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anybody have any experience with these? the link is for the model 1 single bass, but would like to hear thoughts about anything from that series.

http://www.bose.com/controller?url=/sho ... le_pkg.jsp

you could also try singsnap, its pretty much all online, so you don't need a player, just internet access and a mic, you can record and play back, it has free and paid versions (paid just has a better song selection)

sorry Bigdog, I should have been clearer. I'm talking about having a bar owner have a charity event (which bars in my area do all the time, with entertainment they pay for) and instead of paying me for the show, they donate the money they would have paid me to the charity(either way they give the ch...

So, Charity Work has always been really important to me. So when I get started as a KJ or KJ/DJ, (or whatever bigdog would call me :) jk) I want to incorporate that. With that in mind, what I am seriously considering doing, since I know a lot of KJ's will do a "first show free/cheap" for a...

what are you guys opinions on passive vs powered speakers?

I wouldn't do it anonymously, and I would say having a KJ ask me if he can copy my cd's of stuff he doesn't have in his library so that "the next time I come I won't have to bring them with me" is a pretty good indicator that he is illegal

@Bigdog like I said, my problem wasn't so much with the equipment from yamaha, it was with the company. So I wont give them my business. Same reason I will never buy a dell computer again.

And on the reporting thing, I didn't look at it that way. You make a very good point there

I've heard lots of good things about Yamaha speakers as well, but I've had some bad personal experience with them, not so much with the quality, but with the company when I had problems. I had a speaker blow out on me 10 minutes into the show, it was supposed to be a 500W continuous, but it was actu...

I didn't take that as reporting the venue, but the KJ, and then talking to the venue to say that hiring me avoids problems in the future... which I can see doing as long as it didn't come across as a threat. I know most of the local bar owners so I don't think that would be a problem. and 50 bucks f...

bigdog, I know what you mean about business attitude, I have helped out a friend who runs karaoke at a local bar, they got paid $100 plus drinks, but the equipment all belonged to the bar owner so I didn't think that was too bad of a rate. I don't drink so it wasn't very beneficial to me. I was thin...

i had no plans to author my own, just didn't seem legal to me.
what are some good sources to check out on the legality front? KIAA?

KAPA being the Karaoke Anti-Piracy Agency, not the company selling/renting the equipment from their website If I buy a hard drive system that has pre-loaded songs, can I legally play these songs? If the hard drive system has LICENSED content, it is certainly legal to play any of these licensed produ...

the information I got on legality of pre-loaded drives came from KAPA, it stated that you can buy a pre-loaded drive with licensed content on it, but that you couldn't add content (such as from personal cdg's) to the drive, only could use the content already on it. They also said I should get a copy...

just found this site, so this is my first post here. My wife and I are looking into starting a new karaoke/DJ buisness. I would appreciate any help I can get from some of the more experienced members here. To start I have had a few ideas and a few questions. I do want to make sure that everything I ...