that was insane! totally in shock at how much punch those lights pack with so minimal of a setup!!! Just might be the ground package of the decade! And the song was killer too! I'm a fan of the contrasted dry vocal production technique, and this totally nailed it perfectly!
Thanks so much! I think lights can make or break a performance especially when its a solo stage set up like this. I’m glad you liked the production! This was my first go at a song of my own and I have a few more I’ll likely do similar demos for!
You had me at the intro motion tracking. Love it, thanks for the setup video, and you bet your ass I'll watch the packing up! Thanks for your descriptions, and I'd love to see the diagram / plans for the outer shells. I hadn't thought of making the covers be the stands, that's brilliant. I've been trying to 3D model some plastic endcaps for the regular aluminum extrusions so that they can be snapped together in different shapes and mounted on stage, and hung or mounted from a pole or mount somewhere.
So glad you enjoyed the motion tracking! I was hoping someone would appreciate that aha The tubes still need a bit of refining but I’ll definitely make the designs for them available when I iron out the kinks The 3d printer snap together aluminum sounds really cool! Would love to see it
Never seen such an amazing 1-men Setup, looks and sounds incredible. This setup can make big upsets and set new quality standards for solo performers Live and online.
Absolutely amazing! I would love to build a set of these for karaoke nights since I could sync these with popular tracks and really make my singers feel like rock stars!
Hey Jeff, I've been intrigued by your lighting rig since the first video. Great demonstration video and killer tune too. Happy to see version 2 pixel mapped. I would've liked the focus of the demo more on the fixtures though as I couldn't visually tell if your new diffusion method (sanding) appeared smoother than the old method (parchment paper) due to everything around you being softened. I was wondering if PoE could be used instead of aviation cable. Thanks for doing what you do, us tinkerers appreciate it!
Thanks so much for the kind words! I think I showed the sanded tubes a little bit clearer on the V2 Rig Rundown video that I posted back in February. The sanding method certainly does not diffuse the light as well as the parchment paper did, but with these new COB style leds, that are almost seamless without any diffusion, sanding does the trick just fine! The issue with PoE is the cable gauge, if I am correct, the gauge is usually pretty light and because the cables need to transfer enough current to operate the actual LEDs, the gauge needs to be thick enough (22awg in this case) to avoid too much voltage drop
Checking back in after initially saving your v1 videos (had to mix and master the music before focusing on the set haha). But these have been incredibly helpful! Thank you brother. I’ve got 6 8ft polycarbonate tube guards Blade Runner-ing my living room right now in the best way haha. I ended up building a Max for Live Device controlling various global parameters (saturation, brightness, a global strobe effect, Animation Select, Color Palette Select) by sending serial signals (pairings) from various “knobs” to an Arduino Uno where I have all of the animations and color palettes coded to look for those M4L comms and translate them to LED strip animations (still using parchment paper diffusion, but I hear sanding works well). Almost there! Scene switching is happening, now it’s just loading in the Color arrays. In the end, the lighting scenes will switch and be effected in realtime by the same thing that changes my guitar pedalboard “scenes”: the Push 3. 😁 Thanks for your help on the hardware, man! These things look AMAZING for how inexpensive and DIY they can be. Cheers brother. 🙌🏻
@@SuperValidDesigns It's working! Oh man, I'm stoked. Yeah they're gonna be great. Thank you again brotha. I'll shoot a link to a video when I get something uploaded. :D
Thanks so much! I’m no longer using DMXIS as these are addressable leds but we have a custom software built around the touch designer framework that seems to work pretty well! This was my first time programming with it
Subscribed and ready to buy anything associated with this when you're ready to start selling. I know you said that your friends are working on an DMX program. Is there another program currently available suited for small bands to program and sync DMX shows to backing tracks?
Thanks so much for the comment and so sorry for the delay in responding! I must have missed this. We have begun selling the rig kits without fixtures, but we are planning on selling fixture kits soon as well. As for the software, you can pretty much use any pixel mapping software out there, but most are subscription based as far as im aware, whereas the touchdesigner one my friends have been working on is free and open source, due to it being based around the touch designer framework
Hey Jeff. Nice work on the song, video and especially your lighting rig! Are you still using Ableton for your lighting cues and how much did you have to delve into TouchDesigner (looks complicated)?
