Customer Reviews
Great Fun 
2008-04-29
I purchased the Singing Coach just after Christmas....decided to give myself a present. I have found it to be very useful in helping me focus on note accuracy as well as timing. I was a little concerned about ordering after reading a few of the reviews with their problems but now I realize they were probably the operators fault,ie: 1)does not always record a line on the graph when you sing.....make sure the earphone/mouthpiece plugs are all the way plugged into the computer,etc. I do agree that a few more pieces of music would have been nice but overall, it has a lot of options to try different things. I would recommend this product to anyone - even those that have sung for years can have fun with it.
I like it 2007-05-03
Some things I'd change about the program. You should have the option to pass up the cartoon character's lesson and go directly to yours. It's only helpful seeing this the first time through. The cartoon banter is way cheesy. The songs provided aren't great, but fine for the lessons. I saw a lot of songs I'd like for the download, but I'm not going past the four free ones. The headset is actually decent.
I found the range determination procedure of great value, as well as the auto adjusting of songs to your range. Bottom line, I am a better singer for having bought this software. I like to do karaoke and I'm better at it in just a short time.
Nothing else on the market quite like this.... 
2007-04-02
I highly recommend this program. While there are many techniques that must come together to produce quality tone, for a singer to be "on pitch" remains the non-subjective and single most important aspect of singing; this is what Singing Coach helps you target.
For the purpose of correcting pitch problems, Singing Coach is better than a real instructor because it allows you to visually see how close your voice is to the mark. A vocal coach will be using his or her ears to compare you voice to the correct note on a piano, but to have the capability measure your voice unaccompanied by a teacher with a tool like Singing Coach means that you can work on pitch problems a lot more often and for some rather shy students this may be exactly what they need.
On the negative side: the problem comes with a few old standard tunes to sing alone to. My advice is to not waste your time with the songs, why? Because even if you nail them 90-100% you end up with a mono-tone sounding vocal take. In pop, rock and country music (contemporary music in general) vocalist variations in tone character and style techniques don't register well with this software, it will indicate you are of pitch at times or it will score you poorly for not transitioning fast enough. I don't if the original artist were to sing the song into this software that they would get much above an 80% on some of these songs. So skip the songs and instead select "Warm Ups" here you will find the traditional scales used by all vocal instructors. You can easily change the key of a warm up ex cerise so pick a warm like like the "5 up, 5 down" and bring the key down to the lowest note in your range. Sing through it, then raise it up a few keys, keep doing this untill you've reached the highest note in your range. Spend 20-30 minutes a day with this software just doing warm ups in this manner and you will work out any break points you have in your voice and you will greatly improve pitch, probably a lot faster than just singing along to scales without this sort of feedback.
If you seriously want to learn how to sing well, you still need to consult with a vocal coach or at least pick up some other self study material, because this software doesn't get into any detailed techniques for correcting breathing problems and other common vocal problems and than destroy the tone of your voice.
I think for most people the basic feature set found in this version ("basic" version of Singing Coach) will be enough for most people. With the more expensive version you can compose your own songs, but again I don't think the software should be used to train on songs, just scales.
Anyone can learn to sing. 2007-03-09
I had a horrible singing voice, but loved to sing. I sat in the front pew in church so that no one would be in front of me to hear my singing. I was very skeptical when I ordered Singing Coach. After installing the program, I went through all of the lessons several times. I could see my improvement in my scores and hear my improvement in my singing. I discovered that I had been trying to sing in a range much above my natural range. I intend to continue to practice using Singing Coach. I will never have a "professional" singing voice, but at least now I'm not embarrassed to let others hear me sing.
Excellent Coach with Incredible Results 2007-01-04
When I first saw Singing coach making headlines in the local paper I didn't really consider it that much. But after I thought about it for a while and wanted to exceed in my singing capabilities I did in-fact buy it. It wasn't at all confusing to learn and I was glad by the fact I couldn't just go through it all fast and learn nothing. I really had to work at it and learn new things about my voice and how to work it. Now when I sing in front of audiences and such, I practice all the excercises I learned, and I have dramatic and perfect results. I learned how to hold a note and not make it all pitchy but smooth and gentle or hard and rocking. It teaches you all these things and it's a real genuine thing to buy and learn from. It isn't too hard, but isn't too easy. It tells you right where you belong and it teaches you things that can strain your voice or not force it to do enough. Singing coach as taught me so much and as a matter of fact because of it's teachings I've even been offered a demo.
