Best of all, the VE-20 is incredibly easy to use. There’s no need for programming, and you don’t need to input notes from a keyboard as you do with a Vocoder — simply sing and let the VE-20 do the rest! In the Box The VE-20 is a lot of fun, sounds pretty good and will be easy to use onstage once you've set up all your patches, if you don't mind bending down and selecting them between songs. The VE-20 Vocal Performer boasts an array of impressive features, but the ones that users will likely get the most mileage out of are the following: Layered Vocals

Sing, record, loop, and overdub with the onboard Phrase Looper, inherited from BOSS’s popular RE-20XL Loop Station. You get 38 seconds of mono record time to loop and layer phrases, and you can do it all in real time onstage. From doo-wop to human-beatbox, this tool will wow audiences! Special FX TC Helicon’s Play is a handy vocal effects processor that provides a slew of pro-grade effects, chief among them being the natural-sounding harmonies, which some users consider superior to those generated by the VE-20. It is also compatible with guitars, undoubtedly an attractive extra for instrumentalist singer-songwriters.To this end, editing is dead easy, with perhaps the two most crucial parameters instantly available - one being the previously mentioned reverb level and the other being the key for the harmonies, which is accessed by a single press of the right cursor - the rotary knob choosing a key other than the default C major setting. Suppose you’re looking for a reliable multi-purpose vocal effects processor that can deftly accommodate all of your creative needs without a lot of technical to-dos. In that case, you can’t do much better than the Boss VE-20 Vocal Performer. Who says stompboxes are just for guitarists? The new, easy-to-use VE-20 has been designed from the ground up for singers, featuring some of the finest vocal-effects technology on the market. Inside this rugged stompbox is every effect you'll ever need. From tasteful reverbs, delays and harmonies, to brutal distortions, voice changers and other special effects, the VE-20 can carry your voice from the subtle to the extreme.

Let’s be clear—Boss’s VE-20 Vocal Performer is not a toy. It’s a sophisticated piece of technology intended to expand solo vocalists’ sonic repertoire in a performance setting. If you’re just looking for a way to add fun effects to pre-recorded audio at home, there are all sorts of free programs and plugins that you can play with on the internet. While the harmonies are an important part of the VE-20, BOSS has also put in plenty of vocal effects should you want to sound like a robot, Cher, or even a tinny radio. The good people at Boss, who have been one of the foremost suppliers of quality audio effects equipment since the early 70s, know a thing or two about what consumers want. With products like the VE-20, they’re only continuing to strengthen their grip on the market. The VE-20 also includes a pair of novelty pitch correction effects, “Electric” and “Robot,” which let users transform themselves into overproduced pop idols or droning automatons with the touch of a button. Special EffectsAll of these sound pretty good for what they are. While most vocalists probably won’t spend much time with the kookier settings, you may find it useful to have them on hand if you aim to capture your listeners’ attention with unusual sounds. Social Proof