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Snohomish County
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by Erica T. on Went to Pandora this evening with my husband and three friends. We love karaoke, and were used to the 'whole bar' style rather than the private room style - the whole concept seemed like a luxury and a really great idea. We like to sing, and we like to sing a lot. Before I explain the two, I will say that I had a good time. However, I feel like it was because of some fantastic company, and not the venue. Issues: 1. Audio quality. As mentioned in some other reviews, the audio quality is wildly inconsistent. One of our microphones was set so hot that there was constant feedback, regardless of how it was held; we had to turn it off and just use the other. The songs were not consistent, volume-wise, so we had to adjust the song volume constantly. When we entered the room, the volume was so loud we couldn't hear the waitress that brought us in, and the screens were set to a loop of Eminem & Rihanna - Love the Way You Lie (which may be the most odious song in the history of music). 2. Venue sketchiness. The room we were in was the 42Below room, which was quite nice and comfortable. The rest of the facility - in particular the hallways and bathrooms - seemed shabby and unfinished, if not actually dirty. (As an example, instead of building a cabinet or wall around what appears to be a water heater or furnace, there was a little folding room divider in front of it.) 3. Song selection interface. The touchscreen idea is nice, but several improvements are necessary to make it nice in more than concept. First, rather than being affixed to the wall, the screen needs to be something that can be passed around. Tethered is fine - put it in the middle of the table, and then we're not all climbing over one another to pick songs. Second, the interface needs to be more reliable and responsive. The touchscreen was laggy and unpredictable, and obviously desirable functions like search were buried or worked in ways not intuitive to anyone who's used a computer in the last ten years. Third, the songs absolutely need to be properly listed with fully filled-in metadata - there were lots of songs that were on the 'new releases' list that were by artists who couldn't be found via search or other lists, and there was heavy presence of other-language songs in the English list. Fourth, some settings ought to be selectable as a global - so you can (for example) set the list to only show English songs for the night. 4. Song selection. For all the boasting of a huge song list, we weren't finding a lot of songs that are total karaoke standards. In fairness, this might have been due to interface and metadata fail. In any case, we were wrestling with finding songs that we felt should have been there most of the night. 5. Visuals. If there's no real music video for the song, then just play over a black screen instead of 70s stock footage that was later recycled as deodorant and/or menstrual product ads. 6. Prices. And yes, ok, this is a tiny thing. I was drinking sodas, and they were $4 a pop. If we weren't already paying just to be there, that might have seemed more reasonable, but getting shafted on soda while paying a premium for the room is obnoxious. The crew I was with drank beer all night, and got buckets - 6 beers for $25 - so I was paying almost as much for a soda as they did per beer. What gives? We had a good time, but we're going to shop around for other places to ease off the frustration factor next time.
by James R. on props for nice staff, fun ambiance. anti-props for bad food (much better at Bissap Baobab), somewhat chaotic table-seating process (more or less arbitrary). will go back for dancing and update review after I see that side of the house
