All right, that is for our shots. So here it is. This video is going out to Steve one line two. All right folks, Jonathan here. Now, this is video number two in the selection of doing on setting up a mobile DJ setter for mobile DJ. In video number one which is in two parts we look actually setting up the PA, the actual speakers, the amplifier, the turn table, et cetera and that was in two parts because it was too long to put into a video. In the second part of the actual video is we are going to be looking at setting up the lighting.
With the tiny bit of time spent in setting up your lighting, you can make your live show look from a good live show to a bloody good live show by just positioning those lights slightly differently and this particular video. I am going to be showing you certain pitfalls about the wrong places to put maybe T-bars, et cetera and also the right places making sure that you are not going to get sued or someone is up and fall over something and do damage to themselves and possibly your gear as well. First of all, one of the box standard items that a DJ will use if I just move the camera slightly and to the light there is a light there as well, never mind is something called a T-Bar and here it is T-Bar. The reason it is called—is because, guess what? It is shape like a T. I am going to pull us the camera and I am going to show you the right way of setting it up. Believe me on this one, holed on.
What we need to do? I will need to look at the position of various two legs there. If we follow that up. Now, I will need to look at the position of the actual arms of the T-Bar. Now, if I could actually just move the camera down like that. Can you see that this here is almost inline with that leg down there and this part here is inline with that leg down there. The reason is because if you think about it, those legs are almost taking the weight. That leg there is taking the weight of this particular part of it and then that leg down there is taking the weight of this particular arm of the T-bar. Now, I will send you a small point but if I unscrew that and if I move that like that.
Now, if you look now, you can see that, that one is fine there but this will across here now is in between those two legs. Now, all of a sudden, if I stop putting weight on this particular arm of the T-bar, what is going to happen is that will going to fall. So, just bear that in mind. I will just pull us the camera again, hold tight. I am back. As you can see, we have got our speaker setup. On a speaker, check out the first video of setting up your audio and you realize why you actually got the speakers setup there. Now, a lot of people, the lights in T-bars in front of the speaker, not a good idea. The ideal place is actually behind for reason being is because they are out of the way. If you can see me, there it is.
Now, what you need to do is need to get. Alright, I have to edit the part of that video because the last T-bar died on me. Now, as you can see there, I actually got the T-bar behind the speakers and the legs are quite close together. The reason being that close together is of course, end of the day, you are going to have them strolling all over the place. There is more things to talk over. If they are nice and neatly together, then, of course there is less things to trip over. Now, as you can see there, the T-bar is quite high up the reason being is because, if I put the camera there and move that so I can see what I am doing. Now, from an actual point of view of, with the light shines. If you imagine, I am this, all right. A is generally if you are in the UK, it is just the blocks has come along to be entertained. You are the entertainer, okay. Now, this guy is dancing along here. Now, what is happening is the light is shining from those particular lights and it will go over their heads and the light is going to be able to reach quite a distance. If the lighting is really down. In other words, if you put a whole bunch of lights on your table, it is not going to go anywhere. No one is going to see it. Yes, maybe a few people right in front of the setup but the people way back, I am going to see deadly squat, okay.
Now also, what you will find is on that particular T-bar, you will see I have got a light the same weight in the side the reason being is because if I have two lights only one side, a lot of people, what they will do. There are two lights on that side, they will think it is fantastic but of course, the higher up it is, the more weight you have got the more chance you have got at that light, the T-bar tipping over which is not a good idea. Now, seven people, what they will have is a setter where they will have some sort of foreign work that will go up and it will go across the actual decks and it will go down the other side.
Now, that is a lot sturdier and of course what you can do, you can put a lot of actual lighting above you. So if you imagine, if you look now, there is your setup. Now, what you will have around about this sort of point here, along here, you will have a bar going across you and you can put some lighting on there as well. So, there is the one T-Bar that coming down some lighting across and then you will have another T-Bar down here and maybe some lighting on there as well, okay. So, general idea with regards to lighting. Now, in video one I mentioned of course bank power, okay. Audio, you have amplifier, you mix that and you see DJ is going to one plug or into one multi socket going to the walls. Of course you know all the audio is going to go into that particular socket.
Try not to mess and put lighting in with that as well. Have your lighting a secret entity so you know if there is a problem with the lighting then it is just going to be the lighting. If there is a problem with the audio, the PA, it is just going to be a problem with the PA. Two of them, I am going to mess around with each other, okay. I am going to pull us the camera and we will look at a couple of other lights bear with me.
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