These are excellent lights and fantastic value for money. I have purchased 12 in total for my live sound business.
Having only 13 channels is very useful, compared to some lights that have over 20. This makes getting the same effect with less effort so much more achievable. They are extremely bright and will fill venues of 2,000-3,000 easily if you programme in large sweeping effects.
The moving heads do make a little noise, but in a typical rock and roll environment you wouldn’t really hear them anyway. I haven’t had an experience where their noise is being picked up by microphones, and if you’re using gates and expanders on things like a drum kit you probably wouldn’t pick up most of this noise between songs.
Being able to daisy chain these with Powercon connectors is great, with power and XLR signal cables provided by Thomann. The omega clamps are a bit tricky to fit by hand and you’ll need a gripping tool of some kind to apply them and remove them. The supplies G-clamps are more than adequate and fit 50mm truss.
The colours are excellent and very vibrant. I find the dark blue looks more of a UV shade. The whites are very bright and the beams very tight and narrow.
The only downside is the limited gobo shapes. It may have been more useful to throw in a few stars, some circles, an X here or there. Some of the shapes are bit difficult to pick out. However, that’s my only complaint.