Hopefully June 2007 will serve as a new start in my future singing careers. At least I know I will always have a friend in singing coach. Plus, it's HILLARIOUS to watch the video teachings. (:
THANKS SO MUCH, AND PEOPLE PLEASE BUY BUY BUY!
You won't be sorry!
-S.G.
Sara A. Grafton
Singing Coach Software 2007-01-04
Singing Coach is a great way to develop your singing chops. Learn to sing with the help of a patented real-time pitch recognition technology. Twenty lesson tutorial teaches all you need to know.
Good & Bad 
2006-12-18
This is pretty good set really, I have had it since last Easter and spent a lot of time with it.
It has helped me out greatly. But it does have it's flaws. 1. Sometimes the microphone picks up things you don't want it to or doesn't pick up what you do want it to. You often need to push your voice a little for it to hear you , unless you go around about way of giving the microphone more power other than the settings in the software covers. Which can be a good thing because it helps build strength in your voice. But for those first learning this can be difficult and hard on the throat .
The song selection is pretty poor. They give a few free downloads and I could only find one I even half way like.
But it's not all bad here. The headset that comes with it is very comfortable. The lessons are great for learning. The animated things are kind of funny at times. This is by far better than trying to learn from a book or some of the other similar products out there.
So to sum it up I am pretty happy with the product. But it's got it's flaws. Depending on the use and what you want out of it will really determine if you like this or not. So buy at your own risk.
Handling the cord on this product will expose you to lead! 
2006-10-25
I ordered this from Amazon.com for my 8-year-old daughter, who clamored for it after seeing it on a TV promotion on Nickelodean or Disney. It's also being promoted on MTV, VH1 and Comedy Central channels. When I received it, I was shocked to find the following label covering part of the box barcode on the bottom size of the box:
"Warning: Handling the cord on this product will expose you to lead, a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. Wash hands after handling."
Once the box gets tossed out in the trash, how in the world would the creators of this product expect little children, or even impatient teens for that matter, to remember to wash their hands every time they play with this particular toy, even if their parents told them once or twice to do it?
I will try to replace this PC mic/headphones headset with another one I'll pick up at an electronics store. If another mic doesn't work well with this system, I'm going to return the whole product to Amazon.com.
If you want to read the warning label for yourself, please see the "customer image" I have uploaded to the top left of Amazon.com's web page for this product (under the main product photo).
Very Impressed! 2006-05-17
I had seen this product advertised on T.V. and was skeptical at first but intrigued as well. A year later, I decided that it was time to get some voice training.I've loved music all my life and have been singing all through it. Since I'm learning guitar, I figured now would be the time to step it up a notch. Unfortunely, I can't afford proper lessons so I guessed that this would be the next best thing, I didn't even know if I was a soprano, baritone, or anything. Singing Coach arrived yesterday and I've been playing with it ever since. I learned that I'm a tenor! It took a while to get the microphone settings correct, My voice wouldn't register at first and I thought that the product was faulty. If this happens to anyone else, try checking the settings for your computer's microphone, that was my problem.I love the pitch tracking! It helped me so much! You can see if your pitch is wrong and you can adjust yourself while you sing! There are tons of exercises too.You can go by note, or by scale. The songs that come with are old traditional songs like Twinkle, twinkle little star, home on the range,etc. I was kind of bummed by this at first but they definitely help with the training. The only bad thing is the selection of downloadable songs on their website.I was able to find two but other than that nothing I would want to sing. But that's me, you can check out what songs they carry on the carryatune.com website. Also after you use up your free downloads it is 3.95 per song.That's sure to add up if you get bored easily like me. All in all, a good product for the absolute beginner. It does seem like an experienced singer wouldn't get much out of it, except maybe as a supplement between classes or something like that.
I like it 2006-01-05
it was moderatly helpful.My friends say I'm singing a little better,and I havn't even finished the lessons!
