Gear Review 💯 Are These Lights The Astera Killers?!

[@ThePTLifeLine]

Love my AX1’s and will keep buying them!!

[@rlg222]

New to your channel. I use to run a small lighting and sound production company in AZ. I find that all the Chauvet Pro equipment is very nice. I've rented some of their equipment. I purchased a bunch of the MARQ REZO tubes some years ago.

[@scottshortland3262]

Debating if to get the Well 180’s or 360 🤔

[@tonyjefford8449]

Great video Joe. I have the freedom sticks. I guess they need to be configured roughly the same. You are so informative but can I ask next gear vid could you do a little with the lights dimmed so we can see them better. With the white background it was for me just a little hard to really see them. But again superb video.

[@DJJoeBunn]

Right on, I agree with that.

[@vegetok]

Hi m8! Very good review of yours ! Those things are so needed they are amazing

[@mylesdb]

Need a review that demos the performance for pixel mapping and staying in sync. Astera are the gold standard over things like the Pavo tubes because they can maintain a high frame rate and stay in sync. Also battery life? Color rendering quality? Sound reactive modes built in? A lot of unknowns with these Chauvet STXs.

[@DJJoeBunn]

Out of my wheelhouse. I'm sure other videos will pop up.

[@djplaythisjam]

love the video. saw Ben's first video on these, and you put it in great perspective'

[@DJJoeBunn]

I appreciate that!

[@johncolon8614]

Thanks Joe totally enjoyed the review and honesty. The STX look promising

[@DJJoeBunn]

You bet. They are nice.

[@lightinginventory]

Thanks for the shoutout Joe! - Brent

[@RyanMitchell412]

Hey Joe, when do you anticipate the 2nd Gen Asteria sticks will be released, and what’s the best way to get notified?

[@DJJoeBunn]

Let me do some asking

[@DidierWolfs]

I'm about to invest in a set of 8 Astera Titan

[@DJMoBlvd]

I see you using the ev-50/30m speakers. Can you give us a review on them please

[@brandonshabazz255]

I’m sold and will have them before the summer ends. Thanks Joe, this was a huge help!

[@DJJoeBunn]

Probably a nice pick up.

[@p.michaelguastamachio3162]

Amazing video!! Answered the question I didn't know I had!! Are the Astera tubes 360 or are they both 180?

[@DJJoeBunn]

Both 180, but I think Chauvet makes a 360

[@TheBrianBass]

Oh jesus they're $4,000 I ain't quite there yet, Joe lol

[@DJJoeBunn]

Not cheap!

[@mrlivewire8545]

Would you buy these over the astera’s if they released the same time? I’m in the market now and trying to decide between these the astera and the nanlite.

[@DJJoeBunn]

no

[@litproductions503]

Maybe if you still have them you can try them out at your next event and do a gig log with them in action?

[@DJJoeBunn]

They're gone!

[@skysoldier450]

Can you map these things to work with Resolume

[@DJJoeBunn]

That question is way above my pay grade

[@djjamie84]

The chauvet well stx is a nice light. However in Canada they are $8500 before tax which comes out to $9100 I’m not going to invest that much into 4 lights

[@DJJoeBunn]

They are high dollar. Astera even higher.

[@Dyerdrummer]

What's you opinion on Jmaz? They have the galaxy tubes. I just don't have the money to go with these or the astera

[@therealdjmikej]

Galaxy Tubes are an eye if beauty too but do not compare to control and brightness of the AX1 or Chauvet STX imo

[@DJJoeBunn]

Never used or seen them in person.

[@michaelemrick]

Really like the idea of these a lot. But at this price point I can’t understand why you still would need a $470 external unit to do legit DMX. $3500 and I’m limited to their cheap remote for use is pretty lame by Chauvet. Someone feel free to correct me if I’m misreading but the manual calls for the W-DMX TRX unit for DMX control.

[@mylesdb]

The reason they have these units is to provide a low latency radio signal for the DMX to respond quickly and keep all the tubes in sync. Gets important when doing pixel mapping at the VJ level. If you’re a DJ I guess you don’t really care as much about the professional grade visuals and just want something simple to use.

[@michaelemrick]

@@mylesdb I may be misunderstanding your reply but it looks like you can do no DMX control without the external unit. I’m curious how big a market there is for DJs to drop $3500+ on this and not DMX it.

[@dcentertainmentpa]

@@michaelemrick Agree with you about that. I could imagine the idea is to keep overall cost down. If you are already using their universe of products you would have that transmitter for uplights etc. That would allow a single transmitter to work for all.

[@michaelemrick]

@@dcentertainmentpa I appreciate the reply. This would be more valid if Chauvet wasn’t changing the wireless technology for every new product. BT Air, FlareCon, D-Fi. If you have any of those you still can’t connect them to these.

[@dcentertainmentpa]

@@michaelemrick very true. 😞.

[@jessepalencia1064]

Don't they have similar thing like Astera? The Well Com

[@therealdjmikej]

I like my asteras more . Wayyy More versatile

[@JacmuiLight]

❤️

[@DJTEDDY507]

“Paid Promotion”?

[@DJJoeBunn]

Def. not. They're sitting back at NLFX as we speak.

[@jtm71]

Exactly