Every single effect presented on Boss VE 500 Vocal Performer

[@jeffreyvanhorn1996]

I’ve seen countless reviews/ demo’s for products. This is THE most extraordinary demonstration of any effects/vocal pedal on KZbin. I could probably include guitar pedals as well. Your visual hands-on movement of the knobs while keeping your voice going the whole time was just perfect. This review could not have been any better, and thank you so much. Just absolutely exceptional and enjoyable. It’s probably the first and last time we will all get to hear someone sing, “please subscribe to my channel if you like this…” Too great!

[@kbenefits]

2nd post for me....Seen alot of "pedal demos". You are by far the best. Pedal makers should pay you to demo and present their pedals. This demo was so helpful, detailed, thorough, and concise. I will be buying this pedal because of your demonstration.

[@jhamPlays]

Love that you go 0-100 and then dial it in to what is reasonable or usable. Too many demos I just see everything turned way up to try and show off what it can do but it just ends up a mess.

[@jonmessenger5621]

Thank you sir for the great video on the Boss VE-500!!!! Hands down the best one I've seen so far. Boss should be paying you or give you equipment for your fantastic work. I hope you will continue posting your take on this unit. Thank you again for all you do. Take care and may God bless.... 🙏✝🙏

[@Moykel]

Excellent demo, really good. So funny at times, too. Perfect marriage of form and content. I'm gonna divorce my Helicon.

[@elclubdewallace3770]

Why ? I didn’t see anything better here that tc helicon play can’t do

[@Gui_GD]

I loved the radio FX effect,its my favorite effect for vocals.

[@lastdayscalm]

Now this is a good demo best so far now know what to expect

[@manuelcuevas4418]

THANKS , THANKS MUCH FINALLY I FOUND YOUR EXPLANATION BY DEMONSTRATING THE SINGING ,I BEEN HOURS LOOKING FOR THIS INFORMATION THAT ONLY YOU HAVE THANKS GOD BLESS YOU ALL THERE

[@unemployicus]

This is by far the grooooviest tutorial on YT!

[@JuusoHoo]

wpnderful review thanks! ! good that you have some cameras and displays to show things!! one thing I still need to check what is capable to record and in which quality to DAW!

[@PlayUASong4free]

Most concise review ever. Hell yeah.

[@thebrooklyngardenclub225]

This is an extremely well done review. Boss needs to pay you , seriously. Regardless, thanks.

[@MrPinkfloydian]

Thank you, Chris. This was a presentation as it should be... and funny too 🙂

[@juanleandrosantillan4439]

Fun and beautiful review my friend. Thank you!

[@Pulse2AM]

Thanks for the video! It would have been nice to be able to use all the signal processes separate for the harmonies so you could have one set for the main vocal and the harmonies effected differently.

[@tecschooldropout]

Thanks for the clear demo. Would really like to see chained effects, like enhance > pitch correction > distortion > delay > reverb, to see if this pedal can replace a dedicated vocal fx board.

[@ChrisKaplan]

Hey Bro, thanks, I did a video before, where im showing all installed patches. maybe for a quick look enough? kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5KYm2mEZrl7is0

[@thetruthexperiment]

I haven’t watched the whole video yet but I’ve been looking for a full run down of this bad boy since I bought it a year ago. I get great use out of it but I’m trying to tween a few things that are perfect for my voice and microphone. Wish you were using an RE20 on this.

[@RickBonanno]

Excellent video. Thank you.

[@ChrisKaplan]

You’re welcome thanks for watching

[@zolitariglussey6302]

your Voice is so bassey......... You basically showed me that I can do anything with this unit..........

[@iSpike]

F✨A✨N✨T✨A✨S✨T✨I✨C✨ great video man. 👌🏻 You sing well and a very comprehensive look at this Boss FX machine. New Subscriber here 🤝🏻 Cheers iSPIKE (Western Australia 🇦🇺) 👍🏻

[@galapustovit5273]

Thank you for this the greatest, detailed presentation 🔥

[@nuke97]

Can you mix effects together into one preset? Like Reverb and delay together?

