I havent used Sims 3 in a long time, last time i used it to make animations was about 8 years ago. I recently bought a 2nd hand copy of Showtime expansion pack thinking that that is all i would need (along with the Late Night one) to be able to make a video of a band playing.

But low and behold......no microphone at all!!!!!. I cannot find a microphone anywhere, and im very surprised by this, considering it was in the University expansion pack in Sims 2 along with guitars and drum kits. I know that in the Showtime pack, being a singer is one of the careers a sim can follow. Is it true that the only way in Sims 3 (along with the Showtime expansion pack installed) that a Sim can do any singing is to go to the big park which is a community lot?. That's no good if you want drummers and guitarists to perform with them. When i click on my sim, no option comes up to have them sing, when their on their residential lot.

This is most misleading, considering that when you boot up Showtime pack, a picture appears of a man singing into a microphone whilst holding an acoustic guitar. I have seen Sim 3 videos on Youtube of sims singing into a microphone, so their must be custom content on the internet for this?, but the only one that comes up on modthesims when you type in "microphone" is this one >>>> https://modthesims.info/downloads.p...ort=0&fbf=0&u=0

Are there singing animations that you can type into the animation player if all else fails?

perhaps that youtube video you saw might be a modded game using these custom animations...
https://shushilda.com/catalog/sims-...icrophone-part/
https://shushilda.com/catalog/sims-...rophone-part-1/

I cant find the video now, but it was a male sim gently holding a mic on a microphone stand and gently singing into it, but those videos you linked me to i have seen aswell.

That microphone i linked to on Modthesims i actually already have, and you cant make a sim sing into it, all you can make them do is what you can make them do to a mirror, as it is found in Decor.

Surely though that now i have Showtime installed, with the animation player, surely i can make my sim do pretty much all of the singing animations that can be done in the game, on typing command?

It's a Showtime profession like the Magician and Acrobat.

https://www.carls-sims-3-guide.com/...time/singer.php