Digitech Vocalist 4 Harmony FX Pedal
The new Digitech Vocalist 4 is one of the most exciting products we've been fortunate enough to get our hands on for some time. The vocalist 4 is set to become the mainstay of any guitarist and singer/songwriter's gear for years to come.
Whether you want to practice and improve your singing for fun, record vocals and harmonies on your recordings or use the unit for live performance, the vocalist has it all.
A surprising number of songs “fool” other harmonizers because these songs just don't work with a single key/scale setting. In fact, any song that has the same note sung over two different chords (for example, a C sung in the melody over a C maj / F maj chord sequence) is going to confound conventional harmonizers.
The Digitech Vocalist Live 4 automatically generates live multi-part vocal harmony by analyzing guitar chord progressions.
Digitech Vocalist Live 4 uses breakthrough musIQ technology to directly analyze the output of any electric or pre-amplified acoustic guitar (no special MIDI guitars or hex-outputs needed). Then it generates the correct vocal harmony. For example, if you're singing an A over the chords that are generally found in the key of G, Vocalist will harmonize with a C. But, if you then play an A major, Vocalist will shift to the C#...because like any good harmony singer, it listens to the guitar!
Patent-pending musIQ technology combines new Note Detection algorithms with state-of-the-art Harmony Generation. The Note Detection section analyzes complex guitar waveforms and determines which notes in each chord are critical to accurate harmony. This information is then fed to an advanced harmony engine within the Digitech Vocalist Live 4 that creates harmonies consistent with both the singer's melody and the underlying guitar accompaniment.
This totally new, musically-intelligent hybrid of traditional chordal and scalic harmony modes means that the Digitech Vocalist Live 4's musIQ harmonies stay true to not only the overall key and song scale, but also localized variations due to chords that aren't part of the global key. You've never heard anything like it!
Specification - Digitech Vocalist 4
3- or 4-part vocal harmony with no programming or learning curve — just sing, play and let Vocalist Live 4's groundbreaking MusIQ technology do the rest
Selectable voicing: unison, 3rd, 5th-above or below your lead vocal
Built-in mixer with Vocal, Harmony and Guitar level controls
Pitch correction with four adjustable parameters
Guitar Reverb and Chorus with four adjustable parameters
Vocal enhancement effects matrix lets you adjust up to five parameters of Preamp, Compressor/Gate, EQ, Lead Effects, Harmony, Reverb, Echo Delay and Guitar effects
Store and recall up to 50 User presets; and select from 50 Factory presets
2+10-character LED display
Major/Minor and Key Change Up/Down buttons with LED display
Harmony, Effects and Preset Up/Down pedals
On-board guitar tuner
XLR mic /line input with level adjustment, low-noise high-headroom preamp and 48V phantom power
1/4 guitar input, 1/4 guitar pass-through and Guitar Ground Lift switch
1/4 line input and 1/8 AUX input for CD or MP3 players
1/8 headphone jack
Stereo 1/4 line out and balanced stereo XLR line outs
Stereo/mono output selector
Road-rugged, all-metal chassis
Power supply included
musIQ is a trademark of 3dB Research Ltd.
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This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 20 January, 2008.
