Microphone Quality Sounds Muddy on Home Setup
Read this sub and it seems like the best budget home karaoke setup is a mic + mixer + PA speakers. I ended buying the following setup but am getting really low fidelity output from the mics, they can get really loud but are really lacking clarity. The setup:
Microphone: Behringer Ultravoice XM8500
Highly rated mic, supposed to be very close to Shure SM58s based on many reviews.
Mixer: PylePro PMXU48BT
The cheapest mixer I could find.
PA Speaker: Alto TS 312
12" PA speaker. Probably overkill for a home karaoke setup as I've read 8" speakers are enough, but this was only slightly more expensive than the cheapest 8" speaker I could find so I upgraded.
Did some research and it looks like my mixer is missing mic preamps, so I'm wondering if that's causing the muddy mic quality. Also it seems like the dedicated private KTV venues use dedicated karaoke processors that have DSPs that prevent howling, compress audio levels, and have a built-in amplifier, so I'm wondering if I need to get one of these as well for good quality mic audio.