I’ve watch about 22 demos. This young man’s is the best! Thank you. You are the only guy who did what we need: you took it out, hooked it up, and ran through the effects! Lol. Thank you!! This would work well live!
This is actually a really great pedal. I use it live mostly to double voice, triple voice, add a major 3rd above and it’s helpful for building up a chorus in a solo context. There’s so many features, so I appreciate this review (which is funny), but think the pedal is more dope than portrayed.
I'm thinking of buying one (even tho it first came out like 10 years ago) just for the reverbs and adding some subtle harmonies to my vocals... plus you can predetermine the key, meaning you don't have to run a guitar or keyboard through it for it to detect the correct key of a song (making it great for horn players too). The TC Helicon Harmony Singe 2 is a great little harmonizer, but unfortunately you have to run a guitar or a keyboard through it for it to auto detect the right key
Failed to mention that it you can tweak and improve on all 30 of the presets, and save 50 custom sounds to the pedal. They may not sound very good at default settings, but after some playing around, the effects can be greatly improved, and even combined.
heads up. you dont have to confirm the setting when you are switching sounds. when you start your perfromance just press and hold right pedal so the profile is blinking. then switch to the desired sound but dont press and hold for 2 seconds to confirm it. just let it go, that way you can change back with a quick press of the left pedal again for a fast switch.
I would agree to this, but wouldn't this mean you effectively lose the ability to enable harmonies, looping and etc until you change it back from preset selection mode?
Have been using this since 2012... no servicing, no repair, great stuff.. still going strong in 2024... Technology a bit outdated but still gets the job done
FYI if you leave the pedal in the "scroll" move, you can scroll through the presets without holding down the pedal. plus there are presets which i was hoping you would go through. for my first vocal processor i think it's decent for the price. probably not the last one i'll own.
So I've got the VoiceLive2 and Digitech Vocal 300. Both are unusable with a large PA system, they just caused so much feed back, no matter what the message boards said to adjust. Has anyone tried this with a full band in a venue with a large PA. Like the size of a bar or bigger.
@@tjschwartz42 - They're all a mess unless you're performing in a coffee house / restaurant entertainment type setting plugged into a Fender 'Passport' type PA, which, honestly, is what the designers had in mind as the most common use for these kinds of pedals.
I sing and play guitar in a surf-punk, garage-rock band and I'd like to get that Julian Casablancas "telephone effect". I do like the "hip-hop" and "harmonica" presets since they have that lo-fi, rough, vintage vibe. What do you think would work best (considering some adjustments i.e. adding some enhancing and reverb)? Last but not least, our songs are pretty much fast and I happen to sing a lot of words in some very few seconds. Thank you ☺️
I play guitar, sing, and sax etc. This seems like a really good pedal, especially for the sax. I used to have an MXR vocalizer decades ago, and I loved how you could set presets with four footswitches and pick your harmonies (for example, one footswitch is tuned for a 3rd above, and another a 5th above, then an octave (up or down) and even a seventh. You can imagine that the harmonies were not so great back then, but it still turned me into a horn section. So, for a horn player, the presets of reverb, delay, and the loop would offer lots of possibilities. I also sing backup and I use the same mic for vocals. It seems that I can get a preset to go back and forth and I sure can use pitch correction here! The only thing is the key. I thought that this unit accepts 1/4" guitar cords and reacts to guitar chords (I enjoyed just writing this). I need to research this. And . . . might it accept MIDI for program changes and chord recognition? And, there is one . . . I find it kinda hard to play guitar and sax at the same time so I'm wondering if I can wire this effects processor to the keyboardist in the band. Then, it could get chord changes from the piano while I'm playing sax. hmmmmm wonder.
This is a very useful pedal. I don't understand how somebody who claims to be a successful performer, who can afford to employ backing vocalists, is worried about spending 250 dollars on this pedal. Some of the harmony pre-sets sound a little robotic, it is true, but there are enough that sound really good to offer an array of choice. The mike sensitivity feature is fantastic and has made some of my old cheap mikes usable again. I would say don't be easily put off because there is much merit in this box.
