Novopro Derby 9 DMX Disco Bar Pub Light Effect Demonstration BY Ellaskins

0:00 This is my product review for the Nova Pro Derby 9 DMX

Alright, this is my product review for the Nova Pro Derby 9 DMX. Now I'm going to give you a bit of the technical jargon first. It takes 7 channels on DMX, it is of course DMXable, sound-to-light master-slave and also it comes with its small little remote which is not only genius, it's very, very handy. You've got 9 3W LEDs, I'll tell you the colours now. Better read them out so I get them right. It's red, green, blue, warm white, yellow, amber, purple, UV, cool white and I'm going to make a cup of coffee after this video. 30 watts power consumption and the weight of the Derby 9 DMX is just over 1kg so it's very light. It also comes with its own bag. Now isn't that nice? You see? So, at the end of the gig you put it in the bag and you walk away with that.

1:21 Of course, the simplest way of using it is sound-to-light

Right, OK, so what do I like about it? Well, first of all, it is not expensive. Now very quickly, if let's say you are wanting to go out to a huge super club to watch some fantastic big DJ and they've got a whole bunch of these in there, I'd do one thing, I'd actually just turn around and disappear. It's not the sort of light that you would see in a huge super club. Definitely not. On the other hand, let's imagine you're walking into a bar, a fun bar, a small club, maybe you're a mobile DJ, then it's a great light because it does what it needs to do which is give a light show, let you decide what the light show is going to be, alternatively, you can just pretty much plug it in, play some music and it's going to flash and move to the beat of the music.

So, of course, the simplest way of using it is sound-to-light. The next level is master-slave, that's when you've got two heads, three or four. The first one is the master, so depending on what that one does, you will then of course have to link from DMX out of the master to the in of the next one, out of the second to the in of the third and so on. So whatever the first one does, the others will follow suit. That is known as master-slave. Now, of course. The genius of the Derby 9 DMX is it comes with its own little control unit. So there it is. That is the control unit on the top, we have power on off, we have DMX on off, we have start stop music 123 flash and then A1 up to A7 and plus and minus. Now that is pretty easy to use and it is self-explanatory.

3:52 The genius, the genius behind this light

So on off, so let's turn it off. There we go. Not rocket science. Turn it back on. Turn it on, hold on. Turn it on, there you go, it's on. Okay now, there is no point in me pressing the DMX button because it is not set to DMX. What I can do though is I can press the music 1. Now at the moment now you can see it flashing as I talk. That's because it needs an audio signal to start to flash. No audio but if I start talking it flashes. Okay. So we have 1, 2, 3 different settings which is great. The other one is we can let it flash. There you go, it's flashing. Alright. I'm going to turn it around now. There and I'm also now going to turn the light off. Okay so let's go to 1A. Okay 1A and now 2A, 3, 4, 5. 6 and 7. And then the plus and minus will pretty much make one of those effects go faster or slower.

Right so the genius, the genius behind this light. I'll say it again. The genius is its simplicity. That's it! It is genius because it's so simple to use. You don't have to have a DMX controller. You don't have to plug it in and think oh let's do sound to light. No! You can get it to do a good show. Now if you think about it. If you've got two or four of them. You know, you don't have to think oh well if I press this button one is going to do that show and then that's going to do something else and something else. One controller will work the four of them. Now also. I don't know if you noticed here but if I press A1. Oh hold on, yeah we're on A1 anyway. So press A2. You can see we've got a different show. On the other hand if I turn it around.

I'm now going to press A1 and it's changed colour. Now alright yes it's changed colour. But what that tells me is that the control unit can be used from behind as well as in front. So if you've got the two heads or one. Whatever you get facing away from you. You don't have to like move your arm around and try and face forward. Or point should I say the little control unit at the head. You can just go from behind and away you go. Alright so again here it is. Very simple and I'm going to unplug it. And I'm going to stick it in this bag. There we go. It's going to go away. Oh shit. Don't break it. Put it in there. I'm going to be using that this weekend along with the other ones. We've got two of them. There will be pictures and video from this weekend's gig.

So there you go. The Derby 9 DMX. Very simple. Very simple, I mean very simple to use. Alright so if you want any information on this light from Nova Pro. Then there will be a link in the description. Right down there to the website. Practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

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