For some insane reason my 13 YO daughter wants a karaoke machine.
My wife is googling things that need CD's - surely there is some solution using free content on Youtube so she is not limited to a handful of songs.
What would be a good way of setting something up? Mic into iPad? Anyone else with lunatic offspring?
Lucky Voice is a nice piece of kit** but requires a subscription to the backing tracks and words. The app / website is very good though. The subscription can be turned on and off if you're good at that sort of thing though - we tend to use it through Nov and Dec and turn it off for the rest of the year but the kit can be used with free youtube Karaoke vids.
** A mixer, cables and good quality Mic. Mixer layers backing track feed from tablet / laptop (which also shows the words - laptop best as you HDMI to the telly) via 3.5mm jack with vocals coming the Mic and outputs it via 3.5mm Aux into a speaker of your choice. The mixer has levels and an echo function so you can get it sounding good. The subscription is very good - lots of choice and good quality production. You can buy a second Mic for some classic husband+wife duets (Human League - Don't You Want Me Baby).
BITD I procured a CD from eBay, full of karaoke tracks which could be played through my laptop.
They were knocked-off copies of the barfly “proper” karaoke tracks, but I can’t imagine they would be the kind of thing that a 13 year old wants to sing.
Is she more interested in a microphone?
I’ve seen Bluetooth microphones that would connect to an iPad and let her record TikTok’s or whatever it is teenage girls do these days…
I solved this request with an Xbox 360 and Rock Band.
karaoke machine
One of my worst memories was having a microphone thrust into my hand at a big families party with a bazillion folk in attendance and I couldn't get out of singing. Proper nightmare stuff.
a microphone thrust into my hand at a big families party with a bazillion folk in attendance and I couldn’t get out of singing. Proper nightmare stuff.
Same. Karaoke is the most excruciatingly cringetastic ordeal known to man. I come out in cold sweats just thinking about it.
I couldn’t get out of singing
Sure you could. Say no and thrust it straight back from whence it came.
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