Thanks so much! I programmed this demo by creating a custom media file and uploading it directly into touch designer (I just released a video about it on the petal lighting channel) but I haven’t yet hooked Ableton up to it but the plan is to have Ableton trigger the scenes inside of touch designer
hey hey hey ... look i got to be honest... i am old and dont understand alot about all this.. i have gone back and watched all you vids.. and all i can say is WOW.. the pasion you put into your work and the way you talk about what you have done is ... well is refreashing to say the least. I have a very small show on twitch, however i have been doing it for years (6 to be exact).. i am not big by no means, however i pride myself on getting and improving my show all the time. i was looking for somthing that is unique and that you cant just go and buuy of amazon... your passion will sell this. Great job, Please let me know when you sell the kits. All i am looking for is something that pluugs into the computer and reacts to the music. again i am old and not really wanting to learn stage lighting 101 ..lol i will continue to follow this channel and watch you become the next great thing... because there is no doubt it will happen. God bless you
Hey I really appreciate the great comment! Super cool you are looking to up your streaming game with some lighting! I have started selling this rig as a kit but at this time it isnt quite plug and play and the programming software I use is quite involved. you can use this rig to just react to music but it still requires quite a bit of extra work to get up and running. If you are interested in chatting more about it, you can join the discord channel here discord.gg/4EyFNZUV3B and feel free to message me directly. Happy to give you more info!
Looks great! I've been using a piezo to trigger a lighting ring that I built into my bass drum head. I think I might try building a copy of this, but using piezos and mics+FFTs to semi-automate the animations and an adafruit 8x8 switcher to change animation modes. LMK if you're interesting in a collab. Either way, I appreciate the inspiration!
Love it! You're still using the LED DigQuad series controllers with WLED? gives me hope for my system that likes to fight me when I try to do things like this haha
I understand the nature of this is to be somewhat DIY, but what is the most turn-key, ready to go system I can buy with as little DIY/sourcing as I can get and how much would that be? Maybe I'm dumb and missed it on the site! This would change the game for our youth camps at my church and highly interested.
We are hoping one day to really be able to sell full plug and play kits but the cost savings really come from being able to sell them as a kit. But we are working on commissioning some fully built rigs in the near future but the timeline is pretty tough to predict atm. Definitely join my discord channel if you want to reach out and stay updated on the progress! discord.gg/9DrgG3NVAE
Thanks! I am using touch designer to control the lights. We have a custom file set up for pixel leds, free to download on the Petallighting.com website!
Hey! Super cool man! Not sure if this is of any interest to you, but I recently designed my own custom DMX to 24 channel RGB decoder for the V1 version of this rig. Feel free to reach out if I can be of any help.
We are selling this as a kit (Currently without fixtures though, but fixtures will be coming soon) for 1100 USD or about 1500 CAD. The fixtures will likely be about an additional 500 CAD give or take
nice, now we need a full programming tutorial
I’ll get on this ASAP!
@@SuperValidDesigns I just found out about this and I need this ASAP as well! Excited to incorporate this into my performance dude!
that was insane! totally in shock at how much punch those lights pack with so minimal of a setup!!! Just might be the ground package of the decade! And the song was killer too! I'm a fan of the contrasted dry vocal production technique, and this totally nailed it perfectly!
Thanks so much! I think lights can make or break a performance especially when its a solo stage set up like this. I’m glad you liked the production! This was my first go at a song of my own and I have a few more I’ll likely do similar demos for!
dude! love it!
everybody needs that lighting system ASAP
Dayum… slick… color me impressed
The lighting designed hardware, video production, music production, performance, everything is done so well.
Really appreciate the kind words, thank you so much for watching!
Love the demo, love the song. Amazing as always man. ❤️
Thanks so much, man!
You had me at the intro motion tracking.
Love it, thanks for the setup video, and you bet your ass I'll watch the packing up!
Thanks for your descriptions, and I'd love to see the diagram / plans for the outer shells. I hadn't thought of making the covers be the stands, that's brilliant.
I've been trying to 3D model some plastic endcaps for the regular aluminum extrusions so that they can be snapped together in different shapes and mounted on stage, and hung or mounted from a pole or mount somewhere.
So glad you enjoyed the motion tracking! I was hoping someone would appreciate that aha
The tubes still need a bit of refining but I’ll definitely make the designs for them available when I iron out the kinks
The 3d printer snap together aluminum sounds really cool! Would love to see it
Never seen such an amazing 1-men Setup, looks and sounds incredible.
This setup can make big upsets and set new quality standards for solo performers Live and online.
I’m hoping so! Would love to see more small acts get into lighting
Really enjoyed your song and production. Great work! I would buy this set up!
I have been glued to your vids because this lighting rig is sheer genius. THEN this wonderful song comes on. Great song. Great lighting.
