All user reviews for the Boss VE-20 Vocal Performer

Those who think this piece of shit sounds good:

Were either advised by as a shop assistant with a witty eloquence.
Or they love unconvincing things that deform everything and, especially, have a more awful voice than the one that comes out of this crap.

I've owned it for 2 years. I used it for 4 concerts, 10 rehearsals and then added it to my collection of electronic crap that makes me vomit.

Did I try other products? A very short reverb, a beta58, a gate and, especially, a good sound engineer who makes sure my voice comes out like it should. When I showed him with great excitement my new acquisition, he just laughed in my face...But he did try it out. He's still laughing. The bastard!

What I like best: The look on the shop assistant when I asked for my money back two hours after buying it. He wouldn't do it! Yeah sure! He had it on demo for months. People stood in line to try it out and laugh. But he got me when I was drunk.
I do like its color. You can glue a flashing light to it and it would be a hit at fire department parties.

What I like the least: It produces feedback. It isn't natural! Metallic, artificial vocals. I heard a guy proudly singing with this crap. He added a third to his voice. If you closed your eyes you'd think a guy was burping a third! It's surely okay for a punk or satanic band.

It's really not good. If you need backing vocals while you sing, get people who can sing, it's better.

I used it for guitar and got some funny results.

It's really very expensive for what it's worth. ...

Those who say this pedal is worthless don't know what they're talking about:

- Either they didn't read the manual
- Or they don't know how to sing.

Yes, because you need to, at least, know how to sing to use it and you can modify all the effects with the controls.

It's quite intuitive and, in case you have any problems, the manual is very clear.


USE

Sounds can be easily edited, everything runs smoothly.

The built-in Loop pedal could've been a bit more elaborated, but with only two pedals it's obvious that you'll be somewhat limited by the functionalities sometimes.

In fact, live, it's hard to play with harmonies and, at the same time, trigger a loop because you need to push the Loop button with your hand.

But that's anecdotal.


SOUND QUALITY

Very good quality.

It sounds really good, even if some harmonies sound a bit metallic in the high end.

Live, it's a real plus.

OVERALL OPINION

I've been using it for two years, in the studio to record quick takes and, live with an entire band or with a duo. It's good and beautiful.

Sturdy box.

40 factory and 80 user programs. Each program allows yo to daisy-chain several effects: Dynamic, Pitch Correct, Tone or Special Effect, double/harmony, Delay, Reverb.

One or several effects can be set on or off engaging the pedal on the right.

The looper effect seems all right, but I can't tell you any advantages about it because I don't use it much.

XLR connector, with the possibility to supply 48V to a mic.

It works on batteries or with a PSU. Go with the PSU, it's better

What I really hate is that you can't save any settings. If it breaks down, you'd better have all written down on paper...

USE

You need to get used to it. There's nothing worse than setting off the looper in the middle of a gig. But once you've spent several hours fine-tuning the settings, there's not much to do.

To browse the menus and settings you use the wheel and two buttons, plus the display (one line, 20 characters). It's pretty annoying.

Personally, I prepare each song on the box, with volume, EQ and, eventually, effects. The same goes for the reverb....which varies with the song. That way, a live performance is more homogeneous, be it a ballad or a more upbeat song, the level of the vocals is always perfectly adjusted in relation to the rest.

SOUND QUALITY

There's not much to say regarding the quality of the sound. I'd say it's very clear.

The pitch correct ought to be used sparingly, unless you want to achieve the "young-modern-singer" effect.

The flanger is not deep enough for my taste. When you use this effect it's often to make everything a bit muddier.

OVERALL OPINION

I've been using it for two years live and for rehearsals. Right now, it has become indispensable, up to the point that I've considered buying a second one as backup (this kind of gear usually breaks down right before a gig).

The biggest drawback for me is the impossibility to edit on a PC and to make backups. Other than that, it's truly impeccable.

NOT BAD EFFECTS OF AVAILABLE BUT MUCH THAT SERVE NO BIG THING .. THIS IS A GREAT LITTLE MACHINE IS NOT REQUIRING ..

UTILIZATION

CONFIGURATION IS VERY SIMPLE AND MANUAL WELL CLEAR SOUNDS ARE EASILY EDITABLE AND AFTER SOME hack ON A CORRECT SOMETHING THAT WE KNOW SAUVEGARGER .. THE PROBLEM IS THAT FOR LIVE AND INSTANT CHANGE IS NAZE ...

