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Product Description This Leadsinger All-In-The-Mic handheld karaoke player is a 1-step karaoke system that plugs directly into your TV or stereo system. The player has 300 built-in popular songs and provides on-screen lyrics to all. The device also allows you to adjust the microphone and music volume, guides the melody, instruments, pitch, tempo and echo. Includes the player, main cable, song list book and AC adapter. You can also buy 20+ song cartridges for new music (sold separately). Imported. 10-1/2Hx1-1/2Wx1-1/2L". ... Read more
Features Thousands of additional songs available on MusicKartridges (sold separately)All-in-the-microphone karaoke system is highly portableBuilt-in video processor transmits highlighted lyrics and full-color graphics by connecting to virtually any TV through an RCA connection. The audio may also be played through an FM radio300-song selection includes popular, contemporary, traditional, holiday and children's songsKeypad allows the user to adjust volume, key pitch, echo, musical instrument/melody guide, and tempo
Reviews (6) 
Great portability, but can't compete w/ traditional karaoke
This "karaoke in a microphone" system is small and extremely portable. You can carry it from party to party. Just hook it to a TV or better yet - a music sound system home theater and you are ready to sing with your friends. The sound quality is acceptabe, but not great, as noise could clearly be heard behind the music background.
The music reproduction of this system is not close to the original version of your favorite songs. Traditional karaoke has two major modes: listening (allow you to hear the song with the demonstration singer(s)'s vocal to familiarize yourself with the song) and the singing mode (with music only or music and back up singers' vocal so that you can sing as a lead singer). This portable karaoke system, however, only has one mode which is the singing mode. Therefore, you must be familiar with the songs in order to sing them. Even in this singing mode, you will not get back-up singer's vocal. So if the original version of your favorite song has back up vocal (voices of people that sing on the background to assist the main singer in bringing the songs to climax or adding harmony to the songs. e.g music of Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Marc Anthony) or if the original version is a duet or group performance (Barbara Streisand and Bryan Adams duet; Nsync; All for One, Boys2Men, Backstreet Boys), you will not be able to sing by yourself. If you do, your "production" will sound really flat or lose its flavor as there's no back up vocal to "sing" along with you.
One good thing about this system is that you can adjust the music volume, microphone volume, the melody presence, and the pitch (high/low music tones/notes). Pitch adjustment is a great feature of karaoke.
You can add up to four additional song/music cartridges into this microphone; however, be sure to test the compatibility as this microphone may not work with some music cartridges, e.g. Alternative Rock Vol 2 due to manufacturing defect with some units. Many of the songs cannot play.
You can add a second (wireless) microphone although the sound of this extended mic is not great.
One excellent feature of this system is it can grade your perfomance although the grading sometimes is not accurate (it gives you high scores although you don't sing close to the original version and make many mistakes). If you have a group of friends, this scoring feature will allow you and your friends to enter into a fun karaoke competition.
If you are looking for an affordable portable karaoke system so that you can have good time with a bunch of friends, this is it. If you are looking for a karaoke system that makes you feel like an artist or gets you ready for the next season of American Idol, this is not the one. IF you are looking for a karaoke system so that you can sing at home just by yourself , this may not be the one. If you listen to radio a lot and are very familiar with the songs, then you can sing with this karaoke system. If you hear a song only once or twice - you like the song and want to try singing the song with this microphone, I don't think you can make it
Great fun for a great price.
The last review says, quote "Great portability but can't compete with traditional karaoke" and gives it 2 stars? What a joke. Of course it can't compare to traditional karaoke system, that's because the Leadsinger costs UNDER $120, as opposed to a "traditional karaoke" machine tha cost $400+ min! "sigh"
Anyways, my experience with Leadsinger is pretty positive. I bought the unit for my girlfriend, who is a karaoke junkie. Now we fight over whos turn it is to sing.
She had a older karaoke machine that just can't compare with the Leadsinger. Why?
Portability: The system can easily fit in a small bag that allows us to take it to friends, to parties, everywhere. Her old system was a five pound boom box that was cumbersome to transport.
Songs: The only negative thing that I noticed was that all of the guitar parts are played with a cheesy keyboard. As a guitar player, listening to the Eddie Van Halen solo on Micheal Jackson's 'Beat It' on a goofy keyboard is pretty dreadful. But friends have told me that replacing the guitar with a keyboard is pretty standard for karaoke. Other then that, the songs are pretty decent. My favorites are the Beatles, Elvis, and Queen. A friend bought his Leadsinger in the Phillipenes and his came with Radiohead's Creep & Cures Boy's Don't Cry which would have been nice to have on this version, but they aren't.
Adding songs: I have not bought the chip with additional songs yet(hopefully there will be no trouble with adding the chip), but just the idea of getting 100 or 150 additional songs for $50 or so it exciting. My girlfriends older karaoke system charged $15 for a cd with 12 or so songs. Having to switch cds that contain only 10 songs would get old really quickly.
The bottom line is, if you are looking for an inexpensive karaoke system to practice at home with (before hitting the 'traditional' karaoke bar), to take to parties, or to just sit around the house with friends, drinks, and fun, this is a great system with a fun factor of 5+. (Hopefully it wont crash on me tomorrow!)
Is it good for children? I think it would be. None of the 'older'songs are offensive, and it seems to have plenty of childrens songs like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and your kid will be the first (or should be) on his block to be belting out the Beatles 'Yesterday' or Queens 'Bohemian Rhapsody'.
Mike
I think this prouduct is great if your having a little party and feel like a little karoke all you have to do is go over and
get it. Plus that this is a great price I have seen them just like this for well over $400 yep.
Bad memory chip or bad mic?
I purchased the Leadsinger 3700 along with the 80's pop rock and the Teens 2003 musikartridge's.It all worked nicely until trying to access the songs on the Teens 2003 chip.The titles of all the songs would show on the screen but when pressing play, the unit would either turn off or it just wouldn't work.I tried relocating the chip into the other memory slots and the same problem occured.Since I had no problems with the other music chip or the built in songs, I concluded that the Teens 2003 chip was just a bad one.After exchanging the chip for another one, I had the exact same problems.This time I'm returning everything.It's not worth the hassle.
Great Karaoke System for those not ready to spend $500+ on b
Pros: Complete Karaoke system (from Korea) that is affordable and easy to use, comes with 300 free songs and 4 expansion slots so you can add more songs. Many song chips available. You can speed up or slow down the song's music, keep score of your singing progress and compete with other singers. Excellent wireless submicrophone for duet singing. [...], got it for less than $108 and $52 for the wireless submicrophone. Great customer service [...]. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cons: Volume on main microphone could be better, should be as good as that of the wireless one. Will need to play with the main mic, echo and music volume controls to get best sound. I don't like too much echo, so I take most of it off, keep the main mic volume on highest volume and lower the music volume so the mic's volume is nice and loud. Song chips can be very expensive. The Leadsinger LS-3700 song chips with 100, 150 or 200 songs can cost from $50 to $90 each. There are other complete karaoke microphone systems (best ones from Koritech and Entertech) for $400 or $500 that come with thousands of songs. Couldn't find a complete set with main mic, wireless mic and song chips. A free carry/storage bag would have been nice.
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