Customize Guide
How to Combine Hosts, Judge Panels, and Studios
The Customize menu is where you decide what a session actually feels like before a single round starts. It controls four independent pieces — your voice pack, your host, your judge panel, and your studio format — and the key thing to understand is that these pieces are swappable on their own. You can keep the exact same content pack loaded and completely change the tone of a session just by changing who’s hosting it. This guide breaks down what each piece actually controls and how to think about combining them.
The Four Independent Pieces
| Element | What It Controls | What It Doesn’t Touch |
|---|---|---|
| Voice Pack | The actual content — clips, host lines, judge reactions | How that content is presented or scored |
| Host | Personality and delivery of transitions between rounds | The clips you’re performing or the scoring itself |
| Judge Panel | How reactions to your score get delivered | The underlying scoring logic, which stays constant |
| Studio | Visual framing and structural feel of the session | Anything about content or scoring |
Because none of these overlap, you can mix and match freely. A single pack can be run through very different presentations depending on what you load alongside it — and the underlying judging loop stays identical no matter which combination you’re using.
How Much Just Swapping a Host Actually Changes
It’s easy to underestimate this until you try it. A deadpan host reads the exact same line completely differently than one built for big reactions — same script, same content pack, same clips, but the whole session feels different because of who’s delivering the transitions between rounds. If a session with a familiar pack is starting to feel repetitive, swapping the host alone is often enough to make it feel fresh again without touching a single audio clip.
This makes the Customize menu useful as its own kind of reset button. You don’t need new content to change how a session feels — you need a different presentation of the content you already have.
Thinking About Judge Panel Personality
The judge panel is what reacts to your score after each round, and different panels carry different personalities into how they deliver that reaction. Since the scoring logic underneath stays the same regardless of which panel is active, this is a purely presentational choice — but it’s one that shapes how a session actually feels to play.
- A harsher-feeling panel can push players to commit more fully to a performance, since the stakes of a bad reaction feel higher.
- A lighter, more forgiving-feeling panel tends to suit casual or new-player sessions better, since it takes pressure off a shaky first attempt.
- Matching a panel’s tone to your voice pack’s theme — a comedic pack with a comedic panel, for example — tends to read as more coherent than mismatching the two.
Studio Format and the Shape of a Session
The studio is the structural and visual shell everything runs inside, and it changes the framing of a session without altering the scoring loop underneath it. A stricter game-show-style studio format naturally pushes toward a more competitive, round-by-round feel, while a looser hangout-style format leans more casual, even with the exact same content and judge panel running underneath it.
If you’re setting up for a specific kind of session — say, a fast competitive run versus a relaxed evening with friends — the studio format is worth thinking about separately from the pack and judge panel, since it’s doing a different job than either of those.
Building Combinations Worth Keeping
Some players in the community treat this almost like curating a playlist — putting together specific host-and-judge combinations they’re proud of, then sharing screenshots of the setups with others. A few starting points if you want to build your own combinations rather than leaving everything on default:
- Start from the pack’s theme. A themed pack (a specific show, franchise, or streamer) usually already implies a tone — pick a host and judge panel that reinforce that tone rather than fight it.
- Test host and judge panel separately before locking in a combo. Swap one at a time so you actually know which piece is responsible for the shift you’re noticing.
- Save combinations that work for specific occasions. A setup that’s great for a competitive solo grind might feel wrong for a relaxed group session — there’s no single “best” combination, only ones that fit what you’re going for.
- Revisit old packs with new combinations before assuming you’ve exhausted them. A pack that felt stale under one host-and-judge pairing can feel completely different under another.
The Customize menu is easy to treat as a one-time setup step, but it’s worth coming back to more often than that. Because host, judge panel, and studio are all separable from your content pack, you have a lot more room to change how a familiar pack feels than it might seem at first — sometimes the fix for a session going stale isn’t a new pack at all, just a new combination of the pieces you already have.