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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Has anyone tried one of these?
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I picked up one of these today and it's a lot of fun. If it's used with the right song and in small doses, it sounds pretty good. I thought I might try it for solo gigs just to change things up a bit. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Before and after samples please! |
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Location: Delaware | If it works well you'll really like it to fatten up your solo performance vocals. I use a TC Electronics Voicelive. (formerly TC Helicon). It is a lot of fun, when you get 'em dialed in right you hit the footswitch and think to yourself "Oh my God, who's that singing along with me ?" I'm not familiar with the digitech, it seems to take signal from the guitar to help process the vocal harmonies. Good luck with it, have fun !! |
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Location: North Carolina | Originally posted by John B:
Has anyone tried one of these?
Yes, I've started using one recently both as a solo and with my group. Wish I'd done it long ago.
One thing I do is keep it on a table near me so I can change the setting without bending over between songs. Instead of the stomp switch, I keep it on and control it with a volume pedal. The harmonies can be as loud or soft as I want, and I can ease them into the mix. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | I use the VL4 with my band.
Stunning.
The sound is what I would call 90% natural. Its not suitable for studio work, but for live gigs its perfect.
fridave, the Digitech units (both the VL2 and the VL4) have what they call "MusIQ" technology, whereby they glean what harmony to use based on the chord you are playing on your guitar. Works wonderfully. |
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Location: big island | i sold my digitech vocalist workstation a couple years ago as i just wasn't satisfied with the "robotic-like" harmonies it produced. this was prior to the newer "musiq" technology, which they now incorporate. i was very impressed with the harmonic qualities of fridave's tc helicon voicelive on his webpage, so i inquired with him earlier today about it and have priced them on eBay. they are not inexpensive but can be purchased for a lot less these days than he had to pay for one a year ago. there are several factors wreaking havoc on my singing voice these days, stress, age and volcanic fog (vog) to name a few so i need all the help i can get! |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Another cool thing about this unit is that it doesn't show up late, forget lyrics, drink too much, or want to split paychecks! I'm going to bring it to my gig this weekend. Just what I needed, more stuff to set up and more wires on the floor! :D |
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Location: south east Michigan | Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
Before and after samples please! There is a nice demo at the link. |
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Location: south east Michigan | At 300 bones it's an expensive little toy but who knows? Fathers Day? Birthday? X-mas?
Just last practice Brian & I were wishing we had just one more harmony available.
This is definatly on my radar but a recording interface for the 'puter has to come first. |
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Location: NJ | I had been "looking" at these as well, but never really heard/tried one. I picked a demo DVD of the TC one at NAMM, but that one's a bit pricey & seems like it requires a goodly degree of stooping, twiddling, programming.
This one seems a bit "gig friendlier".
I'll just have to borr. .uh, attend one of John's gigs and hear it firsthand . . . |
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Location: Omaha, NE | One other nifty feature of the VL4 is that if you are playing solo, its actually all the mixer you need. It has dials on top for "voice", "harmony" and "guitar" output levels, so you can mix right there. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Buddy of mine got one a couple months ago. He loves it to death. |
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Location: Los Angeles | I agree with all of the comments above. I have enjoyed using a variety of different harmonizers for both live and studio work. The TC Helicon ones were the most feature packed if I remember correctly.
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http//www.myspace.com/aaront1 |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Originally posted by cliff:
I'll just have to borr. .uh, attend one of John's gigs and hear it firsthand . . . Bring your "ShoeShine" box ....... |
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Location: big island | hey aaron t., i just checked out your myspace page. very fine work, my friend! |
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Location: East Wenatchee, WA | I just sold my Vocalizer VR rack unit. Worked ok, but I sold it to buy one of the newer units so that it will change chords with me. The VR was good for "fattening" up the vocals, but working with the harmony on guitar through key changes was just too much of a pain. |
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Digitech Vocalist Live 2