[@reneesekulamusic4409]

The Boss vocal effects processors seem ok for EQ but it kinda sucks that you can't layer effects.

[@iangaunala2791]

Love this demo. Was laughing too😂😂.will get myself one.

[@Zarag0d]

My question is does the harmony only work with selecting key signatures or can it detect key based off the guitar plugged in/at the very least vocode? When you started singing with the guitar and harmony setting on I about kicked a door down sir! You sound so good to just be "messing around" or whatever you called THAT! (Subbed!)

[@craigwood8862]

Thumbs up. For humour and content!

[@Bcwilderness]

wow the 105 sounds sweet with this pre, very impressed a full chain good enough for the studio and live

[@simonsmith2642]

Over exaggerated of course so you can hear the FX well, but adding EQ, comp, limit, gate, verb, delay, and even doubler, soft pitch correction if you arent a real singer (im not a real singer) even the vocoder. All very useful in almost any situation. Its a shame its only 1 mic, I have to buy one for each mic! Boss is still the Boss…

[@darrenkaskie2648]

Hi Simon, I’m thinking of buying one of these, I’ll be using it on stage in a very loud band so would 100% need a gate, you’re the only person anywhere that has mentioned it has a gate. Is it any good?

[@simonsmith2642]

@@darrenkaskie2648 I havent bought it yet, my next planned purchase, still paying off my 335. Im sure its perfectly fine industry standard though, its a Boss.

[@darrenkaskie2648]

@@simonsmith2642 Yeah that’s very true. Still deciding, thanks for your reply.

[@willsgro6536]

With the low pitch you need to say “come on Barbie, let’s go party” or better yet “I talk-talk I talk to you In the night In your dreams Of love so true 💕 “ haha

[@zaktheinstaller]

Perfect video.

[@watertails]

Thank you for this, your video has saved me wasted time and money

[@laabuela00]

Amazing video.

[@jcmo4154]

Great vidéo! Thanks!

[@gergemall]

Sounds great ❤.

[@drkbrn71]

😂😂😂great demo!!! Will be getting one soon

[@michaelsilvestri9117]

Very well made video and demo man thx

[@MichelleTaylor1]

Does this pick up room sounds in order to select the correct key if you dont plug a guitar into it ? and can you come out of the XLR outputs in Mono? Both of he these features are on the TC Helicon Live play units and I was wondering if this does the same .

[@boabglen]

I'm wanting to send different stuff out my output on my vocals. 1 mic with say preset 1 sending left mono but if i switch to bank 2 I'll be right output. I'm wanting to have preset 1 as main vocal then preset go out to my looper. Like an A/B type setup. Struggling to pan it though?

[@cchan11cc]

Great with the Boss acoustic guitar pro model amp

[@matthewjohnson1891]

Haha this thing is awesome. Cant wait to pick on up

[@williepurificacion2474]

I actually want to hear how it sounds with progressive harmonies or jazz harmonies. Your demo is good but they're all very basic harmonies. How about trying some jazzy chords and advance open chords? Thanks.

[@lyneicehaynes4922]

I like singing with vocals

[@Irkennalpha]

You’re awesome!!!!

[@andrewscelfo679]

can you use multiple effects at once? for example could i run my vocals pitched up a auto tune on and also add delay?

[@dylanlamarre3768]

Great demo. I wanted to say the pedal sounded digital, goofy, full of artefacts, and completely unusable. But then when you started singing for real at the 5-minute mark and instantly it sounded very useable and pleasant. I guess for speech (in the first 5 minutes) there are too many articulations and our ears much more discriminating for the spoken words. Anyways, I'm sold. It's a real performer.

[@iceberg220]

Thank you for the superb video! I'm still undecided on which harmonizer to buy and your video gave me a pretty good idea about this unit

[@ChrisKaplan]

Hey, thanks for your comment. And happy I could help you!

