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Vocalist Live 5 Owner's Manual

Vocal harmony & real-time pitch correction for guitarists
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  • Page 1 Vocal Harmony & Real-Time Pitch Correction for Guitarists Owner’s Manual Professional audio equipment...
  • Page 2 WARNING FOR YOUR PROTECTION READ THE FOLLOWING: KEEP THESE INSTRUCTIONS HEED ALL WARNINGS FOLLOW ALL INSTRUCTIONS THE APPARATUS SHALL NOT bE ExPOSED TO DRIPPING OR SPLASHING LIqUID AND NO ObjECT FILLED WITH LIqUID, SUCH AS vASES, SHALL bE PLACED ON THE APPARATUS CLEAN ONLY WITH A DRY CLOTH.

  • Page 3: Declaration Of Conformity

    Vice-President of Engineering 8760 S. Sandy Parkway Sandy, Utah 84070, USA Date: September 22, 2010 European Contact: Your local DigiTech/Vocalist Sales and Service Office or Harman Music Group 8760 South Sandy Parkway Sandy, Utah 84070 USA Ph: (801) 568-8800 Fax: (801) 568-7583 If you want to dispose this product, do not mix it with general household waste.
  • Page 4 Warranty Vocalist ® We at are very proud of our products and back up each one we sell with the following warranty: 1. The warranty registration card must be mailed within ten days after purchase date to validate this warranty. 2.

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Overview ........1 Connecting a Microphone and Guitar to a PA and Powered Introduction ........1 Monitor (Mono) .......9 musIQ Technology ......1 ® Included Items ........1 Connecting a Guitar and Microphone from a Mixer/Preamp to a PA (Stereo) .......10 Front Panel ........ 3 Adjusting the Guitar Sensitivity ..10 Numeric Display.......3 Tuning Your Guitar ......10...

  • Page 7: Overview

    Overview Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of the Vocalist Live 5. The Vocalist Live 5 is a ® breakthrough processor that automatically generates live multi-part vocal harmony by analyzing guitar chord progressions. Armed with patent pending musIQ ® Harmony Technology (which includes both musIQ note detection and musIQ harmony generation), the Vocalist Live 5 gives you accurate vocal harmonies even with complicated songs because only Vocalist Live tracks guitar chords, along with your voice.
  • Page 8 The utmost care was taken while your Vocalist Live 5 was being manufactured. ® Everything should be included and in perfect working order. If anything is missing, contact the factory at once. Please help us become acquainted with you and your needs by completing your warranty card or registering online at www.vocalistpro.

  • Page 9: Front Panel

    Front Panel 1. Numeric Display Shows the number of the selected preset. 2. Part A/B Display Shows which part is currently active, Part A or Part B. 3. Alphanumeric Display Shows the name of the selected preset. While editing, it will show the param- eter name and value being edited.

  • Page 10: Guitar Signal Led Ladder

    7. Guitar Signal LED Ladder Shows the signal strength from the guitar input. Green indicates that a signal is present, amber indicates the signal is approaching levels that may clip and red indicates clipping. Clipping may degrade the ability of the Vocalist Live 5 to ®...

  • Page 11: Effects Matrix

    17. Effects Matrix The Effects Matrix provides information regarding the current preset and parameter edit functions. The buttons running down the left side of the Matrix provide a visual indication of which effects are in use for the selected preset. While editing a preset, the flashing button LED indicates that the Effect row is selected for editing.

  • Page 12: Rear Panel

    Rear Panel Mic/Line In musIQ is a registered Left Out Right Out trademark of 3dB Research Input Gain Ground Left Right Stereo Expression Guitar In Guitar Thru Lift Line Out Line Out Headphone Pedal 9VAC 1.3A 9 10 1. Mic/Line Input Level This knob adjusts the gain of the Mic and Line inputs.

  • Page 13: Headphones

    8. Headphones Use this jack to hear the Line Out L/R mix through headphones. 9. Expression Pedal The Vocalist Live 5 can use either a standard passive guitar volume pedal or ® a resistance-based expression pedal. If using a standard guitar volume pedal, it should use a 250 kOhms or higher pot.

  • Page 14: Getting Started

    Getting Started Before connecting the Vocalist Live 5 to your amplifier, make sure that the power ® to your amplifier is off and that the Vocalist Live 5 is plugged into the wall and powered on. There is no power switch on the Vocalist Live 5. To turn the Vocalist Live 5 on or off, connect or disconnect the included power supply from the Power Input jack.

