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| - I had great lots of fun with a few friends, de-stressing after finals, but wasn't satisfied with the service. The mic broke down and the system had terrible sound quality - there was so much static. When we notified the front cashier, she took a long time to switch out the mic's and didn't offer to put us in another room. Then, the second mic malfunctioned too. While she was fixing the systems in our room, we stood there awkwardly and watched our karaoke time sadly tick tok down.
The system had a lot of Asian and American songs, but it was a bit weird that they used Chinese renditions of American songs for background music. For example, the only 'Imagine' by John Lennon that was available was a remake from a Chinese singing show, which was just plain weird to sing to. It wasn't just that one song that was the Chinese rendition; rather, there were many other songs that were like that. It wasn't a huge problem, but I was hoping for the original versions to sing to.
Personally, I don't know if I would go back again, but this is the only place that I know of so far in Phoenix that has karaoke without an open-bar style. It was much more comfortable singing in a private room with a karaoke system - I wouldn't dare, with my voice, to very awkwardly sing in front of a crowd. Also, the private rooms had cool displays, which was pretty nice.
Some suggestions:
1) Bring cash because there's a minimum $25 charge for cards, although August Karaoke has an ATM machine inside the store that you could use (I think there was a charge of $2)
2) Sometimes, there are Groupons so keep an eye out for that!
Bottom line:
A-okay; it was fun but I wish they had better service, less malfunctioning devices, and more song choices.
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