Digitech vocalist live 2

[pcollin]

Has anyone had any experience with this? Will it work with a saxaphone? We have a sax player and were thinking that a harmonizer like this could really beef up his sound and give the band the sound of a brass section. For $300 it sounds tempting if it will work.

 

[Stumbo]

Check out the manual: ftp://ftp.digitech.com/pub/PDFs/Manuals/Vocalist_LIVE2/VL2Manual_v1.pdf
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Here are some rules for the harmonizer.

1. Close harmonies. Prevents that "sampled" sound
2. No more than 3 part harmonies. Gets muddy. Besides, how many (for me) tenor saxes can you have at one time and still be clean?
3. Custom scale/interval set-up are great because you can play solos as though you are a big band horn section! (I used it on tunes like Caldonia.)
4. Clip-on, close field mics work best in this situation. You don't want to harmonize the band noise.
5. Use a noise gate!!
6. MIDI foot pedals for quick changes. My setup for each bank of 5/key when in a blues band: I/IV/V/Thick (5 ms delay w/feedback and reverb/standard sound). The "Thick" sound is the one I mentioned in the Delay section.