What color are we going to be on this song?

[Stinsok]

With the availability of affordable LED stage lights, it's helped a lot of people. The bands I have seen lately use one color at a time or a chase setting. It's almost as bad as having no stage lights. Seeing everyone in Koolaid Lime Green is kinda weird.

[LiquidMidnight]

A production company we often work with just started using LEDs. They look awesome and being under them feels nowhere near as hot as being under regular par cans.

However, my preference has always been with intelligent lights. If I could play every gig with intelligent lighting, I would.

[AltGrendel]

Originally Posted by Stinsok

... Seeing everyone in Koolaid Lime Green is kinda weird.

If they're seriously using that color range, they need a course in basic lighting. Green should be the least used color as the only color in a general wash, IMHO.

Not trying to be offensive, but whites generally look like zombies lit in that color.

[bound'n'blocked]

I've been using LEDs with the company I work with for a few years now. I always programmed ours with alternating channel assignments, so I could get two color looks at the same time. I would programs scenes in with two different colors and just use the scene buttons, and maybe blend the colors a little with the controls to get a few more looks.

We used to have some of the first generation color changing lights that had three bulbs in them, a red, a blue and a green like most of the LED fixtures, but just one large bulb of each color. They sucked. You needed a 20 amp circuit for ONE fixture. The LEDs I have now use .02 amps so I can put like 100 the amount of lights on one circuit. I usually run all of our LEDs, usually 12-18 on one extension cord! The three watt LEDs are as bright as some par cans, something like a 500 watt par 56, without the heat.

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