Vocal effect ???

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My wife fronts the band I play in and whenever we play out we usually use the house system and soundman. She has 2 solo acoustic gigs coming up where we are going to be using our own pa. My dilema is effects for her voice. She sings dry when we rehearse but she wants her vocals a little wet
live. The only effect unit I have is the digitech rp2000. Would I be able to use
that for live vocals? We just got done with a new cd so money is kind of
tight and if I can get away with using the rp2000....

I have built in delay in my home recorder so I've never needed to buy a unit before.

jim
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yeah it will work with a PA. just don't overdo it.
 
Jim - I'm in the same situation, when you have some spare cash give the TC Voicelive a look (it's coming down in price now). My wife loves it, it flatters her voice with a bit of compression, chorus etc., and if you programme it carefully she just hits a floor switch and gets harmonies for choruses. It's very dramatic live, great fun :)

http://www.tc-helicon.com/VoiceLive
 
Wow, that is some unit.
How does it compare to the digitech voice processor that is on the market.
 
Well I don't know the digitech unit first hand, but I used to have their GNX3 Guitar Box, and now I use the BNX3 bass multi box for live gigs. It's useful because we often have only the 2 of us, I play bass and use its 8 track recorder to play back backing tracks, I can control it with my feet which is useful, and it has bass synth FX which I can make a big sound with. However although its useful live, It is pretty nasty really, very digital if you know what I mean. I wouldn't dream of using it for recording. (Having said that, there is a song called Writing on the Wall you can hear if you click the link in my sig, that uses the Digitech bass synth).

The TC device is in a totally different league, it has a Burr Brown pre amp and much higher quality AD/DA converters. I suspect it's going to be much kinder to your wife's voice than the Digitech, but it is quite a bit more expensive.
 
I use an EV N/D767 through a Mackie 1202 VLZ Pro Mixer (great Mic Pre), and then in and out of the auxiliary send/returns to and from a $199.00 Lexicon MX200, through vocal channel preset #21. Then out to House PA. Sounds great! and a heck of a lot cheaper than TC Helicons.
 
I own the TC Helicon Vocal Prism Plus. I've used this mainly live. I preprogrammed each one of our songs with the right harmony. At the gig all I would have to do is dial up the preset which would show the name of the song and when it came time for vocal harmony, I would just step on a momentary foot switch. It was pretty easy to use once you got the hang of programming.

This new TC Helicon device sounds really good. Since I play guitar and keyboards, I think I would find it confusing trying to sing, play and press that many foot switches. Maybe with time, one could get to know it well enough.
 
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