I have been trying to make the background in my video setup feel a little more intentional without turning the room into a full production studio. The camera is good, the main lights are decent, but the background has mostly been white light, a couch, a textured wall, and a few things that do not always stand out on camera.
So I picked up a used Godox TL60 two-light kit from B&H to see if RGB tube lights could add some color, depth, and separation behind me. This was not a polished setup video. It was more of a real-time test to see what actually works in the room.
Quick Answer
The Godox TL60 lights can help a video background, but they are not an instant fix. In my space, placing them directly on the floor or too close to the wall created hot spots near the bottom while the upper wall stayed darker. The blue color looked decent, but the light needed more distance or a better mounting angle to spread evenly.
My early takeaway is that the TL60 two-light kit is a solid set of RGB tube lights, especially if you want flexible color control and portable placement. For my background, I still need to experiment with ceiling mounting or a different angle before I would call it the final setup.
What I Was Trying To Fix
The main issue was not that the room was too dark. I already have several lights in the office, including Godox ES45-style panel lights and some Hue or Nanoleaf-style lights in the ceiling fan area that help act as a hair light.
The problem was that everything felt a little flat. The background had texture, but it needed light from the right angle to bring that texture out. When light hits the wall from the side, you can see the raised areas and shadows. When it is too direct or too close, it just blows out one spot.
What Comes In The Kit
The Godox TL60 kit I bought was the two-tube version. Mine was purchased used from B&H, listed in very good condition, and visually it looked clean. I did not notice obvious scratches or damage when I opened it.
Inside the case were the two tube lights, a larger remote than I expected, power bricks, power cables, clamp-style mounts, quarter-twenty pressure mounts, short Ethernet-style DMX cables, and small hanging wires that can screw into the ends of the tubes.
The lights can run on internal battery power, though mine arrived with only about one bar of charge. For testing, I plugged them in for a bit, then disconnected them to move them around the room.
- Two Godox TL60 RGB LED tube lights
- Remote control
- Power bricks and cables
- Mounting clamps and quarter-twenty mounts
- Short DMX cables
- Small hanging wires for mounting
Controls And Setup
You can control the TL60 directly from the buttons on the tube. The screen lets you adjust brightness, color temperature, color modes, gels, and wireless settings. I usually keep my office lights around 5600K, so I started there before moving into color testing.
The TL60 supports Bluetooth, 2.4GHz wireless control, and DMX. Bluetooth appears to be more for app-style control, while the included remote uses the 2.4GHz wireless system with channels and groups.
The remote setup was the part that slowed me down. I could see channel and group options, and I could see link indicators on the light, but I could not get the remote behaving the way I expected during the live test. I am sure it is something I can sort out with more time, but in the moment I moved on and controlled the lights from the tubes themselves.
Brightness And Color
At 100 percent brightness, the TL60 was bright enough to create a visible color cast on the wall, but that does not automatically mean it looked good on camera. When the light was too close to the wall, the lower area became very bright while the upper part stayed dark.
That was the same problem I had seen before with smaller Hue Play-style lights. The TL60 has more output, but physics still matters. If the light source is too close to the wall, the falloff is obvious.
The blue tones looked the most promising in my room. They added some separation and gave the background more life without feeling too distracting. Still, the placement needed work.
Floor Placement
One suggestion was to lay the tube lights on the floor and let them wash up the wall. I tried that with one light, then with both lights set similarly.
It worked in the sense that it added color, but I was not completely sold on the look. The bottom of the wall got most of the light, and the upper wall did not get enough. With the couch and chair in the room, I also cannot just leave the lights sitting far out from the wall where they might spread more evenly.
The floor setup did make a small table or object in the lower background stand out a bit more, but that was not really the thing I was trying to emphasize.
Ceiling Or Angled Mounting
The setup I am more interested in testing next is mounting the TL60 lights higher up or on the ceiling, then angling them back toward the wall. That may create a more even frame of light instead of a bright hot spot at the bottom.
One limitation is that the TL60 only has a quarter-twenty mounting point on the end of the tube. I would have liked to see another mounting point around the middle of the body. The included clamp can probably solve that, but it adds another piece to the setup.
This is also where I wondered if the four-foot version might have been a better choice for my room. The two shorter lights are more flexible, but a longer tube may have been easier to mount across a wider section of the background.
Other Background Ideas
Lighting was only one part of the background test. I also looked at adding something to the wall, like a Displate Textra metal print. Those have a raised texture, so light hitting them from an angle could look more interesting than a flat print.
I also looked at Displate's Limino-style illuminated wall art. Those pieces include built-in lighting effects, but they are more expensive and the designs are limited. I have been watching them, but I have not seen one yet that I wanted enough to buy for the space.
For now, I still think the wall needs either better angled light, a piece of art, or both. The TL60 lights may be part of that, but they are not the whole solution by themselves.
My First Impression
The Godox TL60 lights feel solid, and the used kit from B&H looked like a good value. The light quality seems good, the RGB options are useful, and having battery power makes them easy to move around while testing.
The main thing I learned is that background lighting is less about buying the light and more about where the light lands. In a small room with furniture close to the wall, tube lights can quickly create hot spots unless you give them enough distance or angle them carefully.
I am not done with these lights. I need to test them mounted higher, angled from the ceiling, and possibly paired with something textured on the wall. Once that is dialed in, I expect they will start showing up in future videos.
Key Takeaways
- The Godox TL60 two-light kit is a solid RGB tube light option for experimenting with video background lighting.
- Direct floor placement can work, but in my room it created bright hot spots near the bottom of the wall.
- The blue color looked promising for adding depth without making the background too distracting.
- The included remote uses 2.4GHz wireless control, but I still need to spend more time getting it paired and working correctly.
- Ceiling or angled mounting may give a better background wash than placing the lights close to the wall.
- For a small studio space, placement and wall texture matter as much as the light itself.
Watch the Video
The video above above to see the full unboxing, the live setup process, the remote-control troubleshooting, and the real-time background lighting tests in the room.