SOUND QUALITY

THE EFFECTS ARE FAIRLY REALISTIC ... A SMALL FLAT FOR THESE 2-3-4 PRESET MULTIPLE VOICE AND I PASS. I AM SO MUCH MORE ELECTRO VOICE I HAVE A LITTLE WRONG WITH THIS TYPE OF MACHINE. IF AT THE TIME OF PURCHASE I HAD A LITTLE SCRATCH THE FORUMS WILL BE I DO NOT MAKE THIS CHOICE.

OVERALL OPINION

I USED THE LAST YEAR AROUND ... ITS EASY TO USE IS A PLUS .. FOR PERFORMANCE ON WILL LEAVE TO LESS. FOR THIS PRICE ON THERE CERTAINLY BETTER. IN WHAT CONCERNS ME I WILL DO MORE THIS CHOICE.

Characteristics have summers detailed extensively I did not linger.

UTILIZATION

In terms of use, nothing is really complicated for use of repetition. But on stage it is far from clear.
If you are interested in using the loop on stage, go your way, there is nothing to see. Since it is impossible to delete a single layer of sound, it means no erreurs.Alors when COMMIT is the 5th or 6th an error occurs on stage, it fucks wrong!
More certain effects radio / hip hop / jazz + others I have not tried very quickly generate feedback.

SOUND QUALITY

After using pretty intense few months I have come to this conclusion. If there are pedals that do one effect for the same price, there is a reason. The multi-effect is nice and lets see what have wants but the sound quality is not at the rendezvous, most sounds a bit cheap.

OVERALL OPINION

I used more or less 5 months and I have to sell it ...
I'll probably go to TC and when finances permit me, I will buy a loop station worthy of the name.

The Boss VE-20 Vocal Effects Processor makes some really good harmonies that you can use with your lead vocals in real time. That’s why the VE-20 is a great processor to have for live use. You can also loop and record with the Phrase Looper options, you can also do that in real time as well or you can do it while recording in a studio but you only get around 30 seconds of record time to loop.


UTILIZATION

The Boss VE-20 has some powerful effects like, robot, strobe, chorus, reverb, electric and a few more. All of them have a great sound to them and will add some much needed life to your vocals. I have used this unit in a studio before but I feel like it's more designed for live use. You won’t find another Vocal Effects Processor like this one unless you spend at least 400 dollars. The Boss VE-20 only cost a little over 200 but for everything you get with it and its on-stage ability makes it almost priceless.


SOUND QUALITY

The VE-20 has onboard phantom power in case you are using a condenser microphone. All of the pitch correction and effects are in real time. My favorite vocal effects are harmony and the delay.

OVERALL OPINION

They are really colorful and clean. If you don’t want to use a preset you don’t have to , there are editing controls on the VE-20 that will let you create your own effects but it won't come quick or easy. It will take some time to get used to creating your own stuff and you will probably want to watch some tutorials and read the manual before you begin with that process. The manual will tell you everything you need to know, it is well written and easy to understand and comprehend. If you are a live vocalist then this unit is something you must buy right away.

lots of cool effects, especially the harmonies.
This is a very good pedal for its price.
It is well with exploding. I have spent hours.
Today I intend to buy a bigger stroke more opportunities (RC-50)

That said, here are the limits:

Loop a little short (45s.) and inability to erase anything. If after 10 loopées instrumental layers, the musician makes a mistake, we must start all over again or listen to the error and again each time.

UTILIZATION

double-click to stop the loop is not very practical. it tends to stop the loop by mistake, and must start over.

SOUND QUALITY

a failure has occurred, phase inversions appear and disappear as input, so I removed all my basses. By pushing the gain and the level of the instrument that fits in your pedal, the signal returns to normal. But it's still very disabling and unusable on stage. Conclusion: pedal that is not "foolproof", which is a shame.

OVERALL OPINION

2 years and I bought it used in very good condition.

good product on paper, but proves to be complex used as the factory presets are not that great

UTILIZATION

not simply for live and too many choices one ever uses

SOUND QUALITY

I personally find the bad dubbing compare to gxt helicon home that is used with the soundtrack there's a chasm quality level

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for two months and I board not hang I sing with an h1 and a gxt in any two of helicon and deamde this is if we will not keep the same h1 bcp is less complete because in the end even with a lower price I'm not happy, for it is against my personal opinion because according as it is used it can be interresting on fairly recent styles of music like rap or r'n'b

All effects of multiple processors voice come together in this "Twin" pedal.
Of Reverb, Echo, Harmonies, Robots, megaphone, through Tune In, must be difficult not to find a suitable sound. Bonus: an easy to use Looper (a bit short in time, but like all, one should add a stereo Jamman later if utility), no need to triple pedal switch.
So, of course, wish to live editable via a very readable screen, each preset is working to his liking and is memorable. It lacks the! USB but there are
of left and right XLR outputs with a single, a mixed input (XLR / jack 6.35) for a given power often, a headphone / line stereo 6.35, and an important point, a switch that is often lacking among competitors.
No MIDI. This effect is really for singers and can do without an instrument, digital, it gives good sound.

