Personally, but that is just me, I HATE light. Not that I don’t enjoy the effect it creates, but for a mobile DJ it’s the pits. I can set up sound in less than 20mins now, light will take an extra 45-60mins, same goes for packing it all in afterwards. It takes massive extra transport space. It’s clumsy, unless you transport it in flightcases. Those have a tendency of being rather large and bulky, so even more extra transport space.
There is a lot of extra cabling (dmx and power) involved. Even if done cleverly (everything on a light bar, semi-permanently connected) you still run a lot of extra cable. You need extra heavy duty and tall stands for light.
I have now drilled it down to:
1) A flat 24 by 24 inch LED panel (actually a ceiling panel lol) that has my logo on it and can be set to either flash in all kinds of patterns or slowly change color (like a mood light) or stay in any of 16 chooseable colors. It hangs on the front of my DJ stand. Setup time about 2 mins (hook it onto the DJ stand, plug in the power supply, hit the remote for the right program, done!)
2) 4 rechargeable American DJ wireless DMX LED bars. I just toss them on the floor as wall/uplights. Set them to either follow the music (slave the rest to the first one to get a uniform behaviour) or hook up my extra laptop with DMX software
3) not yet bought, but looking at some moonflower-like effects that I can set on the floor or some crates and that I can turn on off with remote control or dmx
No light bars, no big extra stands, no extra cabling.
Greetinx,
C.
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