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SBIs sound pretty good and pretty accurate to me.

Depends on the tracks. I have all the ALice In Chains songs they have & they are spot on musically & lyrically.
I have several other discs from them & yes I have found a couple clunkers that I am in the process of reaquiring from other labels. But MOST of the songs have been pretty good - especially the newer releases. Their older releases are a little more hit or miss. Metallica- Day That Never Comes is very close to the orginal, it rocks!

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Jeff Daniels is currently creating custom-made backing tracks for 35 pounds sterling. Admittedly these are backing tracks and not karaoke, but if you really wanted that track, Jeff does a great job of creating a backing track.... all he needs is an mp3 of the original.

http://www.backingtracks.co.uk/custom.php

Thanks Murrlyn, I will look into it.

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I don't know what the current exchange rate is but I didn't see too many people in this thread that were willing to even pay 35 Dollars for a single track. I'm sure that Jeff's tracks are wonderful and I'm sure they take a long time to produce but the average karaoke singer today doesn't even want to pay $35 for an entire karaoke disc with 15 songs on it. The pricing of karaoke tracks are the biggest reason why so many people try to get their songs on loaded hard drives from e-bay for a penny a song or get them on line for free.

Is there a point to your post Bruce? or are you just rambling on?

I stated I would go as high as $50 as did 1 other poster and others were at $25.

Does me being willing to pay $50 for 1 track that I really, really want to sing sound so sinister to you?
And what does this have to do with buying pre-loaded harddrives?

Are you on drugs man?

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NO! I am not on drugs. 27 people took the poll and only TWO people would be willing to pay $50 or $100 for a song that they really wanted. I said that I didn't see TOO MANY PEOPLE that would spend that kind of money for ONE SONG. Are 2 people out of 27 considered a lot of people??? Let me ask you a question?? Did you order SWEET PAINTED LADY from Jeff Daniels in the last two days? Did the poster that said he would pay up to $100 for a single song order anything from Jeff Daniels???? If so, why not record yourself singing it and put it up on the singers showcase. It's time to put your money where your keyboard is.

But the drums sound like they were played on a 1981 Simmons kit. Ick.

They just sound terrible to me, I'm upset I wasted the money on something so poor quality.

I never said 2 out of 27 was a lot!

Again, what does mine or anyone else's willingness to pay that much for 1 track have to do with the current cost of karaoke songs or pre-loaded hardrives, what connection were you trying to make? Why does it seem somehow wrong to you?

If you have a beef with Jeff Daniels take it elsewhere,
I have never boughten anything from him and would not without doing a little more listening to the tracks he has already done before making that decision...but I assure you it is not out of the question that I will if I like what I hear on his other tracks.

And further more it is none of your f..ing business if I do or not.

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There is nothing wrong with someone paying a high price for something that they really want. All I'm saying is that MOST people aren't willing to pay even $3.00 per song anymore and that is why they buy these hard drives loaded with tens of thousands of songs on the cheap.

I don't have a problem with Jeff Daniels at all. In fact, I've listened to some of his demo samples on his web site and they sound pretty good to my ears. If he had some songs that I wanted already produced on his website for the price of 3.50 pounds Sterling, I would gladly purchase them. I bought EVERY Bruce Springsteen song that SBI Karaoke had to offer that I didn't already have. I'm just not willing to pay somewhere around $50 per song for something that I would probably be tired of singing after a couple of weeks. The novelty wears off for me pretty quickly.

As far as your last line........How classy! You are the guy who stated that he would spend $50 bucks for a particular song but when given the opportunity to do so, you balked Mr. Big Spender. You should practice what you preach is all I'm saying. You didn't even inquire about having your Elton John song made by Jeff. You're all talk and no action, as usual.

I'll end my post with a little more class than you did.

Have a nice day.

ARen't we a buncha CHEAP youknow whats! ....I voted 25.00 but I've paid 300.00 before to have a song custom made from scratch..it would have been 600 to have it "never" be available to anyone else. ...The 300 made it all mine for one year! I used if for my pageant competitions!

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[quote="BruceFan4Life @ Tue Aug 04, 2009 3:07 pm"]You are the guy who stated that he would spend $50 bucks for a particular song but when given the opportunity to do so, you balked Mr. Big Spender. You should practice what you preach is all I'm saying.[quote]

First off I never heard of Jeff D. until Murrlyn's post yesterday, so no, I will not buy until I have had a chance to listen to enough of his work to be convinced myself (remember these trakcs this Jeff produces are backing tracks and not karaoke tracks).

Second off, why because I stated I would pay as much as $50 for a special track, must I, (in your mind) buy from the first vendor, that is mentioned, that charges an amount up in the neighborhood that I am willing to pay???

[quote="BruceFan4Life @ Tue Aug 04, 2009 3:07 pm"]You didn't even inquire about having your Elton John song made by Jeff. You're all talk and no action, as usual.[quote]
And No, I have not inquired as to having that particular song made YET, but how would you know if I did or didn't and what diff is it to you.

