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Could someone tell me how to go about recording, I had this happen to me once, where I went up to sing and as I'm coming off stage he played it back to the audience.
How would I go about doing that? I use a laptop system!

I do that during my shows. I utilize CompuHost's auto-recording feature for that.
People love it. And some faces are priceless when they hear their own song being played. Kind of like: hey that's the song I sang earlier. Wait a minute, that IS me!
If I'm not too busy, I try to time the song being replayed when that same singer is up to sing again. Kind of like a review =)

The simplest way to accomplish recording of your singers would be to get a rack recorder, like this one:

http://www.crispdeals.com/ProductDetail ... a_7cDNF300

Tape/Record Outs of your mixer to the recorder's inputs, outputs from the recorder back to a channel strip on your mixer for playback.

I have tried using the auto-record feature of CompuHost, but find it is a resource hog on my older computer. The recording works just fine, but throws my video sych off for the actual karaoke song that is playing.

If you are computer savy, and have good specs on your computer, you could record using Audacity (really good, free program) on your computer.

Same thing, Tape/Record Outs to the inputs of your computer's I/O interface or sound card.

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KJ, FL

Hm, I never experienced that problem. Given, with the newer Rackmount Computer I use I shouldn't have problems, it's a beast. But even with my older Laptops before, I never had that problem.

I have a Tascam CD burner in my rack. Occasionally will surprise a singer at the end of the night with a CD of all their songs on it. Never charge, never tell anyone I'm doing it because they get nervous. I will often pop it in the player and play it as bumper music. Not a good idea to record a singer of questionable talent because the reality of their singing skills becomes very apparent very quickly, and we don't need anyone to stop singing because they know how they really sound.

TopherM - Thanks for posting the model. This is what I've been looking for. I could be wrong but the specs on the Denon DNF300 did not mention recording capability, just playback. $399.

The more sophisticated Denon DNF650 features recording & playback, but a little pricey $799.

http://www.proaudio.com/product_info.ph ... ts_id=9033

If you say DNF300 is capable of recording, then that's the one I will buy. No use spending an additional $400 if the first one can the the job as well. Thanks again.

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To be fortunate enough to derive an income from a source as fulfilling as karaoke music has got to be as close to heaven as we can get here on earth!

For the same price, you can buy an EMU-1616, torq mix lab midi controller, and use your PC for mixing.

Then use reaper/protools. There's basically no signal loss going between anything, you're recording straight from your mixer. You can do more with this (including crossfading between inputs) than you ever could with anything else.

If you really wanted to get fancy, reaper has a time buffer plugin. Did I say crossfade between inputs? With reaper you can route to a virtual input on another track, with the time buffer plugin, never have to hunt down files.

We have an I-Key digital recorder. I don't use it very often, but it does the trick. The only thing about using it is that since it's a separate unit, it records onto a flash drive, so it's not an instant playback.

Great for recording at home, though. I've also used it for my sons' band concerts.

My main computer is a Compaq V2000 laptop with an Intel Celeron 1.4 Ghz, and 512MB of RAM.. far from state of the art or high power.

I use Virtual DJ to play my karaoke and DJ tracks, and use Audacity (a free program) to record the occasional singer.. connecting the 'record out' of my Mackie mixer to the audio input of my USB audio interface.

Piece o' cake.. and doesn't cost a dime.

I can play recorded material back instantly, or export it to MP3 format and save, all while running my regular show on what is generally considered to be 'legacy' hardware.