Lighting up a band....ideas and advice please!

[Westie9]

We are just venturing into the realms of lighting.

I've been looking at the Kam Powerbar for the danceoor. Has anyone any experience of these? Any good? Adequate by themselves for a medium size hall or do we need something else too?

We'd also like a colour wash for the band, perhaps with the colour changing every 2-3 mins or so. Would the best way to do this be to have 2 mounted led lamps on each back corner pointing down or lit from the front 2 corners? Any recommendations as to makes, companies, stands etc???

I've got a budget of £400. I don't want to sacrifice on quality, so if I need to raise more, so be it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Adee]

[i]2 x ACME IMPOSSIBLED for Dance floor - [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2MKfjbG7UE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2MKfjbG7UE[/url][/i]
[i]These are superb, portable and effective, we just use one, but two with one on the floor and one on[/i]
[i]the walls or ceiling would be excellent[/i]

[i]The for the band I would use one or two (if you can afford) KAM Powerbars[/i]

[i]or a cheaper alternative for colour wash use a couple (or more) of these - [/i]
2 X AMERICAN DJ LED PROFILE - [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkX2qIVcObE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkX2qIVcObE[/url]

[davehux]

We've been using a pair of Equinox Micro Bar 4 x LED units for the last year. Come with the stands and the case. Sturdy but not massively heavy, more than enough illumination for our 5 piece pub band.

Easy to cycle through the pre-sets or the solid colours with the footswitch . The sound-2-light function is great for that opening 'blast of light' on the first 4-5 bars of the first number, then I kick in one of the pre-sets.

http://www.djkit.com/equinox/equinox-micro-bar-system.html?cat=310