Halloween season's in full swing... anyone else rocking couples costumes at karaoke?

This is my fiancée and me co-running the Halloween party at our regular Sunday show. Carmen Sandiego and Waldo... the two most famous people you can never find. Pretty ironic for a pair of KJs, since singers had no trouble tracking us down all night to switch songs and ask when they were up! 😂

Running a show together is one of my favorite parts of this whole gig, and getting to dress up as a pair made it even more fun. The crowd went all out too. We had a cowboy, a sparkly red devil, a rock star in a rose-print jacket and shades, someone covered head to toe in bats, plus sequins and wigs galore.

Who else is dressing up for karaoke this year? Show us your couples costumes or your best solo music look, whether that's a full Freddie Mercury, a Lady Gaga meat dress, or just a good mullet wig.

And KJs, do you dress up for your Halloween shows, or leave the costumes to the crowd? Any special activities for the night? We did a costume contest last year, but it wound up being a bit of a debacle so we skipped that this time... more time for karaoke!

P.S. I rolled out Postmodern Jukebox's version of "Thriller," and it absolutely killed. </dadjoke>

I'm looking for some advice around a new machine.

We have an older disc based machine which is a massive pain, so I'm thinking of using Karafun with the subscription to make it all a bit easier.

I already have some wireless microphones with XLR and a laptop that will run it, so ideally would reuse them but that's not a dealbreaker.

Speaker wise - could I use the soundbar we've already got hooked up to the TV? I think this can cause issues with audio lag?

I guess I'm looking for a more budget option, using as much stuff as I already have, if that's even feasible. Thanks!

Anyone know of any karaoke spots to check out in Atlanta? I'll be there Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. Is this the right sub to be asking this?

Hi everyone!

I'm looking for a practical way to safely store and transport my two wired SingStar microphones when travelling.

The original red SingStar carrying case, with its custom-shaped interior for the microphones, seems to be quite difficult to find nowadays (in my country!), so I was wondering if anyone in the community has ever considered designing a DIY 3D-printable replacement case.

Has anyone already designed or printed something like this? I'd love to find an existing STL/CAD project, or hear from anyone who might be interested in developing one.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions or ideas!

I love karaoke but I fear I suck at it. I'm an 18 year old female and I've been told I have a good voice. My thing is I'm a theatre person so I'm used to showtunes and that's usually my go to. However when I'm in public that's not usually something available or people want to hear. I'm looking for good pop or rock songs that I could potentially add to my book. I'm a soprano who feels more comfortable in head voice than chest if that helps. Any suggestions are gratefully appreciated

I'm going to be having a 21st birthday party at a separate venue (Airbnb). I love karaoke, and my friends and I often sing at our own gatherings, but this party will be joining two groups of friends together (12 people in total, including myself). ,The second night, we certainly to be drinking, so I figured this would be the best night for karaoke. Do you have any ideas for games or variations we can use? We have a karaoke machine that hooks up to YouTube or just Bluetooth speakers. I want everyone to still be able to sing full songs seriously ( so no games that involve impressions or fragmented songs), but I also don't know that EVERYONE will want to sing, let alone a lot of songs. Mostly, I'm looking for ideas that let people have their moment to sing but still keep it engaging for others, as well as allowing people to choose songs they are comfortable with but also have some sort of element that would entice others who are more uninspierd. I don't intend to spend the entire night on this, maybe a few hours. Thanks!!

I would love to sing Trumpets by Jason Derulo at karaoke for the girl that I'm dating, but the line about " Is it weird that your bra reminds me of a Katy Perry song" doesn't fit for her because she doesn't wear them.

My best idea so far is to replace bra with lips (as in the ones on her face for the perverts), but I want to know if there's anything better!

Just got my own hard drive, now I can buy songs and add it to the hard drive. But I'm not sure which website I should be using to buy my music. I really don't want to get a virus or scammed.

What are your guys's recommendations?

I'm (52M) a fan of singing karaoke for crowds of strangers, especially when I travel for work, but I just found out the conference I'm attending next week will have about 100 youth in attendance, ages 14 - 17, and one of the evening events will be karaoke. The songs I normally sing (new wave, grunge, punk) are popular with people my age or a little younger, but I have no idea what to sing for that generation. I'm a baritone, which limits my options quite a bit since the male pop singers I'm familiar with are tenors. Any ideas to bring the house down?

I am singing Josh Turner and Willie Nelson and Randy Travis. A friend wants me to add some country songs, but I'm not familiar with songs in my range. Can you suggest some?

Just venting. Tonight we went to a new spot for karaoke to see friends and our favorite KJ. Two different singers, who did not appear to be disabled in any way, sat in their seats while they sang. Is it just me or is this kind of rude?

I apologize if this is in the wrong section. I recently bought an Ikarao S3 for casual home use. I am not a fan of the microphones that came with it and feel like they have to be held at the perfect distance and angle to actually capture your voice. They’re usable, but I’ve been thinking about getting another set to use. I’d really like something hands free as well because my teen can be doing their crafts while singing, or I could be tidying while singing. I just feel we would use the system a LOT more if we had a hands-free mic option.

