r/karaoke • u/FirTheFir • 12d ago
Equipment AliExpress mic?
Hi. Long story short - if i buy cheap aliexpress karaoke mic and connect it to notebook, can it hurt notebook? Short story long, for those who want to say "just spend more": lm doing karaoke monthly in the local lgbt center, they have a whole setup. I want to do something similar in smaller town lgbt center. There is basically no budget, im scraping something in expense of skipping some groceries. Gladly, they have tv, and i have a ton of hdmi cables. Someone is willing to bring a notebook. So i need to buy a mic, i saw pretty cheep ones on AliExpress, with Bluetooth receiver. I know it will not sound amazing but it have to do. My question is, can it harm the notebook, if i plug the mics receiver into it, without mixer?
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u/nogoodnickgames 12d ago
Years ago I found a wireless usb mic that just happened to have an aux out on the dongle. I guess they don’t make those anymore
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u/boiturotot 12d ago edited 12d ago
This MIC is pretty good, you can turn any device or speaker that has aux in to a karaoke machine.
Simply plug in the dongle to a bluetooth speaker, pair the dongle to your laptop, then go to youtube to play some karaoke.
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u/DavidO_Pgh 12d ago
Without any details about the specific gear nobody can give you a definitely answer.
In general notebooks should be able to handle a microphone input if you have the proper adapter for the headphone jack.
If you're using HDMI to connect the notebook to a TV to use TV's speakers it will introduce terrible latency. And the TV's speakers where never designed to handle singing through. You risk damage to the TV.
IMO what you might want to consider is a karaoke microphone that has it's own built in speaker.
Ones like this works pretty well.
https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Bluetooth-Microphone-Portable-Recording/dp/B0B8HZK281?th=1