I’m hoping it is out before Christmas, like a few retailers online have listed. I asked for it, since the other stuff I want is wait-listed, and it would be nice to have something to play with over my holiday.

No downer…I’ve come to expect this sort of thing with announcements for amps and pedals. It makes preorders a pain. I guess those other pedals were announced long before the Voice Box, but nonetheless I wish retailers would list the right date or EH could confirm and/or correct them.

Even though I need to hear it, I will probably end up buying it anyway. I listened to samples and watched video of the TC Helicon Harmony and the Digitech Vocalist pedals. I thought they’d be perfect, but when I tried them, they sucked. They had some cool features, but in application, none of the harmonies sounded like authentic voices and what did come out was poorly tracked. Only the doubler and low preset on the Helicon were worth a damn. On chord changes, the Helicon would go back and forth between notes trying to pick the ‘right’ harmony, making everything sound a mess.

The Voice Box may end up having the same problem since it keys off the guitar, but the Voice Box is priced at a point where I don’t care if it will suck as much. If I can just get one or two quirky features out of it, I’ll be happy. On that point, the gender bender knob might be able to cop some of the boss vt-1 sounds, and the vocoder will replace my long missed jp8080. However, I don’t see a stereo out or a feature to double the live vocal anywhere on it, so I wouldn’t be able to use the pedal as often as I might like without those two features.

Rick, Thanks…that is reassuring. So, when DO we get our hands on it? I hope you guys were able to record some of those excellent singers using it and could post those as demos???please?

Ned, if it works as the Helicon Harmony and Digitech Vocalist, you plug your guitar and mic both into the pedal. The pedal keys off your guitar notes to generate a harmony and but it doesn’t send any of the harmony output until you are singing, so it activates only when you are singing. This works much like a vocoder, except with a vocoder you can sing tonelessly, but with a harmony feature, you need to be able to sing on key as well.