Karaoke Forums

First of all I wanted to thank everybody for such a wonderful forum. Very helpful for new members like me. I am working on setting up a decent Karaoke system at home. My parents used to have a karaoke system years ago and used it myself. I am setting up my system and basically testing the equipment. Here is what I current have,

Behringer B212A Speaker
Mackie SMRV420 v2 Speaker
$99 micrphone - can't rmember the brand.
and a mediocore mixer Behringer 802 ($60)

My setuo sucks!!! Is it because of the mixer? I missed the echo effect on vocals of normal karaoke system. Can you please recommend a good mixer that can provide voice effects such as echo etc. without breaking my wallet?

Thank you in advance.

We need to know exactly how fragile your wallet is first.

Your current setup has no effects and no equalization and no compression. It also has two mismatched speakers. The most important thing to making the music sound better is the equalization, the most important thing to help the vocals sound better is effects.

For the home system, I would first try running mono. Put the left music input (white) into channel 3, the right(red) into channel 5, and PAN everything all the way left. Then attach the Mackie speaker to the left output. Does it sound better?

You could get a Yamaha MG82CX mixer for $150 and solve the effects problem and have compression. For $150 or so, you can get a DBX 215 equalizer. If you want to save on that, then use your sound-card equalizer on the PC to equalize the music to taste.

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Alas for those who never sing, but die with all their music in them.
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Thanks. Looks like MG82CX will do the trick. I have different speakers because i was testing them. I think my situation would be better with 2 Behringer B212 rather than 1 Mackie SMr450.

I wiill be using them mostly at home for small parties. Do you have any suggestion on pair of speaker comparable to B212A? Max budget for speaker is $700.

Thanks again.

The Mackie is a better speaker.

You could get another Mackie for that, I think. If you sold the B212A (should get $180 or so on Ebay) then you could be under $700.00.

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[color=#ffff55]Mickey J.[/color]
Alas for those who never sing, but die with all their music in them.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Do you already own these speakers or are you just trying them out? The reason I ask is because if you aren't in on the speakers already I would switch gears and find me a used Yamaha EMX5000-12 and a couple of Yamaha S115V speakers. You would never have to worry about poor sound again. I prefer the EMX5000 over the 5014 or the 5016 because it has more patching abilities, dual SPX FX and a seperate adjustable sub out for future use.

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No I do not own both speakers (that was yesterday)

I finally decided on getting the following;

1 Electro Voice SA110+
Mackie ProFX8
Sennhauser Microphone (e835)