I’ve watch about 22 demos. This young man’s is the best! Thank you. You are the only guy who did what we need: you took it out, hooked it up, and ran through the effects! Lol. Thank you!! This would work well live!
This is actually a really great pedal. I use it live mostly to double voice, triple voice, add a major 3rd above and it’s helpful for building up a chorus in a solo context. There’s so many features, so I appreciate this review (which is funny), but think the pedal is more dope than portrayed.
I'm thinking of buying one (even tho it first came out like 10 years ago) just for the reverbs and adding some subtle harmonies to my vocals... plus you can predetermine the key, meaning you don't have to run a guitar or keyboard through it for it to detect the correct key of a song (making it great for horn players too). The TC Helicon Harmony Singe 2 is a great little harmonizer, but unfortunately you have to run a guitar or a keyboard through it for it to auto detect the right key
Have been using this since 2012... no servicing, no repair, great stuff.. still going strong in 2024... Technology a bit outdated but still gets the job done
So I've got the VoiceLive2 and Digitech Vocal 300. Both are unusable with a large PA system, they just caused so much feed back, no matter what the message boards said to adjust. Has anyone tried this with a full band in a venue with a large PA. Like the size of a bar or bigger.
@@tjschwartz42 - They're all a mess unless you're performing in a coffee house / restaurant entertainment type setting plugged into a Fender 'Passport' type PA, which, honestly, is what the designers had in mind as the most common use for these kinds of pedals.
I've got this pedal and found that it works best when you create your own layered effects and tweak them. You can tweak individual effects in a surprising amount of ways, but yeah stock out the box, it's not a magical piece of hardware. Good video!
Failed to mention that it you can tweak and improve on all 30 of the presets, and save 50 custom sounds to the pedal. They may not sound very good at default settings, but after some playing around, the effects can be greatly improved, and even combined.
🤣🤣 I haven't stopped laughing since you said, "Just get a real singer!" I agree with everything you said. You did a fantastic job demonstrating the device's abilities. Thanks for your help & humor!
heads up. you dont have to confirm the setting when you are switching sounds. when you start your perfromance just press and hold right pedal so the profile is blinking. then switch to the desired sound but dont press and hold for 2 seconds to confirm it. just let it go, that way you can change back with a quick press of the left pedal again for a fast switch.
I would agree to this, but wouldn't this mean you effectively lose the ability to enable harmonies, looping and etc until you change it back from preset selection mode?
I play guitar, sing, and sax etc. This seems like a really good pedal, especially for the sax. I used to have an MXR vocalizer decades ago, and I loved how you could set presets with four footswitches and pick your harmonies (for example, one footswitch is tuned for a 3rd above, and another a 5th above, then an octave (up or down) and even a seventh. You can imagine that the harmonies were not so great back then, but it still turned me into a horn section. So, for a horn player, the presets of reverb, delay, and the loop would offer lots of possibilities. I also sing backup and I use the same mic for vocals. It seems that I can get a preset to go back and forth and I sure can use pitch correction here! The only thing is the key. I thought that this unit accepts 1/4" guitar cords and reacts to guitar chords (I enjoyed just writing this). I need to research this. And . . . might it accept MIDI for program changes and chord recognition? And, there is one . . . I find it kinda hard to play guitar and sax at the same time so I'm wondering if I can wire this effects processor to the keyboardist in the band. Then, it could get chord changes from the piano while I'm playing sax. hmmmmm wonder.
This is a very useful pedal. I don't understand how somebody who claims to be a successful performer, who can afford to employ backing vocalists, is worried about spending 250 dollars on this pedal. Some of the harmony pre-sets sound a little robotic, it is true, but there are enough that sound really good to offer an array of choice. The mike sensitivity feature is fantastic and has made some of my old cheap mikes usable again. I would say don't be easily put off because there is much merit in this box.
FYI if you leave the pedal in the "scroll" move, you can scroll through the presets without holding down the pedal. plus there are presets which i was hoping you would go through. for my first vocal processor i think it's decent for the price. probably not the last one i'll own.
This was both funny and honest, thank you! You’ve helped rule out one consideration - now onto further research. I think I will check out TC Electronic’s offerings next!
Dude! Thanx for saving me $300! Funny I started watching your demo for a specific educational Purpose....then once you started singing...I was completely entertained! Thank you! I wish you were my neighbor! Keep up the good work my dude!
I sing and play guitar in a surf-punk, garage-rock band and I'd like to get that Julian Casablancas "telephone effect". I do like the "hip-hop" and "harmonica" presets since they have that lo-fi, rough, vintage vibe. What do you think would work best (considering some adjustments i.e. adding some enhancing and reverb)? Last but not least, our songs are pretty much fast and I happen to sing a lot of words in some very few seconds. Thank you ☺️
I use this for recording background vocals. You can split the outputs in wet / dry, so you can record dry vocals and harmonies on separate tracks and mix them in your daw. Huge timesaver, and the harmonies actually sound more natural than the TC Helicon stuff imho - you just need to dial them a little back to sit well. Also having phantom power in a pedal is great for small gigs without PA, as you can bring a handheld condenser. + you have the gimmick effects as a side bonus for quick on-the-fly ideas. I got mine used for 50 bux..
7:39 Good demo, very useful, and funny at times -- a plus...but if i were a musician, or thought I was a musician, I would never imply that a sound might not be useful. Just like a painter tries to create an effect or emotion with colors, so too would a musician use different sounds. You never know when a certain sound might come in handy. If I were a musician, I'd say "hmm, that's interesting" to an unusual sound. Then I'd either let it inspire me to create something around it, or I would remember it and pull it out to use it later at an appropriate time to create a particular effect or emotion for the listener to feel.
Honestly, fuck the review. This is pure gold regardless. I went into this hoping to learn about a possible new vocal pedal and left with a huge smile and lots of laughs. Thank you for really reviewing a pedal the way real people do when we get these things. Lol 😆 I love this!!
Have you found a good pedal that auto-adjusts for gain, corrects for pitch, doesn't sound completely synthetic or robotic, simple layout, and just allows to add some harmony or chorus to certain parts of the song? So far, the closest thing I've found and seen live and in action was the TC Helicon Harmony Singer 2....but the price is ridiculous imo. Curious to hear what other people have stumbled upon. For reference, I'm a solo acoustic artist, a fairly decent singer that stays in pitch/key in my opinion, but looking for something that can just brighten up the vocals, equalize things good, and adds an extra "oomph" to certain parts of my songs. Thanks in advance for your input.
This is the video I've been looking for lmao. I've been using this processor for almost a decade through two projects but have never actually learned how to use it properly (ie I never use the pedals hahaha). I use my own presets. and re: reverb, yep it really fks with the house mixer, but one could always ask for all effects to be turned off once you realize THAT's the problem during soundcheck. I came here to see what someone else had to say about this machine since I can't seem to use it as I want to live (it was good for an all-over Industrial sound for a few years but now I need something I can play with in real time).
Thanks for demo, in a last minute idea using this for effects in a talent show that is being held on a “DJ system” and I was wondering if I could have reverb (effects) on it even when harmonizer is not engaged, you answered this thank you for a thorough review! Left pedal on... now I need to tinker with it sometime between now and noon tomorrow (today) when I leave! Procrastination sucks lol