I've got this pedal and found that it works best when you create your own layered effects and tweak them. You can tweak individual effects in a surprising amount of ways, but yeah stock out the box, it's not a magical piece of hardware. Good video!
Have you found a good pedal that auto-adjusts for gain, corrects for pitch, doesn't sound completely synthetic or robotic, simple layout, and just allows to add some harmony or chorus to certain parts of the song? So far, the closest thing I've found and seen live and in action was the TC Helicon Harmony Singer 2....but the price is ridiculous imo. Curious to hear what other people have stumbled upon. For reference, I'm a solo acoustic artist, a fairly decent singer that stays in pitch/key in my opinion, but looking for something that can just brighten up the vocals, equalize things good, and adds an extra "oomph" to certain parts of my songs. Thanks in advance for your input.
Great video demonstration and cool voice ! You said that you can use the harmony pedal like a controller of a secondary effect: please tell me how to do this !! For a live perfomance it can be essential !
🤣🤣 I haven't stopped laughing since you said, "Just get a real singer!" I agree with everything you said. You did a fantastic job demonstrating the device's abilities. Thanks for your help & humor!
This was both funny and honest, thank you! You’ve helped rule out one consideration - now onto further research. I think I will check out TC Electronic’s offerings next!
So what do you recommend for some rock music and live performances, I’m looking for some pitch correction in case, and some harmony to back up our bass guitarist for back vocals.
7:39 Good demo, very useful, and funny at times -- a plus...but if i were a musician, or thought I was a musician, I would never imply that a sound might not be useful. Just like a painter tries to create an effect or emotion with colors, so too would a musician use different sounds. You never know when a certain sound might come in handy. If I were a musician, I'd say "hmm, that's interesting" to an unusual sound. Then I'd either let it inspire me to create something around it, or I would remember it and pull it out to use it later at an appropriate time to create a particular effect or emotion for the listener to feel.
I use this for recording background vocals. You can split the outputs in wet / dry, so you can record dry vocals and harmonies on separate tracks and mix them in your daw. Huge timesaver, and the harmonies actually sound more natural than the TC Helicon stuff imho - you just need to dial them a little back to sit well. Also having phantom power in a pedal is great for small gigs without PA, as you can bring a handheld condenser. + you have the gimmick effects as a side bonus for quick on-the-fly ideas. I got mine used for 50 bux..
Dude! Thanx for saving me $300! Funny I started watching your demo for a specific educational Purpose....then once you started singing...I was completely entertained! Thank you! I wish you were my neighbor! Keep up the good work my dude!
Thank you so much. This is extremally helpful...Actually I do not need any of the presented fancy efects. I would need some reverb, delay and compresion for small garden concentrs to add some nice reverb and delay to the vocal. I would appreciate if someone could recommend something.
VE-2 only does harmonies and has very limited reverb\delay options, Boss VE-20 is a much more robust, feature rich pedal. Wasn't quite what I was looking for though
"prophets song" and "the one i love"... nice.... i used to have this thing but you are right... in most cases you dont need most of the stuff, especially in a punk/hardcore band.... the added lower octave sounded nice... but as you say... is it worth the price?...
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I’ve watch about 22 demos. This young man’s is the best! Thank you. You are the only guy who did what we need: you took it out, hooked it up, and ran through the effects! Lol. Thank you!! This would work well live!
Best pedal demonstration I’ve ever watched 😂😂
Actually, yes. There are so many demos that are filled with Cringey middle-aged people screeching.
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So good 😂
Braaaaaahhh! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I love how much you go all-in for the vocal demos! Cheers for the review :)
This is actually a really great pedal. I use it live mostly to double voice, triple voice, add a major 3rd above and it’s helpful for building up a chorus in a solo context. There’s so many features, so I appreciate this review (which is funny), but think the pedal is more dope than portrayed.
I'm thinking of buying one (even tho it first came out like 10 years ago) just for the reverbs and adding some subtle harmonies to my vocals... plus you can predetermine the key, meaning you don't have to run a guitar or keyboard through it for it to detect the correct key of a song (making it great for horn players too). The TC Helicon Harmony Singe 2 is a great little harmonizer, but unfortunately you have to run a guitar or a keyboard through it for it to auto detect the right key
"harmonyyyy doesn't sound that real to me!" I'm flying!
