By Connor Dennehy
When it comes to coloured strobe lights, several companies have tried to come up with something effective and have fallen short. Either the fixtures haven’t been bright enough, the strobe effect wasn’t effective, or they were super expensive. In comes the Color Strike M from Chauvet Professional to solve those problems.
When I first opened the box, I immediately noticed that the fixture is sturdily built, and for an IP65 fixture, it is not as heavy as I expected it to be. Coming in at 26 pounds and measuring 16 x 7 x 12 inches, I was pretty happy at overall compactness of the light. Looking at the face of the light, something that caught my eye is the dual centre strobe tubes. The white LED strobe tubes have a total of 28 sections of control (14 sections per tube) and can be pixel mapped or run with pre-built effects as the user desires. Above and below the white LED strobe tubes are a total of 14 sections of RGB LEDs, which Chauvet refers to as plates (7 sections on the top and bottom respectively). The motorized tilt head has a 180-degree range of movement. Lastly, I noticed that you can mount an omega bracket on the bottom of the fixture, and on the side of the arm. This is going to make rigging pretty easy. The fixture also has alignment pins on the side that butt up to each other, so getting the fixtures perfectly aligned on a truss is a breeze.
Read the full review at PLSN https://plsn.com/articles/road-tests/color-strike-m-from-chauvet-professional/
www.chauvetprofessional.com
Australian Distributor: Showtools www.showtools.com.au
