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<blockquote data-quote="TJ Cornish" data-source="post: 39067" data-attributes="member: 162">Re: Chauvet SlimPar Pro RGBA ReviewHi Greg. I&#039;m glad the review was helpful. I have been on the same path as you - coming primarily from the sound end of things, but then choosing to meet another need when the opportunity presents itself. Here are a couple thoughts about lighting in general. If you&#039;re looking for pleasing white front wash capability, neither of these fixtures are for you, and I will go on a limb and say that the only LED fixtures that will do that well are specific models for that purpose like the ETC Selador white versions, and possibly the sister fixture to the SlimParPro RGBA, the SlimParPro VW and similar. RGB and RGBA fixtures just don&#039;t make that great a white. I&#039;m keeping my conventional Source4 and similar lekos for that purpose. If you&#039;re looking to replace PARs or something that&#039;s gelled, RGB/RGBA LEDs will do very well. I still have my Blizzard Q12A in the house, which is similar to the &quot;tri&quot; style with all colors behind one lens. In my observation the advantages of a &quot;tri&quot;-style fixture are pretty overrated. If you&#039;re about 8&quot; from the SlimParPro RGBA or farther you will get consistent color illumination. The tris claim &quot;no multicolored shadows&quot; which is still technically true, but they don&#039;t tell you that you still get multiple shadows - they&#039;re just all the same color. In m opinion, the difference between multiple shadows and multicolor shadows is pretty minimal. The amber is a nice addition. It may be something you&#039;ll have to see in person to appreciate, but it&#039;s worth it to me. I don&#039;t regret getting the RGBA version over the tri at all. If the wider beam width is also desirable for your purposes, I think your decision should be easy. On the fan issue - the noise is there on my Blizzard, but I have a hard time imagining that it would disrupt anything. As far as I can tell it&#039;s not speed sensitive so it just adds a little white noise. If you&#039;re in a super small room 30&#039; x 30&#039; or so it might matter, but any event with more than 50 people in attendance should be fine. Blizzard is hardly the only company to have fans in their fixtures - virtually all moving fixtures do, video projectors do, power amps do, etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TJ Cornish, post: 39067, member: 162"] Re: Chauvet SlimPar Pro RGBA Review Hi Greg. I'm glad the review was helpful. I have been on the same path as you - coming primarily from the sound end of things, but then choosing to meet another need when the opportunity presents itself. Here are a couple thoughts about lighting in general. If you're looking for pleasing white front wash capability, neither of these fixtures are for you, and I will go on a limb and say that the only LED fixtures that will do that well are specific models for that purpose like the ETC Selador white versions, and possibly the sister fixture to the SlimParPro RGBA, the SlimParPro VW and similar. RGB and RGBA fixtures just don't make that great a white. I'm keeping my conventional Source4 and similar lekos for that purpose. If you're looking to replace PARs or something that's gelled, RGB/RGBA LEDs will do very well. I still have my Blizzard Q12A in the house, which is similar to the "tri" style with all colors behind one lens. In my observation the advantages of a "tri"-style fixture are pretty overrated. If you're about 8" from the SlimParPro RGBA or farther you will get consistent color illumination. The tris claim "no multicolored shadows" which is still technically true, but they don't tell you that you still get multiple shadows - they're just all the same color. In m opinion, the difference between multiple shadows and multicolor shadows is pretty minimal. The amber is a nice addition. It may be something you'll have to see in person to appreciate, but it's worth it to me. I don't regret getting the RGBA version over the tri at all. If the wider beam width is also desirable for your purposes, I think your decision should be easy. On the fan issue - the noise is there on my Blizzard, but I have a hard time imagining that it would disrupt anything. As far as I can tell it's not speed sensitive so it just adds a little white noise. If you're in a super small room 30' x 30' or so it might matter, but any event with more than 50 people in attendance should be fine. Blizzard is hardly the only company to have fans in their fixtures - virtually all moving fixtures do, video projectors do, power amps do, etc. [/QUOTE]

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