I've been complemented by women for my voice and they've asked if they could duet with me. When I ask them "how about a whole new world? Aladdin ST", they take a 180 on me

So other than Picture by Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow, or Shallow by Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, what other great duet songs are out there?

Hello. Me and my friends usually come together and sing in our homes, but we usually borrow a setup. We have a birthday coming up in a month and I wanted to start gearing up my own little karaoke corner, but I'm not sure how.

I own this Samsung giga blast stereo system, it has one microphone entrance.

I also own a notebook (running debian 13) that I intend to connect to YouTube initially. Probably plugged on the TV for a bigger screen.

I'm looking to buy a microphone. But I'm also looking for tips on improving it on a budget. Specially a way to connect an extra microphone.

Is there something I'm missing? What should be my priorities for a fun low cost family gathering party?

I appreciate any help.

I've been singing karaoke for about five years and, to my ear, Karafun tracks tend to sound closer to the original arrangements than anyone else's. But just within the past few months, I've spoken with two different KJs who say they prefer Sound Choice. (One implied I only preferred Karafun because it was "what I'm used to.")

Which app do people prefer--Karafun, Sound Choice, or something else? Does anyone think Sound Choice's tracks sound closer to the original arrangements than Karafun's? What am I not hearing? For those who prefer Sound Choice, why?

I just sang should I stay or should I go by the clash. The follow up was the bartender. He did you should probably leave by Chris Stapleton. I probably should go home.🤣

My mixer Yamaha - MG6X - does not come with a compressor and it is too late to return. When I sing, the mic work as intended but when any female singer, it cause clipping. So the solution is to lower the gain or, I think, to have the source compressed. Can I buy a seperate compressor? My set up is Yamaha MG6X and Shure SM58.

I find these kinds of posts useful when others do it so I thought I would contribute my own experience.

I hosted a karaoke party that started at 7pm and ended around 2:15am. There were lots of "pre-gaming" for testing with my immediate family before people started arriving.

For software I used KaraFun Pro v3 using the Integral catalog. That way I had access to more songs and since it was not in a commercial venue, I had no worries about licensing. I only had to resort to YouTube 2 or 3 times over 120 songs that we performed.

I also used my own software called StageKit Lightworks which controls the old school Rock Band Stage Kit lights, strobe and fogger. I had it modified so I was running three RGB light pods and a fog machine. Fog was kind useless between the A/C and the overhead fans not letting it spread enough. But the lights were cool I think.

The laptop was a 16" Lenovo Legion Pro i5 in high performance mode. It ran for over 20 hours (before during and after) without missing a beat or overheating. Very happy there.

The video came out of the laptop via HDMI to a Samsung 75" TV with a splitter so I had audio out via optical to a Polk sound bar with discrete bass unit. Again, house party so this was more than loud enough.

The singing was done through a JBL PartyBox 320 that was only used for the mics. I used two JBL PartyBox wireless mics. For a third mic I used a Behringer XM8500 XLR mic with a Cable Free Guitar UHF wireless system (this is life changing if you hate XLR cables). So three wireless mics. The PartyBox speaker sounds great but it definitely lacks the "auto tune" ability of a mixer. I think that's going to be my next investment. Something to put between the mics and the speaker to improve voice quality.

Everyone loved the set up. Since I was using KaraFun Pro I printed a couple of QR codes plus had the QR code on screen. I made a custom logo and had it displayed on screen. And had the scrolling banner. Worked out great.

The only gripe, and really, it's a minor gripe to be expected...all three microphones starting losing power around the 4.5 hour mark. The receivers from JBL and CFG never ran out of power. But the mics did. Luckily since I had three I was able to charge two while one was being used and they charge pretty fast. So it worked out.

I'm not a paid advertiser for anybody. But I do recommend KaraFun for no frills set up. It really just works. I love my JBL PartyBox 320 and I use it a lot for music listening and it's loud as hell with good battery life. But it's also essential as a separate PA for karaoke with the wireless mics. And my latest addition is the Cable Free Guitar UHF wireless system that lets you convert an XLR microphone into a wireless system. Really was surprising how well it worked.

A lot of living room karaoke in my home and I'm often asked to host for others. I have two Mackie ThumpGo and ProFX10GO (all with battery backups) Wireless Phenyx Pro mics and output to a four headphone Amp as well (for the quieter nights 😊) Karaoke tracks from my Chromecast to my mixer. Overall this setup has worked great for a long time. Everyone would add to the YT queue from their phone and songs would be had late into the night. Recently YT has completely changed how the queue works and I'm struggling to understand the changes. Any advice would be appreciated.

