Hi,
Had an external vocalizer in the past and sold it.
VH2 offers everything ( even much more ! ) one needs.🐸
Babette
I agree. I have had about every vocalizer ever put on the market and the one in the
Genos is in deed on par with units in the 700$ range. I feel it is slightly better than on the Tyros 5. And of course I did not have to build in a phantom power supply unit like I had on the Tyros 1 to 5. Dynamic mics are good, but they are rather heavy on a long boom. But to adjust any vocal harmony unit to your voice and way of singing is a very steep learning curve. And in case you feel you need the pitch correction it is nearly impossible to get a good result.
The Digitech Vocalist Live Pro is the best unit in my opinion. It is out of production but still available on e-bay for about half that price. Mine has been in use for about 10 years and has never let me down, which the Helicon Voice Plus has done many times and the latest models all have a problem recognizing quick chord changes. No Yamaha ever had any problem.
I have not sold it because I still use it in my set up. One mic goes to the Genos and one to the Digitech.
Why ? In that way you can make the singers far more realistic by choosing different vocal harmonies on the units and moving your mouth from one mic to the other. My vocalist uses my Roland V 7 hich contrary to the rack mount units you can easily handle while you sing as you can fix it to her mic stand.
Again like with drums and keyboard sound in general I am sure the audience will not realize this
, it is for me. Many in the audience cannot hear the difference between one, two, three, four and five part harmonies anyway, leave alone those who cannot distinguish between minor or major and start dancing a waltz on beat 2 or 3.
But they seem to hear the difference between a
solo voice and one with harmonies as they often come and say: 'gee you have a nice voice' when I use harmonizing, which icidentally
never happens when I do
not use harmonizing.
Cheers
Kaarlo