User manual DIGITECH VOCALISTPERF

[. . . ] Version 1. 1 WARNING FOR YOUR PROTECTION, PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING: Water and Moisture: Appliance should not be used near water (e. g. near a bathtub, washbowl, kitchen sink, laundry tub, in a wet basement, or near a swimming pool, etc). Care should be taken so that objects do not fall and liquids are not spilled into the enclosure through openings. POWER SOURCES: The appliance should be connected to a power supply only of the type described in the operating instructions or as marked on the appliance. [. . . ] 2) Footswitch jack You may connect a standard momentary footswitch for harmony muting only or a DigiTech FS300 footswitch for extra features. The three switches on the FS300 do the following: Switch A - Toggles between the A and B settings you have programmed Switch B - Turns the reverb effect off and on Switch C - Mutes and unmutes the harmonies (Bypass) 3) Output jacks The output of Performer is stereo or mono as desired. Use one or two mono 1/4" cables to connect to your mixer or amplifier. The stereo output consists of: Your voice in the center Stereo reverb with independent left/right decay processing Two harmony voices panned to the left and right when two voices are enabled One harmony voice appearing in the center when only one voice is enabled Inserting a cable into the left output jack only will sum the stereo harmony voices and reverb to mono. When an additional jack is connected to the right output, you will hear the stereo image. If you wanted mono and you accidentally plugged your output cable into the right output, you will hear only the one harmony voice that is panned to that side and not the other. 4) Line input jack If you have connected your microphone to an external mixer, or you will be running a pre-recorded vocal track through Performer, you would insert the cable from the external line-level source here. Inserting a plug into the Line Input jack will override the microphone input. See the Connection diagrams for more details. 5) Microphone input jack Connect a balanced XLR-equipped cable from your microphone to this input. ··· 5 ··· Connections Live performance The graphic below shows the typical connection scheme. Your voice is fed through the microphone directly into Performer where it is harmonized and sent to your mixer/power amp. The output from Performer can be either mono (one cable) or stereo (two cables). Studio or alternate live setup The graphic below shows how you can drive Performer with an effects send from your mixer. This is useful if you want to add equalization to your voice before it is sent to Performer. If your mixer has multiple effects sends, you could have different effects on your voice and the harmony voices. This setup also allows you to add harmonies to a recorded vocal track. A vocal track recorded on a ministudio, reel to reel or digital multitrack can be harmonized as if it was being sung live. ··· 6 ··· Operation Setting the input level Adjust the input level control until only the loudest notes you sing cause the Signal LED to turn orange briefly. The LED shows green when it hears a signal, orange at 3 dB below clipping (distortion) and red when the input signal has clipped. Setting the harmony level You can adjust the Harmony control to find the blend you like when at least one harmony voice is activated. Unlike standard mix controls, Performer's Harmony control has a "smart" volume curve. As you adjust the volume of the harmonies with this control, your voice does not reduce in volume as it would with a standard mix control. Past 1 o'clock of the Harmony control's travel, the volume of your voice is reduced quickly until it becomes zero at the fully right position. This allows you to produce only harmony voices for special effects and alternate mixing arrangements. [. . . ] Perhaps you would like to stay in the same key but change to a higher or lower harmony voice in the bridge of your song. These are the reasons for A/B switching. With A/B switching you can pre-select an alternative harmony sound in each program and switch back and forth using the front panel buttons or, more conveniently, with the optional FS300 footswitch. ··· 9 ··· To create a program with unique settings for the A and B parts, press the Part A button and select settings that will work for the main part of your song. Now press the Part B button and do the same for the alternate harmony. [. . . ]