American DJ QUAD GEM DMX, First look. Video 1

0:00 It's known as the Quad Gem DMX

Alright folks, my first video on this piece of kit here is from a company called American DJ. It's known as the Quad Gem DMX. Now I have said this before in previous videos but if you're anything like me, you know, you go and get yourself a new piece of lighting effect from a shop, a store, and then you bring it home. Let's say you've got a gig in a week's time. Well you're not going to leave it in the box and then turn it on in a week. You're going to open the box Plug it in and give it a demo in broad daylight. So that's exactly what I'm doing. So this is the front room and I'm giving it a bit of a test. What I'll do, I'll pause the camera now and have a look at the back of it. Sorry about Lilo and Stitch. No, it's Stitch, isn't it? OK, what have we got here? We've got DMX in and out so you can use this unit through a DMX controller. This guy here is a jack input only for remote control. And what we've got here, which I do like,

1:26 Alternatively, let's say you've got something like this 10-20 metres a

It's more user friendly. For example, let's say you're on the road and you don't want to plug in a DMX controller. You want to set it yourself so you can use this function display to set it yourself. Microphone here, what that will do, that will pick up the sound from your speakers and it'll make it flash so it sounds light as well. Now this dial here is a sensitivity dial. What does it do? Let's say, for example, you've got this unit slap bang next to your bass cabs. What you can do is you can turn the sensitivity down to the minimum position or around to the minimum position. What that means then is that it won't be blasted by bass sounds and be flashing all over the place. Alternatively, let's say you've got something like this 10-20 metres away from your speakers. What you can do then is you can turn it up to max. In a sense what's happening now is the microphone

2:26 Me personally, I'd go about having two either side

What you can do with this unit is you can link them. If we look here, you've got four holes. What you can do is you can have an attachment here and then onto that attachment you can attach another one of these units and I have seen them in fours. Now me personally, I'd go about having two either side. Four to me is a bit too much of an extreme but two would be a very good effect. So what you can do is you can go in here, power, and then you can go out of there Thanks for watching and please subscribe for more videos like this.

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