User manual DIGITECH VOCALIST II

[. . . ] ONLY USE ATTACHMENTS/ACCESSORIES SPECIFIED bY THE MANUFACTURER. UNPLUG THIS APPARATUS DURING LIGHTNING STORMS OR WHEN UNUSED FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME. Do not defeat the safety purpose of the polarized or grounding-type plug. A polarized plug has two blades with one wider than the other. [. . . ] When this button is lit and harmonies are active, the Vocalist Live 4 determines the proper key based on the guitar chords being played. When this button is not lit, active harmonies are produced in the key shown in the Key Display (selected with the Key Up/Down and Major/Minor buttons). Key Display, Key Up/Down Buttons, and Major/Minor Button When the musIQ button is not lit, you can select the key in which harmonies will be produced. Use the Key Up/Down buttons to select a key (C - B), and press the Major/Minor button to cycle through major and minor modes for the selected key. Effects Footswitch This footswitch turns some or all effects in a preset on or off. While effects can be turned on or off and adjusted individually within a preset, the EFFECTS footswitch activates or deactivates some or all of them simultaneously. When the LED above the EFFECTS footswitch is illuminated, the effects are on. When the LED is turned off, the effects are turned off. Note that when the Vocalist Live 4 ships from the factory, the EFFECTS footswitch is configured to turn ALL effects (Preamp, Comp/Gate, EQ, Pitch Correction, Lead Effects, Reverberation, Delay, Guitar Mix) on or off, but you can select which effects are turned on or off via the FX Footswitch Control setting in the Utility parameters. For example, you can configure the EFFECTS footswitch to turn all effects on or off, or all effects except distortion, or all effects except reverb. See the Utility Parameters menu on page 23 for more information. Harmony Footswitch This footswitch turns the harmonies on or off. While multiple harmonies can be selected within a preset, the HARMONY footswitch activates or deactivates any selected harmonies simultaneously. When the LED above the HARMONY footswitch is illuminated, the harmonies are on. The de-esser is controlled by the De-Esser parameter, and band limiting is controlled by the Resonance and Band Center parameters. In order to turn the preamp row off, you need to set Type to Pre Bypass, Deesser to 0, and Band Resonance to 0. Type 1 pre BYPASS 2 PRE TUBE Bypasses the preamp model (turns it off). Selects a tube preamp model, which provides mild distortion to give your vocals more warmth. Selects a preamp with heavy distortion and low susceptibility to feedback. Range: 0-99 Increasing this value applies more gain reduction to sibilant sounds. Range: 0-99 Controls the narrowness of the selected audio frequency band (see Band Center, below). All frequencies outside the band are attenuated while all frequencies inside the band have no attenuation. There is no band limiting applied when this parameter is set to 0. As this parameter is turned up, the band becomes narrower, and the effect of the band limiting becomes more prominent. Controls the location of the audio frequency band center, where XXXX is the band center in Hz. [. . . ] Models a studio vocal channel using the tube amp, compressor and EQ to create a sound that will sweeten any vocal. Demonstrates major-scale pitch correction that can make even the most vocally-challenged singers sound good. Set the key and scale in the pitch correction row to match your song (this preset is set to A Maj). The faster you set the rate, the harder it will be to sing off key! [. . . ]