A rep showed me this (in catalogue form) the other day.. I think they ship (in Canada, anyway..) in December.
It's really aimed at broadening Boss's market - much in the way they have for a while with the BR- recording series - outside of the guitar realm. This thing is meant to do harmony, but especially attractive to a lot of music-store customers these days (round here anyway) is the already-tired T-Pain style autotune effect.
Looks like a good unit, and at a fair price to compete with the TC Helicon and Digitech pedals. I'd like to see what the new EHX vocoder pedals can do as well!
If this works it would be better than the Digitech because the Digitech looks for a guitar chord on a seperate input as a guide for the harmonys....plus the VE-20 looks a a lot smaller and less complicated looking for singers.....and we all know how easily they get confused..........
When I saw the title I thought that these guys had started making pedals.
Funny... for a split second as well a similar thought crossed my mind that maybe someone had rehoused a boss pedal in a singer footswitch of an old sowing machine like my mother had......
quote: Funny... for a split second as well a similar thought crossed my mind that maybe someone had rehoused a boss pedal in a singer footswitch of an old sowing machine like my mother had......
We still have two fine Singer machines in out family. One belongs to my dear mum, & my wife has the other, it was part of the estate, from her now passed mother.
It's sits pride of place in our home. No electric foot-switch carp. They are the original mechanical foot treadle type, & both still going long & strong.
Not at all.... my mother still has one of those treadle types in the spare room as well ..the ones that spin up from underneath with the little wooden drawers at the side and the black ironwrought frame...she gave the electric one away to her sister years ago... she said the treadle(vintage) type was better...the love of old gear must run in the family........my mam made me a beautiful guitar strap that i still use to this day on the gigs on my second guitar she also made me a matching amp cover for my musicman amp but that went missing out of the house years ago.......talk about going OT..........
Singer bought Matsumoku's guitar factory in Nagoya in the late 80s so maybe the step from sewing machines to musical instruments isn't that far fetched.
Singer stompbox!?
Posted - 10/30/2009 : 01:39:31
) in December.
...and we all know how easily they get confused....
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...talk about going OT.....
