Integrating kareoke into a cab? bad idea?

[shateredsoul]

sooo.. what do you think? and no jokes about the song,  this was the quickest thing to find. The program is called ultrastar

[Dazz]

My 12 year old daughter and my wife are pushing me to add karaoke to our cabinet setup.  I'm just not sure how I would interface mics and an mixer for them to use with a PC for a fairly cheap price.

[drventure]

 

Interesting. And opensource to boot. Wonder if my 6 yo would like that.....

I'd say go for it. All you'd have to do is mount a VERY inconspicuous mic jack somewhere on the cab. Windows can do the mixing right? Or would it require a hardware mixer?

[saint]

Adding karaoke to an arcade cabinet is a bad bad idea, very bad.

(I can't stand karaoke. I don't actually have anything constructive to add to this thread )

[shateredsoul]

Bad news saint,  I figured out a great way to do this... and cheap!

So with that program all you need is a xbox 360 mic (I have mine from rockband).. it's usb based so it's a not a problem connecting it. Windows does the mixing.

you don't need to setup anything in win 7 (it automatically downloads the mic driver when you connect the mic), in win xp you may have to just find the driver and install it yourself.  If you have a usb plug somewhere on your setup you can easily connect it and put it away when it's not needed.  Same thing with the xbox 360 rock band guitar, I'm using it with guitar hero world tour on pc (I imagine it would work just as well on frets on fire).

You can find the rockband mic on ebay for about 15 to 20... I just saw one for 15 + free shipping.