Best cheap/natural-sounding hardware vocal FX processors
Hey, guys!
I've got a concert event *possibly* planned for my church that we'll be putting on in June.It's really a full-scale concert with 10-or-so pieces from group ranging from classical flute quartet to gospel choir to full-on concert wind band.
We're planning to build a portable sound system from the ground up, more or less, using a Mackie 8-channel mixer as the main mixer module, my PreSonus Firepod (offline, as a way to add more inputs), plus a plethora of microphones and a pair of PA speakers (those logistics as far as micing and things will get sorted out, as we just began tossing the idea around two days ago and aren't even settled on a program yet).
And so, what we're looking for, naturally enough, is a decently-realistic sounding, low-cost reverb processor.
I thought first about running it all into Garageband, for instance, and then the mixing guy can steer the sound system on an iPad remotely, but there's no way I'll get a Mac fast enough to do that JUST for that day (and my Macbook certainly can't handle the number of inputs AND effects per-channel that we're trying to do), and it'd have to be tested weeks beforehand. Not to mention the dangers of latency and whatnot, so we're not doing that. I have also a BOSS BR-532 that works pretty darned well as an external FX processor, but it's TOUGH to dial in ideal settings for avoiding clipping vs. still getting a high enough output level, so that almost seems like an idea to be avoided.
Basic EQing can generally be handled on the Mackie. This is our first time out, so I'm not expecting people to be looking for an absolute perfect 'sound image' right off the bat.
Definitely looking for recommendations regarding this set up too!
Thanks!
Mics: MXL 990, MXL R80, 2 x MXL Tempo XLRs, Cobalt Co9, SM48, iSK Starlight
Cans: Hifiman HE4XX, AKG M220
Gear: Cakewalk BBL - PreSonus Firepod - Alesis Elevate 3 - Axiom 49
DAW: Win10, AMD FX-8300, 16GB DDR3