Stairville xBrick Full-Colour 16x3W Reviews

Excellent light coverage and output

This would be so much better with a remote

Excellent

The light so power and doing exactly what I wanted

Great solution for small venues without lighting

Really glad we bought a couple of these.

We have often played small venues that haven't considered the fact that a lack of lighting means a lack ambience.

They're dead simple to setup, and leave to react to your music.

Now looking for a simple spot solution...

Powerfull

Potenti e performanti. Ne uso 4 in un americana in serie con teste mobili e fanno egregiamente il loro lavoro. Risposta dmx perfetta. Unico neo se vogliamo quando si imposta un modo ci vogliono molti secondi prima che sia operativo. Pienamente soddisfatto.

Excellent Light

Love these lights...have a few of them...I did have to send 2 or more for faults, other than that tho they are spot on and nice and bright.

Very Powerful!

Two of these work wonders for a large stage. I also used them as DJ lights set to 'sound' - fantastic.

The Best value compact

I've had several light units over the years so I wanted to try something new again. I bought two of these lights for stage use with a four piece band and as soon as I saw the quality and capability of the unit i bought two more! Can't recommend enough. This little light unit packs serious punch, with built in settings and programmable DMX for several controllers. Easy to use, lightweight and powerful. Super values for money. Can highly recommend.

Game changer

Summary:

This will change your lighting load out forever

These XBricks are the best things to happen to my lighting needs ever. I was recommended them by a friend, and I will be forever in his debt for the recommendation. My entire lighting rig for everything up to large venues fits in a laptop bag! Seriously. Think about carrying led bars or even pars around. Now, think 2 xbrings over your shoulder in a single laptop bag.

They have DMX out/in so you can slave one off the other. I cannot recommend these highly enough. Just a complete game changer.

Note: The lifespan I had to fill in. I've had mine for 10-15 gigs so far and no problem at all. I don't foresee a problem, but I can't rate it accurately (I had to fill something in)

Very Good

Very good product. The best product for the price!

A Fantastic Budget Light

The light is a fantastic, little bit of kit and for the price the output is surprisingly bright.

I'm hanging the light from a grid approximately 4.5m in the air, aiming it at an area approximately 5m wide and 11m deep.

I ordered two as an experiment, however I probably could have gotten away with just one (although the more the merrier!) as it easily floods the space.

The only downside, as some of the others have pointed out, once you connect DMX and IEC it becomes impossible to stand the light on the ground pointing directly upwards like you might do if you were up-lighting but for the price I can't complain.

As for lifespan, it hasn't failed me in the hour or so I've used it. The case is metal and all in all it feels like a very solid piece of kit so I expect it to last me a good amount of time.

Man are these things bright

Warning. If you are going to use these for mobile DJ and small venues, don't use them in standalone mode they will blind your audience. They are seriously bright and they only way they are useable for me is to run them via DMX and turn the brightness down on them.

The output is not beams but a wash so bare that in mind. They are great for floor mounting and pointing at backgrounds and ceilings etc, but I would avoid pointing them directly at your dancefloor area. My favourite way to use these is using all white and running chases from my DMX controller. That effect is really cool on them, and if your DMX controller will flash fast enough, they strobe nicely (or in 5 channel mode you can strobe from the unit on channel 5)

5 or 13 channel mode,

5 channels gives you R G B control, brighntess and strobe. The disadvantage in this mode is all 16 LEDs are the same colour.

in 13 channel mode, you control 4 banks of 4 LEDS and can control RGB for each bank. Channel 13 for brightness.

It's a shame they didn't utilise channels 14 and 15 for a strobe function in this mode, and also to range through the pre-programmed modeds like other Stairville lights do,

All in all though, a whole lot of light output for the money, and very useful in any setup.

Good light, difficult buttons

Great light, nice disco effect, good for washes too.

The manual was difficult, and the buttons are confusing.

I eventually figured out how to set sound-to-light vs fades - two useful manual settings - this is what I cut out and stuck onto the light for reference...hope it helps for you non-dmx people out there!

STAIRVILLE XBRICK

PRESS MENU until it says SLAVE MODE (ENTER)

UP/DOWN until it says MASTER MODE (ENTER)

now it says SLAVE MODE again (PRESS UP)

Now it says SHOW MODE (ENTER)

UP/DOWN to select SOUND/FADE/COLOUR (ENTER)

If FADE is chosen, use UP/DOWN for fade time (ENTER)

PRESS AND HOLD MENU TO ACTIVATE

FANTASTIC.

VERY VERY GOOD. Worth every £.

How do you...

I saw a video where this performed really well and decided I should get one.

Said and done. But... Stairville are really crappy at writing manuals. They treat you like you already know what you are doing. They don't realize that maybe, just maybe you are a rookie at this and would need more help.

For example. The video clearly showed that you can use different colours on the four sets of lights. I STILL haven't figured out how to do that. The manual sucks big time. But someday I might get the hang of it.

Stairville very bright well worth its money

I bought two starville xbrick full-colour a couple of weeks ago and they are perfect. Highly recommend them. I use them for DJing and for lights for bands I work with

very happy

Great light from these. Easy to fit on brackets or free standing. Also slim for transportation. Very happy with purchase.

A great product

I've bought two of these lights as I like them so much. Two lights are more than enough to light my three piece band either in a pub or at a small outdoor event. They are quite versatile and I use them either on a slow fade or set to give a show. They look great as backlighting on show mode with additional frontal lighting provided, particularly when they're dmx'd together.

The first light I bought failed soon after purchase, as has been discussed by other reviewers, with the fuse blowing. The fuse section has a spare fuse included, but I've bought some aftermarket fuses since and had no further trouble.

Easy to use, great light output and take up hardly any space. Wicked product!

xBrick 16x3w

I bought this LED light as a backdrop wash to be fixed above the drummer and facing down from about 10 feet up. Nice compact item which seems well built and has a nice bright output, coming from the 16x3w LEDs. The xBrick has a number of inbuilt programs, probably the most useful is the fade, with a configurable time - ranging from 1 (fast), to 10 (slow - probably 4-5 seconds between colours). Does the job well and excellent value for money. My only criticisms would be that the beam angle is quite narrow (easily fixed by gaffa taping some frost onto the front) and secondly the unit does get quite hot in use so we will see if this has any impact on durability.

Great for the Price

Good little unit with brilliant light output for the price bracket it. Not sure what its lifespan will be but it is well built an works well as a versatile uplighter, stage lighter or effect light.

Bright and compact

This is very very bright, and nice quality. I generally only use the colour slow fade mode. It would be better if it had a wider wash angle. It is bright enough that the angle could be wider and cover a bigger stage area.