voice effects

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I was looking for something to put strange effects on my voice both live and in the studio. The only one I could find that seemed viable was the DigiTech Vocal 300. It's cheap and does quite a lot from the description. Is it worth my time and money, or is there a better way to go? (yes, I'm sure I want to use effects on my voice)
 
TC Helicon makes some wonderful vox processors. The Voice One has some outstanding effects as well as usable pitch correction (you can dial in the amount of correction and the attack). Everything from growl to vibrato to teen queen to Darth Vader in there.
 
but is the helicon worth the price difference? Also, what do you think of the Digitech, because it is much much cheaper. Thanks for that suggestion, I'm looking at the Hellicon now.
 
Look for an old Yamaha SPX-90. While it is predominately a reverb, there are some pitch shift and EQ effects which can alter a voice radically. Another option would be a Lexicon MPX-500 or 500.
 
You can pretty much use anything if you can be clever with it.
A local group I know in MN uses tons of guitar effects on Trumpet and Sax.
They use mixers as pre amps and runn the effects after them and into Roland amps which ar plugged directly into the PA. They also plug effects into the send returns of the mixers and use the effects mix controll to fade effects in or out. This can and will be usefull on vocals if you can be experimental and patient enough to try it.

-Blaze
 
How weird are you talking about? I have used a crappy old guitar multi-effect pedal on my voice before, got some tremendously weird results. It probably degraded the signal a little, but when I'm using pitch-shit and distortion on my voice (along with others) clarity and purity of signal is not all that important.
 
just mainly talking about distortion and pitch-shift, I think. So an old guitar pedal would do it too? Would it work nearly as well, or would it be bad?
 
SacredDespair said:
just mainly talking about distortion and pitch-shift, I think. So an old guitar pedal would do it too? Would it work nearly as well, or would it be bad?
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Well, what do you mean by "bad?" I guess when I was weirding up my voice, the loss in quality using a cheap component (boss me-30) was just part of the overall weirdness, and did not bother me. Or, consider it this way: How can you judge the clarity of a signal that's being silmotaneously weirded-up by several processors?

To me, it's like piling two bags of chocolate chips and three cans of pineapple and a can or two of coconut milk on top of a cake. Could you really judge the quality of that cake? That's just MY personal take though, just what I like to do in my studio. But I'm not making money, only fun. :D
 
tc4b said:
How weird are you talking about? I have used a crappy old guitar multi-effect pedal on my voice before, got some tremendously weird results. It probably degraded the signal a little, but when I'm using pitch-shit and distortion on my voice (along with others) clarity and purity of signal is not all that important.
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That would be pitch-SHIFT with an 'F.' Have never used pitch-shit, not intentionally, anyway.
 
Do you or your band mates have a small mixer ,some effects, mic and headphones?

If so try it out, Even big name vocalist use this type of setup when in studio and some on stage(Though they have a dedicated rig for vocal effects).


Oh come on tc4b! Pitch-shiting is fun specialy when the dog drank beer!
Get yer gloves man, this ones a doozy!
:eek:

-Blaze
 
Big Kenny said:
TC Helicon makes some wonderful vox processors. The Voice One has some outstanding effects as well as usable pitch correction (you can dial in the amount of correction and the attack). Everything from growl to vibrato to teen queen to Darth Vader in there.
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I don't see voice one on their site. I have the TC Electric m-one xl. I love it.

I did find an indirect link on google to the voice one. I wonder why they don't list it under products.

http://www.tc-helicon.com/VoiceOne

vone_front_big.jpg
 
out of curiosity, would it be possible to use a Boss Me-50 guitar pedal effectively on your voice, to cover reverb and all for live performance?
 
SacredDespair said:
out of curiosity, would it be possible to use a Boss Me-50 guitar pedal effectively on your voice, to cover reverb and all for live performance?
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Yes, but it wouldn't sound as good as a processor with XLR or balanced connections.
 
would it sound bad enough to justify the price difference? and also, what are your thought on the boss vocal processor? It just almost seems too cheap to be any good to me.
 
I have one of these.
http://www.bossus.com/index.asp?pg=1&tmp=59

Its smaller than it looks on the web. I have not hooked it up yet, So maby someone else can tell you how it sounds. Just another option for some way out sounds. This is a toy compaired to the TC Helicon. Whats with all the purple on voice related devices :rolleyes: .
 
SacredDespair said:
out of curiosity, would it be possible to use a Boss Me-50 guitar pedal effectively on your voice, to cover reverb and all for live performance?
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You could use this somewaht well with a small mixer(Behringer makes one for un $40 I think). You would use the send and return to blend the FX with the vocal chanel. SIMPLE!

-Blaze
 
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