Karaoke set up: Using Receiver, Mixer, Mic

Jwalant Vaishnav said:

Hello friends,


This is my first ever message/request to ask for some help. If this is not the appropriate section, kindly help me re-post it at its right location in the forum.



We just finished the initial set up of our new basement home theatre. Here is the configuration / Hardware used,

• 135" screen / Normal TV (I have taken out a line to use my old TV exclusively for displaying lyrics)
• Projector (Optoma UHZ65)
• Dennon AVR4500XH
• Shure Wireless Mics
• 9.1 ch sound system (Mix of Martin Logan/Speaker craft/Audio lab)
• Laptop (To play Karaoke Sound tracks from YouTube/Some Bollywood websites etc)

My need: Apart from off course the movie life, my other important need is Karaoke set up. I want to have all the components of a song coming out from the Sound system. I mean, my vocal and the sound track should mix and come out as a proper/normal song out of the sound system (Speakers). Technicians did try by putting an Audio Extractor (or something) to have some kind of conversion of Digital to Analog or vice versa (I am not too technical) BUT when he selected the sound output to Multi Channel format, I could feel a lag while singing and it just doesn't give me a good feeling at all.



Kindly help.


Regards,


Jwalant.

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Hello,


No one to help me out here? OR was my post on a wrong section?


Kindly help.


Regards,


Jwalant.

" I mean, my vocal and the sound track should mix and come out as a proper/normal song out of the sound system (Speakers)."

Well, you are in the right track, at least for the thinking part here.
I didn't look into your equipment yet but here's the basic
Video part: anywhere you want. We typically want it on a display, big display, a TV.
Audio part: no matter what you do, the source and your voice HAVE TO mix (come in together) before spitting out as one signal which in turn connects to your AVR.
Your speakers are behind the AVR.

Here a typical layout
TV:
Video: directly from Youtube on TV
Audio: send this audio signal to a mixer, call mixer A.
Voice: send your voice signal to a mixer, the same mixer that source audio arrives, it is mixer A.
Output of mixer A connects to your AVR.
If output of the mixer is digital signal then connect it to one of the digital input on AVR.
If output of the mixer is analog signal (like RCA jacks), then connect it to one of the analog input on AVR.
AVR:
Be sure switch to the correct input on your AVR.

There is other ways, but above is the basic.
Happy screaming!

Jwalant Vaishnav said:

Hello friends,

We just finished the initial set up of our new basement home theatre. Here is the configuration / Hardware used,

• 135" screen / Normal TV (I have taken out a line to use my old TV exclusively for displaying lyrics)
• Projector (Optoma UHZ65)
• Dennon AVR4500XH
• Shure Wireless Mics
• 9.1 ch sound system (Mix of Martin Logan/Speaker craft/Audio lab)
• Laptop (To play Karaoke Sound tracks from YouTube/Some Bollywood websites etc)

My need: Apart from off course the movie life, my other important need is Karaoke set up. I want to have all the components of a song coming out from the Sound system. I mean, my vocal and the sound track should mix and come out as a proper/normal song out of the sound system (Speakers). Technicians did try by putting an Audio Extractor (or something) to have some kind of conversion of Digital to Analog or vice versa (I am not too technical) BUT when he selected the sound output to Multi Channel format, I could feel a lag while singing and it just doesn't give me a good feeling at all.


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good news: both "parts" are good. the HT set up and the mics/mixer.

you need to take separate outputs from the laptop: 1) video 2) audio

1) for the video out - you'll need to convert to HDMI if it is not that already
2) for the audio - you'll have to put the audio FROM the laptop to on set of inputs of the mixer ( thought I saw a mixer in your audio descriptions) so you will need at least a 4 channel mixer. the mixer will take the audio from the laptop and "mix it" with the audio from the mikes. you should be able to find a 4-8 channel mixer for less than 100US. then take the output from the mixer to one of the analog inputs on the receiver.

you'll need to use one of the DSP modes to get sound to all the speakers in your set up.

But that should do it .

hope it helps

edit: this device might do the trick for you aw well: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F6QXP7...18Gbps, ARC, CEC, Audio Extraction & Embedded