Botex SDC-16 5-stars Reviews

When what you actually *need* is simple.

I bought this lighting console for trade-show demos - where people unfamiliar with lighting control - can merrily play around with the sliders and see 'stuff happen'. I *want* it to be simple. So I needed a 16 channel DMX controller (because my gear does simple 4 channel RGBW, or a feature-rich 16 channel mode). This controller fitted the bill perfectly. No 'modes', memories or 'features' to get confused by. It also runs from 9V (so I can run it from a USB-PD to 9V barrel connector adapter, rather than the supplied power-brick and UK adapter) The only think I don't really like is the all-steel enclosure, which makes it rather heavy - in fact it's the heaviest single item in my back-pack portable set-up. Although the manual doesn't make this clear - it's, as you might expect, a full-universe 512 channel controller - you can just use the up/down buttons to move to a new base-address and then start moving the sliders again. Shift it at least 16 channels, and it remembers the previous block of 16 channels that you set. One minor oddity - it only outputs the DMX universe at a 20Hz refresh rate - not the 40Hz or 44Hz that you might expect. Minor grumbles aside, so far it's proved rock-solid reliable, and covers my simple application perfectly.