[@TYBeats-uz6im]

If you’re curious about setting specific harmonies with it (i.e. 4ths or 6ths for example), you can set a harmony to a specific voicing once you specify the key of the song, and take the “Key button” off of Full Auto mode. I’ve been using it for a few years now and I don’t think I’ll ever need any other vocal pedal for live or in studio. It’s incredibly versatile but it does take some time to really dive into it

[@iceberg220]

Thank you for the input! I always hear good things about this pedal

[@theinsideguy4076]

I'm looking at buying one of these. Can you change your patches automatically on the VE 500 via your PC/LAPTOP? (Via the midi cable)

[@Brookerbass]

I like this but I don’t $500 like it. I’ll stick with the VE-2 for now. Thanks for the demo!

[@gperez92_]

Gran tutorial 🖤Gracias!

[@ChrisKaplan]

Alentador 🤙🏻

[@adiosluna1114]

Can this processor handle high temperature if you do a gig outdoors on a hot day? I have a TC helicon voice live and it just dies when the day is hot

[@sethheld6483]

What a great video Chris! Thank you. I just ordered this unit. I don't play guitar live though, can I still utilize the harmony aspect? I appreciate your input!

[@ChrisKaplan]

Hey thankyou, yes there will come a video next Monday how to use it with midi (for harmony via pc)

[@harrymo72]

You can turn the auto mode off and set the song key manually. So you don’t necessarily have to have an instrument running through it to use the harmonies.

[@rickm254]

Good review and demo. But I cant still figure out why it is call a pitch corrector when it is a pitch shifter. There is no pitch correction. And what is the compressor formula? Not a real compressor. The knob is turned 0 to 100 and I can barely hear a difference. For the rest it seems ok.

[@juliannabg5]

Do you have a recommendation for a machine with the best (or good) vocal effects with looping capabilities? Looping for long periods of time- not just 45 seconds- a minute or two?

[@1973chupa]

Can you please tell me how to assign VE500 HARMONY to FS5L footswitch.. thank you 🙏

[@susanz8587]

Hi Chris, thanks for the video! Did you record directly into your DAW using USB from the Boss VE 500?

[@ChrisKaplan]

Hey Su no I used an Interface

[@johnnyk499]

Will this model pick up the key of your vocals without using a guitar or instrument? The VV-20 does that but doesn't have as many features... I am singer that plays guitar sometimes...

[@johnsharpe734]

I've just bought a VE500, by mistake as I expected it 2b better than my old VE20. It isn't! Wondering if the Helicon is better as I use backing tracks without guitar or keyboard.

[@jeffreyvanhorn1996]

Hi John, I also have the VE-20. We have to manually change the key on the unit for each song, as you know. Doesn’t the VE 500 pick up the key automatically from the guitar? I was surprised to hear you say that the 500 was not better than the 20, and I do like the 20 except for the manual key change requirement. Thank you in advance for your thoughts. I’m very interested in your opinion.

[@mothersgauri4137]

Hi. Can someone please tell me if this will run on batteries, or only the adapter cord. Very grateful if someone can clarify this. Great video...thanks.

[@dharmikastha8442]

Depois de executar o Index aperta f11, pra facilitar a leitura da API.

[@clarissaanaferreirasieiro2127]

Hi , i just got this pedal but i'm quite lost as i thought would be just conect my guitar and microphone to the pedal and connect the pedal to my guitar amplifier and ready to go . But i believe now doesn't work that simple !😔 Been looking for video that could explain step by step how to setup this pedal in vocal , guitar and amplifier scenario but can't find any ! I would like to ask you if you could help me how to set up , as i have the Marshall avt150h amplifier and the Marshall , as80r , dynamic microphone and guitar

[@JuusoHoo]

On one more: is ist possible to record both straight signal and only the effects? on do they burn to the same track?

[@victorhugod387]

Ok thank you!! This model is not for me. Im gonna keep my VE-2, sounds way more natural.