UTILIZATION

Presets to edit and modify a very simple way. The manual is very clear and not essential. As already mentioned the editing is very easy by the selector menu button and a scroll wheel, more generally, the reverb is adjusted by its own button.

SOUND QUALITY

At first when using the Presets as, you're scared, but once the edition and the parameters are refined approach to realism on stage right.
Mics already and all of a workstation or an orchestra.
Like all speech processors or other instruments, there are effects that do not use or just for fun, if not, they are all good after an adjustment. I note it well compared to its price and a good approach for beginners in which processors do not want to take a long head.

OVERALL OPINION

More than two years and he has seen, but he shows great strength.
Yes, I have a wide range of speech processors, before and after, TCH, Digitech, EHX.

The least: it is not in the high end so we can check the product of TCH, but it is less "metal" as Voice Live Play, pretty amazing. In the price range, it does not come close harmonies of G XT, but it covers many other effects for the singer.
What I like are the little extras like the switch, the Looper manageable with the "Twins" that does not require the addition of a triple Foot Switch for example, the price for singers with tight budgets and the wide range of effects it offers. It is therefore what is asked, this is an excellent choice over simplicity / refund / prize so safe choice, a Swiss Army knife that can take you anywhere.

Having had this pedal test, during the final two weeks:
low-quality reverb, harmonizer fairly editable ultimately very décevant.Un gadget lover, not a multi purpose singer.
Rather look to the home voiceplay tc for about the same price reverbs are far more pros even if they are not editable.

UTILIZATION

ok

SOUND QUALITY

there is really the downside, it's just a toy.

OVERALL OPINION

proper value for money, but the subject is not more expensive, both to acquire the tc VoiceLive play where there reverbs sound pro.

The BOSS EV-20 is a pedal designed for voice.
It is equipped with an input combo jack / XLR and two XLR outputs, the latter being adjustable in "Dry" Convenient to avoid feedback.
effects are:
Reverb, Delay, Distortion, and radio, Gater, Flanger, double.
It can also make harmonies that can replace some vocals and also has a looper to 38 seconds.
The whole is preceded by a compressor and a low cut ...

For the rest: look at the site of BOSS.

It is metal and very solid.

UTILIZATION

The VE-20 is very intuitive, very easy to adjust: 3 shots in 2 wheel and push, you have a good presets you!
Also in case of hardship, you still have the manual that is well detailed.

SOUND QUALITY

The effects are very well done and good for stop adjustable qualité.Les harmonies when it was not obvious except on a set of simple pieces (style 4 chords)
The effects in general are very good (thank you specialist Boss pedal)

OVERALL OPINION

Most:
_the sound (quality effects, outings etc ...)
_the output "dry"
_the right pedal has adjustable wish
_the strength

the -:
_No yet found

I had the TC Electronic Voice Tone Correct Voice tone and create: it always falls down and the two together is less chance that the BOSS.

I would do the selection without any problems!

Paper is fine, it's been anything but coffee .....
Prémpli, phantom power supply, SFX ... All in a rugged ....
Missing is an input jack and the format would be perfect ..

UTILIZATION

I bought it right out in the product boss, saying "this is what I need"
Simple, if we pleased with the presets ... The problem is that the preset are very cartoon and ultimately we must go all sounds a series of characters ...
The advantage is that it can adjust its settings without sound engineer

SOUND QUALITY

Well I am not convinced, pitch correct, is a joke, the effects from a few are very synthetic.
I dare not use AC on scene for fear of being mistaken for a karaoke singer so we fall into caricature.
Nicks vocals, ca not bother to linger, unless you go 1 / 2 day with such additional vote, the result is rather 80 years, he had the votes in the disco.
Moreover, even the demos on the official website or on youtube are not convincing, usually this kind, the opposite ...