Failed to mention that it you can tweak and improve on all 30 of the presets, and save 50 custom sounds to the pedal. They may not sound very good at default settings, but after some playing around, the effects can be greatly improved, and even combined.
Yeah his demo was a laugh but he's failed to grasp how useful this pedal is I think
Also that all musicians don’t use it with their feet so it’s really not a problem to Use it with your hands :)
heads up. you dont have to confirm the setting when you are switching sounds. when you start your perfromance just press and hold right pedal so the profile is blinking. then switch to the desired sound but dont press and hold for 2 seconds to confirm it. just let it go, that way you can change back with a quick press of the left pedal again for a fast switch.
I would agree to this, but wouldn't this mean you effectively lose the ability to enable harmonies, looping and etc until you change it back from preset selection mode?
Have been using this since 2012... no servicing, no repair, great stuff.. still going strong in 2024...
Technology a bit outdated but still gets the job done
FYI if you leave the pedal in the "scroll" move, you can scroll through the presets without holding down the pedal. plus there are presets which i was hoping you would go through. for my first vocal processor i think it's decent for the price. probably not the last one i'll own.
ya some of them were more of the same. I think I skipped some of the harmony presets
I've seen about 20 reviews/ demonstrations of the vocal ve-20 now and yours is by far the best! Lol keep up the good work.
thanks man.. so after 20 reviews do you think you're going to get it?
same here
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So I've got the VoiceLive2 and Digitech Vocal 300. Both are unusable with a large PA system, they just caused so much feed back, no matter what the message boards said to adjust. Has anyone tried this with a full band in a venue with a large PA. Like the size of a bar or bigger.
@@tjschwartz42 - They're all a mess unless you're performing in a coffee house / restaurant entertainment type setting plugged into a Fender 'Passport' type PA, which, honestly, is what the designers had in mind as the most common use for these kinds of pedals.
This is just one person's opinion I think the best thing to do is to go to the music store and ask to try it out just got one and it's very good
Best demo video ever! Man, you’re funny and say useful stuff! Props! 💪🏼
I sing and play guitar in a surf-punk, garage-rock band and I'd like to get that Julian Casablancas "telephone effect". I do like the "hip-hop" and "harmonica" presets since they have that lo-fi, rough, vintage vibe. What do you think would work best (considering some adjustments i.e. adding some enhancing and reverb)? Last but not least, our songs are pretty much fast and I happen to sing a lot of words in some very few seconds. Thank you ☺️
SOLD!! Thanks a lot for this demo. Right on spot 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Thanks for your honesty, you just confirmemed what I thought of it.
Thanks for the most useful/helpful review I’ve seen on this, cheers dude
oh well thanks man i appreciate that
Thanks. I have the same Event monitors. They rock!
You said you wouldn't be good at your review but I suddenly found myself listening to each of your examples and becoming impressed. 😃
I play guitar, sing, and sax etc. This seems like a really good pedal, especially for the sax. I used to have an MXR vocalizer decades ago, and I loved how you could set presets with four footswitches and pick your harmonies (for example, one footswitch is tuned for a 3rd above, and another a 5th above, then an octave (up or down) and even a seventh. You can imagine that the harmonies were not so great back then, but it still turned me into a horn section. So, for a horn player, the presets of reverb, delay, and the loop would offer lots of possibilities. I also sing backup and I use the same mic for vocals. It seems that I can get a preset to go back and forth and I sure can use pitch correction here! The only thing is the key. I thought that this unit accepts 1/4" guitar cords and reacts to guitar chords (I enjoyed just writing this). I need to research this. And . . . might it accept MIDI for program changes and chord recognition? And, there is one . . . I find it kinda hard to play guitar and sax at the same time so I'm wondering if I can wire this effects processor to the keyboardist in the band. Then, it could get chord changes from the piano while I'm playing sax. hmmmmm wonder.
