Vocal prosessing questions ?

Hi guys

I am in the market for buying something to help with my vocals for in my home studio and also for live use

I am not a good singer at all but ive always fancyed doing a few gigs and thought this might help a bit.

Idealy I would like a rack mounted unit  and I would put it along side a boss Gt pro that I will be useing in the studio and useing as part of my live rig.

But if not It could be one on the floor I am not botherd eather way I just want something that will do the job for me and I will be happy with. Rack mouting always looks cool though;) It would save on floor space in my home studio as I have very little room lol

I would be hopeing for something that would autotune for me as I sing ?

Be able to change how my voice sounded if I felt the need to have a different sounding voice on a track
Some cool efx harmoneys etc to play with if I wanted...

I dont have a lot of money around £250 if I am lucky at the momment but if need be I will save as I dont know how much we would be talking for something to do any of this and I dont have the first clue what to buy.

I hope you can help me out and guide me in the right direction so I dont buy the wrong thing

I live a good 80+ miles from my nearest music shop so not very easy to go try things out and I dont even think they stalk that kind of thing so I would need to buy off the net so I really dont want to be throwing my money away .

I value the opinion of every one on here and thats how I ended up buying my vs700r and vs 700c and So glad I did :)

Would this link below do what I am looking for ? or is it crap ?

http://www.dv247.com/stud...rection-effects--15194

Thanks again to any one who helps you guys are awesome :)

Norrie

Thanks for the reply I actualy went on a mission today to find a shop in glasgow that had some gear to look at I didnt have a try of anything becasue I didnt have time but I bought a http://www.tc-helicon.com/voiceworks.asp

I havent had a chance to use it yet and dont have the firtst clue how to hook it up to my audio interface vs700 but I shall see if I can work it out tomorow and hope it was worth the money I got it for £250

Norrie

"This popular harmony processor has been used by songwriters, performing musicians, and jingle and movie music creators to put their creative stamp on vocals. VoiceWorks has a full complement of vocal processing tools from microphone preamp to four voices of harmony generation, pitch correction, reverb and tap tempo delay, compression and EQ. There’s even a song mode that allows you to step through a pre-programmed series of steps with the optional Switch3 footswitch."

This is from your own link Norrie!!!

Ah, the next step.  Autotuning drums.  Now you don't have to worry about tuning your kit, Norrie ;-)

I'd just patch it into one of the higher channels i/o and use that as a bus/send in SONAR.
 
(EDIT)  I take that back about a send.  You can use it w/ a mic - and SOS said it was a pretty good preamp.  The impact preamps in my TCK are pretty good, so you might want to use it instead of the vs 700.  And the digital input channel strip is probably better, too.  I didn't really like the vs 700 strip.  Still, unless you want to sing w/ harmony you'll still want it on a bus to autotune your drums (or add harmony post recording).

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The Voiceworks Plus is indeed a bit more versatile and the price on them has recently dropped. I picked one up for $250, new in the box. They are indeed magic for vocals live or in the studio.

You have to spend the time actually singing. Your voice is like any other muscle in your body.... work with it, train it, exercise it and you will see results.

Excellent advice

Yeah and I ment to say I am sorry I wasnt sure that pitch correction was auto tune when I sent that post.....

I am still very very new to recording at home and not with some one behind a desk for me but I am enjoying it so I guess thats what matters most :)


Norrie