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Question

Simple Radio Station-style Sound Board?

Jan 29, 2015 9:32AM PST

Does anyone know of a simple Windows 7-compatible (preferable, but Mac possibly) program that allows me to simply run a radio station type audio show; an old-school audio mixer...attach a microphone, cue up a song, introduce the song, play the song and cue up the next song. Need volume controls for mic, and two song banks. A VU meter would be nice.

All the "mixer" apps I see are either editors (like Audacity, which I love for actually editing audio, BTW) or elaborate DJ mixers with beat matching, cross fades, blah blah blah (and usually no mic input).

Thanks,
Ragg

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Clarification Request
Audio Mixer...Not Sound Board
Jan 30, 2015 8:13AM PST

I realized after posting that this appears to be a question about a sound board as opposed to an audio mixer. Old (radio) habits are hard to break...we used to call them sound boards.

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Answer
I'm going with no to the simple part.
Jan 30, 2015 8:23AM PST
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To clarify...
Jan 30, 2015 11:40AM PST

Thanks, Bob. Sorry for not specifying this in my original post...

...I don't actually want to "broadcast" an internet radio station (or any type of radio station, actually)...here's the thing:

I host pub trivia and currently play music from my laptop, which is output to an audio mixer where I have a microphone plugged in. So that's where I mix my mic and music; I "blah blah blah," play a song, "blah blah blah," play another song, etc. The output of the mixer then goes to the pub's sound system. If I had a software mixer on the laptop that would allow me to plug in a mic and mix it with songs stored on the computer I could eliminate the external mixer. I'm thinking it would use the output from the headphone jack to feed the house sound system...I know that's not the greatest quality, but this is for pubs/restaurants with those little speakers in the ceiling throughout the dining rooms.

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My opinion
Feb 2, 2015 2:21AM PST

Is to use what works. That is, if a mixer does the trick, keep using it.
Bob