Fluorescent lighting for larger scenes

I'm currently using a mix of CFL lights and a two bank kino-style fluorescent light. I'm not getting enough light with this setup to shoot at the settings I want. So, I'm looking at getting bigger kino-style lights (4 to 6 bank), mainly to match what I already have.

Before I spend more money on those though, I wanted to check: My fluorescents, like LEDs are fine for close-up shots but seem to lack throw, so they don't fare too well on larger scenes.

Do you think the same lights with more banks would do better, or just give more light in their limited space?

For example, for lighting a group of people around a table where you'd need a stock-style even spread of light around everybody and high key background, would three 4 to 6 kino-style lights be enough? Or would you use halogen or other lights instead?

I would propably match kinos with led panels and i would choose the models with a narrower angle of throw (spot) .

This is for stock?
For my studio shots I don't try to light anything like the old sitcom tv shows any more.
I think stock has evolved and now I light my scenes more natural so I use a minimum amount of lighting to get the shots I want.
Most of the time it's 2 or 3 at most lights

I also got away from anything halogen a few years ago because of heat and safety concerns. In studio is either LED or Fluorescent.
The only halogen lights I still have are a few fresnel spots I use from time to time. But I'll replace those with some high output LED fresnel soon.

Jake

Jake doesn't you get a greenish cast on skin with fresnel or fluorescent light??

No, all my lights both fluorescent and LED are daylight balanced.
Sometimes I may get a little more blueish cast so I change the balance in my cameras to compensate.
But never greenish.

Talking about that it reminded me of another reason I got away from Tungsten lights. Was the white balance.
Now that I have everything daylight balanced if I shoot something next to a window it all looks correct without trying to gel the tungsten light.

You can put a piece of white paper in front of your lens to balance your daylight. So your WB is perfect. I use it a lot when shooting in different indoor lighting. My Tempo is my friend. :D

Plus certain newer cameras,especially some mirrorless ones cant handle 3200k well.They're naturally daylight cameras after all.
New led's dont suffer from magenta/green cast at all,or it's so well contained that can be corrected in post.

Thanks for the advice. I will try out the LED lights. Do you use 1/4 Magenta gels to curb the green casts?

Me?
I don't have any green casts from my lights.

Depends on the leds.An earlier set of 1000led lights has a green cast which i remove by using 1/8th minus green gels.
I dont want to advertise but i had very good luck with the newer aputure 672 leds.