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March 28, 2009 at 7:50 am #77977freshchopsMember
It’s on my next to try / buy list. Just wanted to see if anyone has tried one yet and what they think?
April 2, 2009 at 9:39 pm #95169Scanman13MemberHi fresh – I just ordered one from Music123 yesterday – hopefully I’ll get it sometime next week and I’ll let you know. I was really impressed with the few youtube videos I saw. I was actually looking at the Holy Stain pedal and then saw the Voice Box and promptly switched gears! I may still get the Holy Stain at some point, but right now that Voice Box is calling me!
April 3, 2009 at 5:43 am #95185freshchopsMemberI’ll probably be right behind you on ordering mine. I’ve been waiting for a pedal like that…. I mean actually a “pedal”. Seems quite cool!
April 4, 2009 at 8:59 pm #95258rocktronicaMemberGot mine earlier this week. Combined with my 2880, it’s a pretty rad little mess of machinery.
April 5, 2009 at 5:04 pm #95309John JMemberHere are my thoughts: The harmonies sound a little creepy in the context of my songs, especially when you start gender bending them. The unison mode is rad and the whistle is surprisingly good, and the vocoder is way more fun than it should be. The octaves sounds pretty cool when you get them mixed way in the background, and you can gender bend them for crazy, trippy stuff. The reverb sounds great, absolutely great. The tracking is spot on in all modes, and my only real complaint is that they set up the presets like the Hazarai delay, where each mode gets one preset. I’d have preferred a preset bank that you can scroll through, like the Holiest Grail or the HOG, so that you could have two different vocoder sounds etc… This way is still fine, though.
I essentially bought it for the vocoder, the reverb and the unison and it doesn’t surprise me that the harmonies don’t fit my music, so I’m extremely satisfied. Overall, it gets a big thumbs up AND it has inspired me to write more ‘harmonic’ songs.
April 6, 2009 at 9:02 am #95335freshchopsMemberQuote:Here are my thoughts: The harmonies sound a little creepy in the context of my songs,Hey John J. (Rambo?), thanks for the critique. I wouldn’t have considered it much for it’s reverb, but that’s nice to know. One ? , what are you using for instrumentation? Strings, Keys? I’m definitely down for one, just gotta take care of some commitments first (sigh)…..
April 7, 2009 at 4:32 am #95395John JMemberGuitar, mostly, although I noticed it worked equally well with keys. I’m a terrible pianist but I can play chords so it worked out. I’m almost embarassed to admit that I tried it with drums, it harmonized about as well as it does when you don’t plug anything into the instrument input jack.
I’m tempted to try it with an alto saxophone, find a singer and give the vocoder a whirl. Another experiment I want to do is drive the vocoder with another vocalist and see how it sounds, has anyone tried this yet?
April 7, 2009 at 4:47 am #95396julianModeratorQuote:Another experiment I want to do is drive the vocoder with another vocalist and see how it sounds, has anyone tried this yet?I don’t have a voice box, but whenever I do, it’s one thing I have thought about doing with it.
April 7, 2009 at 4:42 pm #95413rocktronicaMemberQuote:Quote:Another experiment I want to do is drive the vocoder with another vocalist and see how it sounds, has anyone tried this yet?I don’t have a voice box, but whenever I do, it’s one thing I have thought about doing with it.
I recorded a straight “aahhhhh” vocal loop on my 2880 to run into the Voice Box’s vocoder. You can use the 2880’s tempo control to pitch shift, which led to some awkward, tone-deaf autotune-sounding stuff.
I imagine, though, that if you had two singers singing the same thing into both the instrument and mic on the Box, it would sound the same… or at least it ought to.
April 7, 2009 at 6:08 pm #95417julianModeratorwell it should make the one singer going into the instrument input sound like they’re saying whatever the person singing in the mic is saying
April 8, 2009 at 3:32 pm #95443Scanman13MemberHere’s an update- I received my Voice Box on Monday, went to my studio, hooked everything up and … realized for some strange reason I didn’t have an extra XLR cable lying around. ARRGGHHH! I searched everywhere and had just about every other kind of cable you can have! So here it is Wednesday, I still haven’t picked up a cable and there the VB sits calling to me. I’ll probably pick up a cable tomorrow and spend Friday messing around with it since I’m off.
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