Boss VE-500 Vocal Performer Effects Pedal

Looping, Effects, and Vocal Harmonies at Your Fingertips

If you’re like most guitarists, you spend a lot of time choosing the right amps and pedals to craft your own personalized sound. But if you sing in your band as well, it hasn’t always been so easy to give your vocal sounds that same attention to detail—until now. The advanced VE-500 Vocal Performer provides everything you need to achieve impressive vocal harmonies and effects on stage, and all in streamlined stompbox that integrates seamlessly with the regular guitar effects on your pedalboard.

Packing professional sound quality and serious BOSS DSP muscle, the VE-500 delivers sophisticated harmony and pitch correction functions that automatically track the chords you play on your guitar. It also includes a powerful vocoder and core sound-enhancement tools, plus world-class reverb, delay, and modulation sounds and specialty effects like distortion, filtering, and many others. And with programmable memories, you can instantly recall favorite setups for any song or style. The VE-500 is the perfect addition to the pedalboard of any singing guitarist, providing top-flight vocal processing that fits right alongside your standard guitar effects.

Features

• Harmonies, FX, and looper functions
• Intelligent chord tracking and harmony generation
• Listens to your guitar or MIDI input
• Stereo XLR outputs deliver your sound into a PA or recording medium
• Looper function lets you create dynamic multitrack performances on the spot
• 32-bit FX engine lets you run up to nine effects (reverb, delay, modulation, distortion, EQ, filter, etc.) at once
• Clean 32-bit ADA conversion
• Three onboard footswitches, plus support for up to two external switches or expression pedals
• Includes editor/librarian software (Mac/Windows) for convenient patch management

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