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Posted by rplmusicman from Thibodaux, Louisiana on Oct 16, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Professional
Reviewer's Play Style: Varitey
The first unit I bought died after about 2 weeks. It just froze. Replacement unit lasted about a year and froze. The latency and the overall quality is terrible. Stay away from this unit.
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This is not studio equipment
Posted by hazyEgg from North Carolina on Mar 13, 2009
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Recording Engineer
Reviewer's Play Style: All
I was excited about the release of the Vocalist Pro like others in the Vocalist support forums. The idea of integrating a harmony processor into my digital studio and triggering this rack using MIDI or guitar was really exciting. The rack is a nice piece of equipment and but it is not studio worthy. They should have just kept this thing a pedal and expanded it to MIDI. I say this because DigiTech offers no visual editor for this thing. You will find after you use it for a while that the presets are pretty bad and you will want to tweak things. They give you plenty of params to tweak but you are gonna be stooping over dialing and pressing buttons only have to go sing into a mic to test it. Trust me and spend your money on a software plugin instead. DigiTech doesn't even seem to care enough to repsond to their own forums about this. Really sucks cause this thing had potential. I get a very solid impression that we all paid for the R&D and they have abandoned us.
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Impressive indeed
Posted by hotfastguitar from San Jose on Jul 10, 2008
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: 30 Years Pro expereince
Reviewer's Play Style: From torchy ballads to neoclassical metal.
This is NOT a magic bullet. If you cannot sing in tune it aint gonna fix that in a convincing way. I am however lucky enough to have good pitch, and am astounded at how well the basic settings right out of the box work. Do the glenn frey part in seven bridges road by the eagles while using patch 43-seven bridges....then slip into the don henley bridge, and lsiten carefully to how well it covers. It aint perfect however. It isnt smart enough to know when a pedal tone is being used as part of the bed so you have to srum the chords or risk the harmony parts slipping all over the place. The patches I find myself using most are actually the simple unisons on patch 7 and 8, and a few of the other presets have me jazzed as well. Bang for the buck cannot be beat. Mic pre sounds very warm compared to my Mackie ONYX 1200F but I record through them both as well as with all four of the outs for individual voice control. I use it with an MAudio Sputnik and through the 1200F directly into the Mac at 48K. The next gen should be even better as the technology matures, but this thing is staying in my rack permanently. I would not hesitate to use it live,
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Absolutely Amazing!
Posted by DJimmyP from So Cal on May 20, 2008
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Active Musician
Reviewer's Play Style: Boomer Rock
It's about time! Digitech has come up with a natural sounding harmony processor that doesn't make you sound like you're hooked up to some kind of synthesizer. Great features like Lexicon reverb/delay, front panel knobs and switches for both melody & harmony voice, footswitch access, stereo harmony/melody XLR outputs and melody dry XLR through output put this unit in a class by itself, especially for it's price. It's easy to set up, easy to program, works with both guitar and midi input and sounds fantastic. There is a little bit of a learning curve vocally as you find out how it tracks your pitch for processing. Solo acts can now have full harmony, bands with few singers can now have full harmony & those of us who aren't blessed with soaring tenor voices can now sing all those harmonies without busting a gut. You could even set the Vocalist Live Pro to output an octave up and sing all those killer melodies an octave low and let the processor soar for you. The possibilities are limitless. You can become Queen, CSN&Y, Journey, The Byrds, The Eagles, The Hollies or whatever group strikes your fancy. You'll be surprised, amazed & then wonder what you ever did before you had one.
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Best with bkgd singer, not lead
Posted by dirtmouthbmk from OCONUS on May 3, 2008
Experience w/product: I own it
Reviewer's Background: Hobbyist
Reviewer's Play Style: Alt Rock/Metal
For best results, use your rhythm guitarist's direct input to provide chord inputs and have a separate backing singer provide the pitch that the Vocalist Live Pro builds the harmony from. If the backing vocals don't harmonize the lead vocal line exactly (for our 80s/90s alt rock/metal setlist this is the case more often than not) then the musIQ logic will attempt to follow along and wind up changing back and forth for every little nuance and imperfection in your lead singer's voice. The result sounds like a choir of bad yodelers with ADHD and is unusable for a live gig
Here's how we achieved our best results: 1) we still have someone else in the band sing backing vox in order to provide a steady pitch for the musIQ logic. 2) Next step is to use an optional foot switch/expression pedal to switch between harmony effects. 3) The last step is to let your dedicated lead vocalist control those pedals that change/mute the harmonies created from the backing singer's voice.
Using this setup we achieved a fantastic harmony vocal sound every bit as convincing as advertised. If you understand these recommendations this unit is worth every penny of the asking price.
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