[billyo]

[quote=ALAN E NORTH;88676]I just installed Hoster-lite and find the software easy to work with, etc.

I am not a professional KJ or DJ-I just like to fool around with this stuff for Karaoke parties.

No trouble hooking my new laptop up to a second monitor (TV) and the songs play beautifuly from the laptop.

But, I cant' seem to get a microphone to work! Perhaps I just don't understand what is needed.

I simply plugged the microphone from my karoke player into the mike input jack on the laptop. Apparently, this isn't the way to do it as the mike was dead.

I searched the 'help' menu in Vista-no help. The 'adjustments' found in the Realteck driver info seem to be for recording and not for live broadcasting.

Is there any way that I can get the microphone to output along with Hoster ?

Do I need a different kind of microphone ? I'm wondering if I need a self powered mike-since the one I have apparently gets its power from the karaoke machine.

This is probably very basic for you guys-but is a problem for me.

Any help would be appreciated.

Al North[/q

you need to plug your laptop to your karaoke player using one of the input or the audio out ,and just plug your mic into the mic input of the karaoke player, but the easiest way of doing it is to get yourself an affordable mixer, you need to get a y cable 1/8 to either 1/4 or rca cable, plug the 1/8 end of the cable to your laptop and the 1/4 end to left and right of one of the channels on the board, or the rca end to the cd/tape input.and the mic , plug it into any of the mixing boards channels.