MikeG
24-07-2007, 09:16 AM
I hope you don't mind me asking this question in a forum for mobile DJ/KJ but I would really like to understand whether I'm barking up a wrong tree here!
My daughter returns from a year in Japan next week and her 21st Birthday is the week after. She (and we when we visited) enjoyed the Japanese style Karaoke and the standard of the machines thay have there but realise this is going to be difficult to replicate back in UK - however, we would like to consider getting her a karaoke machine for her 21st (and she can use it in her shared flat back at Uni)
I have looked at the RSQ P70, the digiLYF MDVD-388 and the VOCOPRO DVX-880 and VOCOPRO Gig man but then found your forums where you (generally) find some of the newer machines less user friendly and less robust than old JVC ones.
Daughter has a new laptop (well what else would you buy in Japan??) so a PC-based system might be useful, and a tele, but no really suitable sound system to play karaoke through so I still believe a home-based "all-in-one" solution may be best unless the build quality, sound volume and quality, and general flexibility (and price) of separates might outweigh this.
Two further factors are the choice of formats (I am getting there but still a little confused with all the options and it seems go for something which has as many as possible!?) and multiplexing - one of the highlights of Japanese karaoke is the seemingly endless banal videos that accompany the songs - can cause much mirth. However, I can't see these as being as essential as good quality backing tracks that actually sound like to real thing and the multiplexing ablity so that at least one can hear how a song SHOULD be sung.
The NEO format for RSQ sounds a good idea but I don't believe they allow for multiplexing, and someone has already made the point that there seem to be a lot of 'repeats' on the various discs. I don't know how many tracks the Japanese commercial machines have but it must be 6-8 thousand!
So, for general entertainment plus flexibiltiy (all for around £250) can anyone point me to a suitable set-up? Or is this a bad idea generally??
Thanks indeed
My daughter returns from a year in Japan next week and her 21st Birthday is the week after. She (and we when we visited) enjoyed the Japanese style Karaoke and the standard of the machines thay have there but realise this is going to be difficult to replicate back in UK - however, we would like to consider getting her a karaoke machine for her 21st (and she can use it in her shared flat back at Uni)
I have looked at the RSQ P70, the digiLYF MDVD-388 and the VOCOPRO DVX-880 and VOCOPRO Gig man but then found your forums where you (generally) find some of the newer machines less user friendly and less robust than old JVC ones.
Daughter has a new laptop (well what else would you buy in Japan??) so a PC-based system might be useful, and a tele, but no really suitable sound system to play karaoke through so I still believe a home-based "all-in-one" solution may be best unless the build quality, sound volume and quality, and general flexibility (and price) of separates might outweigh this.
Two further factors are the choice of formats (I am getting there but still a little confused with all the options and it seems go for something which has as many as possible!?) and multiplexing - one of the highlights of Japanese karaoke is the seemingly endless banal videos that accompany the songs - can cause much mirth. However, I can't see these as being as essential as good quality backing tracks that actually sound like to real thing and the multiplexing ablity so that at least one can hear how a song SHOULD be sung.
The NEO format for RSQ sounds a good idea but I don't believe they allow for multiplexing, and someone has already made the point that there seem to be a lot of 'repeats' on the various discs. I don't know how many tracks the Japanese commercial machines have but it must be 6-8 thousand!
So, for general entertainment plus flexibiltiy (all for around £250) can anyone point me to a suitable set-up? Or is this a bad idea generally??
Thanks indeed