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KAM LED DMX lightscreen a demo

First look November 2008

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0:00 It's the Cam LED 1300 DMX light screen

Alright folks, Jonathan here. Someone's asked me to demo this guy here and give you a bit of a closer look. It's the Cam LED 1300 DMX light screen. So, there you go, it's in two units, they lock together, it folds away like a big sort of suitcase, it's quite heavy, it's metal, it's stable if you make it stable, and it looks good. Bit of an insight there, but what I'll do now, we'll pause the camera and I'll expand on all of that, I'll type. Okay, there you go, there's your clips. There's one clip, there's another one down there, there's your handle and on the other side you've got the opposite. There and there and there's your handle. Now the actual way it's set up, if I just put the camera on the floor, you can see here, because I need to hold this, what happens is those guys will fit in. Now I suggest...

1:22 Sound light, press actual, cable ties

You use, like me, a pair of pliers because, alright, you can use your fingers but you need to lock them securely. And then once you've got this on this side and on the other side, if you can see, it's sitting nicely on its feet. Now also, again because it's in two units, it could wobble about a bit. So what they've done is they've fitted these here so that locks it in place. There's your cable to go from right to left. That basically takes the signal and the power. Now one important factor, when I used this over the weekend, I used, and again it's up to you, but I highly recommend you secure this somehow. But this is what I did.

3:18 Point view, were, lights

I had some cable ties and I put a cable tie around each handle either side and then I attached the cable ties to the legs of the table where the gear was on. So it was, well, I mean nothing's ever going to be totally secure because if you get a ruckload of rugby players diving at you, you've had it. Not that you'd want that really. So there you go. Right, at the moment now, I don't think it's sound to light or anything but you can have it sound to light if we just wang around the back. There's the controls there. If I just put the camera on the floor. Two amps so it doesn't take much power.

This is in and out so you can go from your DMX controller in and then out to another light screen or any other DMX unit. There's your mic so it does do like I say sound to light. On off button and here Which is quite a nice feature, that you can hear it sort of clicking as it goes around the different settings. Now if I press that in like that then you can see the actual display change and if I just move it, I've got to be careful here, hold on, press it again, there you go. So you can see the actual settings change like so and then whatever setting you want, press it and there you go, that's it.

But ideally from a mobile DJ's point of view, well from mine especially, and that is the last thing you want to do really is mess around with loads of DMX lighting etc. because I personally want to be concentrating on just playing the music. So it is nice to get lights where it's basically just plug it in and let it carry on and occasionally turn things on and off I suppose. Now the colours are very intense, it's a nice feature and again from the actual crowd's point of view it's good. To look at something. So if you imagine you're sat behind there and that's shining away, it's quite nice as opposed to just having a tablecloth in front of you. And anyone out there who can remember these old foul lights from the 70s and 80s which was basically a wooden box, quite often it was chipboard and when you stuck that in the shed for six months it used to smell. It was horrible. And all you had, you had three lights in it. They were basically light bulbs and if you were lucky they were sprayed

So there you go. There's my interpretation, what I think of it. If you want any more info on it or anything like that then post a comment underneath, leave us a question, query or whatever and tell me what you think about it. So there you go. I like it quite a lot and I'll be using this in future videos, so nice one. Practice and enjoy!

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