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for a year and a half and I do not use more than one Faier lo-fi (Perset radio) and for an extra reverb on percussion (also looper on percussion).
All is cold and synthetic .... Rather buy a good micro because it will be a better investment.
I hesitate often to resell but ca is always left or right as it falls into a bar and there is no infrastruture, at least there is a reverb

Speech processor includes a section called "dynamic" (preamp + compressor + enhancer + equalo)
A section effect: flanger, chorus, strobe effect robot
a section delay
a section reverb
A section pitch corrector that Octaver fai and "gender"
a section harmonizer
Easy to use 30 factory presets 50 user presets
looper function (this is the bonus ..)

Input connector jack or XLR
2 XLR outputs (L and R)
an output jack stereo line out ...
A power supply boss ...

UTILIZATION

French and the manual is easy to use
editing its settings is not simple but super chiadés is essential ...


SOUND QUALITY

I was amazed by the effectiveness of this pedal ...
The preamp compressor is good and gives a nice fullness to the voice ..
reverb and delay did nothing but transcendental do their job
most is the harmonizing effects comprehensive and fully configurable ... tone is selected, the number of votes against, the third of the sixth straight over the bottom and hop it was the Eagles who just sing with us ...

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 2 days ... It was easy to understand the operation and pay me to vote for my benefits onions guitar / vocals ...
I had a behringer + virtualize a voice processor rack, it was a bag node set, the effects were "bad" short I never used it I sold ..
there is small, compact, easy to use live as a small multi guitar effects ..
I personally use it only for lives on the preset sounds with harmonies Predefined .. (My problem is that I sing but my voice just has no interest, no exceptional timbre, not harmony, in short a voice church choir ... By adding harmonics and see in unison or the third, see Pichant slightly worse my voice well it adds a lot of stuff that I have not been delivered to home with my vocal cords ...

Pedal specially designed for singing and other vocal applications including various effects sections as mentioned in the previous avi. I do not linger too much on these details. A compact processor very full, especially for that format.

UTILIZATION

Usage is very simple. After a few minutes of fiddling around the different sections of effects, we already know well edited sound. I would not say that it is instinctive, so the manual is still worthwhile.
The pedals operate as follows:
- Left: pressing it normally has the function to enable / disable the bypass. Pressing more than 2 seconds, switches phrase looper, which can record loops and to overlay (if you chose the recording mode "Performer")
- Right: by pressing it normally enables / disables the function of harmony (or other (s) effect (s) (s) selected in "harmony pedal") Press more than 2 seconds, it switches to " live where you can navigate through the different sounds pre-edited or edited using the left pedal (his previous) and right (his next). To return to normal mode, just press the pedal more than 2 seconds again.

SOUND QUALITY

For use as I do, the effects are more than sufficient. One can easily reproduce the effects guys like the megaphone for example. Regarding the delay and reverb, they are not exceptional but are largely sufficient for the voice application. After all, they are just ambient effects that create the illusion of a certain space.
Well, for my part I was able to realize the sounds that two weeks after receiving the EV-20 (my microphone was stuck in the rehearsal room ...) but that does not stop me from tweaking a bit the device would do to get familiar with its use.
Once, for fun there is the "pitch corrector. Electric set, we reproduce the famous auto-tune or vocoder (call it what you want, I used to make fun of Rai and distract my drummer when he recorded).

OVERALL OPINION

I did not really used again but when I went on a sound system with my poor mic behringer (strongly beta 58!), The sound was already very good!
I am a rapper in a group of "hip-hop" (people do not like the word "rap" visibly) fusion (punk, funk, jazz, metal etc. ...) and I use that gives this device, it suits me perfectly. I try to maximize the effects to vary the sounds on each song while maintaining a rap. I even use the flanger effect on any of our compounds rather oriented jungle / drum 'n' bass. In addition to the guitar using it as a flanger well pronounced, given the atmosphere is just great!
The only downside that I could give the EV-20 is that following the use made of it on stage, it is difficult to move a lot and give lots of stage presence. I do, although I have not yet used on stage. I may remain too static compared to before. But I'll work around the problem without difficulty in finding another solution. After all, the goal of live is not to reach the same result as in the studio.
With no experience in this type of device (just heard, never tried) I checked on some products equivalent. I mostly make my choices about my needs and ease of use.
For value for money, I can only say that release € 200 in one shot is often a sore wallet but after testing this product, I do not regret my purchase in any way. I had absolutely a way to enrich my voice to give even more fish in the chorus in particular.
To sum it all, this product suits me perfectly. I highly recommend it to anyone who cares for a minimal budget.

EDIT:
After several months of use, I'm still happy with my purchase but a little less because the sound quality and use live. I plan to go to the TC Helicon Voicelive 2 to remedy all that.