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Japanese, from kara empty + Oke, short for Okesutora
orchestra. Rather than include both vocals and
music, karaoke tracks will be without lead vocals.
The lead vocals are provided by the performer
singing the karaoke song.
A CDG, which stands for Compact Disc + Graphics, is
the standard format for most English Karaoke discs.
Usually display plain blue background and lyrics on
the T. V. These discs can either be played on a
karaoke machine that supports CDG or on a regular
player that can play music CDs. Keep in mind that
you will not be able to see any words on your screen
if you play CDGs on a CD player.
A VCD (Video Compact Disc) is a disc with video
stored on it. Usually display live video background
along with the lyrics on the T. V. This format is
different from DVDs and CDGs so you will need a
karaoke player capable of reading VCDs to play this
format. Most non-English music will be in this
format.
A DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) is a disc that is
able to store large amounts of information on a
single disc. Like VCD, DVD also display live video
background along with the lyrics on the T.V. but
clearer picture and better sound quality. This
format is different from CDGs so you will need a
karaoke player capable of reading DVDs to play this
format. Most non-English music will be in this
format.
What is the difference
between CDGs, VCDs, and DVDs?
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CDGs have no video running in the background when
the song is playing. This means you will only see
the words on the screen and nothing else. VCDs have
a video running in the background, in addition to
lyrics, while the music is playing. DVDs also have a
video running in the background, in addition to
lyrics, while the music is playing. DVDs will
typically have more songs and higher quality output
capability than either CDGs or VCDs.
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a
special format. This format will only play on our
CAVS CDO-98E, Premier 99N, and HDV-201. This format
is a sound file that calls on a built in sound chip
on these machines to produce music. The files are
extremely small so you will get many songs on each
disc. The music is synthesized so you will not get
CD quality sound or vocals. This kind of music type
is composed by 128 instruments at the most.
MP3G is the newest format for karaoke music. There
are 2 files stored on the disc, an MP3 file and a
Graphics file. A MP3 is a compressed audio file. The
graphics file is what you see on the screen. This
format has the advantage of having a lot more songs
on one disc compared to a CDG since MP3 files are a
lot smaller than CDG files. This format will only
play on the CAVS HDV-201.
SCDG is basically a large capacity CDG disc. Instead
of 15 songs per disc on CDG, SCDG can hold as many
as 2000 songs per disc. SCDG disc will NOT
work on regular CD player or any other machine.
This disc has been formatted to only work on CAVS
players supporting Super CDG format such as the
DVD-202G, DVD-101G II and computers.
What is the difference
between a CDG and a CD+G?
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There is no one format that is the best. Every
format has its advantages and disadvantages. For
example, if you preferred a large quantity of music
you would pick the MIDI format but lose out on sound
quality. Or you might prefer the CDG format as most
new songs will come out on CDG before they appear on
any other format. The drawback to this would be the
limited number of songs on each disc, etc.
This is a disc with a split track. The left channel
of the track has the vocal recording and the right
channel of the track has the instrumental recording.
This gives you the option of turning the vocals on
or off on a karaoke player. When played on a regular
CD player you will hear both the vocals and
instrumentals.
This is when the disc does not have split track. It
only has the instrumental track on it. It will not
have any vocal recordings other than the back up
vocals.
Is there a karaoke disc
performed by the original artists?
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The karaoke disc are in style of
certain artist. Karaoke is for recreational purpose
only. The only concern is the orchestration of the
music. Some karaoke producers recreate music better
than others.
Mixing Amplifiers combine both karaoke mixer and
amplifier (receiver) in one unit. You will need an
amplifier if you want to power external speakers.
You can turn any DVD, VCD or CD+G player into
karaoke system with a mixing amplifier.
Karaoke mixers combine the music and vocal source
into one and enhance the sound quality. A karaoke
mixer can turn a DVD, VCD or CD+G Player into a
karaoke machine. A karaoke mixer has some important
functions: microphone inputs, volume control, key
controller, echo, delay, repeat, and vocal reducer.
Depending on your needs or budget, you may or may
not need all of the functions.
NTSC is the standard TV signal used in North
America. The signal for NTSC is 60Hz. PAL is the
standard TV signal used in Europe. The signal for
PAL is 50Hz. Make sure you have your karaoke machine
set to the correct frequency to avoid
incompatibility with your TV monitor.
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