AND INNO POCKET ROLL Inno Pocket Scan Inno Pocket Roll SSP: ADJ’s ever-expanding Inno series has for a while now provided mobile DJs with bright LED fixtures, such as the Inno Colour Beam Quad7, and WiFLY enabled units like the Inno Spot WiFly, but (unlike some equivalent products in the same market) always at a reasonable, affordable price. Inno fixtures are serious when it comes to power – featuring ADJ’s latest LED technology – but they’re also fun, flexible fixtures for us mobile DJs to use.

64 After the Inno Pocket Spot gained its reputation as a compact, flexible, affordable moving head spot, ADJ soon looked to grow the range further by developing flat-mirrored and barrel-mirrored effects of the same ilk. The result is the Inno Pocket Scan and Inno Pocket Roll – which were a pleasure to test out. The Scan and Roll are – as their names tell you – ‘pocket’ fixtures, and the first thing to note is that they live up to this name; lightweight and portable at 292mm and 330mm tall, respectively, both are incredibly compact.

They may be small, but they are also mighty, each harbouring a bright 12-watt LED source – just as found in the Pocket Spot. This power makes for impressively bright effects; the GOBO patterns are crisp, the open spot is a clear, brilliant white, and the colours are vibrant. The effects work very well in a normal dark function room, but really come into their own to create fantastic impact if you are able to use smoke or haze, generating some cool midair effects.

However, it isn’t just the powerful LED source that makes the light sharp and eye-catching, but the narrow 14-degree beam angle too – both ensure that the effects ‘pop’. The Scan and Roll also utilise strobe and pulse effects with which to liven up your audience, perfect for younger crowds or those evening receptions that just need a bit of a kick to get them going! ADJ INNO POCKET SCAN AND INNO POCKET ROLL Obviously we’re talking about mirsingle GOBO/colour ror scanners here and a huge part ing eight GOBO of how eff ective the Scan and Roll with eight colours, really are comes down to their mircan be seen to rors.

Firstly, ADJ has ensured that Mode, which both fixtures make the most of pre-set shows rapid mirror movement; the stepper many combinations motors with micro stepping allow colour available. them to move with some serious vibrant, they speed – faster than a lot of moving onto the heads out there. Despite the movwalls and ceilings. ing parts, the fi xtures remain quiet and relatively noise-free. Building The more gigs on this speed, the Pocket Scan gives extensive our you unlimited fl exibility and scope, more important thanks to its X-Y mirror movement, out to be.

ADJ to project gobo patterns anywhere the Inno Pocket within a room. As a result, this fast, both well-suited fl exible movement makes it easy to – hence the fi ll a dance-fl oor or even a whole names. While room with energetic colour eff ects. your pocket, The Pocket Roll, meanwhile, spins or four into a incredibly fast, to send its colour you can keep eff ects spiralling around rooms and age when on across dance-fl oors. easily, and store home. Weighing Reflecting off these mirrors are the 2.7kg each, the fixtures’ many coloured patterns. to lift and Both the Scan and Roll feature a mobile setup.

ADJ INNO POCKET SCAN AND INNO POCKET ROLL wheel, combin- While using the Pocket Scan or patterns, plus open, Roll, you have a choice of three opplus white. These erational modes: DMX-Controlled, full effect in Show Sound Active and Internal Show. For scrolls through various a quick setup and getting straight incorporating the down to business, Sound Active of pattern and mode shows off the fast mirror Always bright and movement; scattering and spinning look great projected GOBO patterns around the room to dance-floor or onto venue the tempo of your music.

With 12 pre-programmed displays, Internal Show mode achieves similar eff ects we play and the more while allowing you to adjust the setups become, the speed manually. You probably don’t portability turns need me to tell you that these nift y has ensured that fi xtures are going to achieve more Scan and Roll are together than on their own, and to life on the road ADJ has ensured that they can be ‘Pocket’ part of their conveniently linked – via DMX or in not literally fitting in a master/slave confi guration.

Obviyou’ll easily fit three ously, running in DMX-Controlled single carry bag, so mode will give you the most fl exibilthem free from damity with your eff ects as you can link the road, carry them and control multiple Scans and Rolls them away safely at together with your other existing in at a reasonable lighting fi xtures to create a bigger fixtures are easy coordinated lightshow. For DMX transport as part of any operation, both fi xtures require six channels which provide complete 65 control over movement, colour/ easy to control the gobo, strobing and dimming. ly, from a distance of This gives you control One of the things I love about the like strobing, colour Pocket fixtures, like many of ADJ’s dimming and the other products, is the Display In- Active mode – ideal version mode.

With your fixtures fixtures from your in master/slave mode, Display spicuously from the Inversion ‘flips’ the effects of the during an all-day selected fixtures to create a really professional, effective synchro- Speaking of bookings; nised lightshow. This looks great we are rarely tied to when you have, say, four fixtures or used to positioning – a Scan and Roll on either side of one certain way your booth – and they invert, like events and booking the lightshow is being mirrored by ent lighting. the opposite side.

It’s eye-catching and with the Inno and an excellent way to frame your and Roll you have booth, while also acting as an aufor mounting them. dience-facing effect that projects a hanging yoke, so colour onto the dance-floor. What’s them from stands also very exciting is the fact that angle. Depending Inno Pocket Spot moving heads can want the light to be also be linked together in master/ can adjust the fixtures slave mode with Pocket Scans and – angling them down Rolls to create a synchronised, but floor, upwards so as easy to setup and control, lightpatterns flitting across show running across three differor at eyelevel for some ent types of fixture. effects.

ADJ has also to place the IEC in/outs If these control options aren’t of the unit, rather enough, ADJ also has an IR Remote you can keep your available (separately sold, I might and tidy, and away add). Using the remote makes it eyes of your audiences. 6666 fixtures, wireless- Despite my best efforts, I don’t have up to 15-feet. many gripes at all about these excelover features lent little units. Obviously, separate change, 0-100% colour and GOBO wheels would selection of Sound have allowed a bit more flexibility, for adjusting the but this probably isn’t an issue for booth or inconmost DJs.

Also, there are many back of a venue brighter fixtures on the market, booking. but none that are so compact and available at such a low price point. as mobile DJs I remember when four scanners for just one venue £1000 was a big deal, now you can our lights in pick up four of these for half that because different price! require differ- Positioning is vital, For mobile DJs, these bright but Pocket Scan compact effects tick all the boxes. various options Ideal for taking on the road due to Both include their size and weight; capable of creyou can mount ating crisp, clear GOBO effects in a or truss at any range of colours; and easy to link toon where you gether as part of a more substantial, projected, you synchronised lightshow – they’re accordingly every mobile DJs dream, right?

And onto a danceto top it all off, the Inno Pocket Scan to send GOBO and Roll are well within the budget the ceiling, of most mobile DJs. So, if you want cool mid-air to bolster your lightshow and fill been so kind as the dance-floor with some fun, fast, on the back eye-catching LED effects – and not than the side, so pay over the odds – then ADJ’s Inno wiring all neat Pocket Scan and Roll may be just from the prying what you’re looking for. ADJ INNO POCKET SCAN AND INNO POCKET ROLL