LASERVIBE
I used to work in clubs when I was in college and in need of extra cash, so I am all to familiar with the laser light shows that some clubs featured. Colorful, quick-moving, streams of red and green light, pulsating in time with the music coming through the sound system... all part of creating that club atmosphere that might just help a young fella get his wick dipped on a given night.
So fast-forward about eight years, and the guys at
LaserRave, LLC come up with a small, portable unit that you could hook up to your home stereo, which would create the same effect.
LaserVibe (
CLICK HERE FOR A DEMO VIDEO) is a compact unit with two RCA inputs in the back, and two attenuator knobs. You hook a sound source into the left and right rca jacks, turn on the music, and the
LaserVibe unit pumps out beams of light and patterns that pulsate in time with the music coming through the stereo...
Now, when I first hooked the machine up, I hooked it up to the output of the TV (I've got a monstrous HDTV thing that takes up half the F-ing living room) and put on the
MTV hip-hop channel. I noticed a small red dot on the opposite wall. "This is it?" I thought... Maybe it wasn't working. Maybe I should look directly INTO the little lens in the front of the unit?
Boy, was THAT a fucking mistake.
I think I zapped out one of my retinas when I did that. It's not like they don't warn you right on the front of the machine It's not like they didn't slap a
"DO NOT STARE DIRECTLY INTO LIGHT" sticker right on the front. I'm just too stupid to pay attention.
Then I remembered from my days working in clubs in Boston that the room was USUALLY filled with smoke when these laser shows were on. Since I don't own a smoke machine, I did the next best thing... I sparked up a big fat cigar (Thank you, Ben).
I puffed away, filled the room with smoke, and viola! Pretty red laser patters were filling the room, all in time with some jackass NELLY/CHRISTINA AGUILERA song.
The unit responds to the lower frequencies of the music you're listening to, so you just have to adjust the shape of the beam you want projected, and then you're off and running.
LaserVibe comes with all necessary cables, so all you have to do is unpack it, hook it up, and turn it on. I could see this being a great tool for guys who own their own DJ business. You know, just that added push to get you the job above the guy who only has a few rotating lights in his arsenal.
I should go open a window. The cigar smoke is really starting to stink up the house.