  • Page 15: Connecting A Microphone And Guitar To A Guitar Amp And Pa (Mono)

    Connecting a Microphone and Guitar to a Guitar Amp and PA (Mono) This setup bypasses the Vocalist Live 5 guitar effects via the Guitar Thru output. A ® mono vocal and guitar signal is sent to the mixer. Turn the button off on the Stereo front panel for mono operation.

  • Page 16: Connecting A Guitar And Microphone From A Mixer/Preamp To A Pa (Stereo)

    Connecting a Guitar and Microphone from a Mixer/Preamp to a PA (Stereo) This setup includes a preamp or mixer between the microphone and the Vocalist ® Live 5. Use the ¼” input of the Mic/Line input as the Microphone is running through a preamp.

  • Page 17: Adjust The Vocal Level

    Adjust the Vocal Level Using the Input Gain knob on the rear of the unit adjust the level so the Vocal Level bounces around amber when you sing loudly and bounces in the green LED Ladder when you sing quietly. Avoid having the bouncing in the red.

  • Page 18: Using The Vocalist® Live 5

    Using the Vocalist Live 5 ® Each preset has two parts, an A part and a B part that can be toggled with the A/B footswitch or button. This can be helpful for subtle changes within a song. For example, you could have different harmony settings for the Verse and Chorus of a song.

  • Page 19: Copying Presets

    Change the Preset Name (if desired). To change the preset name: • Turn the second Parameter knob to select a letter in the Alphanumeric display (or use the buttons). The selected letter will flash. Key Up/Down • Turn the third Parameter Knob to change the selected letter. Press the button again to save your settings (or press any button other Store...

  • Page 20: Effects And Parameter Descriptions

    Effects and Parameter Descriptions Preamp The Preamp row includes a model of a tube-based preamp, a De-esser and audio frequency band limiting. The preamp is controlled by the Type and Gain parameters. The De-esser is controlled by the De-esser parameter, and band limiting is controlled by the Resonance and Band Center parameters.

  • Page 21: Comp/Gate

    Comp/Gate The Comp/Gate affects the incoming vocal dynamics. The Comp/Gate can be used to smooth out a vocal performance by adjusting the output gain of the signal based on the incoming amplitude of the vocal. The Gate function is useful for removing background noise from the incoming signal, or for muting the signal when it falls below a certain threshold.
  • Page 22 The EQ parameters allow the tone of the incoming vocal to be adjusted as indicated by the table below. This function cannot be entirely bypassed via a single parameter, instead the Low Cut must be turned OFF and the remaining gains (dB Bass, dB Mid Gain, dB Treble) must be set to 0 dB to bypass this feature.

  • Page 23: Pitch Correct

    Pitch Correct Pitch correction detects the note you’re singing and processes it to make it more precise. For example, if you’re singing a C, and it’s a little flat (but not quite B), pitch correction alters the note so that a more precise C is heard through the mixer or P.A.
  • Page 24 Selects the key or root of the scale. For example, if the Type pc x is set to MAJOR, and Key is set to PC C, the notes that will be corrected to are C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. Note: This parameter is ignored when the scale type is set to PC CHROM.

  • Page 25: Lead Effects

    Lead Effects The Lead Effects modify the incoming vocal by changing its pitch or timbre in real time. There are Persona effects, which change the character of the voice, and Mod effects which add modulation changes such as tremolo or chorus to the incoming vocal signal.

  • Page 26: Harmony

    Mod Type No mod effect. 1 VMOD off Thicken. 2 Vmod thick Chorus. 3 Vmod chor Flanger. 4 Vmod flang Tremolo. 5 Vmod trem Stutter. 6 Vmod stutr Determines the amount of mod effect heard Vmod amt Amount in the output. Range: 0-99 Mod Speed Determines the speed of the mod effect’s Vmod speed...
  • Page 27 Turning on either a Lead Effect, persona or pitch correction requires the use Note: of a harmony voice. If all harmony voices are being used in the current preset, the least important harmony voice is automatically selected for this purpose. No harmonies.
  • Page 28 Balance Controls the balance between the generated harm bal harmony voices. If there is only one voicing, then this control has no effect. But if there is more than one voicing on, then this parameter controls the balance between these voices. A value of 50 gives approximately the same output level for all the voices.

  • Page 29: Reverb

    Reverb Reverb affects both the processed vocal signals and harmonies as well as the Guitar Mix, as set with the Guitar Mix Reverb Level (see below). There are five reverb types (Studio, Club, Hall, Stadium, and Coarse), each reflecting different decay times and diffusion settings.

