Getting a Karaoke Mixing Board for Your Business

"Hi, my name is Richard Buccola of Starlite Karaoke here in New York City and on behalf of Expert Village, today we're going to show you how to start and run a successful karaoke business. Alright, I want to talk about my mixing board. I use a Mackie DFX12, it has 12 channel board for me which means I could plug in 12 different things, which you're probably not going to use in a karaoke show. There are times where I use; like a guy will come in an acoustic guitar or something with a quarter inch jack and I can plug him in. But basically for most of my shows 95% of them I use 2 channels for my music, 1 channel the 3rd channel is for my cordless mic, the 4th channel if for cord mic and the 5th channel here that I use is for my goose neck and you see it's so important, your board because now I can control everything. If people start screaming I can bring their mics up or down. A big thing what you want to do is when you're using your board you want to definitely make sure that the lights are never completely lit, you want them to be blinking. If they're completely lit it means you're putting a lot of pressure on your speakers and eventually you're going to blow them. So by doing that to elevate that you lower your gains, always bring up your sound from your board from here from your master and then lower your gains and then you can add your gains if needed. So again your board controls your mics, it controls your music, it controls everything you want. It can even control lights, I don't use it because my shows aren't that big where I need lights. I also have affects though where you could use delay and reverb to change a person's voice to give them a little bit more warmth or character in their voice. I believe in using a medium plate when involved with the singers on your affects. Your equalizer, I try to actually keep my equalizer down and just use the equalizer from the main sound of the board not from the main equalizer. It just tends to give it a better sound. Do what's right for you, play around with your stuff, read your equipment and read the instructions and play around with things that are going to work for you."