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Botex SDC-16
Straight from the box into action and I have never used one before ! My type of gear. I know there are much more sophisticated desks out there but for a beginner like myself, good advice given from the Thomann team and greatly enhanced show.
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When what you actually *need* is simple.
I bought this lighting console for trade-show demos - where people unfamiliar with lighting control - can merrily play around with the sliders and see 'stuff happen'.
I *want* it to be simple. So I needed a 16 channel DMX controller (because my gear does simple 4 channel RGBW, or a feature-rich 16 channel mode).
This controller fitted the bill perfectly.
No 'modes', memories or 'features' to get confused by.
It also runs from 9V (so I can run it from a USB-PD to 9V barrel connector adapter, rather than the supplied power-brick and UK adapter)
The only think I don't really like is the all-steel enclosure, which makes it rather heavy - in fact it's the heaviest single item in my back-pack portable set-up.
Although the manual doesn't make this clear - it's, as you might expect, a full-universe 512 channel controller - you can just use the up/down buttons to move to a new base-address and then start moving the sliders again. Shift it at least 16 channels, and it remembers the previous block of 16 channels that you set.
One minor oddity - it only outputs the DMX universe at a 20Hz refresh rate - not the 40Hz or 44Hz that you might expect.
Minor grumbles aside, so far it's proved rock-solid reliable, and covers my simple application perfectly.
I *want* it to be simple. So I needed a 16 channel DMX controller (because my gear does simple 4 channel RGBW, or a feature-rich 16 channel mode).
This controller fitted the bill perfectly.
No 'modes', memories or 'features' to get confused by.
It also runs from 9V (so I can run it from a USB-PD to 9V barrel connector adapter, rather than the supplied power-brick and UK adapter)
The only think I don't really like is the all-steel enclosure, which makes it rather heavy - in fact it's the heaviest single item in my back-pack portable set-up.
Although the manual doesn't make this clear - it's, as you might expect, a full-universe 512 channel controller - you can just use the up/down buttons to move to a new base-address and then start moving the sliders again. Shift it at least 16 channels, and it remembers the previous block of 16 channels that you set.
One minor oddity - it only outputs the DMX universe at a 20Hz refresh rate - not the 40Hz or 44Hz that you might expect.
Minor grumbles aside, so far it's proved rock-solid reliable, and covers my simple application perfectly.
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