Comments on: VLX Review http://www.npccproduction.org/blog/2010/05/20/vlx-review/ North Point Community Church Production Team Fri, 18 May 2012 12:09:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Stu http://www.npccproduction.org/blog/2010/05/20/vlx-review/comment-page-1/#comment-883 Stu Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:18:57 +0000 http://new.npccproduction.org/?p=990#comment-883 Cool review--I can't wait till these become mass produced and more affordable. To nitpick, however, mixing with color wheels or with LEDs actually produce the same effect: the closer to white, the brighter the fixture. In color wheel mixing, the "piling on" of colors by a gel acts as a FILTER of light--but in LED mixing, the "piling on" of colors by the LED acts as a PRODUCER of light. In either case, the effect is the same: the more saturated the color, the less bright the result, the more "white" the color, the brighter the result. Cool review–I can’t wait till these become mass produced and more affordable. To nitpick, however, mixing with color wheels or with LEDs actually produce the same effect: the closer to white, the brighter the fixture. In color wheel mixing, the “piling on” of colors by a gel acts as a FILTER of light–but in LED mixing, the “piling on” of colors by the LED acts as a PRODUCER of light. In either case, the effect is the same: the more saturated the color, the less bright the result, the more “white” the color, the brighter the result.

]]> By: Daniel Connell http://www.npccproduction.org/blog/2010/05/20/vlx-review/comment-page-1/#comment-180 Daniel Connell Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:24:18 +0000 http://new.npccproduction.org/?p=990#comment-180 Great review. I really like the way you guys are using this website both internally and as a teaching tool for other ministries. The VLX is definitely a revolutionary fixture but I have to admit I was less than impressed with the color mixing. For an LED it was amazing but any additive color mixing fixture still has problems hitting those deep deep saturated colors. The lavender was beautiful but it wouldn't put out an indigo, the red was actually really good but it wasn't that deep rosco 27 blood red that you sometimes want, etc. In a lot of situations I'm sure the positives of the VLX would outweigh this one negative. The light output was enough to work with my VL3500 washes and VL3K spots. The power consumption, heat output, and physical weight were all huge pluses. In this particular room at this particular time the color saturation, or lack of, was enough for me to pass. I ended up going with the Mac 700 wash for this application. I love watching what you guys are doing. Keep up the good work! -Daniel Great review. I really like the way you guys are using this website both internally and as a teaching tool for other ministries.

The VLX is definitely a revolutionary fixture but I have to admit I was less than impressed with the color mixing. For an LED it was amazing but any additive color mixing fixture still has problems hitting those deep deep saturated colors. The lavender was beautiful but it wouldn’t put out an indigo, the red was actually really good but it wasn’t that deep rosco 27 blood red that you sometimes want, etc.

In a lot of situations I’m sure the positives of the VLX would outweigh this one negative. The light output was enough to work with my VL3500 washes and VL3K spots. The power consumption, heat output, and physical weight were all huge pluses. In this particular room at this particular time the color saturation, or lack of, was enough for me to pass. I ended up going with the Mac 700 wash for this application.

I love watching what you guys are doing. Keep up the good work!

-Daniel

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