People who look up karaoke delivery and setup in Montreal mostly want one thing answered: what happens, and when? So here is one karaoke machine rental with Karaoke Rental Montreal, told in order, from the evening you reserve online to the moment a driver carries the speaker back down your staircase. A Rosemont triplex, a Verdun condo or a reception hall in Laval: the sequence does not change.
The day you book: an address, a window and a few notes
The address comes first. The availability checker says whether your door is inside our zone and shows the delivery fee attached to it, before checkout. Our karaoke delivery service runs some 45 minutes out from downtown by road: the island from Lachine to Pointe-aux-Trembles, with the Plateau, Villeray, Ahuntsic, NDG, Saint-Léonard, Westmount and the West Island in between, then, over the bridges, Laval, South Shore towns such as Longueuil, Brossard and Chambly, and North Shore suburbs like Terrebonne and Blainville. Every municipality is named on the delivery areas page.
Second, the package. Home Superstar is for private households only and borrows your own TV as its screen. Offices, restos, halls and condo party rooms get Event Basic or Event Superstar, which supply a 22-inch screen and suit a crowd of about 40.
Third, the delivery window: 10 am to 1 pm for the morning run, 1 pm to 5 pm for the afternoon one. Fourth, the notes box, which earns its keep in Montreal. Say what time the party starts, then describe the way in: the outdoor spiral staircase, the elevator your condo wants reserved, the office loading dock, the street where parking is a contest. Reservations open six months ahead and close two days before the date. December fills early, so book once your office party or holiday supper has a date.
Party week: readying a plex, a condo or a hall
Sometime during party week, your driver confirms the arrival time. Use those days to prepare the place.
A plex. A triplex in Rosemont, Villeray or on the Plateau usually means steps, often the outdoor spiral kind. The driver likes to know beforehand. Choose the room and check for a plug or two beside the television.
A condo. Your own unit counts as a private household. The shared party room, in Verdun or in a Brossard tower, is reserved through the condo board and takes an Event package. Ask the board about booking the elevator and getting past the security desk.
A hall, a resto or the office. Reception halls on both shores, church halls in Longueuil, community halls in Laval: your notes should say who unlocks the room and at what hour, where to park and which door to take. An office 5 à 7 that involves paperwork can run on a formal quote, settled by invoice.
The Wi-Fi, wherever you are. The catalogue lives online, so no connection means no singing. A home network will do; a cellphone hotspot will too. What will not is a hall or office network that stops you at a login screen: ask for the staff network's password, or the guest one's.
Party day: karaoke delivery and setup at your door
Your driver pulls up within the window, and for Laval or the South Shore the run is timed around bridge traffic. The equipment climbs the stairs or rides the elevator and lands where you point: by the TV in a Plateau living room, in a Laval basement, at one end of a hall. Then the karaoke setup service begins. The driver wires up the speaker, microphones and party light, hooks the system to your TV or to the Event screen, joins it to the Wi-Fi and checks the sound in front of you. The last step is a demonstration: each guest finds songs on a cellphone and sends them to one shared queue.
If you typed mobile karaoke service and pictured a host with a microphone, the honest answer is that we are not that. The equipment travels to you and gets installed; no DJ or emcee stays behind, and your guests' phones keep the queue moving. Phone support covers the whole rental, and a fault we cannot correct remotely means a replacement is sent.
The day after: the driver comes back
Once the last guest has gone home, do nothing. Your driver climbs the same staircase again, the next day most of the time, at an hour you two agreed on, unplugs everything and carries it out. Coming back for the machine is included in every rental, without a cent added. And nobody knocks mid-chorus to take the microphones away.
Three questions Montrealers ask before booking
Can we use it outside, on a terrace or in the backyard?
Yes, given three things: dry weather, a roof or cover above the equipment and a plug it can reach. That describes a covered terrace in the city as well as a West Island backyard with a pool. A Montreal downpour is more than the system can take, so have an indoor corner ready as a fallback.
Are the songs already in it, and are there French songs?
Yes to both. All 67,000+ songs come with every package, ready once the system is online. English and French make up most of the list, Québécois classics and French hits included; Spanish, Italian, Korean and several other languages follow. You cannot load songs of your own.
Can I pick the machine up myself, or is there a store?
No. Karaoke Rental Montreal has no storefront or counter. Each machine leaves with a driver and is delivered and set up at the party address, which is why both steps are part of every rental. To see your delivery fee, check your address on the booking page.