. Okay, now what Light Console have done is, and a very good friend of mine, Nick, who is the designer of the XPRS, and I believe the Ganchi as well,

7:39 You just need a little bit of grey matter, bang, away you go

He has designed something that is not only light and versatile, it's relatively simple and quick to set up. It is simple to set up definitely because the XPRS, all you do is you open it up, you put the panels on, the top, the sides are already there and pretty much away you go. And the gantry for a start as well. You know, there's not much that can go wrong. It's not like a mad Meccano set where you need loads of instructions and spanners and screwdrivers and nuts and bolts. You don't need anything like that. You just need a little bit of grey matter, bang, away you go. Now, the gantry itself is not made to start housing huge moving heads. If you're going to do that, you're an absolute muppet. What it will do though, it will...

Take the weight of some nice interesting small lights. So don't start putting tons and tons of lighting on, but you can start attaching a few little lights. I've set up the LaserWorld EL500 RGB key text laser. Now my disclaimer, or one of them anyway, now you'll notice that there are cables dangling all over the place. I try desperately not to do that. But this really is just for demonstration at the moment. Also, I've only got one cable tie up there. Now, I highly recommend you don't use cable ties, even though on the odd occasion I do. But it is a law in the UK, a definite law, and this is everywhere. Nightclubs, pubs, bars, even the likes of us mobile DJs. Traktor

Like console have done as well is if we have a look at how the truss is set up it is pretty much directly in the center of the XPRS so you have center of gravity right above pretty much the center of the console itself now I do like that it's not what they haven't done is they haven't put it sort of here I'm going to show you this from Light Console. This is their text laser. I don't know if you can see that. Hold on, I'm just going to change the settings on the camera. Right, so with the EL500 RGB key text you get your own keyboard. You get a USB attached to the keyboard. You also get an extension so if the laser is a little distance away don't worry about it. I'd say you've got at least five if not six meters of length here. Okay, so we can see we've got light console. I'm just going to

Delete that, press one button and we can delete. Let's have a look, what else can we put? Hello, no, just put hi. There, so you can see that now. Now if we want to, we can sort of rotate that. A Y axis, X axis, and if we want to, we can roll that as well. Alright, now, alright, we've just got two letters there. Now if you think about it, the stepper motors just... Hello, how are you? Happy birthday. Congratulations. Welcome to... Bride and groom's name, blah blah blah. Now what I'm going to do now, I'm just going to go in front of the camera and I'm going to move the laser. There's a little bit on the laser that you can move and I'm going to move that across and now we've got that wonderful dichroic lens that has refracted the image and now it's all over the place. Now that to me for a lot of text is a bit too much.

12:58 We're underneath the laser and all I did, I just moved these across

You know, that is big time. I mean, that really is more of an effect now. In a way, you could probably use this laser as an effect as well as just putting text because you could just like go to town and just like pretty much do that and you've got a wacky effect there. I'm just going to take the camera off the stand again and show you what I did underneath the laser whole time. Right, there you go. So we're underneath the laser and all I did, I just moved these across. That's it. That is pretty much it. Oh, there you go. That's what I... There you go. That's my dyslexia. Right, okay. So, there you go. Right, so a big shout out to... DJ tutorial by Ellaskins, The lighting is right next to you. If you're like me, you will look after your kit and make sure no idiots mess around with it. So of course if you do, let's say for example, you do have someone who turns up a little bit drunk and starts pushing that, then you're always the other side holding it. Alright, so I hope that's been a help. So check out LaserWorld and also Light Console and I'll finish off with practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

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