Best To Buy!-What Brands!

[Mikelly]

Greetings From Australia

Hi All,
I'm thinkin about starting out as a KJ, ive got all sound equipment etc,-but need to arm myself with a few more thousand songs,(only got approx 700)
I know that SoundChoice- Music Maestro- & sunfly have excelent quality discs, but ive been on the internet (ebay), and found a place in NY USA, that sells the following Brands-- Can anyone please let me know if these are of High quality-or-i should stay away from them.
1/ Karaoke Hits (KGH) volumes?
2/ All Hits Maxx Pack(390 songs)
3/ Monster Hits MegaPack 100 Discs (1595 songs)
4/ Supercore 2005.
5/ Georgia Brown Toolbox Volumes? (195 songs)
6/ 66 Discs Georgia Brown (1000+ songs)

How Does a person in my situation know what songs i should even buy-i tend to think it's a little hard to buy such a large selection of songs that i've probably never even heard of the song before!

If you know of any excelent volume numbers in a particular brand -please let me know.

Many thanks for your assistance!

Mike.

[lirics]

Mike,

First Off, Congrats on wanting to take the plunge into
becomming a KJ, it can be FUN and REWARDING.

as to your question on brands and Quality, here's
some helpful information (keep in mind that this
is based on my opnion and from what I've seen
people using, so other people opnion may differ)

Top Brands: (in no particular order)
--------------------------
Sound Choice
Chartbuster
Monster Hits
Music Maestro
Radio Starz
Top Hits Monthly

Lesser Brands, but decent Quality
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Sweet Georgia Brown
Backstage
Karaoke Hits
Nutek (SAVA & SAVP)

Good Quality County
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Chartbuster
Country karaoke Classics
Northstar COuntry


Good Elvis and Oldies
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Music Maestro

Good Broadway & SHowtunes
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Pocket Songs
Stage Stars


...whereas you dont want to limit yourself to just one
brand, it will be nearly impossible to not wind up with
duplicate songs across the brands and as you can see from
the list some brands are better the other at various generes.

Overall I like Charbuster for most choices, followed
by Sound Choice if I cant find it on anything else.

it is advisable to start with some pack, such as the "All Hits
Maxx Pack", Backstage, Sweet Georgia Brown", also
look into the Chartbuster Packs (Essentail Vol 1-5)

good luck

[djmadmaxx]

if it's cheap.. it's cheap for a reason. 'nuff said

[Mikelly]

Thanks for your replies!



May i ask you djmadmaxx- What does one class as "if its cheap- it's cheap 4 a reason"
What type of things happen- or - should i say what do you find is wrong with a disc if it happened to be a cheapie you bought?

Over here in Australia- we can pay as much as $55 Au Dollars( $42US ) for a sound choice disc with around 15 songs on it
We also have a company here that can do your own custom compilation -but that is VERY expensive if you need to buy plenty- it works out around $7 australian dollars per song ( $5.50 US)

What is CHEAP to someone new to buying disc's???


Many thanks from Down Under( Australia)

Mike.

[lirics]

Mike,

regardless of "djmadmaxx"'s opnion, alot of the inexpensive karaoke
brands actually sound pretty good, I personally use a bunch of
"sweet georgia Brown", "backstage" and "Karaoke Hits", of course
not all thier version of songs are good, but then again I have some
"sound choice" versions that suck.

So use whats best for you and your budget, you can always upgrade
at a later time. remember everyone's entitled to thier opnion
and you must come up with your own.

good luck

[djmadmaxx]

that just the thing.. the cheap brands are much more hit and miss., for every good song you might get 10 bad ones. some brands are better than others