This Is the Best DJ Lighting Effect Ever No Question!

0:00 Jonathan here, Ellaskins, aka The DJ Tutor

All right, Jonathan here, Ellaskins, aka The DJ Tutor. So what is the best effect, lighting effect ever? The best DJ club lighting effect ever. What is it? I mean, what is it? Today's technology, we've got so much. We have faster, stronger, harder LEDs, bright lights, big booming effects. We have lighting to make you go nuts. There is lighting now to make you walk into a room and just fill you with euphoria. But what lighting effect has done that since pretty much the dawn of time? Now, of course, dawn of time, I'm not on about the dinosaurs, but I'm on about when pretty much nightclubs started. What was the lighting effect that was big then and still is now? What is the lighting effect that's so simple yet so effective? If you haven't seen one, you're not a DJ. If you've never looked and thought, wow, then you've never been into a nightclub. I'll show you. It's this. It's a mirror ball. That is it. It is so simple. Look at it. It's a ball.

1:31 A pin spot added

Covered in small pieces of mirror and it's attached to a little motor that will turn the mirror ball roughly about two, maybe one, maybe even sometimes half RPM. That's short for revolutions per minute, okay? But you see what is fantastic about the mirror ball is you can point. A pin spot added. That's pretty much what happened many years ago. Someone would attach a pin spot a few feet, a few meters away, point it at the mirror ball, the mirror ball would turn and then the light would go from the pin spot to the mirror ball and pretty much go around the room depending of course on where you pointed it at the mirror ball. Of course some people who were very rich had two pin spots, three or even four.

3:01 This thing here is the sort of laser that you could put outside

Then in the 70s they realised that we could add colour. Not only could we add colour, we could add a colour wheel that would change the colour of the mirror ball. Isn't that amazing? Just something as simple as that. But today's technology allows us to get something like this. This is from Laser World. That is here. It's the Garden Pro Star. Now this thing here is the sort of laser that you could put outside. You can put this outside, you can rain on it, you can have rain, you can like pretty much pour water over it. Yet, this itself points pins of laser light. So imagine having a laser with pins of light pointing at a mirror ball. Just imagine the effect. you would get right okay so you know we're in a room with lots of light at the moment but let me turn the lights off okay dark and there we go right check that out now that is what I would class as pretty stunning now at the moment the laser itself it's just turning on and off imagine having the mirror ball moving as well

Alright, the mind boggles. Right, turn the light back on. So there you go. That is undisputedly the best effect of all time. Something as simple as a mirror ball. It's up to you though to take it to the next level. I have used a Laser World laser. What would you use? Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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