[@dancassidy7471]

Right on the levels were too obvious

[@osmanlopez2689]

Jajaja

[@ahighervibe4086]

This thing is wayyyy better it’s about DIALING IT IN!

[@saggygnaw]

@@ahighervibe4086agreed, not to mention it has stereo output and is MIDI controllable. It completely obliterates the VE-2.

[@Sandro-ij7te]

Natural Wins always

[@kathrynnest1661]

[@jonathansamonte551]

this one can perform harmony proper voicing even without instruments like guitar or keyboar? or it rely on instruments only to get perfect voicing?

[@thewooddemons2105]

Hi Chris, really helpful stuff, thanks! I have a harmoniser issue I can't understand: when I'm playing in an open tuning (actually Csus2, where there are often open top C and D strings), the VE-500's harmonies aren't right. Is there anything I can do to address this?

[@thewooddemons2105]

Hi Chris and anyone else who might be helped by this: always put the vocal harmoniser at the beginning of your effects chain (mine was going through my digital pedalboard) or the pedal doesn't pick up the guitar key correctly :-)

[@BlakeHarper99]

Can you make a customer memory on this pedal having reverb and delay together? So I can click it on when I’m holding a note out or something.

[@losduendeslokos]

Yes you can I have a much older version and it does you can edit reverb delay harmonies etc and save it to your users bank I been using it for more than 10 years

[@derekk2732]

should i get this over the ve-22?

[@nelsonm_]

Cool , I wish u did bypass tho after

[@grandpasbasement7022]

is there a way to use this or similar devices without a guitar? I am a singer and do not play an instrument when singing live.

[@samweeks92]

Can you have multiple effects at once on a user setting eg delay reverb and a touch of distortion with a slight chorus all at the same time? Great vid!

[@tizianbreitenberger]

same question here !

[@samweeks92]

@@tizianbreitenberger I’ve looked at the manual pdf. To my knowledge and going over it and watching other vids it looks like you can have up to 9 effects at once. Another cool thing is that you can use it as a guitar tuner too and link it in with your pedal board, may need to triple check with what I’ve said as for example I haven’t figured out if it will only work with your pedal board if you have the auto tune with your guitar feature switched on or if you can bypass that feature but link it it anyway for ease (I mean if you get rid of your tuner to save space that could be a plus depending on how easy it is to see the tuner feature in darkly lit venues or most likely a more problematic scenario venues with lots of lights or outside with shit loads of sunlight coming down at a festival gig). Hope that helps dude!

[@csul5961]

can you set it to harmonize in 3rds and 5ths etc...

[@STRETCHArtist]

If you find the right settings can they be saved (say for a certain song) without having to redo each time?

[@puncakechannel3418]

Yes I think you can create 99 presets and also record about 13h of stuff

[@bikersoncall]

2:52, This pitch correction button should never be on any vocal processor. :FACEPALM: 🤑

[@josuerivera9749]

What kind of guitar do you have buddy??

[@dudeoftone9860]

Is there a tap for the delay by chance?

[@flexwinggpipi]

Come back Kenny Everett He'd have loved this

[@MarkDavidBlack]

I've heard that it can do vibrato.

[@matijapocrnic2974]

Does it have user scale?

[@hexosaurus]

Thanks Chris for this nice little video ! I'm interested to buy this pedal. I'm a vocalist/guitarist and I need to be able to switch from an effect to another one while playing live. So I'd use my foot to switch effects, and I'd like to program for example a compression on one pedal and a chorus on another one, or a reverb or whatever. Without being forced to turn the buttons and set everything with my hands. From your experience, is that doable ? Cheers man !

[@ChrisKaplan]

This device has just effects for your voice, not for your guitar, so no. If you have other pedals with midi out, you could program it, to activating an other effect on another Pedalboard

[@bozojazz]

Just played around with this for the first time tonight and I just noticed when I dial in the formant effect---it's very faulty, my direct signal/voice comes in and out frequently and it interrupts the effect. Have you noticed this?