Thanks so much! That really means a lot :)
Wow! I wasn't expecting such a great song as well! thanks!
Great song, and great demo of your lighting system! Simple, powerful, elegant. Your design ethic is brilliant!
Thanks so much!
asmr alert during setup/tear down haha. This rig looks great! Been around since the v1. Glad to see the refining process!
Touch Designer rocks! And good call, we will follow those for sure
Light, more lights.
Look forward to seeing the software side and making my own. With 4 to 8 setup depending kn venue.
Amazing!!!! hope to see this in every musical instrument stores and online
Brilliant ❤ you are very talented. Thank you for sharing this video.
Absolutely amazing! I would love to build a set of these for karaoke nights since I could sync these with popular tracks and really make my singers feel like rock stars!
Karaoke would be a great use for these!
Well done. Super inspiring setup. Thanks for showing setup and teardown and your song was great! Thank you so much for sharing.
Thanks so much for the kind words!
dude this is absolutely brilliant!
Hey Jeff, I've been intrigued by your lighting rig since the first video. Great demonstration video and killer tune too. Happy to see version 2 pixel mapped. I would've liked the focus of the demo more on the fixtures though as I couldn't visually tell if your new diffusion method (sanding) appeared smoother than the old method (parchment paper) due to everything around you being softened. I was wondering if PoE could be used instead of aviation cable. Thanks for doing what you do, us tinkerers appreciate it!
Thanks so much for the kind words! I think I showed the sanded tubes a little bit clearer on the V2 Rig Rundown video that I posted back in February. The sanding method certainly does not diffuse the light as well as the parchment paper did, but with these new COB style leds, that are almost seamless without any diffusion, sanding does the trick just fine!
The issue with PoE is the cable gauge, if I am correct, the gauge is usually pretty light and because the cables need to transfer enough current to operate the actual LEDs, the gauge needs to be thick enough (22awg in this case) to avoid too much voltage drop
Checking back in after initially saving your v1 videos (had to mix and master the music before focusing on the set haha). But these have been incredibly helpful! Thank you brother. I’ve got 6 8ft polycarbonate tube guards Blade Runner-ing my living room right now in the best way haha.
I ended up building a Max for Live Device controlling various global parameters (saturation, brightness, a global strobe effect, Animation Select, Color Palette Select) by sending serial signals (pairings) from various “knobs” to an Arduino Uno where I have all of the animations and color palettes coded to look for those M4L comms and translate them to LED strip animations (still using parchment paper diffusion, but I hear sanding works well). Almost there! Scene switching is happening, now it’s just loading in the Color arrays.
In the end, the lighting scenes will switch and be effected in realtime by the same thing that changes my guitar pedalboard “scenes”: the Push 3. 😁
Thanks for your help on the hardware, man! These things look AMAZING for how inexpensive and DIY they can be. Cheers brother. 🙌🏻
Hell yeah that sounds amazing! I bet your shows are gonna look so sick
@@SuperValidDesigns It's working! Oh man, I'm stoked. Yeah they're gonna be great. Thank you again brotha. I'll shoot a link to a video when I get something uploaded. :D
@@novacultmusic amazing! Yes please do!
So flipping dope!
Wow I love it! ❤
I love everything about this video- the light setup, the efficiency, and the song! Are you still rocking DMXIS to program the light show?
Thanks so much! I’m no longer using DMXIS as these are addressable leds but we have a custom software built around the touch designer framework that seems to work pretty well! This was my first time programming with it
Just popping in to say. The petal system is the best modular lighting system for smaller bands.
Hopefully we start to see more stages with these rigs on them!
Sooo cool!
Solid track
It’s so cool to see this new version in action 👏👏 but I need to know what that bass is! It looks kinda like a Yamaha SA-70?
I love this bass so much. It’s a weird European bass that my friend sold me. I can let you know the name when I get back in a few days!
Nice job all round buddy. Ford should give you a F-150 Lightning and you can power your rig from it. Good look for you and Ford. Later sir.
Thank you sir! That would be so cool. Could put the whole band in the bed!
Subscribed and ready to buy anything associated with this when you're ready to start selling. I know you said that your friends are working on an DMX program. Is there another program currently available suited for small bands to program and sync DMX shows to backing tracks?
Thanks so much for the comment and so sorry for the delay in responding! I must have missed this. We have begun selling the rig kits without fixtures, but we are planning on selling fixture kits soon as well. As for the software, you can pretty much use any pixel mapping software out there, but most are subscription based as far as im aware, whereas the touchdesigner one my friends have been working on is free and open source, due to it being based around the touch designer framework
Very cool
As great as the lights are...I need this song
Hey Jeff. Nice work on the song, video and especially your lighting rig! Are you still using Ableton for your lighting cues and how much did you have to delve into TouchDesigner (looks complicated)?