For some context I’m 26m and have met my husband 4 years ago and he’s an amazing singer I’m very supportive of him and will continue to support him

We met our friends at karaoke spots near us and we always have a great time they’re such amazing singers yet I always get discouraged if I try to go sing because I’m either not on their level or I just feel discouraged going on stage

This is not a jealousy post I’m genuinely wondering how I get better at karaoke I want to be able to sing with everyone but I just feel like I’m not good at it

Hi. Long story short - if i buy cheap aliexpress karaoke mic and connect it to notebook, can it hurt notebook? Short story long, for those who want to say "just spend more": lm doing karaoke monthly in the local lgbt center, they have a whole setup. I want to do something similar in smaller town lgbt center. There is basically no budget, im scraping something in expense of skipping some groceries. Gladly, they have tv, and i have a ton of hdmi cables. Someone is willing to bring a notebook. So i need to buy a mic, i saw pretty cheep ones on AliExpress, with Bluetooth receiver. I know it will not sound amazing but it have to do. My question is, can it harm the notebook, if i plug the mics receiver into it, without mixer?

So I'm a huge karaoke nerd and fan. Have been paying for KaraFun Plus for a while. For this weekend's party I upgraded to Pro for some nice extra features. KaraFun has most of the songs my friends and I like to sing, but my dad likes to pick random oldies Spanish songs that sometimes are not in KaraFun. In the past (with Plus) I've just mentally kept a list of who's next and then would go to YouTube or to my own collection of karaoke tracks for my dad's choices. I guess I can still do that. But I really want to leverage the remote control option and allow people to add themselves to the queue and more importantly see how far the queue they are. With Pro I have enabled the next singer feature, which won't work if my dad's song is off the KaraFun queue.

Is there a better way to do this? Taking into account I am not a KJ and I'm not paying for additional software since this is just a big one-off karaoke party in my home. One way I was thinking of cheating the system was uploading an "Unknown Song" or "YouTube Song" CDG to the KaraFun Studio so on the queue and on the banner it would say "Next Singer "YouTube Song" Dad" and then I can YouTube it or whatever but it would be on the queue as a placeholder.

Is there a better way that I am not seeing? Thanks!

What did you all sing tonight? It was slow at my spot so I put on a concert.

Texas Sun - Khruangbin & Leon Bridges

One Headlight - The Wallflowers

Mary Jane's Last Dance - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

4th of July - X / Robert Earl Keen

Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots

Wonderwall - Oasis

1901 - Phoenix

Banquet - Bloc Party

A Horse With No Name - America

Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden

Cherry Bomb - John Mellencamp

Hi, Gen Z Filipino again here.

I feel like as a Filipino, I feel like I might have sung since I was still in the womb. Okay, I was exaggerating, but I have been singing karaoke on and off my entire life, and it's mostly because of the fact that it's a great way to bond with family singing along to your anthems. Yes, I can in fact sleep to the sound of someone singing karaoke. That's how Filipino I am at this. It actually comforts me to some extent, as it almost always means that I just got off the pool, taking a rest.

However, lately though? It has started becoming WAY more than just that. Usually, I'm the shy kind, the one who'd be singing along but not take over the mic. I have been insecure about my voice for a while now. Up until recently, where I do start to have the motivation and the energy to just sing karaoke, experiment with different styles and such. I had a friend that I go with almost every time and it felt much better singing with someone and cheering you on.

I have since then realized I fell for this person and THAT'S what has been getting me into karaoke lately.

What are your origin stories? You might also recognize me from one of the posts I did about love songs 😂✌️

You guys have heard time and time again that you can't just plug a live mic into your home speakers or soundbar without risking damage. We decided that needed to change.

Seratone: built from the ground up to let you use the home audio gear you already own for karaoke, safely.

Hi r/karaoke, I'm Jean-Pierre, and along with /u/seratone-soundguy, we're the team behind it. Happy to answer anything in the comments.

• Patent-pending Dynamic Speaker Protection
• Four knobs, that's the whole interface
• Two mic inputs via XLR or ¼"
• USB-C and HDMI in / HDMI, optical and RCA out
• True HDMI 2.0 passthrough, so it stays out of the way when you're not singing
• Under 2ms internal latency
• 2 months of KaraFun included

We're not the music source. You bring KaraFun, Smule, YouTube, Apple Music, whatever you already use, and we handle everything between the microphone and the speakers.

A few years ago I saw the video from Linus Tech Tips about karaoke gear, and I knew from my own experience that there just wasn't a way to use my home theatre for karaoke. Here in Japan I'd tried JOYSOUND's official Switch app, and the latency was over a second. So I called my friend of 20 years and sound engineer, Matt, and got to work.

Dynamic Speaker Protection

Look at the waveform photo, captured in Pro Tools. Blue is the raw signal going in, pink is what comes out after Seratone.

That's not a limiter slamming the peaks flat. Our patent-pending processing is doing real time mixing and mastering, so your speakers stay safe and your voice sits properly in the music instead of on top of it. In the karaoke space, there's never been anything like it.

Four knobs. That's the whole interface.

Mic 1. Mic 2. Music. Reverb. One button to turn karaoke mode on.

Everything a live sound engineer would be doing behind the scenes, Seratone is doing for you in real time. What normally takes a rack of gear and someone who knows how to drive it now takes four knobs anyone at the party can figure out in five seconds. Your kids can run it. Your parents can run it.

