Audio Stage Karaoke

rtaylor6753

rtaylor6753

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Any leads on "how to" hook the karaoke machine up in a L300 Super Exceed? The unit is there and in great condition. I have not attempted, but the light comes on. I'm going to have a go at it next week and see what may need to be done. Waiting on service manual to see if there is any info on it.

Cheers!
 
rtaylor6753 said:
Any leads on "how to" hook the karaoke machine up in a L300 Super Exceed? The unit is there and in great condition. I have not attempted, but the light comes on. I'm going to have a go at it next week and see what may need to be done. Waiting on service manual to see if there is any info on it.

Cheers!
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You're going to be hard pressed to get it to work. The machines I'd seen in Japan received on a much lower frequency than US radios and needed a decoder (likely in-line in your system) to split the signal for the little karaoke monitor.

That said, good luck!
 
feetforbrains said:
You're going to be hard pressed to get it to work. The machines I'd seen in Japan received on a much lower frequency than US radios and needed a decoder (likely in-line in your system) to split the signal for the little karaoke monitor.

That said, good luck!
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Ahh, so the machine worked off the radio? I have not heard any great feedback so I'm guessing I will have to scrap that task. Be cool if you could get it hooked up to upgraded bluetooth unit.
 
rtaylor6753 said:
Ahh, so the machine worked off the radio? I have not heard any great feedback so I'm guessing I will have to scrap that task. Be cool if you could get it hooked up to upgraded bluetooth unit.
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Back in the early 90's while riding to or from Narita they were fun-ish. If you have the electronics you can hold onto them and maybe do something later, but you'd probably be better buying a cheapo karaoke machine from Amazon and installing that at this point.
 
Delica USA has a JDM to USA radio adapter. Delica USA said it would work to convert the karaoke machine. For $29.00, I may attempt it.

Cheers!
 
rtaylor6753 said:
Delica USA has a JDM to USA radio adapter. Delica USA said it would work to convert the karaoke machine. For $29.00, I may attempt it.
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The radio will work, but you wont be able to play karaoke on the machine. Most Japanese FM bands are multicast. There's a box inline with the receiver that decodes and splits the signal so it works with the karaoke machine.
 
feetforbrains said:
The radio will work, but you wont be able to play karaoke on the machine. Most Japanese FM bands are multicast. There's a box inline with the receiver that decodes and splits the signal so it works with the karaoke machine.
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Dang it! I know nothing about how a karaoke machine operates, clearly. Gracias!
 
Any luck on this?? New owner and mine has the karaoke machine that I haven't figured out... It turns on though!
 
sk66 said:
You don't... it requires an audio broadcast that has the vocals separate from the music as separate tracks.
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this ^^ and also I believe you needed to subscribe to some 80's OTA karaoke service that was broadcast (in japan) at bands lower than our radios can pick up.
 
We have an L300 SE with the stock radio and karaoke machine. We have a basic bluetooth transmitter that we use to stream from phones to stock radio (tuned to 87.8, I think). Not the best quality audio, but simple and we don't listen to broadcast radio that much anyway. Great for podcasts, audiobooks, NPR, and whatever music we'd be listening to on our phones. Also works when you're off-grid (for things you've downloaded to the phone)...

We can plug a mic into the karaoke machine and "sing over the radio" (technically, "sing over the bluetooth audio") and modify some voice effects on the karaoke control panel, etc. Not true karaoke, but fun nonetheless! It can also be used as a PA system -- which my kids sometimes use to startle pedestrians ;)!

I don't recall all the settings, but we figured it out pretty quickly.
 
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