With Lyrics4 You you can record your voice on a karaoke song. Of course you shoud have a microphone with 3.5mm jack connector which you plug into your soundcard panel.
Plug your micro in the MIC IN sound card input, showed as a pink circle generally on the back of the PC.
If you have a micro with a standard 6.35 jack connector you can buy 3.5mm mono male adapter.
Test your microphone
To enable voice recording you must activate the input signal. Click on the little Microphone button on L4Y Player. If you click again, the microphone input will be turned off.
Now you should test the microphone input and output level. Open Control window, talk to the microphone, and watch over the colored input "LEVEL" bar. Fit the input level
IN as necessary. Also fit volume of the sound sent to your speakers with the output level
OUT bar. Now you are ready to record your voice.
Record your voice
Select a song and start playing. Quickly click on the button marked as a black circle that should change to red.
During the recording an LCD record indicator will be shown in the Player window and a red REC caption shoud blink on the top left of the karaoke window.
To stop recording click on the RECORD button again. You can start and stop recording any time while the song is playing. The result is saved in the same output file. If you're not satisfied of your performance you can try one more time starting from whichever point of the song. The output file will be overwritten only from the moment you started and ended singing. The rest will remain untouched.
Playing your voice
You can play your voice starting at any point of the song on which you've been recerding. Click on button pictured as double note to start playing and click again to stop your voice.
On Karaoke screen a
VOCAL red label will be shown and remains there until you switch off the VOICE button. You can pause and stop the song or move to new position. Your voice will automatically follow the song.
If you'll find your voice too loud comparatively to the song loudness you can set it independently with the VOL bar. With the SYNCbar you can adjust voice synchronization if it is necessary. This function works within -1 and +1 seconds but usually theres no need to make any change.
In Preferences window under AUDIO tab you can change destination directory where voice files are stored on your computer. Normally this is VOCAL within Lyrics4You folder.
You should know that your voice is saved into a
WAV file format which is not compressed and is much bigger size than MP3 or MIDI file.
You can change quality parameters for recording under
Audio preferences TAB.
Default recording line is Microphone. If you want for example to record both you voice and background song together you can switch to "What U Hear" line.