Thanks so much! I programmed this demo by creating a custom media file and uploading it directly into touch designer (I just released a video about it on the petal lighting channel) but I haven’t yet hooked Ableton up to it but the plan is to have Ableton trigger the scenes inside of touch designer
@@SuperValidDesigns I tried to download the touch designer but it requires permission from Google Drive. :(
hey hey hey ... look i got to be honest... i am old and dont understand alot about all this.. i have gone back and watched all you vids.. and all i can say is WOW.. the pasion you put into your work and the way you talk about what you have done is ... well is refreashing to say the least. I have a very small show on twitch, however i have been doing it for years (6 to be exact).. i am not big by no means, however i pride myself on getting and improving my show all the time. i was looking for somthing that is unique and that you cant just go and buuy of amazon... your passion will sell this. Great job, Please let me know when you sell the kits. All i am looking for is something that pluugs into the computer and reacts to the music. again i am old and not really wanting to learn stage lighting 101 ..lol i will continue to follow this channel and watch you become the next great thing... because there is no doubt it will happen. God bless you
Hey I really appreciate the great comment! Super cool you are looking to up your streaming game with some lighting! I have started selling this rig as a kit but at this time it isnt quite plug and play and the programming software I use is quite involved. you can use this rig to just react to music but it still requires quite a bit of extra work to get up and running. If you are interested in chatting more about it, you can join the discord channel here discord.gg/4EyFNZUV3B and feel free to message me directly. Happy to give you more info!
Nice work all around.
Did you use a Lensbaby lens to get the central spot focus effect in the performance or was that done in post?
Thank you! Just did this in post but I’m gonna go check out the lens baby lens now!
Looks great! I've been using a piezo to trigger a lighting ring that I built into my bass drum head. I think I might try building a copy of this, but using piezos and mics+FFTs to semi-automate the animations and an adafruit 8x8 switcher to change animation modes. LMK if you're interesting in a collab. Either way, I appreciate the inspiration!
That sounds really cool! I’d definitely pick your brain on that. Feel free to join the discord and message me directly!
@@SuperValidDesigns Hell yeah, will do!
Nice
Love it! You're still using the LED DigQuad series controllers with WLED? gives me hope for my system that likes to fight me when I try to do things like this haha
It’s a digocta but I programmed this using touchdesigner. I’m gonna make a tutorial video about how I programmed it soon!
I had a dream of what to do with those things, I built like a hotel with roach elevators. But you all did that.
I don’t know what this means but I love it
I understand the nature of this is to be somewhat DIY, but what is the most turn-key, ready to go system I can buy with as little DIY/sourcing as I can get and how much would that be? Maybe I'm dumb and missed it on the site! This would change the game for our youth camps at my church and highly interested.
We are hoping one day to really be able to sell full plug and play kits but the cost savings really come from being able to sell them as a kit. But we are working on commissioning some fully built rigs in the near future but the timeline is pretty tough to predict atm. Definitely join my discord channel if you want to reach out and stay updated on the progress! discord.gg/9DrgG3NVAE
Great! What software did you use to control the lights?
Thanks! I am using touch designer to control the lights. We have a custom file set up for pixel leds, free to download on the Petallighting.com website!
You're a good Musician Bro! Great voice and you dont need anyone charging you for a video shoot Lol! Keep Grinding! >;))
Thanks so much!
Hey! Super cool man! Not sure if this is of any interest to you, but I recently designed my own custom DMX to 24 channel RGB decoder for the V1 version of this rig. Feel free to reach out if I can be of any help.
I’d love to get in touch! That sounds really cool
did you sync the light show with a backing track?
Yes! I actually posted a video on the Petal Lighting channel about exactly how I programmed this light show to the backing tracks!
How many dmx addresses do this setup needs?
This set up uses 462 channels but I'm programming it via artnet through touch designer
do you sell that rig? and if so, how much CAD$?
We are selling this as a kit (Currently without fixtures though, but fixtures will be coming soon) for 1100 USD or about 1500 CAD. The fixtures will likely be about an additional 500 CAD give or take
@@SuperValidDesigns AMAZING!!!! please let me know when the step up goes up for sell as a whole, love this system!
would this work with resolume?
I imagine it would! I’d love to get my hands on resolume to try it out but I believe it should be totally compatible