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    TBH2
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    I’m looking at the Voice Box to use on my vocals live. I have a spoken word-style piece that I want to put a vocoder on, but I want to be able to have a delay on the vocoder effect, so that the robot voice comes one or two beats after my voice (!). Is this possible? Does the voice box have a delay function I can use with the vocoder effect? Thanks.

    #109522
    Cryabetes
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    the voicebox doesn’t, but don’t let that stop you from using it live. just get a delay pedal that can do 100%wet to put after it.

    #109540
    TBH2
    Member

    OK, thanks. Could I use a delay effect pedal for a guitar?

    #109542
    Cryabetes
    Participant

    yeep again. you might want to use digital or something without a ton of high-end roll-off though for vocals.

    #109544
    TBH2
    Member

    Great. What would you use/recommend? Thanks for your advice.

    #109545
    Cryabetes
    Participant

    I’m a big fan of using what you’ve got, or what’s available cheap by you. the Digitech RDS units are pretty dang cheap on ebay (i’ve bought two of the RDS 3.6’s for $40 apiece). Older multi-effects racks will have some pretty great delays too (the ART FXR springs to mind).

    as far as pedals, the DOD DFX9, any of the Boss DD series [granted, these are not the cheapest], the Boss RV-2/3 or PS-2/3, the digitech XDD, EHX #1 echo, Johnson Analog Delay (AD-1? can’t remember the model number). it doesn’t need to be feature filled for vocals. just something basic. I included the Johnson in there because it is kind of an analog modeling delay (it is a well made PT3299 pedal, if that means anything to you) and you can control the high roll off, it’s good sounding and it’s like $50 new.

    #109546
    TBH2
    Member

    Perfect. That’s really helpful, thanks very much.

    #109548
    julian
    Moderator

    I think you want a V256 and not a Voice Box. Voice Box requires a separate instrument input to vocode to, will V256 has an internal synthesizer for vocoder effects.

    As for delay, look at the Danelectro PB+J or the Ibanez DE-7. They’re both cheap and have longish delay times.

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