This is a very useful pedal. I don't understand how somebody who claims to be a successful performer, who can afford to employ backing vocalists, is worried about spending 250 dollars on this pedal. Some of the harmony pre-sets sound a little robotic, it is true, but there are enough that sound really good to offer an array of choice. The mike sensitivity feature is fantastic and has made some of my old cheap mikes usable again. I would say don't be easily put off because there is much merit in this box.
Fabulous review. Thank you. 👌🏽
I've got this pedal and found that it works best when you create your own layered effects and tweak them. You can tweak individual effects in a surprising amount of ways, but yeah stock out the box, it's not a magical piece of hardware. Good video!
How to edit? Does it allow for choosing scales? I want to use autotune but want to use chromatic and major/minor scales
Dude! The Intergalactic part was perfect.
Very useful review and great dvd collection on your shelf too. This director's series is awesome🔥
i wish they had kept up with that series, i've watched those DVD's hundreds of times
Great review! Tnx
Damn, bro, you really got going good with the harmony demonstrations.
I appreciate the neutral and honest review. Thank you.
twas my pleasure
@@DancingwithGhostscan this machine be used for Podcasts
Thank you for not wasting our time. Greatly appreciate it.
I liked it a lot how honest you are. Refreshing :-)
Forget the pedal, he rocks!!!
Thanks. Excellent rundown. Appreciated. Gary
good review Josh
Have you found a good pedal that auto-adjusts for gain, corrects for pitch, doesn't sound completely synthetic or robotic, simple layout, and just allows to add some harmony or chorus to certain parts of the song?
So far, the closest thing I've found and seen live and in action was the TC Helicon Harmony Singer 2....but the price is ridiculous imo.
Curious to hear what other people have stumbled upon. For reference, I'm a solo acoustic artist, a fairly decent singer that stays in pitch/key in my opinion, but looking for something that can just brighten up the vocals, equalize things good, and adds an extra "oomph" to certain parts of my songs.
Thanks in advance for your input.
I LOVE the "apology look" while singing wrong words LOLOL
Brown note squad checking in!!!
Great video demonstration and cool voice ! You said that you can use the harmony pedal like a controller of a secondary effect: please tell me how to do this !! For a live perfomance it can be essential !
This was both educating and entertaining. Great vid!
this made me smile...thanks dude
🤣🤣 I haven't stopped laughing since you said, "Just get a real singer!" I agree with everything you said. You did a fantastic job demonstrating the device's abilities. Thanks for your help & humor!
This was both funny and honest, thank you! You’ve helped rule out one consideration - now onto further research. I think I will check out TC Electronic’s offerings next!
THE readOPTION I went with the TC Helicon Voicelive Play, and I love it!
thanks for the valuable review...and love your voice, great job.
thank you :)
BEST DEMO EVER!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Dude, this was awesome, I learned a lot and laughed my ass off, you got a new subscriber!
HAHAHA! THE BIG SHOW!!!!!!! Dying!
Just got this pedal. Thanks for the great and entertaining demo. \m/
thanks dude
Great demo! Especially the pitch correction. How did you not laugh?
So what do you recommend for some rock music and live performances, I’m looking for some pitch correction in case, and some harmony to back up our bass guitarist for back vocals.
TC Helicon Voice Touch 2 is what I use for my shows
From Brazil. You are the best !
Mine will be arriving today. I record at home and don't use any computer software so I needed this. Plus, I'll use it some at my church.
Sick review my dude! Love the robot setting .xD
thanks dude
You’re bang on with your final comments. 🎉🎉🎉😊
Top notch infotainment brah!
This is very helpful review.thanks
hello. are you using dynamic mic or condenser?
Nice demo and review, thanks.
7:39 Good demo, very useful, and funny at times -- a plus...but if i were a musician, or thought I was a musician, I would never imply that a sound might not be useful. Just like a painter tries to create an effect or emotion with colors, so too would a musician use different sounds. You never know when a certain sound might come in handy. If I were a musician, I'd say "hmm, that's interesting" to an unusual sound. Then I'd either let it inspire me to create something around it, or I would remember it and pull it out to use it later at an appropriate time to create a particular effect or emotion for the listener to feel.
