Boss VE-20 Vocal Effects Processor

Comments about Boss VE-20 Vocal Effects Processor:

I received my VE-20 from Guitar Center two days ago and all I can say is WOW!!! The presets are great but once you get into the programming you can do what a number of my studio FX do on the road in a compact pedal configuration. The harmonies are top notch and no guitar or keyboard is required like many of the comparable TC Electronic pedals. I did a simple recording that sounded like I'd spent a lot of hours on. Crystal clear with little to no noise. I love the phrase looper..infinite layering of voices or instruments or both...the coffee house musicians dream (backup singers with the tap of a button). I haven't tapped all of the capabilities but it's amazed thus far. It's rugged, metal chassis will provide years of road use. It's straightforward--use the book when you want to program. Highly recommended.

Comments about Boss VE-20 Vocal Effects Processor:

I love this pedal, I had the Electo harmonix (orange) vocal pedal, and there's no comparison. I recommend this pedal to anyone whose looking for a variety of effects that you can tweak and customize.

Comments about Boss VE-20 Vocal Effects Processor:

I received my Boss VE-20 about two weeks ago, and WOW... I owned the Digitech Vocalist Live 2 and it was O.K., then an EH Harmony Machine and it had better harmonies however, I still ran into the same problem, the guitar (or other instruments) had to run through it also to give the best harmony for each particular chord and neither seemed to track well with the changes resulting in less than desirable harmonies.....the Boss does not require an instrument to create lush harmonies with fully adjustable parameters, including, but not limited to, the key that your singing/playing in.....made all the difference !! Summary: Incredible 1,2,3 part harmonies, double and multi-voice effect, distortion, robot and radio voice effect, studio quality delay, reverb, chorus, flange...tone correct in Maj/Min key or Chromatic with soft to hard correct mode... and my personal favorite...you can swap your settings around so that they are right next to each other or any order you wish and the pedal can be set to bypass or can be set to scroll up and down to change your saved settings without bending down to change them manually, which is great for live performances. Also the display is fully programable to personalize your setting names. I have not even used the loop feature yet, witch can be used to loop and layer your vocal harmonies.....One of the best effect pedals I have ever owned. FANTASTIC PEDAL, BOSS...YOU'VE DONE IT AGAIN.

Comments about Boss VE-20 Vocal Effects Processor:

While a nice unit Boss has short cut the true user friendly ability to make this unit truly outstanding, the presets should be able to be altered and stored they are not and the user functions are extremely limited as a active player for playing live this unit is very limited. Sounds are good but the user if a live band are extremely limited! If just for a recording studio good unit for live performance look elsewhere! Digitech perhaps I have a Live 5 much more user friendly and able to use at live gigs easily!

Comments about Boss VE-20 Vocal Effects Processor:

I'm not the greatest singer, but good enough to perform live and record. The VE puts me in the pocket with the band. Get your own sound, no more sharing the reverb or delay settings with the rest of the band, seriously. The Ve is real easy to use, the harmony's and pitch correction can be set to the key your using maj/min scales, you don't get that crazy vocal pitch bend if your not spot on with the note. A drummer can now do harmony's too. The presets are standard for live shows and can be tweaked and saved to a user setting. Harmony volumes can be adjusted as wells your preamp, distortion, delay, reverb, pitch correction, dynamics, output volume, mix out stereo, mono or dry/mono ect. The electric, robot, strobe vocal effects are fun to use. I use the loop phrase for sound checks... I have Tc Helicon as well,the boss VE 20 is like having the TC Voice Create, TC Harmony GT and TC Voice Doubling. I give TC the edge on compression and adaptive eq over the VE, the TC also comes with the a/c adapter where as Boss continues its tradition by making its customers run it on batteries or pay the additional cost for one. But because the VE has more effects to choose from, in my opinion the overall value, especially the VE harmony's without using guitars chords like the Helicon makes Boss a better option for your dollars.

Comments about Boss VE-20 Vocal Effects Processor:

Exactly what I was looking for! Easy to use and fills out my sound the way I was hoping for. It's got tons of effects, most of which I will never use, but they are there if/when I need them. I'm still playing with this, but I already found the basic settings I am looking for. The addition of harmonies is a big plus too. It would be great if you could change effects using your foot, but you change it with a dial knob. The left pedal turns the effect on and off. The right pedal adds the harmonies. Again, that is the simplicity I was looking for. There are lots of other tools with this processor that I will delve into at a later time. But for now I couldn't be more happy. Well, maybe if they included a power adapter so I don't have to run on batteries.

Comments about Boss VE-20 Vocal Effects Processor:

Very good product! THe only cons I see is that you can?t change the effects through the pedals, only through the manual button, which is a hand control. Despite of that, it?s the best vocal processor I?ve tried on. The sounds are huge, high quality and you can record any sound if you want.

Comments about Boss VE-20 Vocal Effects Processor:

Easy to figure out. I was looping tracks with 3 part harmony within 30 minutes of opening the box! My friend, who sings in a church choir, borrowed it the next day and hasn't returned it yet. It made a huge difference and sounded great..... They don't make it clear from description that you need to get power adaptor separately. Get the one specifically for this (made by Boss). Even though the zillion other adaptors I had fit perfectly, none of them worked. When running on just battery, you don't have a ton of time. Great product. Makes you sound great and easy to use. Fun. I still haven't played with all the bells & whistles.

Comments about Boss VE-20 Vocal Effects Processor:

This is a great product. My wife and I sing together . I have her mic running through the VE-20, add harmonies or double. Depending on what we want in the song. I add a lower part and together we have a full vocal band.

Comments about Boss VE-20 Vocal Effects Processor:

This unit has a lot of functionally that can seem overwhelming at first but within an hour or two I had it pretty well figured out and I absolutely love it. I use it at home to practice my solos on my electric guitar but it works well with my electric/acoustic too. I love the ability to save songs and it really allows me to play/practice whenever I have them time, no need to coordinate with anyone else or pack up everything to go play for an hour and pack again to come home. This little box is more fun and has helped my playing more than anything else since I started playing 25 years ago.

Comments about Boss VE-20 Vocal Effects Processor:

Wanted a subtle harmony and doubling. I just wasn't happy with the sound.

Comments about Boss VE-20 Vocal Effects Processor:

We are a Duo (Vocals & Keyboard). I have to place the unit on my keyboard so that I can change the key on the harmonizer by hand. The reason is that I need to change the Key on the harmonizer to match the key we are performing in for each song. Had to rewrite my program in the keyboard to know what key to place the harmonizer in. If they would make a unit that you could change the key and turn on & off the harmonizer with the foot switch, that would be ideal.. I do love the sound and quality of the harmonizer. Now that I have worked with it on several jobs it has become very easy and quick to go from one song to another. Had to give it some time before I gave my review.

Comments about Boss VE-20 Vocal Effects Processor:

sounds great

Comments about Boss VE-20 Vocal Effects Processor:

Very pleased with this harmonizer. Adds so much to the sound quality.

Comments about Boss VE-20 Vocal Effects Processor:

Nice unit for $.

Comments about Boss VE-20 Vocal Effects Processor:

Easy to learn and use. There are lots of YouTube videos that gives gives demonstrations for a wide variety of settings.

Comments about Boss VE-20 Vocal Effects Processor:

Great pedal. easy to use and great features. Really helps in a live setting with only 1 or 2 singers.