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  • January 30, 2012 at 6:37 pm #82157
    psychonaut
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    I recently got the voice box, and I haven’t been able to fully utilize it, because I just suck at using it :P

    The way I use it is this:
    I have a guitar amp with a Shure 57 in front of it. The Shure is connected to the input mic slot in the voice box. I have a jack cable that sends signal from my mixer to the inst. input.
    The outputs effect xlr thing goes to one track in my mixer.

    Now, I can hear the signal fairly well, but not very good. And when I use the vocoder mode it feeds back a LOT. Also, is there a way to connect directly to the voice box with a jack cable?

    I really need some help to learn how to use it the best way :)

    January 30, 2012 at 6:58 pm #116876
    Cryabetes
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    you’ll want to use the fx send to connect to the instrument input of your mixer so it isn’t feeding back into itself. Try it with headphones first – get that working – THEN use the amp.

    If you don’t have an fx send, you can do this with the Pan control – pan the signal you want to vocode against to the Left channel, pan the output of the voicebox to the right channel.

    January 30, 2012 at 7:40 pm #116879
    psychonaut
    Member

    Okay, I’ll try this tomorrow :)
    I’m really confused by this box, it’s just cables going everywhere! I love it when it works though :D

    January 30, 2012 at 8:50 pm #116880
    Cryabetes
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    remember, it could always be a lot worse

    server-room-with-salt.jpg

    February 2, 2012 at 9:01 pm #116895
    psychonaut
    Member

    Thanks! It didn’t feed as much now, but it still doesn’t sound good. This is a test done with my guitar:
    http://www.wikiupload.com/FKQDXS7P6EWUTUL

    What am I doing wrong? It’s not supposed to sound like that :P

    February 2, 2012 at 9:53 pm #116896
    julian
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    What exactly are you trying to do? Use it as a guitar effect rather than a voice effect? What’s going through the instrument jacks?

    I think you want one of each of these:

    http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=1/4″+to+xlr+adapter&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=29613l30351l1l30460l8l8l0l0l0l0l135l771l2.5l7l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&biw=1280&bih=905&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=10685479286823391468&sa=X&ei=HgUrT8jXEciqgwfElOGoCg&ved=0CJoBEPICMAA

    http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=1/4″+to+xlr+adapter&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=29613l30351l1l30460l8l8l0l0l0l0l135l771l2.5l7l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&biw=1280&bih=905&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=17444997910996797058&sa=X&ei=HgUrT8jXEciqgwfElOGoCg&ved=0CMABEPMCMAc

    February 3, 2012 at 7:36 am #116902
    psychonaut
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    I have a Shure mic in front of my amp when I record. When I bypass the effects it sounds nice, but the effects make it go bad.
    So I should get one of those and make it go from the output on my amp to the mic in on the voice box? Hopefully that will make it sound a lot better!

    Also, if I use a condensator mic, will I be able to get a vocoder sound from flutes etc, or does it most likely only work on voices?

    February 3, 2012 at 1:25 pm #116905
    Cryabetes
    Participant

    if you use a condensor mic going into an amp in the same room, you will not get flutes/vocoders/etc, you will just get feedback.

    February 3, 2012 at 4:05 pm #116910
    psychonaut
    Member

    Well, I got a control room :)

    February 6, 2012 at 10:13 pm #116925
    psychonaut
    Member

    Any tips on how not to make it feed?

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