[@ChrisKaplan]

Do you use it as Interface? Or with a separate Mixer/Interface?

[@bozojazz]

@@ChrisKaplan I tested it into a Presonus interface

[@ChrisKaplan]

@@bozojazz ok check those things. Cable input output, Left, right, go on Boss to setting, and check if it’s on stereo. If you taking the monitor from presonus open the Settings and pan the inputs 1 hard left, 2 hard right, and use the big scroll wheel on presonus to use the correct monitoring. If you are using the monitoring with plus a DAW you have to pan input 1,2, in your DAW to hard left and hard right. Or you using a stereo input of 1 & 2. Check again on presonus what monitoring you are using. I remember that the big scroll wheel on the left was monitoring direct through the Presonus device, complete to the right sight through your DAW. But you should check definitely the settings from your Presonus. For that open the Software for your Interface. Hope I could help a bit

[@bozojazz]

@@ChrisKaplan Messed around with it more. Checked all the panning and levels on both the unit and the interface and my DAW. There's definitely something off with formant cause the Roland VT-4 never had this issue when I tested it. All the other features work fine so far. I even tested with the mic basically in my mouth (!) cause I saw the TC-Helicon Voicetone C1 has this issue but only when the mic is significantly further away. Have you noticed this on yours? I'm wondering if mine is faulty which is weird everything else works. Debating on trying another unit or grabbing a C1 for just formant.

[@ChrisKaplan]

@@bozojazz is it maybe a Brocken cable? Contact? Without to hear what is really going on, it’s really difficult to say for me how you could fix your problem. Maybe you should upload a video, and send me the link. If it’s a technical problem you can send this video to Boss too. www.boss.info/us/support/

[@eugenie_tan]

Do you need to set a key for the harmonies? Thanks in advance!

[@adersondallacosta1230]

No

[@kamildziekonski3551]

Hi, I have a question, is it possible to set the key for pitch correction?

[@ChrisKaplan]

Yes it is possible to set it on 1 key

[@matthaberek]

@@ChrisKaplan which pitch correction would you say is better or nicer sounding this or the tc helicon from your other video? I have a question about keys as well. I know the key to all my backing tracks but wanna know if these pedals can do both major and minor. Like Bb minor or A# major ( examples) I don’t want to be stuck only able to use major keys like other pedals like the c1

[@zoehuwi4586]

@@matthaberek I have the same question! (about the pitch correction comparison)

[@tcbiblia1428]

Is there a pedal available with all this and soft and hard autotune?

[@ConsciousBrosCommunity]

Yes, this :) "Electric" pitch correction = hardtune

[@waynemoran9101]

Hey Chris. Is possible to hook this up to a PA system?

[@ChrisKaplan]

Yes sure

[@novasaynova4313]

It doesn’t loop?

[@JohanBezuidenhout-q9r]

I agree it costs enough money

[@madswellejus]

Mama called… stop playing with yourself

[@NeoSoulquarian]

hahah that thumbs up song tho.

[@Merlincat007]

So helpful! BOSS always has terrible walkthroughs

[@ChrisKaplan]

Thank you very much

[@joemasse4568]

Why don’t they make stuff like this, and have a knob that says great sound, instead of having to dial through all crappy sounds, just to get a good sound? I’m sure when they made this device they knew exactly where where the sweet,best setting is?

[@haraldeliasson4009]

It’s almost like every voice is different and ”good sound” must be matched with what kind of music you make… Unbelievable I know

[@josku5]

@@haraldeliasson4009You’d think 😂 I guess everyone doesn’t understand that people are different

[@matthewclarke1926]

Does it have a Ukrainian knob? English in...Ukrainian out.

[@hupur]

sounds like mud

[@iamjarrettdean9358]

Terrible. Buy TC Helicon. End of discussion.

[@tomlevitt4133]

hey chris! can I plug in ear monitors staight into this?