  • Page 30: Guitar Mix

    Guitar Mix Guitar Mix affects the amount of Guitar signal that is processed through the two guitar effects. The guitar effects are Reverb and Mod. The Reverb is shared with the main Vocal and Harmonies; hence the only parameter for the guitar is GtrRvb lvl (Guitar Reverb Amount).

  • Page 31: Utility Parameters

    Utility Parameters The Utility parameters are accessed by simultaneously pressing the Edit Up/Down arrow keys in the . The main display will show UTILityand the Effects Matrix Numeric Display flashes U. Once this occurs, each knob controls the value of a particular system parameter, as shown below.

  • Page 32: Factory Reset

    Factory Reset If you want to restore the Vocalist Live 5 to the state it was in when first delivered, ® you can use the Factory Reset function. This will: • Copy all Factory presets to the corresponding User presets, overwriting all changes you may have made to the user presets •...

  • Page 33: Troubleshooting

    Troubleshooting I don’t hear any sound coming from the Vocalist Live 5. ® • Make sure the power supply is plugged in to both the Vocalist Live 5 and the power outlet. • Make sure the guitar amp, P.A. system, or mixer is plugged in and turned on. •...

  • Page 34: Effects Block Diagram

    Effects Block Diagram Band-limit Noise Vocal Compressor DeEsser Preamp & Low-cut Gate Limitor Input Pitch Correct Vocal Persona Harmony Voice 1 Harmony Voice 2 Harmony Voice 3 Harmony Voice 4 Stereo Mixer Not available with Pitch Correct or Persona Guitar Guitar Input Guitar Send...

  • Page 35: Preset List

    Preset List A simple 3rd above your lead vocal. Great for 60s duet folk songs. 3RD ABOVE Utilizes a stereo chorus effect for the guitar. Same as Part A but add a 5th up harmony voice. The same preset as #1 but now the harmony is a 3rd down from 3RD BELOW the lead vocal.
  • Page 36 Demonstrates a guitar tremolo effect with reverb. Play around with GTR TREM the speed and feedback parameters to customize your sound. The harmony has unison, octave down and octave up voices. The same as Part A but with a 2 unison harmony on the lead vocal. Very gospel-like, and utilizes a 5th down, 3rd down, 3rd up and 5th BLIND up.
  • Page 37 Uses a thicker stereo chorus effect on the guitar and a smaller PURPLE RN younger lead vocal effect. Utilizes a mixture of male and female back ground vocals with doubled 3rds below and 3rds above. Same effects but using 3rd below and 5th above harmonies. The ultimate blues singer preset.
  • Page 38 Makes a male lead singer sound female. The harmony voice sounds GALS DUET like a female singer singing up one octave from the lead. Similar to Part A but with a 2 Unison harmony. Creates a fat doubling by combining 4 unison voices with lots of LOOSE decoupling.
  • Page 39 Demonstrates large pitch onset effects. Try it while singing your favorite 60s solo folk songs. Adds a 5th up harmony, everything else is the same as above. Demonstrates a slow ballad sound, with strong stylized vibrato and ELVIS slow pitch scooping at note onsets. Adds a 5th down harmony, everything else is the same as above.

  • Page 40: Specifications

    Specifications Mic Input Connector: XLR portion of XLR-1/4” Combo Jack Input Sensitivity @ -3 dBFS -35 dBu to 0 dBu Equivalent Input Noise (EIN): -126 dBu, 20 Hz - 20 kHz (A-weighted) Impedance: 1.2 kOhms balanced Line Input Connectors: ¼″ portion of XLR-1/4” Combo Jack Input Sensitivity @ -3 dBFS: -20 dBu to +15 dBu Input Impedance:...
  • Page 41 Power US and Canada: 120 VAC, 60 Hz Adapter: PS0913B - 120 Japan: 100 VAC, 50/60 Hz Adapter: PS0913B - 100 Europe: 230 VAC, 50 Hz Adapter: PS0913B - 230 240 VAC, 50 Hz Adapter: PS0913B - 240 Australia: 240 VAC, 50 Hz Adapter: PS0913B - 240-AU AC Power Adapter Output: 9VAC, 1.3 A Power Consumption:...
  • Page 44 8760 South Sandy Parkway Sandy, Utah 84070 PH (801) 566-8800 FAX (801) 566-7005 Vocalist Live 5 Owner’s Manual 18-0776V-A ® ©2010 , all rights reserved. Vocalist is a registered trademark of Harman, Inc. musIQ is a registered trademark of 3dB Research Ltd. ®...

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