Good vocal effects processor?

  • Thread starter Thread starter tadmaz
  • Start date Start date
T

tadmaz

New member
I'm looking for a hardware vocal effects processor that will give me a sound like from bands such as: aqua, toybox, etc. Hopefully you know what I mean. I've heard the effects referred to as voice filters. Like the female voice is pure stereo bliss, and I'm wondering what units can produce this. Would something like a Behringer DSP-1000 do the trick? Thanks for your help.
 
If you want something that is going to sound THAT good, you're gonna have to spend way more than that. Behringer makes an awesome product, I have a lot of their stuff, but it just doesn't have that professional sound to me when you use it for recording, Live, is a whole different story. Maybe I'm just crazy. That's just How I feel.

But, Antares makes a vocal producer, which has pitch correction, doubling, compression, and some other things, but it doesn't have chorus and reverb,
You want Lexicon for stuff like chorus and reverb, etc.. :rolleyes:
 
The Lexicon stuff seems decently priced on ebay. Anyone else recommend Lexicon or others?
 
Lexicon or TC electronic. With these two, even the cheap stuff sounds great.
 
I looked up Lexicon and TC, and the TC's are praised much more than the Lexicon's. Many people say the Lexicon's clip easily, etc. Keep the suggestions coming ;)
 
The lexicon stuff is classic. They practically invented digital reverb and delays. They were there at the beginning. Anything clips when you give it too much signal, lexicon just gives you meters that tell you the truth, not ones calibrated to look like you are feeding it more signal than you are.
 
Kurzweil rumour or mangler have all the effects I will ever use (I have the Rumour) Delay, Chorus, reverb, laserverb, flange , etc
 
Vocal effects

I use the Lexicon MPX 500 with the version 2 upgrade chip and I am utterly amazed at the professionality of this unit.The unit is the cleanest I have ever used and it rocks. I know the Toybox/Aqua sound you want and this unit is the one for you hands down.
 
I use two, the TC Helicon Vocal Prism Plus and Kurzweil KSP8. There isn't anything I can't accomplish with these two units.
I use them live as well in my band. It took me some time to learn the Vocal Prism. I have it programed for every song my band does. It will harmonize with me note for note plus, pitch correction.(not that I need it, LOL)
 
tadmaz said:
The Lexicon stuff seems decently priced on ebay. Anyone else recommend Lexicon or others?
Click to expand...

The Lexicon stuff sounds..................well.............kind'a crappy. They really went downhill over the years. And, yes, I have one.

If you can swing it, get the Kurzweil Rumor. It is fantastik and will stay with you forever. You will not have to upgrade.


But, if you just cannot afford it at all, then the Lexicon MPX200 or above will do you fine. The reverbs are good, but most of the other sounds are funky.
 
That KSP8 that was mentioned looks like the motherload! Is it really worth 2,600 bucks? The Voice Prism is only 1000 dollars but, can the two even be compared?

The MPX550 hasn't got distortion effects acording to the list of effects on the website. They should've put the Rumour and Mangler together in one box but then would it give you the KSP8 at 1600 dollars cheaper? Hmmm.

Chris
 
The Kurzweil KSP8 can be purchased for allot less. Email me and I will let you know where I got mine at a great price.

The TC Helicon Vocal Prism although has effects, they do not compare to the Kurzweil.

All I use the Vocal Prism for is voice doubling and harmony. As I mentioned earlier, you can program a harmony line note by note. You sing the melody, step on the foot switch at the part of the harmony and it sings the harmony parts with you. You can program up to 4 part harmonies. You can select the gender of each harmony as well. The Plus version will allow actual voice modeling. If you want to sound like Joe Cocker or Tiny Tim you can.

So in my signal chain is my Mic plugged into the Vocal Prism then to the KSP8 for multi bus effects then out to a mixer if live or to my multi track recorder.

The TC Vocal Prism also has a great PREAMP as well. Hope that helps.

http://www.tc-helicon.tc/VoicePrismPlus

http://www.kurzweil.org/products.html?Id=278
 
I had a TC Voiceprism for about a month. The harmonies and vocal modeling were fairly cool, but the preamp and compressor settings were about worthless as far as I am concerned. The verbs sounded "decent".

Nowadays you can pick up a second hand Eventide H3000 for under a grand. That would be a cool box to start with.
 
I would agree about the Vocal Prism's compressor and other effects being sub par. However, the Preamp is uncolored and pretty clean.

I also own a Focusrite Voicemaster Pro Platinum. I've A/B'd the two and I can't hear the difference.(that's with all of the options on the Voicemaster turned off)

If you are looking for an outboard box for harmonies, you can't beat the Vocal Prism Pro.

TC Helicon is now shipping their VoiceLive effects box. I don't know that much about it, but here is a link:

http://www.tc-helicon.tc/VoiceLive
 
I was looking for a unit I could snag on ebay for $50. The Lexicon MPX 500 is a bit out of my price range. Would anything come close to the quality of that for a little less $$$? How about the TC m300?
 
There is one on ebay right now at $77, item number: 3743620467
 
chris-from-ky said:
That KSP8 that was mentioned looks like the motherload! Is it really worth 2,600 bucks?
Click to expand...

If you want a great effects processor, and you are very serious about recording, the ksp8 is well worth the price. It's makes most of the effects processors by lexicon and TC at the same price point sound like toys. It is not just a combination of the rumor and mangler. The rumor and mangler are great units, but the ksp8 does a lot more.
 
kurzweil (I've got a mangler that I like a lot) or eventide in my opinion.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top