Mystic LED from American DJ, video 1

0:00 It's the Mystic LED

Right folks, it's the Mystic LED. That is the box over there. It's from American DJ and I've got my grandfather there whose name is Beatrice III. He's going to open this up, aren't you mate? Thank you very much. Right, loads of people have done videos on this so what we're going to do, I suppose in a sense, we're going to do a punk video of opening it up, plug it in, set it up. And see what sort of flashy things we get from it. Yeah, calm down mate, it's okay. It's alright, he can't help it, he's just come from the mental institution for lesser spotted digweed birds. Can you see anything in there? What's wrong? Well I'll tell you what, we'll take it out and pause the camera and we'll bung it on the table all tight.

Right, it comes in a bag like that. One thing I will recommend is don't put that anywhere near the bin because you'll think it's rubbish. Not that this is rubbish, it's the fact that, you know, it's in a plastic bag and what we're going to do now is open it up. Are you OK? He doesn't get out that often, bless him. Poor lad, honestly. He can't help it. Right, there you go. One light. And a lead.

1:30 We've got a DMX lead

Okay, we've got a DMX lead. That's cool. That is cool because everyone needs thousands of DMX leads and we've got a plug but it's a European plug. It's not a UK one but that's no big deal because any DJ out there worth his salt should have about six million of those just in the toilet let alone in your box that you take with you to gigs. So I'm going to pause the camera again and find one for the UK. Okay, I've plugged it in and... Got a walking box! Alright, let's have a look. What have we got? My first impression is it's pretty big and it's very bright. You don't want to look inside it because the LEDs are very bright. Let's turn that around and let's have a look at the back. Okay, what have we got?

Then if you can see there, that is known as a kettle input lead. And you've got male and female so you can link which is quite a cool idea. So if you've got two of these you don't have to go from a plug, you know, from an adapter into this and then from the same adapter, second plug, into the second one. You can go from this and then you just have a male and female kettle lead so you can just link them. Sensitivity again that's based on The microphone here, so the higher or lower it is dependent of course on how close maybe or far away you want it from the speakers. Blackout sound, now I have not looked in the instruction manual but I would say that that is the sort of thing where you could press on a foot switch and it'll turn off. Tell me if I'm right or wrong there. Input output DMX controllable, 3 amp fuse and what is quite cool,

3:49 It on the ceiling

At the top here, we've got a screen where you can touch and you can go through your own routines. So that's quite nice. I mean, I am old school. I do apologise, but I do like your basic sound. What's wrong with you? He's unhappy. Bless him. I'll give him his tablets later. I'm old school. I mean, I don't mind the likes of DMX. But, you know, I do like lights. You just plug in and play. But yes, I'm afraid it's peer pressure. I'm going to be doing lots of DMX in the near future. OK, what I'll do, I'll pause the camera and we'll have a look at it on the ceiling. And please do not comment about the fact that we've got dodgy lights on the ceiling and it's dirty. Excuse me. No, that's fine. That's fine. Right. First of all, notice the very, very dirty ceiling. But it's quite high up there and I can't be arsed to go paint it. Not yet anyway.

Right, what I'll do, I'll set the camera like that and that there used to be a manhole but I boarded it over because it used to get very drafty in here. Right, there you go. So, shut up. That's what it looks like. And okay, what have we got? We've got different colours, different features and also it turns which is quite interesting. I think this would look quite nice in smoke. Alright, here's the deal. Have you got one of these? Have you used it as a gig? Thank you very much.

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