maxg Posted June 18, 2007 Posted June 18, 2007 30 kids and 40+ adults. Daughter's belated 5th birthday - needed to rig up a music system and the wife wanted us to have a karaoke function. Putting on my best MacGyver hat I came up with this: Took one old Aiwa amp and its matching 5 disk CD player. Connected the Aiwa to my amp with the headphone out into the RCA in on my pre-amp using an adapter to convert mini din plug to large din plug. The Aiwa amp has 2 mike inputs (and a karaoke function that largely masks the lead singer). Got 2 cheap mikes - connected them up. Worked amazingly well - both volume controls worked so I set the pre-amp to a moderate level and then just used the control on the aiwa to vary the levels. Amazingly there was no sign of the input level overwhelming the inputs on the pre-amp - up to ludicrously loud volumes. Everything went swimmingly till the Cd changer failed unexpectedly at about 10:30. Took less than one minute to pull the connections from the existing single CD player from the pre-amp through the aiwa to continue the singalong. Time to setup the whole thing : 5 minutes. Time to remove it after the party - 5 minutes. Time to recover from 30 kids plus others - still ongoing. Very few breakages - lots of popped balloons though. Lessons learned: Some kids can sing very well indeed for 7 years old. Some can't. Confidence is no guide to singing ability. It helps to have a garden adults can spill out into. The only adults that ventured in once the music went over about 100 dB were those with video camera's. Quote
Moderators dtel's wife Posted June 18, 2007 Moderators Posted June 18, 2007 Max, It sounds like a good time was had by all who attended. You guys must be exhausted. Be sure to tell your daughter Happy Birthday from all of us on the Forum. Quote
maxg Posted June 19, 2007 Author Posted June 19, 2007 Thanks Mrs. D. This one went down like a lead balloon didn't it - and I was so proud of my invention.... Goddammed audiophiles!!![] Quote
Moderators dtel's wife Posted June 19, 2007 Moderators Posted June 19, 2007 I thought that was pretty clever myself, considering I had no idea what the heck you were talking about![:S] Maybe they are all just jealous because you are so smart![] or....they have no idea what you are talking about either?[] You did good Max, don't worry about these fellas! Quote
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