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To apply an echo to your voice
While the Mic Mix Mode is activated...
• As the number increases, echo level also increases.
To adjust the key (disc playback only)
While playing back...
To cancel the Key Control
• Key Control is also canceled when you deactivate the Mic
Mixing Mode, or select another track or disc.
Reducing the Lead Vocal
—Vocal Masking
If you want to reduce the lead vocal (of any source except
DVD Audio/DVD-VR), you can use the Vocal Masking
Mode.
To sing into microphone(s),
activate the Mic Mixing Mode
(follow steps
1
to
3
and
6
on page 32).
To cancel the Vocal Masking Mode,
select “OFF.”
Scoring Your Karaoke Skill
This System can score your Karaoke skill by comparing your
singing along with the vocal on the playback disc.
• This function is for disc playback only.
• It is recommended to select the sound track as follows (see
page 17):
For DVD Video:
Select a sound track with vocal.
For SVCD/VCD:
Select “ST,” “ST1,” or “ST2.”
• It is recommended to sing for more than
one and a half
minutes
to make the scoring function work properly.
1
Select “DVD/CD” as the source.
2
Activate the scoring function.
Playback of the first track starts and the Mic Mixing
Mode is automatically activated (with the last adjustment
for echo).
3
Sing into the microphone.
See steps
1
,
2
, and
6
on page 32.
• Adjust echo level and key if you want (see the left
column).
After the song ends, playback stops and the score board
appears on the TV screen with fanfare.
To stop the playback in the middle of the song,
press 7
.
The scoring function is not canceled and your singing along
is scored if the playback time is more than one minute.
To cancel the scoring function,
press KARAOKE
SCORING. The screen on the TV disappears. (The Mic
Mixing Mode remains activated.)
V.MASK 1
Cancels vocal on stereo sources.
V.MASK 2
Cancels the right audio channel.
Remote
ONLY
ECHO
ECHO 1 ECHO 2 ECHO 3
ECHO 4ECHO 0
(Canceled)
Remote
ONLY
KEY KEY
#
To raise the key (up to +6).
To lower the key (up to –6).
KEY KEY
#
–6 +60
JAPANESE
KEYCON
0
On the display On the TV screen
INFO
Remote
ONLY
V. MASKING
OFF
V.MASK 1 V.MASK 2
INFO
DVD/CD
KARAOKE
SCORING
KARAOKE SCORE BOARD
SINGING
On the TV screen
KARAOKE SCORE BOARD
Very good!!
85 POINTS
93 POINTS1 ST
3 RD
2 ND
85 POINTS
73 POINTS
The latest top 3
Your score
Ex.:
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