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Does anybody know of a good inexpensive vocal delay unit? I don't want to spend all the money for a multi-effects unit when I'm not going to use anything else on it. Any suggestions?
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How are you planning to use it?
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Originally Posted by LWatford How are you planning to use it? We're just going to use it for live performances for the most part, because a slight delay seems to add a more natural sound to a live sound. That's just us though...others may have differing opinions. We may use it for a recording or something just for an additional effect in one of our songs, but we'll see. Hopefully that told you what you were wanting to know. If not, I'd be more than willing to try again.
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So in an effects send at the mixer?
I'd look into an old Roland SDE-1000. Has a good set of features, pretty straight delay with a modulation section. You can get tap tempo via the "Playmate" jack on the back. If you just want something to do a simple delay, it would ba a good choice.
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Some people just use a guitar delay pedal for their vocals. Just use an adaptor to go from XLR to 1/4". Of course, it's not gonna be as versatile as something at the board, but I figured I'd throw the option out.
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for guitar i really love my dd20 but it might be cool if you got a dl4 because it can sample better than the dd20. that would allow you to have multiple vocals going a la howie day or something. as well as doing more over the top delays for spacey songs. but i'm a tweaky-spacey-radioheady guy.
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Thank all of you for the suggestions! I will check those out.
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guitar delays will probably get you higher quality for less money than rack effects. You could get an impedance matching mic to 1/4" adapter to connect to the input, then run it through a direct box to the board. There's tons of other options depeding on the type of mixer you're using. Using a 1/4" output from the board to the pedal, then another patch cable back to a seperate dedicated channel (or 2 for stereo) might work well