I don’t know anything about mics really, but some of the ones I’ve seen have body packs and I feel like that’s too much for our casual use. I would like to stay at $100 USD or less for a set of two, but would prefer around the $50 range. Again, this is for very casual use, but if they sound horrible then we’re not going to reach for them so they have to at least sound ok for that price point. I realize I may be asking for too much here, but any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

(Hoping this dodges rule #1, since it’s only 5 seconds long and we’re not singing in it?)

I love meeting couples who karaoke together, and one of my great joys over the past two years has been having a girlfriend (and now fiancée, as of a month ago!) who LOVES going out to karaoke with me.

A video of me singing “Open Arms” in my Bumble profile helped her swipe right. She was immediately enthusiastic about coming out to watch me, although she said “I love that you sing karaoke, but I could never do it!” I know singing in public isn’t for everyone, so I never asked her to.

A few weeks in, she announced (unprompted) that she wanted to try a duet with me. Soon it was two or three duets every night out, and within a few months she was doing solo songs she’d never even practiced, which is not something I feel comfortable doing! Lately there have been times I’ve had to talk her out of hitting a third venue in the same night, which blows my mind. And within an hour of me proposing, she was exclaiming “Oh! We HAVE to have karaoke at the wedding!” (swoon)

A year and a half ago I started KJing, and that’s become another favorite couple activity. She’s my roadie, helping with setup and teardown, and my cohost, running the queue while I emcee and handle the sound board. She’s also the life of the party, chatting with people and pulling them onto the dance floor for upbeat songs. And ever since I got the crazy idea to build a helper app for karaoke singers, she’s been my biggest cheerleader, even on the nights I’m coding instead of singing.

Share your karaoke couple story with us... and/or your favorite karaoke couple duets!

A while ago a friend let me borrow a fairly large, beefy karaoke machine with 2 wireless mics that had reverb and various settings on it. We would run youtube karaoke videos on my tv and sing separately through the karaoke machine - it worked great, but the machine was on loan and I had to give it back.

My tv is a samsung frame that goes through an optical out to rca converter into an old cambridge amp. That amp outputs to two bookshelf speakers.

I have a Halloween party next week and I don't know what the best thing to do is here. There are karaoke machines with wireless mics on amazon for around £50-150, but from reading online it seems these just have an "echo" control, which is different from true reverb and not good? (although I dunno if this will matter as much if we're not playing the music through it, just singing?) - they also seem physically tiny compared to the one I had on loan, so I'm also not sure how powerful they'll be or how good they'll sound... Although possibly the tech has just come along a decent way, the other one seemed fairly old.

The alternative is to try and set up some sort of mixer with wireless mics onto my amp, which seems like the "right" way to do it, but I can see that being a bit of a headache to set up and possibly require troubleshooting. I only have parties 3-4 times a year and it's a group of drunk friends, maybe 15 people max taking part.

Is a cheap machine the way to go? Can anyone recommend one?

I’m working with the junior board of a wonderful charity to host a karaoke fundraiser. Is anyone in the area willing to donate their karaoke equipment and/or services for no charge or a small charge? For say two to three hours? Thank you so much and any leads on venues or event packages are welcome!!

Hello, Everyone . I always curious and wanted to find people who love singing karaoke with complex vocal chain. Have been finding people and community who seems similar to me, singing karaoke with complex vocal chain, for years but still have not found any. Most people I found tend to be using complex vocal chain for post-processing mixing and mastering, not the real time karaoke performance. I know that karaoke is all about fun and game, but for me who love the best sound quality and effect , I can't get enough of those performance that will be amazed.

This is what I recently come up with for recent karaoke session . It may not be perfect yet since I just try practicing to sing this song. I use the Mixbox plugin to make a real-time vocal processing with my cheapest mic in my Mic Arsenal ,$20 Samson R21s, to show that any decent mic will benefit from this kind of Vocal Chain.

Please have a kind discussion with me. I feel so lonely in Karaoke world and wanting to meet someone who love this kind of Karaoke like me.

I love the instrumental behind this song, but there is no instrumental version of it available on YouTube. Can someone please do me a favour and make an instrumental/karaoke version of this song and send it to me? I really need it 😭

Yes, one of the songs was Du Hast

Was gna title this one "merit badges" but I get too far ahead of myself here

This is silly, daughter (5) really wants a microphone, so I thought a karaoke machine would be fun for all the family.

Why does it seem like the £24 toy is too cheap.

It's only twice the cost of a 90s kids toy echo microphone.

Maybe the £200 one is too much for a year old to play with.

Should probably get the cheap one and buy the more expensive one in a few years when everything costs more and toddler has grown up a bit more.

Has anyone had success operating a professional karaoke set up completely non-visually? I am using with KARAFUN, but I am running into problems with getting the lyrics to display on a separate screen without losing access to the voiceover screen reader. I can connect my iPhone to a television via screen mirroring, but when I enter full screen, I lose VoiceOver screen reader access completely, and have to completely exit and reopen the app before I can get it back. Also, I can connect to my Bluetooth karaoke machine via airplay/audio, But when I do so, it appears I lose the mirror connection to the television. I am interested in hearing the experiences of blind people who have had success operating a professional karaoke set up around these obstacles. Thank you.

How do I know what key or range I sing in?
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• Soprano:
• Mezzo:
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