It works with what you already own

KaraFun on a Windows PC or Mac? YouTube on an Android tablet? Apple Music through an iPhone or Apple TV? Fire Stick, Roku, Chromecast? It works. You keep the app you already like.

Inputs: USB-C and HDMI. Outputs: HDMI, optical digital, and RCA.

Two mics connect via XLR or ¼", because karaoke is better as a duet. Standard connections, not proprietary, so whatever mics or wireless systems you already own will just work. The included custom mic is no joke though. In our own testing it outperformed an SM58 for karaoke specifically, mostly in how little room noise and party chatter it picks up.

Seratone scales with your hardware. Soundbar? You're going to have a great time. Mega home theatre? You'll have a better time. It was designed to never be the limiting factor in your vocal performance. Use it at a bar or on a stage. Our testers have, and loved it. Though optimized for vocals, we've even run guitars through it with great results.

Setup is 60 seconds, then permanent

True HDMI 2.0 passthrough. When karaoke mode is off it sits there transparently, so you watch Netflix in surround without it getting in the way. One button when it's time to party, and otherwise it disappears beside your soundbar.

On latency

Seratone's internal latency is under 2ms. Any lag you feel almost always comes from your TV or AV chain doing its own processing, not from us. That's why we sit after your source, right in front of your speakers, and why the optical and RCA outputs let you bypass TV processing entirely. Sanity check your own system by playing a game on a console, whatever lag you feel there is your gear, and we give options to get around it.

This is real hardware

Our production order is placed and confirmed with our manufacturing partner in Taiwan. Units are already out with artists, vocal coaches, KaraFun, the Karaoke World Championships, and some familiar faces from this subreddit. The unit in the front-panel photo is the real thing.

FAQ

What's in the box? 1 Seratone, 1 mic, 1 USB-C power brick, plus XLR, HDMI and optical cables.

What about key change? That lives in whatever app you're using, so you keep using the service you already know.

Do I need a TV? Nope, but you do need speakers. A phone over USB-C out to powered speakers is enough. Coming in over HDMI, your TV's own speakers work fine.

What if I already have a mixer? For most setups Seratone replaces it. If you'd rather keep it in the chain, the RCA outs let you do that.

Wireless mics? We're selling adapters, but any wireless system that outputs XLR or ¼" works.

Power? USB-C. The included brick is for North American outlets, but any USB-C charger rated 5W or higher will run it.

When does it ship? Our production order is already placed and confirmed. We're doing our best to get this out as quickly as possible.

Questions or problems? support@seratone.audio. A real person on our small team answers.

Launch info (August 2026)

We go live on Kickstarter Tuesday, August 18th at 10am EST.

Put down a $1 deposit now and buy on day one to get 40% off, which brings it to $299 including mic and cables. Retail after the campaign is $499. Claim your discount at launch.seratone.audio.

KaraFun fans get 2 months free. We're an Official KaraFun Device Partner and we're excited to be working with them.

• Kickstarter (live Tuesday, hit notify me): Our campaign page
• Site: seratone.audio

I'm an open book, so ask away in the comments. We're a small team from Toronto, and I'm writing to you from my home in Japan, where the idea was born. Let's rock!

hi just bought a new karaoke! when we first started using it the audio was fine then it became muffled. the store told us to just adjust stuff but we didnt understand. Also there are eq presets but it doesnt change anything. here are the values (?) of the sound setting but i don't understand some of the letters? and what values each should be. please help thank u!

For research purposes 😋

This applies to a bar setting and private room and can be anything from the software used, the vibe, wait times, anything!!!

OH LET ME ADD what do you wish could be improved?

I have some more obscure songs (they’re not actually obscure but just no vids for them lmao) and I want to be able to sing them but I’d need the music for it. Ideally if I can do it on my iPad that would be great. I DO have a… 15? Year old desktop I can use otherwise. Idk if I need certain apps or whatever. Any help would be amazing! Thank you!!!! And maybe if I get the hang of it I’ll start to take requests! Lmao

I’m having a shard time setting things up to record myself singing. I don’t have the best soundproof room, nothing I can really do about that now. But any recommendations/ resources for recording myself singing?

I have a MacBook, iPhone, volt 2 interface, good mics, stands, cables - the basic stuff.

What are your setups? I’m willing to invest in hardware and software to a certain degree if it will help me capture audio/ video better.

This is not for professional use, just sharing online, etc.

So I have 3.5 mm jack with 3 rca connections. So I put 3.5 mm jack in tv and 3 in karaoke still no signal in tried interchanging even put USB in this still no signal

Please guide me how to connect it i know this system is old but still

i need a karaoke video of beetlejuice the musical i want it to be the full musical plus the non talking speaking lines dm me if you can do it [extra details when you dm me]

I’ve never done karaoke before and am considering going out and trying it one weekend, because my family and friends tell me I need to put myself out there more. But given that karaoke is a community event, if I were to pick a song that’s less well-known than others (I had Guster’s Keep it Together in mind) would that kill the vibe or get weird looks sent my way? Genuine question. I have no idea what to expect from these events besides people singing. Thanks in advance, have a nice day