Electro-Harmonix Voice Box Vocal Harmony Machine/Vocoder Pedal

This box works exactly as advertised. When I first got it, I played around with all of the settings, but I have been mainly using the octave setting for the past month. With a minimum of tweaking it produces a very realistic female voice an octave above my voice. Not realistic enough to make it the lead voice, but very convincing behind another voice. The other settings also work well, although since they require a voice and an instrument input, they are a bit more finicky. For instance the vocoder setting is a bit weird with guitar because it cuts in and out as the guitar's volume fluctuates. If you compress the guitar, you get a more traditional vocoder sound. Overall, an amazing piece of equipment.

It doesn't sound like the advertising video.

I was a bit disappointed that you have to play an instrument while using this box to get the harmony. I am not a singer by nature and find it tricky playing guitar while singing. That said, as a songwriter, I am able to produce some demos that have a richer vocal sound and reflect something similar to my intended sound. Quality is good and the pre-sets are very useable. Must say though - the whistle effect ...................WTF???

still dialing it in, but best I can tell, it works great. Harmonized well with some Pink Floyd tunes we were messing with. Some sounds will be more useful than others, but I had some fun with it. I did notice it gets a little confused with suspended, 7th and 9th chords, but for jamming at some bar in town, it'll blow some minds. An unintended effect- try singing along with a guitar solo (you know, like Jimi in Crosstown Traffic)... One guy complained about the manual in a previous post- mine was used, so no manual. There's a pdf of it on the EHX site, and it's like 20 pages...

I bought this originally for the vocoder. I wanted a unique sound. Then I found myself using the amazing harmony settings more and more. This pedal gives me that perfect vocal sound that i'm looking for, and with my switch pedal I can use my piano and make my robot vocoder vocals... This pedal really is great. I just love how it reads the chords you play and it spits out perfect harmonies... If you want your vocals going into an amp that doesnt have an XLR input then you need an adapter. Luckily I had one lying around. The reason why I gave this 4 stars and not 5 is because the price seemed a little steep. I wouldve felt more comfy paying 150. But still. I feel like its worth the money.

I love this little machine. I use it mainly as a vocoder and I can assure you it works like a charm - and for the price of other vocoder devices, its fantastic value for money. Its built like a tank (made in USA - not China). I don't use the harmonization effects that often, but they are on-par with any of the TH Helicon devices (which I also own). Highly recommended.

unfortunately, due to travel i only recently retrieved this product which i purchased used "LIKE NEW". It came with a non-functioning adapter and once powered up is basically not functioning correctly, the vocoder doesn't do anything and the harmonies DON'T change with the instrument chord changes. the unfortunate part is that since it is over 90 days that i ordered this i am basically stuck with a half-working voice box, wish i could give it rave revues were it not for the seller, so to them thanks for nothing and i will make a point of steering clear of such an irresponsible business site.

Excelent