The Karaoke Forum

Soda singers are way better than water warblers! Soda is pure profit, bars get at least $1 for a few pennies of product. $2 is a fair price to charge for soda on karaoke night, $5 is just plain dicky. $1 glass charge for water is fair, as well. Those that don't tip, well, that's comes with the terri...

I take the high road and announce other KJs like they are colleagues and local celebrities when they attend my shows. And I always mention at least one place they are working when they step up to sing - usually a night when I don't have a gig ;) I also list some of my favorite non-djBe shows on a pa...

Just curious...how many of you put out a tip jar? I've always avoided doing so, though I see full jars at the shows of others and it does get me to thinking. That said, I definitely accept and expect a tip if I make a singer a CD of his/her performance, $5 is suggested. But I NEVER accept a tip to p...

i'm in the process of shopping for a hard disc player. Looking at the Ubest DA-268 with on-board No-PC-neccessary disc capturing. Please, any feedback on this model appreciated! Not as versatile as PC-based but you can make a simple KJ promo screen for no-singer times. and i have to tell you all - I...

i've started wiping down mics periodically during shows - especially when some idiot ANNOUNCES to everyone they've got a cold, which happens alot. The ones most likely to get sick from a mic are the maroons who cover the ball with their hand, not those who just breathe toward it and keep it a few in...

i advertise 15,000 s-e-l-e-c-t-i-o-n-s, not songs. i also promote the fact that i have the most NEW songs as most of my competition doesn't update, wherther they are hard-drive or disc-based. i think people eyes glaze over once you get over 10,000 anyway so i think sheer numbers has limited impact o...

contest. i'm just getting through a contest where the judges were not properly coached leading to every possible problem including: judges more concerned with partying than judging; judges not paying attention to the contestants; judges conversing loudly during performances; judges walking away from...

Copying legally purchased CDG music to an upgraded storage media like a hard drive is no crime. Going CDG to CDG is a little more fuzzy. I plan to back up my CDGs to a hard drive recorder that doesn't compress the tracks. Looking at U-Best DA-268. In the meantime, I've been busy backing up some of m...

Break music is a tool in the KJ's belt. It can fix a show or bust it up. If I have two or three horrible singers in a row and don't know the caliber of the next singer, then you can be sure I'll play a GREAT break song or VIDEO to shore up the party. If it's bad guy singers, I'll break with a female...

I try to get them to fill out slips, too. But that's only half the battle. Training them to fill out only one song per slip, and one slip at a time is a neverending quest. I, too, like to have my hands on the soundboard and not the songbooks - you never know when someone is going to wander in front ...