Hi, I am a newbie ... So I apologise for my novice questions below .
For the last couple of years I have assisted the local primary school to hold a disco every 3-4 months. We are located in a country town and activities are limited - thus the young kids aged 5-13 really love the disco when it comes around.
I use a number of effects and led lights including Yamaha mix board mg82cx, chauvet radius 2.0, chauvet cubix,optima ex556(co1) projector, RAVE af1214 smoke machine, cheapie $20 wall laser and a cheap Chinese unbranded moonflower light. We run 2 x 515xt JBL 500 series from a latop. School Hall is approximately 50m @ 30m.
Each disco we raise between $700-1000 which all goes back to the kids end of year school camp. No profit is made by me or anyone else, it is all done by a few local parents/volunteers for the kids benefit
Through the school we recently have received a grant for $1000 and I would like to invest that money into some form of the following. Coloured laser perhaps RGB that can be controlled both DMX and from a laptop. Not sure which is better for our purpose. Currently we run music from the laptop via windows media player to all the above lights and effects using auto sound activation where they sort of all flash to the beat. To elaborate, I have no DMX experience or laptop software experience/knowledge and we would like to incorporate one or both of these formats with a half decent laser into our school disco.
Thus we have around $1000 - $1200 and we are sort of flying blind. I have looked at the shinp al-980rgb and shinp al-460rgb. These May or May not be the right brand of lasers to go with ... There may be better value out there or better quality. I do not know if it is possible, but to create a system that allows our own artwork for the disco or other laser show application including school concert would be an added bonus. I have the adobe premiere pro suite ... It's a fairly old CS3 type - but if that's is applicable and usable. Then I have it
I appreciate any suggestions of what I need to get this disco happening a little better for the kids with a reasonable laser suggestion and other necessary software/hardware suggestion from the learned laser peoples who visit this site.
I appreciate that These questions may have been asked in the past however the cause that this information will assist is worthy. With the right information it might take a few extra purchases that I am unaware of and a bit of reading up, practice and training to get everything working properly. But this is our chance to get it happening for the school.
Thank You Pete
For the last couple of years I have assisted the local primary school to hold a disco every 3-4 months. We are located in a country town and activities are limited - thus the young kids aged 5-13 really love the disco when it comes around.
I use a number of effects and led lights including Yamaha mix board mg82cx, chauvet radius 2.0, chauvet cubix,optima ex556(co1) projector, RAVE af1214 smoke machine, cheapie $20 wall laser and a cheap Chinese unbranded moonflower light. We run 2 x 515xt JBL 500 series from a latop. School Hall is approximately 50m @ 30m.
Each disco we raise between $700-1000 which all goes back to the kids end of year school camp. No profit is made by me or anyone else, it is all done by a few local parents/volunteers for the kids benefit
Through the school we recently have received a grant for $1000 and I would like to invest that money into some form of the following. Coloured laser perhaps RGB that can be controlled both DMX and from a laptop. Not sure which is better for our purpose. Currently we run music from the laptop via windows media player to all the above lights and effects using auto sound activation where they sort of all flash to the beat. To elaborate, I have no DMX experience or laptop software experience/knowledge and we would like to incorporate one or both of these formats with a half decent laser into our school disco.
Thus we have around $1000 - $1200 and we are sort of flying blind. I have looked at the shinp al-980rgb and shinp al-460rgb. These May or May not be the right brand of lasers to go with ... There may be better value out there or better quality. I do not know if it is possible, but to create a system that allows our own artwork for the disco or other laser show application including school concert would be an added bonus. I have the adobe premiere pro suite ... It's a fairly old CS3 type - but if that's is applicable and usable. Then I have it
I appreciate any suggestions of what I need to get this disco happening a little better for the kids with a reasonable laser suggestion and other necessary software/hardware suggestion from the learned laser peoples who visit this site.
I appreciate that These questions may have been asked in the past however the cause that this information will assist is worthy. With the right information it might take a few extra purchases that I am unaware of and a bit of reading up, practice and training to get everything working properly. But this is our chance to get it happening for the school.
Thank You Pete