Ok , a little background for that piece of hardware .
First , its very good for a person to use for Christmas and the person does not have to deal with programming the lights to music . The hardware does it for them . Now , IMO , this is not the best way to do it . This is basicaly like a COLOR ORGAN or LIGHTENING BOX ...
It takes a predefined frequency and converts it to electricity .
Problem with these type items is that , there is no way to say , have pumpkin #1 only sing with a specific voice , if the song has , say , multiple singers singing . Since , the frequency will also happen when the music is there and other combos of song and music .
Remember ... the hardware reacts to FREQUENCY , and doing such does not allow you to "program" in which pumpkin sings when .
Not like AL , or LOR , or Vixen , or VSA . These programs allow the user to program WHICH channel comes on when and for how long and how ... full bore , dimmed , flickering , or ?
So , although it IS good for somethings . Its not gonna thrill you for using as a controller for group of singing pumpkins .
You could use it , for , say , something like this :
Have ONE prop ---- either singing or talking , but ... if its singing , then the music would have to be on on the other channel , and not on the same one as the singer singing . Otherwise , you'll get the lights coming on , mouth moving to music and not words .
Now , you could also do this as well .
If you have a song that you like , and the singing comes out on both channels, as well as the music , you could use a program like AUDACITY and blank out one channel and then pipe in your voice singing the song and that would be the channel that you have the pumpkins lights/mouth connected to and just don't have a speaker set up for that channel . Then , all the TOT'ers will hear , is the song/music coming from say , the left channel and the right ichannel ,, s the one your pumpkin's light is set to go off to .
Again , those are really good for Christmas lights more than for Halloween .
Personally , I , myself , perfer to use Vixen , which is a free program and the hardware is very easy to build , is cheaper than the others , and its a DIY'er type of setup .
