Isaki Riona Sings Through Sync and Echo Problems in a Surprise Test of Her New Audio Interface

HOLOLIVE — Isaki Riona, a singer with Hololive’s DEV_IS FLOW GLOW, went live without notice on Thursday to sing with a prototype audio interface she had just been given, and spent much of the hour tuning it between songs.

She opened by saying the sound was reaching only one ear, then fixed it on air and described the session as a trial run for the new setup, with songs she liked on top. Her first full song came about 11 minutes in. Soon after, the backing track fell out of step with her voice, and she tried different inputs and settings while apologizing to viewers for turning a singing stream into an adjustment session. She traced part of the trouble to the way the backing audio was being captured from the game.

“Looks like I have no choice but to sink into the audio swamp.” — Isaki Riona, on the interface after her last song

A louder monitor mix drew the loudest early laughter from chat: she apologized to her “ears,” the viewers, and turned the level up again. After that she sang through a run of upbeat songs, then said a songwriter’s tunes sat comfortably in her range. Later she tried to recall an Ikimonogakari song she had been unable to name for days, sang one that turned out to be the wrong one, and moved on to other requests from her own memory, including a song she said had been released 43 years earlier.

She ended with two songs because she had a lesson to get to. Of the last one she said the interface was hard to sing with, and she said the high end of the monitor mix rang in her ears. She said she would ask people who know audio equipment for help, and she told viewers to expect a Dungeon of Trials run in ARK that night, with Super Chats read then.

Viewers sent 42 Super Chats and filled chat with applause and laughing emotes. She also asked viewers to keep Nov. 23 open for another singing stream with new songs.