SeriesDigiTech Vocalist

Je ne reviendrais pas sur les spéifications que l'on trouve partout! Je l'utilise pour ma voix deux fonctions principalement: * L'Egalisation, et le compresseur en permanence pour 'arrondir la voix', avec un peu de reverb... * Les choeurs, et là c'est la force de ce pédalier, avec ses 5 banques de choeurs que vous pouvez modifier à votre guise. Je n'utilise pas la partie effet guitare, ni l'accordeur! Par contre; le correcteur de pitch est d'une efficacité redoutable pour travailler de nouveaux morceaux par exemple, quand vous poussez votre voix dans des contrées un peu difficiles pour elle (trop haut ou trop bas :) :) :) ) Bref je ne peut pas me passer du vocalist live 3, et je crois que je vais même en acheter un deuxième en cas de panne!

The DigiTech Vocalist Live 5 is an effects and harmony processor. It is easy to use and I love the big LCD display screen because you can see what preset you are on or what option you are controlling easy because the letters are very big on the screen. The built in pitch correction on this unit is very good, I have not used another unit that had pitch correction that was this clean. Most of the effects are pretty simple and basic like reverb, delay and EQ but they get the job done. UTILIZATION There are 100 presets for your vocals that you can dial up quickly for your live performance. It has a real time built in guitar tuner and the footswitches are not on the same level (meaning one is higher than the other so you do not have to worry about hitting the wrong one while on stage). SOUND QUALITY This unit will follow the chords that you are playing (on guitar) and keep your pitch in the right key while you are singing. It is units like these that probably make so many guitarist and vocalist sound so much better live than they originally would. OVERALL OPINION My favorite feature of this unit is by far the pitch correction. It is so clean and is worth about 300 dollars itself and that is almost the price of this whole unit. Everything else like the presets and effects are just a bonus! My favorite vocal effects on the Vocalist Live 5 are the radio effect and distortion effects. They are very good and sound amazing. You get so many features with this little box, it is well worth every penny that it cost and I would by another one if this one ever stopped working but I don’t think it would stop working because it is built to last a long time and take a lot of foot action!

(Originally written by Jhq/translated from Audiofanzine FR) First post: May 2008 The Digitech Vocalist Live 2 is conceived to create vocal harmonies using a technology based on guitar chord recognition. It has a 10" x 10" aluminum housing with two expression pedals and several controls on the top panel. The rear panel provides different 1/4" jack and XLR inputs for guitar and mic. The unit provides 48 volt phantom power for condenser mics, and also a guitar tuner. UTILIZATION It's very easy to use and effective: - Plug your guitar or your bass (previously tuned otherwise it won't work) as well as the vocal mic; - When you play your instrument, the MusiQ technology recognizes its melodic component and analyzes it; - The vocals are then doubled or tripled and harmonized to the third or the fifth depending on the settings and the chords or notes being played. It's magic! SOUND QUALITY I've been using the Live Vocalist for six months and I just can't get enough. The ease of use and especially the results are addictive. Another important point is that this pedal allows you to become a better singer because it systematically reproduces every pitch inaccuracy, so it forces you to always give your best ;-) The sound quality is good: the harmonized signals are the exact copy of your voice so if you have a nice sounding voice, the harmonization will sound nice, but If you have an unpleasant voice the harmonies will also sound unpleasant... Nature is not fair! If you want to listen to some samples here is a song where the lead vocals are tripled by a Vocalist and then each of those voices is tripled again (unbeatable time/effectiveness ratio): https://fr.audiofanzine.com/compos/titres/index,idproduit,124592.html Here's another sample where you can listen to the harmonization with only one voice! https://fr.audiofanzine.com/compos/titres/index,idproduit,122899.html As you can surely notice I don't have a nice voice, however although the unit doesn't enhance the singer's performance it does help a lot when it comes to the PITCH of the chorus. Update December 2008: I'm still very satisfied with my Live Vocalist and I don't want to change my previous review. However I've discovered its weak points, under particular conditions. When I record only the harmony notes (without the root) and also with some augmented chords, where the third or the fifth are more present than the root, the technology has some problems to choose the right harmonization notes. Take the chorus at the end of the following song as an example where the B minor with augmented fifth is followed by a C add9 (very similar chords) making the generated voices to "trill"! https://fr.audiofanzine.com/compos/titres/index,idproduit,136882.html Incredible but true... :-) OVERALL OPINION For all this reasons I give it the best possible mark because it's a product which really changed my life (like Bob Moog synths or Fender electric bass had done before). I rerecorded all the vocals of my songs with the Live Vocalist and it makes a huge difference! Don't hesitate to listen to them, you can find them here: https://mp3.audiofanzine.com/jhq Update June 2008: I just read on the Digitech website that the rack-mounting Live Vocalist version is now available and is compatible with Midi and keyboards ! http://www.digitech.com/products/Vocalistlivepro/index.php The device is more expensive but provides a lot more functions...