KAM K-STRIP 12 and 6 Final Review

0:00 Just finished doing the washing up

Alright guys, just finished doing the washing up. This is my final review on the Cam K-Strip series. Now I've done a couple of short reviews on these in the past and I've used them at gigs. What I wanted to do first really is use them at gigs and see what they were like. If you're not familiar with Cam go and check them out at cam.co.uk. If you're not familiar with the K-Strip series then there they are. It's got nothing to do with taking your clothes off. Right, okay. So we have the K-Strip 6 and the K-Strip 12. 12 3W RGB LEDs. 6 3W RGB LEDs. Technical stuff. Okay. The size. Size matters. Right. So the K-Strip 12 is just... It's a renomo.

31 and 3 quarter inches long, which is 80 and a half centimetres long. The depth is 9 centimetres, 3 and a half inches. And if we look at the face, it's around about 2 and 3 quarter inches. Standing on their feet, they are around about 7 inches. Then the case strip 6 is 16 inches long, which is... is this little device here.

5:04 The last thing I will say is that the construction is perfect

Now I'm a sucker for not using DMX, I know I should use DMX because it makes your show like this much bigger but let's be honest when you're say doing a medium-sized gig and you're not getting what you feel you should be getting fee wise the last thing you want to start doing is spending hours and hours setting kit up what you want to do you want to turn up Place lights up lighting or place, for that matter, any light up or lights up. So you don't really want to spend that long and by the way digress slightly. Always set your sound system up first then lighting.

Never lighting first then sound system because if you put your lighting up and you've got 10 minutes left and then you put your PA system up and you realise the sound isn't working, you know what? You could have the best light show in the world but if you ain't got sound, what's the point? System, sound first then lights.

So, let's go back. We're back. OK, so you don't like DMX controllers. What you will like with the K-Strip series is this. There it is. It's an IRC remote and what I like about this is that's your DMX controller. We'll go red. We'll go green. And we'll go blue. And we'll go blue. There you go. Each of the K-Strip series comes with its own controller, but of course if you buy a whole bunch of them then you've got a load of controllers so what I would recommend is put some away because it's quite possibly easy to get lost. But they have put a little hole there that you can put, I don't know, a cable through and attach it to something like your leg so you'll never lose it. Good idea. Mind you, bits of you walking around with that flapping around your wheelie. Anyway, so, right, they are very bright, OK? They are very bright. And ideally I would say for up-lighting, as you can see they've got the feet on them, so you can position them in any way you want to. Great, like I said, for up-lighting, for filling a room with colour. Also if you want to, you can use the attachments,

You can have two fit on your light trussing rig, so you've got plenty of holes there. So they don't have to be up lights, you can have them as down lights, up or down. Now what's the point in me waffling on? There they are. That's what they do. They're very bright, come with their own controller. They're called the K-Strip series. I have used them in gigs. They do work. So if you're into uplighting, then go and check them out. The last thing I will say is that the construction is perfect. They are built like tanks. When I first picked them up, I didn't find this sort of flimsy kind of light. I have used a lot of lights in the past. You see some uplights, any light for that matter, and there's this huge big box

And you can tell that 90% of the room inside there is full of air. The other 10% is full of a big transformer with a circuit board about that big. These I doubt it very much because they are quite heavy. So not only is the construction perfect, but the materials are probably very good as well. If you're in, say, a room or you are a DJ that demands good quality and you're on the road every single night, the last thing you want to do is have a product that's going to fall apart or bits are going to start falling off it. I cannot see this happening with the K-Strip series, okay? I'll put a link in the description. Practice and enjoy. Thank you. Oh, you want to look it up? Okay, there we go. Just take that out. Right, there it is. There.

And I've got a fisheye. No mentioning about my kitchen being dirty because it's a used kitchen. Kids, and there you go. Look at that. Perfect. And a foot. There you go. Very simple. You can DMX them, you can master slave them, and if you want to, you don't even have to set it to do sound to light. Because on the little control, it's got a button called sound or button with sound on it. Press that and they will do sound to light. So here's a good thing, all of a sudden you have bride and groom dancing. You can set it to a nice mellow kind of colour. And then as soon as they've finished, go on with the little pressy button, IRC, bang, you're into sound to light and the night begins. Alright, practice and enjoy, thank you.

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