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marionsong « almost perfect »
Published on 12/21/11 at 18:22
Value For Money :
Excellent
Needless to all details.
All effects are editable and of excellent quality.
Complete connectivity.
UTILIZATION
Once we understand the architecture of the beast, everything becomes easier.
It takes a few hours of testing to get used to it.
The manual is always there when in doubt ... (Pdf to print évidemment.GRRR It is still a paper manual?) A little knowledge of how does a delay, reverb etc ... not be useful to save time but again, there's the manual to fill gaps, and even if you do not know, your ears will tell you well what happens (headphones recommended at this stage). Oh, and videos on the site builder also is very useful to boot.
Obviously, there's a lot of programming work ahead, especially when you really want to use all the capabilities of the machine but it really depends on how it is used. In any case, everything is thought that, once done, then everything is very fluid live.
In addition, with the backup in the voice support, we can easily do his concert after concert sets to stick to the playlist ... or not!
SOUND QUALITY
The quality of effects is impeccable. Almost anything is possible and if that does not ring, is that I gourée in my settings!
I use it as a duet with Ableton Live for the electro varying effects depending on the cut with a condenser microphone Neumann KMS 105 (Yeah, with a pedal of this quality, I saw myself not to impose my old shure!; -))
If you want to get an idea of sound reproduction, go here: www.mixxys.com
I believe that I use almost everything that is possible in terms of effects:
- Compress (40%) and equal (40%)
- Various reverbs
- Delay varied
- Flanger, chorus etc. (category UMOD)
- Distortion (beware of Feedback in the treble with this) autotune etc ... (Group FX)
- Dubbing
- Harmonies (or outright played note by note, or harmonically controlled by agreements with the keyboard or programmed at the start of a tone and a given interval)
I tried to use the looper, but for what I do, it lacks the possibility of sync with ableton (I know of no reliable loop pedal can do it anyway). But apart from this problem which makes almost unusable for me is a little looper classic, unpretentious.
If I quibble, I could regret not to use multiple effects (distortion + autotune for example) but it lacks a quickly forgotten as there are other opportunities to toy.
OVERALL OPINION
I use it for 6 months. This is my first experience with effects pedal for voice. I hesitated with the version "touch" cheaper but full editing capabilities of the VL2 attracted me more. Looking back, I would do the same choice without hesitation. This pedal is like moving from piano to synthesizer: anything is possible and creative voice is multiplied to the point to think not to do too much!
In the end, the investment is fully justified and I think this is a good price / quality ratio.
All effects are editable and of excellent quality.
Complete connectivity.
UTILIZATION
Once we understand the architecture of the beast, everything becomes easier.
It takes a few hours of testing to get used to it.
The manual is always there when in doubt ... (Pdf to print évidemment.GRRR It is still a paper manual?) A little knowledge of how does a delay, reverb etc ... not be useful to save time but again, there's the manual to fill gaps, and even if you do not know, your ears will tell you well what happens (headphones recommended at this stage). Oh, and videos on the site builder also is very useful to boot.
Obviously, there's a lot of programming work ahead, especially when you really want to use all the capabilities of the machine but it really depends on how it is used. In any case, everything is thought that, once done, then everything is very fluid live.
In addition, with the backup in the voice support, we can easily do his concert after concert sets to stick to the playlist ... or not!
SOUND QUALITY
The quality of effects is impeccable. Almost anything is possible and if that does not ring, is that I gourée in my settings!
I use it as a duet with Ableton Live for the electro varying effects depending on the cut with a condenser microphone Neumann KMS 105 (Yeah, with a pedal of this quality, I saw myself not to impose my old shure!; -))
If you want to get an idea of sound reproduction, go here: www.mixxys.com
I believe that I use almost everything that is possible in terms of effects:
- Compress (40%) and equal (40%)
- Various reverbs
- Delay varied
- Flanger, chorus etc. (category UMOD)
- Distortion (beware of Feedback in the treble with this) autotune etc ... (Group FX)
- Dubbing
- Harmonies (or outright played note by note, or harmonically controlled by agreements with the keyboard or programmed at the start of a tone and a given interval)
I tried to use the looper, but for what I do, it lacks the possibility of sync with ableton (I know of no reliable loop pedal can do it anyway). But apart from this problem which makes almost unusable for me is a little looper classic, unpretentious.
If I quibble, I could regret not to use multiple effects (distortion + autotune for example) but it lacks a quickly forgotten as there are other opportunities to toy.
OVERALL OPINION
I use it for 6 months. This is my first experience with effects pedal for voice. I hesitated with the version "touch" cheaper but full editing capabilities of the VL2 attracted me more. Looking back, I would do the same choice without hesitation. This pedal is like moving from piano to synthesizer: anything is possible and creative voice is multiplied to the point to think not to do too much!
In the end, the investment is fully justified and I think this is a good price / quality ratio.