Asking for a friend who is just starting and my own future use.

[Dravik]

So a friend of mine has started streaming herself singing self-composed songs. She is using a bluetooth speaker (Oontz Angle 3)for back-tracks while she sings. She is also only using her laptop's built in mic. This quality results in her voice overpowering the backtrack a bit too much, and her mic winds up sounding staticy as built in mics do. would a bigger speaker with a higher decibel range coupled with a relatively cheaper condenser mic be sufficient for making her streams work better? If not, what would you recommend?

 

[Ujn Hunter]

Not sure if this will be better or not, but Dolby just released a "Dolby On" App on iOS/Android *FREE that is supposed to make streaming live performances sound better and be easier. So your friend would be using her phone instead of her laptop (which probably has a better microphone anyhow) if she wanted to see if that makes it better. Otherwise getting a cheap audio interface (Behringer Uphoria 202HD? springs to mind) and a cheap condenser mic would be way better than her laptop mic. I'd suggest using headphones though instead of backup music from a speaker and just mixing the music in with the recorded vocals from the microphone in the box. Hope this helps. Let us know how it works out!