This was VERY helpful. Thank you so much for your honest review. Please continue doing these
Lmfaooo he started singing big show
This really helped with my decision making, thanks for the helpful video :)
thanks :)
Excellent Demo great job
I use this for recording background vocals. You can split the outputs in wet / dry, so you can record dry vocals and harmonies on separate tracks and mix them in your daw. Huge timesaver, and the harmonies actually sound more natural than the TC Helicon stuff imho - you just need to dial them a little back to sit well. Also having phantom power in a pedal is great for small gigs without PA, as you can bring a handheld condenser. + you have the gimmick effects as a side bonus for quick on-the-fly ideas. I got mine used for 50 bux..
Great review, thanks!
YESSS I LOVE THIS THANK YOU
"truh-maul-o" lmao
Slavve Williams I’ll take one trumalo pls
That was pretty funny
You got a thumbs up for your rendition of "Faithfully". Nice. haha!
Dying at your composition "harmony doesn't seem that real to me"!!!!! OMG, that's awesome.
Demo needed to be put into context if , well, maybe music?
The best review ever!!!! You are ROCK!
Nice demo! Hey... can you hook this up to a karoke system? Thanks!
Shopping this pedal, and this is by far the best review for it . . . And possibly for anything ever
that was awesome. good vid
Perfect review 👌
I put the pedal on a shelf next to my drum kit below my mixer. Presets for each song.
What are those monitors you have there my dad had a set in his studio before he passed would love to find a set. Many an album mixed on those.
It was Cher for me... 😆 Awesome review dude!!
Great sound 👍🏼 is your camera connected to the Boos?? or to the speakers ??? It’s sounds so clear
After watching several, this is the video that convinced me to go ahead and buy this product.
I am using ve20 for many many years and i an very happy about it.
Great Cher cover 7:10 , thanks for review!
“Vocal harmony, doesn’t sound that real to me” is going to be stuck in my head all day
I was just wondering what voice processor to get for my daughter. this demo itself has made me decide. LOL.. great demo to much man..hehhe
demo starts at 3:20
Glad you picked beasties for the rap hip hop demo 💎
Dude, I came here for a review but got a great laugh. I subscribed for that reason alone
Thanks for the review!!!
Great honest review. I guess we need to get a backup singer after all LOL :) That harmony part you did made me laugh so hard!!
Dude! Thanx for saving me $300!
Funny I started watching your demo for a specific educational Purpose....then once you started singing...I was completely entertained! Thank you! I wish you were my neighbor! Keep up the good work my dude!
haha thanks man! im glad so many people found this stupid video entertaining
I think I’ve been on the fence about this pedal for about 3 years.
Thank you so much. This is extremally helpful...Actually I do not need any of the presented fancy efects. I would need some reverb, delay and compresion for small garden concentrs to add some nice reverb and delay to the vocal. I would appreciate if someone could recommend something.
LOL the harmony demo cracked me up!
Yes, excellent review😃
Thanx.
came for a review stayed for the comedy lol but also great honest review man thanks
can you acess the presets with the pedal easy? or do you have to stop and switch it to the one you want?
It was answered from the demonstrator, thanks
Love the presets presentation. Didn’t care with the pedal anymore now.
Totally with ya dude. Great demo
Shout out to the 90's and Scatman John👌👍
I have this pedal and am very happy with it, but all of his criticisms are very fair.
Great review and demo. and nice summary of the back of the unit. Quick to the point and concise. Excellent
what's the difference between the Boss VE-2 Vocal Harmonist vers Boss VE-20 - Vocal Perfomer
VE-2 only does harmonies and has very limited reverb\delay options, Boss VE-20 is a much more robust, feature rich pedal. Wasn't quite what I was looking for though
Thankyou so much bro👍🏼
Do you think i can do what the vboss20 does with sp404mk2 and tc helicon perform ve plus zedi 10fx?
Excellent review
I got this pedal, is very Good, 60 fx delays , reverb harmony, Pitch correct ...And nice price...very good video ¡¡¡
"prophets song" and "the one i love"... nice.... i used to have this thing but you are right... in most cases you dont need most of the stuff, especially in a punk/hardcore band.... the added lower octave sounded nice... but as you say... is it worth the price?...