OR-0041
Yumeo
Japan · 1985 – c. 2005
Ser. K-0330512
1995 · effect
Issued as VST3 · AU
Restored 2026 from 1995 hardware.
Yumeo KM-1 — Karaoke Machine
Yumeo KM-1 · karaoke unit · restored from unit no. K-0330512 · Yumeo, Japan, 1995
The restorer's note
The living-room karaoke deck — the crude centre-channel trick that pulls the lead vocal out of a record, and the splashy reverb it pours over a microphone. Cheap, joyful, and instantly 1995. Restored complete, key-shift and all.
Acquisition
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The plate
Listening
Listening
Demonstration recordings, prepared at the bench.
The voice, pulled
The song plays untouched for five seconds; the machine then takes the line and Vocal Cut, at 80 %, pulls the centred voice out of it. At eighteen seconds it goes to 100 and the null deepens.
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Off-key, then empty
Key drops three semitones, rises three, and returns — the machine's granular shift wobbling as it goes. Vocal Cut then sweeps from nought to full, and the singer leaves the room.
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The mic path
A voice arrives on the mic input over the cut backing — Mic Reverb at 80 %, Mic Echo at 60 %, splashy on purpose — and Tone tilts down eight decibels at twenty seconds.
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