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Originally Posted by ALAN E NORTH
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
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First I would imagine that your Karaoke player microphone is most likely the wrong impedence for the laptop mic input. Unfortunately mics that work directly on laptops are not that good a quality for music but are more meant for spoken voice.
That aside most of the Windows settings I have seen is usually set to mute the microphone input as a default setting. If you have the "volume" icon in the tray (bottom right side) then double click on the icon and look for the microphone input control, unmute it and adjust its volume level to what you need it at. If Microphone is not there then click on "Options" and check the box next to it.
You really are not going to get the sound quality or volume level directly from the laptop. You really need to have an amplifier and speakers. The amp should have microphone input so you can use your karaoke players microphone directly into it or get an inexpensive one from Radio Shack or Best Buy.