KAM DERBY9 a Full DJ Light Show in a Small Box

0:00 This is an unboxing of the Cam Derby 9

Right, ladies and gentlemen, this is an unboxing of the Cam Derby 9. Now, this is actually a full light show in itself. Right, so you're an aspiring DJ, you want to become a mobile DJ, you're in the house, you want a little private party, something like that. Don't start looking at expensive moving heads. If you do, you're an absolute muppet because I'm not saying you're wasting your money. I don't really want to go there. If you're a high-end DJ earning thousands, then of course, by all means, go with the expensive moving heads. But on the other hand, if you are an up-and-coming DJ, bedroom DJ, you just want a couple of flashy lights in your bedroom to annoy the neighbours with next door, then let's have a look at the Cam Derby 9.

It's still in its box, so I'm going to open this up. Now, this is relatively inexpensive. Check online. I don't want to give you a price now because prices can change, but it's not going to break the bank. OK, so what have we got? We have the destruction manual. Very simple. Now, these lights, I'll be honest with you, they are pretty much plug and play. Control for it, small control plug, DMX in and out, and you have a small... Hold on, let's have a look. That's the display unit, I beg your pardon, sorry. So you can set on the Derby 9 your own little light show without having to use DMX. So you can do sort of a master-slave. Yeah, as I said, sound to light, very simple. OK, so we have the light control unit.

2:18 You have LEDs inside there

We have our kettle plug, kettle lead, and I'm going to set this all up in this video. So no editing, just start it up. Okay, so let's take it out of the box. There you go. I advise people as well, always keep the box because guess what? It's the cheapest flight case you'll ever have because it's cost you nothing. Alright, so there it is. Now these lights are relatively simple in construction. You have LEDs inside there. You have these lenses that, of course, will shine the light. You'll get the light out of the lenses so they'll shine out of the light. Ah, bloody hell. Sorry, just ignore me. What else have we got? We've got a small fan to cool it down and we can clamp this onto some form of trussing rig or if you want to you could just hang it from the ceiling. It's entirely up to you.

So there's your little display, your menu and enter up and down. So very basically with this microphone there for sound to light. So press your menu, as you press the menu you go through the different functions. For example let's say you want a certain colour, you press there and up and down depending on... The amount of colour you want, when you have got say a desired light show that you want it to do then you press enter. If you don't press enter it will go back to default wherever it was to begin with. DMX in and out and there's your power in. Now some think here just by the by if all of a sudden you plug it in and it doesn't work and you're thinking hold on a minute it should work. Well, just check first of all the fuse. Now in here, believe it or not, is an internal fuse. So I can't do it right now, but what you can... Oh, I can do it. There you go. I managed to just pull that out. Look at that. Amazing. There is your internal fuse. So check that first, OK? Now there should be by all rights... No, normally there's a spare one in there, but there doesn't seem to be a spare one. But what you can do, if you want to, is have a look at that fuse. Check.

What power it is and get a spare, put it in the little hole there and then just push that back in. So that's the first thing to check if it doesn't work. Right, so let's plug this in. Let's get the power cable that came with it. I'm going to put that into my mains plug and I'm going to plug it in. There we go. Oh wow, look at that straight away. Let's turn the light off. It is broad daylight at the moment but it doesn't matter. Alright, so that's quite a nice display. It's very bright and as you can see I've got a fisheye lens on the camera at the moment, not wide angle. Wide angle is, you know, wide angle. Fisheye is pretty much you can get an entire room from about sort of two foot away from the wall. So you can see that that is filling the room completely.

4:58 Applications for a light, you know

This here, applications, let's have a look, let's just put the light back on. I do actually like it when people talk about applications for a light, you know, oh, you know, you can only use it in a nightclub, mobile DJ can't use it. Well, if we go back to the 80s and early 90s, that would be so because there were some lights... Oh God, here we go, the phone's going, I have to ignore it. There'd be some lights that you could not use in a mobile event because they were big and bulky. But generally now, a lot of lights that say are being used in nightclubs can be used for mobile DJs. See, I can't stop this video now because I've already opened the damn thing. Alright, but this would... Fit into a professional kind of mobile show or, like I said earlier, in your bedroom because what you've got to think of once this is plugged in and it's set up behind your console or to the right or to the left, it's dark, other lights are flashing, this is going to look professional next to a light that's probably cost you a thousand pounds, euros or dollars. So it's not about the cost.

What you have to remember, it's about the effect that you get. And buck for buck, pound for pound, if you look at the effect this is giving you in relation to the cost, then that's not such a bad deal at all. Alright, let's shine it towards the camera. You can see... That's pretty bright. Alright, now there will be info in the description of this video. Once again, this is the Cam Derby 9. You've got nine 3-watt LEDs. Okay, so there you go. Multicolour beam lighting effect. And it is. Alright, so there you go. More to come on Cam. Don't forget, also comes with a little remote control as well. Which is rather sweet. What that means is you can sit in your bed, play some funky tunes, annoy the neighbours and just change the scene. Practice and enjoy. Thank you very much.

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