- The new FXBAR140 is an affordable, compact and lightweight batten fixture from Lotronic's Ibiza Light brand. It combines warm white blinder LEDs with a unique RGB LED background effect to create a uniquely distinctive DJ lighting product. 72 sponsored by When I chat to DJs at exhibitions, conferences and association meets, the conversation often gets around to the subject of gear. Particularly when it comes to lighting, there seems to be an overwhelming desire at the moment to move away from the one-size-fits-all ‘standard’ mobile DJ rig that has emerged over recent years and create something that simultaneously stands out from other setups and fits in to the rest of an event’s décor.

There were some fantastically innovative and creative examples of this featured in the article I compiled earlier this year on ‘Rustic Rigs’ [Pro Mobile Issue 96 | July/ August 2019]. Many DJs have either commissioned or created for themselves impressive wooden booths, plinths and set pieces that fit in perfectly with the shabby chic and barn wedding trends. However, to a certain extent, this creativity is limited by the lighting fixtures that are available on the market.

That is why I am always excited when I find out about a new product that offers something distinctly different, and that is certainly the case with the new FXBAR140. While taking the form of a conventional LED bar fixture, its effect is unlike anything else currently available from any other lighting brand. At the heart of the unit is a line of 14 warm white 3W CREE ‘blinder’ LEDs, each of which can be controlled independently. What then makes this product unique is the set of four small RGB LEDs that surround each of the main warm white lightsources.

These are mounted behind a textured front panel made from opaque plastic that causes the front of the bar to glow when the RGB LEDs behind are illuminated. By combining these two elements, the FXBAR140 is a versatile fixture capable of generating a variety of different effects, including colour chasing and strobing, as well as acting as a powerful audience blinder. While an essential component of concert lightshows, you may be thinking that a blinder effect isn’t something particularly high on your list of mobile DJ lighting requirements.

However, this fixture is so much more than just a blinder. Warm white lighting is extremely fashionable at the moment – just think of all of those filament-style lamps you see in trendy bars and restaurants! Dimming down the output and setting the warm white LEDs to chase gently will create a very ‘on trend’ lighting effect. If you then add in the RGB LEDs in the background, set to match the event’s colour scheme, you can very easily create an elegant lighting look that will please even the most visually-particular brides and event planners. IBIZA LIGHT FXBAR140 AVAILABLE TO BUY ONLINE AND IN-STORE AT UNIT 3, SUMMERHOUSE PLACE, SUMMERHOUSE ROAD, MOULTON PARK, NORTHAMPTON, NN3 6GL IBIZA LIGHT FXBAR140 Later on, when the dancefloor is selected from the in full flow, you can of course then Fully customised also use the same fixtures to inject can also be created colour and energy by chasing the need for a DMX RGB LEDs and blasting the warm the Manual mode white LEDs on full power at peak accessible from the moments for that high-energy allows independent blinder effect. warm white blinders of the three primary In terms of brightness, the warm and is ideal for white LEDs really are blinding if you ‘warmer’ effect for look at them straight-on.

They are of an evening before each positioned within an individual the sound-activated reflector and behind a lens, which focuses the light into a fairly narrow Of course, as is the beam. This means that they are very lighting fixtures, effective if you are lucky enough to a unit of this nature, be able to use haze, although they is needed to fully are also suitable for use in a smokepotential. The unit free environment. of four DMX channel 12 or 60), with the The coloured LEDs don’t really full individual dimming generate a wash per se, but are each of the 14 warm more of an ‘eye candy’ effect akin well as full colour to the lightscreens of old (for of the fourteen sets those of us who have been around long enough to remember them!).

The batten is They are, however, nice and bright, remarkably thin for and their glowing effect is clearly length, widening out visible even with houselights on or where the control with daylight streaming through The power input windows. Then, when the sun connections (in the descends and the lights go out, increasingly-common they really pop in a darkened room sockets) are located creating bold solid colours or eyethis thicker section, catching chase patterns as required.

DMX input and output on the other. While For simple standalone operation the make for neater cable FXBAR140 comes pre-programmed the sockets had been with 60 internal chase patterns. the back panel, I think These can be easily selected from the 4-character LED display menu on the rear of the fixture and can be set to either run at a constant speed (with 9 options to choose from) or sound activated from the internal microphone (with variable sensitivity between 0 and 99).

In both of these modes multiple units can be linked together to run in a master/slave configuration. The unit also features 15 colour macros, which can also be easily 74 menu interface. of this product have missed a trick static looks by not grouping the input sockets without the (both power and DMX) on one side controller using and the output sockets on the other. that is also menu. This Weighing in at just 2.66kg, the dimming of the FXBAR140 is extremely convenient as well as each to carry, transport and rig.

A variable LED colours angle bracket is fitted to the back of creating a static the unit, which can be locked securely the early part into place using thumb-tightening switching to screws on either side. This could be mode later on. attached directly to a tripod top hat adapter or fitted to clamps for rigging case with most either in a landscape orientation and particularly hanging from a goalpost rig or in a DMX control portrait orientation attached to the realise its side of a truss podium.

Each unit is offers a choice also supplied with a quarter-turn modes (6, 8, locking mechanism that can be used latter offering to link together the ends of two control of neighbouring units. This allows two white LEDs as or more units to be easily combined mixing for each in order to create one continuous run of RGB LEDs. of LEDs. 1m long and Distinctly different from anything most of its else currently on the market, I in the middle think the Ibiza Light FXBAR140 panel is located. offers mobile DJs a lot of creative and output potential.

Whether attached to form of the now truss podiums, hung from a lighting twist-lock rig or integrated into a custom on one side of booth, it has the potential to create while the 3-pin everything from subtle looks to sockets are high impact strobe and blinder this layout does effects. Add in the fact that it is both runs than if affordable and lightweight, and I’d positioned on say – from a mobile DJ perspective – the designers Ibiza Light are onto a winner! m IBIZA LIGHT FXBAR140 Ready to Anywhere.

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