I looked around at various lighting rigs and decided on this one for the ease of use for the output that we were looking for. It came in two boxex, the main lighting rig and the footswitch (the stand is seperate). The main lighting rig is so easy to set up I would say a child could do it, but not quite as it a bit heavy for a child. All you do after putting the stand up (not all the way) is just lift the complete rig out of the supporting case and fit it into the stand, then just connect up the power lead and the footswitch and away you go.
The lights then need to be pointed in the direction of use, as there are four of us in our band we use one spotlight each, and just point in towards the roof area above one of us... initially we did point the spotlight directly at us, but in a small venue it was just too bright... It can be set up for sound to light (we use this one), automatic or user defined (by use of some sort of controller). We have found it works just great on sound to light and only use the footswitch to stop it and start it when needed (in between songs etc). All the various elements can be set up using an easy interface and once it has been set up, we have never had to change it as we tend to play in the same sort of venue so it takes about five mins to unpack and get the whole system up and running.
It could do with a longer lead for the footswitch as we have to 'play around' a bit at different venues to get the swith to the right person... however we have got around this by 'training' at least two members of the band...
With white, red, blue and green the LED's give out a very good light and gives some excellent picture opportunities for your promo shots. I would highly recommend this system to any local type band.