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Sunday, April 06, 2008

Boss VT-1 Voice Transformer Analog Vocoder

"This thing also has a "Robot" setting, which is basically an awesome analog vocoder. Whatever you say will be rendered to whatever note you dial yourself to on the pitch slider, you can go up and down a full octave, starting starting at the bottom at the low C, middle C in the middle and high C at the top. It quantizes it per half-note, so you can change to different notes pretty easily, without having to fine tune or anything. This is the closest thing to a Korg VC-10 I've ever had the chance to use! It make some amazing sounds, way better than a MicroKorg, and way cheaper than a Korg VC-10!

I should also mention that there is a blending slider, so you can get a really nice octave effect on your voice or whatever you run through it, like a Boss OC-3 or Electro Harmonix Octave Multiplexer. The built-in reverb it has is also amazing, combining the reverb and octave effects can make just about anyone's vocals sound great. You could run a sax through it too, I tried that and it sounded great.

This also come with some sort of professional modification, where there is a headset microphone connected to the unit, and also a phone line for a connection to any land line telephone. I didn't realize that others didn't come this way when I got it, but everything works great either way. There is still a 1/4 inch input for a mic or synthesizer, guitar, or whatever, or you can use the headset. I think you can even use both, but I never really tried that. If you don't need these mod on there, I'm sure you could take it off if you opened it up, but I just left both of them on because I didn't want to mess with it. I never tried the phone line thing, but it should work fine. You can trick your friends into thinking you are someone else, or an alien or something crazy. The voice changer on this is so convincing! It's not at all like the voice changer toys you see on Halloween.

You can find more information here at the Boss website"

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