[Harp-L] re: Digitech vx400/rp400- improves a sound system

[randysinger <randy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

These units act like a conditioner for your hair, motor oil or air 
(trying to be descriptive, bear with me).

It does the following to improve the sound.

1) gives you control over the volume, without asking a soundman, by 
having a footpedal to control this.

2) the eq boosts or cuts certain frequencies which cause the harmonica 
to feedback or sound honky.

3) the mic modeling dramatically warms the sound and gives it presence.

4) the preamp add a nice flavor

5) the selective use of reverb or delay or chorus, or flange, etc, can 
give the harmonica a texture
the puts the harmonica in front of the mix and blends better with the 
song

6) the distortion presets, tho not as good as an amp, make bringing an 
amp an option, not a neccesity.

7) the set up time is five minutes for this unit.  Excellent for those 
subway/taxi ride to gigs or just the sit in gigs. The setup is so easy. 
No amp to bring or complicated boxes to set up.

8) you can change all the sounds with the footswitch. Scroll through 
all your presets.

I am sure there are other uses but these are a few off the top of my 
harp head.

randy



On Dec 12, 2004, at 1:09 PM, M. Erickson wrote:

> Randy,
> What is it about the vx400 that makes vocals sound better? Is it the
> compression? The EQ? Some sort of mic emulation? Rob Paparozzi 
> mentioned
> he gets stand-out vocals from the vx400, too.
> Mick
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of randysinger
> > Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 9:59 AM
> > To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx; RichBeau@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: Randy Singer
> > Subject: [Harp-L] Digitech vx400/rp400- improves a sound system
> >
> >
> > hi rich,
> >
> > i did another gig with a crappy pa system.............
> >
> > this digitech 400 had my mic (i set up a vocal preset) that
> > had all the
> > other vocalists wondering why my mic sounded totally better than
> > everyone else.
> >
> > and the harp sounded like a million dollars.
> >
> > Rob Paparozzi emailed me that he had the same experience last week.
> >
> > randy
> > -----
> > From: "Rich Beaubien" <RichBeau@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: RE: Subject: [Harp-L] Re: RP200, 300, etc, versus Harp
> > 	Commander
> >
> > I've kind of rejected this unit but I may be mistaken. This
> > little item
> > may
> > actually be the good choice. It's definitely affordable at
> > $200 which is cheaper than the Harp Commander at $240 and it
> > does way more.
> >
> > --Rich
> >
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