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DJ lighting is a variant ofstage lighting that is used bymobile disc jockeys innightclubs and in other venues.[1]
There are many different types of DJ lighting such as scanners which use a mirror to reflect beams of light that move around, twister-style effects that project multiple beams of light that rotate in a twisting style and alsostrobe lighting that flash intensely.
DJ lighting can be controlled by an internal sound activation, where the unit has a built-in sound to light function. Other control options are master-slave (daisy chain) andDMX control.
It is generally considered that there are four types of DJ lighting.
In the DJ equipment industry, any party disco light that is designed and sold for home use is considered aparty DJ light or aparty disco light.
In the early days ofdisco, the main types of disco light were colorful rotating balls. They looked very much like amirrorball with multi-colouredpar 16 lamps in them.
With the technology ofhalogen lamps improving, the 80s and early 90s saw a new breed of DJ light starting to evolve. This was a projection-style DJ light that used a halogen lamp and a mirror to reflect the light. A halogen lamp shines onto a mirror via afilter gel sheet to create the color and sometimes via agobo wheel to create shapes. In some DJ lighting effects a coloured mirror is used to avoid using color/filter gel.[citation needed]
Most modern projector DJ lights now useLEDs instead of halogen lamps.[2]
Lasers are a type of DJ light. They use alaser diode and an array of mirrors to project multiple colours and beams of light.