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It's possible that the singer with a small collection of discs is willing to spend more than the kj with a huge collection of discs. For the kj, it's just one more song. For the singer, it's that song they've always wanted. As for me, there's several songs that "I've always wanted" so $50 per song would be too much. Maybe $25 for that rare McCartney and Wings song, but how do I know that SC isn't right now working feverishly in their studios right at this moment on that very song?

I checked out Jeff Daniel's site yesterday and stumbled across a Bobby Bare song that I knew a friend of mine would love to sing at karaoke. I sent him an e-mail with a link to Jeff's web site and he purchased the track today. He forwarded the MP3 to me and I created the cdg file for him and sent him back a ZIP file that he can burn to a disc and take to karaoke with him tonight. He felt $5 was a reasonable price to pay and it doesn't take that long to turn a backing track into a MP3+G karaoke track.

Which program do you use for creating the CDG file?

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um, if you pay attention to the request boards over at SC, you'll KNOW that they're not working on classic tunes right now... only the new stuff... they've all but turned their backs on the regular users and are only catering to the home market, and the NOW hits...

RLC, I've checked out Jeff's work before, and like some admit, it can be a bit cheesy sounding, but hey, if you seriously WANT a tune, you can either not have it and continue to want it, or if someone's willing to make it for you, give it a shot!

Like Bruce, I got a lot of tunes from overseas, and like many of the manus and the majority of the songs I've gotten have been darned good! My Queensryche "Anybody Listening" that was made for me by STTW is probably one of my altime favorite songs... and I've only sang it a couple times in public... you need the right crowd for something like that!

Their Pink Floyld's "On The Turning Away" is yet another that they just NAILED!!

I have had great success with Karaoke Builder Studio. You can make the tracks with any colors you like in any Font that you like and you can even create your own title screens with pictures

i have been trying to get some older southern gospel tracks...and i found older are not each track is 9.99 each...thats way out of my league and thats with no lyrics and down loaded...if you want a hard copy and shiped add another 6.00....thats 16.00 for 1 track and no lyrics....i never knew God was so broke....hard times everywhere i guess...but to me thats just unreal....

I don't really care if there were not "too many people in this thread that were willing to pay even 35 Dollars". The fact is I was responding directly to one person in particular who indicated he would be willing to pay $50. Anybody who is not prepared to spend that kind of money need not have taken any notice of the information I provided. I was merely attempting to give some helpful information to RLC.

As far as the quality of Jeffs tracks is concerned, I have purchased a number of tracks from various sources, but it is my opinion that Jeffs' tracks are some of the best backing track I have. As for pricing? I have had Jeff create a number of custom tracks for me at a cost of around $75 each. I have a wish-list of tracks I'd like to have and one medley track in particular which Jeff has just quoted me at 118 pounds sterling (the track is around 15 1/2 minutes long). I am currently considering placing an order for this and other tracks.... yes, I will pay that much for a track I really desire as singing is a hobby I really enjoy and God knows I used to pay a heck of a lot more each year on my hobby when I owned my yacht!

As a heads up to any who might be considering ordering a custom track from Jeff, he has notified me that because of an influx recent orders, there is a 6 - 8 week delivery time...

What would you do with a 15 and a half minute long song? You wouldn't dare hand that in at a regular karaoke gig, would you? People seem to groan quite a bit when they hear the intros to Paradise by the Dashboard Light or American Pie. I can't even begin to imagine the reaction to a singer bringing in a custom made track that was 15 minutes long. If I were the KJ, I'd only let you sing 5 minutes of it in each rotation. or I'd skip you the first 2 rotations and explain it to everyone during the third rotation why you were singing a 15 minute song.

I guess if I had the kind of money that would allow me to own a yacht, I'd have some musicians on the payroll that could make any song I wanted to sing. I'd find one of those bars that had live band karaoke shows and offer the house band a good price to record some songs for me when they are in their rehearsals. I don't know how much a band like that charges for a nightly gig of doing live karaoke but they could record an awful lot of songs in a 4 hour session. Let's just say that they could record 10 songs an hour and they get $300 for doing one of these karaoke gigs. You could get 40 songs recorded for $300. That's only $7.50 per track. Then all you have to do is make the graphics files and you're all set. I don't know if I could even think of 40 songs that I'm dying to have at this point but I'd sure like to give it a try. Maybe I could split the cost of the band with Murrlyn and we could get 20 songs each. Murrlyn would have to pay a little bit more than me because of that 15 & 1/2 minute song though.

I just want to say that I think it's great that Jeff is so busy that the wait is 6 to 8 weeks to get a song made by him. I wish I could afford to pay his prices but most KJ's have 50,000 songs these days and if I can't find something to sing out of that many songs, I should just give up singing.