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I HIGHLY recommend all their discs. They're not SC by ANY means, but they're REALLY good! Their Steely Dan disc of mine is a gold mine! I also like their Journey, James Taylor... good stuff!

I think ZOOM is probably the hottest brand as we speak, so far, I got Elton John, Billy Joel, the Eagles and Lionel Richie and I tell you, no SC comes close to that
Overall, yes, SC is a safe brand especially for rock music.

I personally like the new Chartbuster, mainly for their acoustic instruments and the fact that they have their own style and sound!

Yup I got the James Taylor radio starz its a excellant disc. I think they have about 12 discs out at this time

nope, 29 last I saw.

http://www.kjpro.com/browse/label.php?L ... rz&DiscNo=

This brand has made amazing improvements in contemporary pop and hiphop too. Clean, crisp, and very sub friendly. A big thumbs up for the new Chartbuster releases I've purchased.

I fully agree I have an Air Supply cdg from them and I tell you, not many brand can match this sound quality! These guy's are using high end equipment with good sound engineer!

Thanks for the good info, in the past I thought Chartbuster did pop and rock very poorly, while their oldies were pretty good. There's a Puddle of Mud song out that as far as I know is only available on CB and I was a bit reluctant to purchase it, I think I will now. Rudy.

If it's by chance Psycho, this is the one I bought it for & the opening guitar is pretty quiet, it's not quite as full sounding as I would like, but not bad overall. Once it kicks into the harder part, it balances out a little more. And being it's only out on CB, then it is the best karaoke version to date!
Here is a clip
http://www.phonglekaraoke.com/store/com ... duct=20278

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Yep Lonnie, Psycho was it, thanks for the link. I listenened to it and it was exactly like you described not outstanding, but overall not bad. I had to laugh at the link though, here I was thinking man where did Lonnie find that company, sounds like a vietnamese name. Come to find out they are in Houston, less than 2 hours from me. Maybe I'll go check them out on my upcoming 7 days off. Thanks again. Rudy.

I've got a couple Legends and SGB that I LOVE...at least the songs I sing. The two Legends ones I'm thinking of I usually prefer over the KJ ones for sound and lyrics. My SGB I like because some of the songs are hard to find, but I can't complain about the sound...especially on my lousy setup. I've got some that I've had problems with grphics-wise, or wrong lyrics, but I'd have to go through my whole set to figure out which. I do know that I have at least one Top Hits Monthly that is nearly impossible to see the lyrics change color (good sound though).

I have some Legends that I prefer too. And it isn't because it meets the oft-stated criteria "most like the original". They are not like the original, but sound better for karaoke purposes. (The two that come to mind right away are "Cherry Bomb" and "I Got A Name".)

I happen to prefer the Legends version of "Send Her My Love" as it sounds like a live version of the song with a harder rocking guitar solo before the ending lyrics.

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Just as apoint of interest, the SuperCore set is up to 38 regular discs plus- I believe- another 14 in 2007-8 updates in separate sets....

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They are not intended as updates. There are huge numbers of dups if you buy each year.

SGB is the karaoke brand that I started singing to.

The KJ mainly used them for his show and they worked.

Since then I have started my show and realized that they sounded generally pretty bad in comparison to other karaoke makers.

However once I got a DB meter I realized that the sound for most SGB tracks was about 10db louder than the levels for most other brands (of the same song).

Once you correct for the sound level, SGB is not that bad but neither is it the best. The sound level though generally makes it sound much worse if not adjusted for.

Generally I just set the master to -10 DB with SGB songs and have fewer complaints. The hard part is always remembering to turn it back up...


As for other makers I like. Sound Choice, of course and Zoom are among the best. SBI is a newer UK company that makes a lot of hard to find songs that are well done. Sunfly is getting better with their more recent tracks but the older stuff has many misses.

MM, Nutech and a few others are only if you are desparate and someone is demanding a specific song at all costs.

If you have a crowd that goes for standards, show tunes/musical theatre, and what may be considered Pop/Classical fusion, Music Minus One and/or Pocket Songs seem to set the standard. As for current music, these labels are adequate, but not the best in this category.

True that.. SuperCore is NOT inteded to be bought every year. It is a CORE set which is updated every year. (you would have mostly dupes if you bought it every year)

This is where Big Hitz comes in.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Big Hitz!

Big Hitz are good-to-great quality collection from several manufacturers. They put the most-sung songs on their discs. Buy a disc, you get 16 songs, most of which will actually get sung. A very few tracks are poor quality.

Note about DK... most of them are at least as good as Sound Choice, and at least 30% of their songs are BETTER THAN SOUND CHOICE in audio quality.

Tone down the guide pitch with the mid-range knob on the mixer. The guide pitch is fine for karaoke -- not professional singers.

The Millenium edition was re-mastered (115 discs)

Sound Choice and DK Karaoke are the best with Chartbusters being a distant 3rd. However, I have seen some pretty bad tracks from Sound Choice, like "Nine Inch Nails -Closer". How friggin terrible was that one. Yikes! I have an all hits version that simply kicks (@$%&#!). I have it posted but that is the exception and not the rule. I wish Sound Choice would do more older songs. I have been ordering SGI to get odd stuff like audioslave and Alice in Chains but every stinking disc has come in with a screwed up track. I ordered three from them now and I have 4 bad tracks. I think they go max speed on burn and lose full digital or something. Sound Choice customs are now done out of Australia so Morgan can get a job singing backgrounds there. They got real slow on delivery as would be expected. It's all up to the individual. There's good and bad in every company.

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I'll second Randy J's support of Big Hitz. They all sound decent, and have the most intelligently packaged newish releases of any label out there. Every track counts and there's practically no throwaways or fill.

The few DK CDGs I have need a bit of bass boost, but when I do that they all pop. You know how when you bring up the lows on some tracks all you get is mud? Not so with the DK's I have anyway.

Just a follow-up on Big Hitz

Just released disc #18 -- terrible graphics! I'm sorry I wasted money on this one.

also known as BH0318 on kjpro.com

It looks as if they changed their business model from buying the best tracks from various manus to making their own (?) or exclusive contract with a new manu

Spelling mistakes, small print, crowded screens, distracting "chasing lyrics" -- erases the line just above where you're singing

They've done EVERY bad thing you can do with the graphics including a low-contrast colors.