Karaoke

[GrantMeThePower]

I was just in Tokyo and went out to karaoke and now i want to set it up in my house. Does anyone know of any PC programs that are good/cheap to do this? Any recs on microphones?

Thanks!

 

[Glavinsolo]

William Hung was there, right?

 

[MichaelD]

AM transistor radio & 9-volt battery: $6
Singing along with top-40 tunes: Priceless

 

[JDrake]

get a karaoke machine

 

[tweakmm]

Karaoke is awesome but for it to be so everyone involved needs to be quite liquored up with no inhibitions.
Self-conscious people ruin it for everyone.

 

[Eddieo]

I think there are web sites that have some legal MP3's but you can also buy some at Amazon.com.

 

[Zolty]

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ does have a karaoke filter although I have yet to use it.

 

[Armitage]

You can get karaoke machines pretty cheap - I picked one up @ Walmart for about $40 a few months ago. There are also programs to play them on PCs, but I haven't tried them.

The disks are a little pricey - $15-$25 for the regular titles, which probably only have 2 or 3 good songs on. You can get custom discs made from some outfits for about $5/song, minimum 10 songs or something like that. Cheaper then buying 5 regular discs to get the 10 songs you want.

 

[Qwest]

do u have xbox or ps2? karaoke revolution is pretty fun with drinks and friends.

 

[Jikininki]

we have a laserdisc player that you can connect mics to and our family does karoake that way. we have tons of karaoke discs from Taiwan...TONS! Mostly taiwanese songs..but we do have some popular (at the time - early 90's) mandarin and 60's-80's english music.

sometimes I love being asian. lol.

 

[GML3G0]

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You can use Audacity and record your voice over it after you strip the vocals. It works pretty well for most tracks.