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Any home karaoke singers?

MinerWillyMinerWilly
edited March 2011 in Chit chat
My wife likes to sing karaoke now and then.

We now have one of those cheap DVD-karaoke players but it really stinks using DVD's. I'm thinking of buying a karaoke-mixer to use with the stereo-amplifier (a/v receiver?) and the xbox1 with xbmc as mediaplayer.

But it's a jungle out there and it doesn't help that i hardly know anything about audio equipment.

This is what i want:

-No need for an inbuilt amplifier since it's to be used by the amplifier and speaker system we already have

-possibility to change the key (pitch?) a song is playing in

-decent echo (reverb?), not only delay

Any recommendations? Sorry if i'm sounding really vague but i'm not even sure what all the terms mean.

And two last questions:

Many of the music mixers use TRS as connectors, even for the ones that are supposed to go to the amplifier. Why? Don't every normal amplifier use RCA (or optical, coaxial, hdmi) instead?

And why don't any of these music mixers use optcal, coaxial or hdmi out? Surely digital is the way to go nowadays?
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  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited March 2011
    One tip that I picked up when singing in my old band was that you can use guitar effects peddles to push vocals through. I used a distortion one to add a bit of "oomph" to the rehersal sound, but it wouldn't work live becasue the mic was picking up everything and feeding back (distortion peddles are high gain). But, I also used a digital delay peddle to add reverb and that worked a treat. Those things can be found pretty cheap (less than ?20 if you know where to look) and are easy to turn on and off when not needed (you can turn it off and talk, then press it to activate it when singing)

    Another thing that we used was a Khaos pad. Those things are far more expensive, but work just as well. We had a large one for the band that had a built in drum machine effect which came in useful. I have a tiny one at home that doesn't have as many features, but works just as well, but has different connectors to my other music gear which makes it hard to use.
  • MinerWillyMinerWilly
    edited March 2011
    All good tips i'm sure but i didn't understand any of it.

    You're talking to a guy that just and just grasp the concept of a normal a/v receiver! :)
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited March 2011
    MinerWilly wrote: »
    All good tips i'm sure but i didn't understand any of it.

    You're talking to a guy that just and just grasp the concept of a normal a/v receiver! :)

    :lol: I'm the same if I'm honest. I can talk flashy at times, but I have no real clue either. Alot of the times when dealing with this kind of stuff, I just pratt about with it until it works!

    Somethin like this will do for you reverb as it's easier than mucking about with desks etc. You plug the mic into the input side and a normal jack to jack (guitar lead etc) into the output and into your amp. Then you just muck about with the controls until it sounds right

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  • Alien 8Alien 8
    edited March 2011
    Going back maybe 15 years I used to go to Karaoke several times a week. I even bought my own machine, it was a fidelity CDG player, and was pretty good. Would something along those lines be a better bet? It had echo and pitch change facilities, it even had a vocal cancel for regular CDs, allowing you to sing along to it with the artists voice sort of magically removed.
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