Digitech Control 8+

Advantages: easy to use
Disadvantages: none

...The digitech midi vocalist is a nice little piece of kit. It is used for creating vocal harmonies while singing. It can generate up to 4 extra harmonies while you sing. It is very easy to use and the midi control is great. (vocoder mode)You can play a part on a keyboard and when you sing, the keyboard part creates the notes for the harmony. This was the most useful feature of the unit for me. It is a 1U rack mount unit and comes with the rack fittings, and power supply. It has a stereo output which automatically pans the harmonised voices. The microphone can be plugged in the front XLR jack or in the rear with a normal quarter inch jack. I bought the midi vocalist and a small effects unit to emulate ENYA type voices. It’s really good. I would recommend the unit to any vocalist as it “beefs up” your vocal line. The user... Read review

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Advantages: Great little desk top modeler
Disadvantages: needs footswitch for live work !

...be bypassed. WHAT ELSE??? = As I said this is a desktop modeller, so it emulates... tries to copy the sounds of other amplifiers and cabinets.. (Speakers...) The ones that it tries to emulate... and it does very well! Are... 1. Fender twin reverb 2. Matchless DC30 3. Mesa Dual Rectifier 4. Marshall 1978 master volume 5. Fender tweed amp 6. Vox AC30 7. Vintage fuzz. Generic 8. Mesa boogie mark 2 9. High gain tube amp 10. Cross of Mesa dual rectifier, and the Marshall master volume 11. Hot rod and brit stack The Cabinets modelled are 1. DIRECT = no cabinet effects applied 2. America 4x10 3. British 4x12 4. Vintage 4x12 5. Tweed 1x12 6. Green back 4x12 7. British 2x12 8. American 2x12 9. Blonde 2x12 10. DIGITECH Custom one 2x12 11. DIGITECH Custom two 4x12 It goes needless to say. , that these are controlled with front mounted... Read review

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Advantages: Analog overdrive circuitry, vintage overdrive tone, great as a channel booster
Disadvantages: Battery life isn't great

...About two years ago, when I went and bought a new guitar amplifier (Laney TF200-II), I thought "Great, I'm probably going to have enough gain and tone to suit my needs". It did have great tone, but sadly not enough gain for me. So I began to use my Line6 POD2 (a guitar amp modelling preamp) as a booster to get more gain and fill my needs. But this wasn't a great move, the POD over digitized the sound and so just didn't sound right. I began looking for an alternative, and found the Digitech Bad Monkey. After listening to some sound samples I decided that it was a perfect booster for my amp. And it is... What's great about this little green pedal, is the tone that you get from it. It is just like a vintage valve (Tube) amp. It has that warm break-up that you'd expect to hear from a valve driven amp, and none of that over compressed... Read review

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