Boss VE-500 Vocal Effects Processor

The advanced VE-500 Vocal Performer provides everything you need to achieve stunning vocal harmonies and effects on stage, all in an optimized effects pedal that seamlessly integrates with your guitar pedalboard's usual effects. With professional-grade sound quality and powerful BOSS DSP, the VE-500 offers sophisticated pitch correction and harmony functions that automatically track the chords you play on your guitar. It also includes a powerful vocoder and basic sound enhancement tools, along with world-class reverb, delay, modulation effects, and special effects such as distortion, filtering, and many others. Program memories allow you to instantly recall your favorite settings for any song or style. - Advanced multi-effects vocal stompbox for guitarists who sing - Automatic vocal/harmony pitch correction driven by recently improved BOSS algorithms for a natural sound - Industry-leading sound quality and high-power BOSS DSP engine to process vocals with up to nine effects simultaneously - Wide selection of effects specially tailored for vocals - Enhancement section to shape the core tone, plus reverb, delay, modulation, distortion, EQ, filters, and many other post-processing effects - Versatile and creative vocoder effect to generate electronic voices and talk box sounds based on guitar input - Flexible effects routing options to process live vocals and harmonies together or separately; dedicated looper - XLR microphone input with adjustable sensitivity and phantom power - Guitar input for harmony, pitch, and vocoder processing - Bypass output to send unprocessed signal to guitar pedals - Stereo XLR outputs to send vocal sounds to a mixer or PA recording system - Three assignable footswitches for real-time control, plus support for up to two external footswitches or an expression pedal - 99 user memory slots for patch settings - Three assignable knobs for quick access to essential parameters while playing - MIDI and USB-MIDI input to control the harmony/pitch engine from an external MIDI keyboard or backing tracks - DAW software editor/library (Mac/Windows) for sound editing and patch management via USB The VE-500 is the perfect complement to any guitarist-singer’s pedalboard, providing top-tier vocal processing that perfectly complements standard guitar effects. About Roland & BOSS Roland Corporation is a Japanese manufacturer specializing in musical equipment and accessories. Operating as an internal division, BOSS has long been dedicated to the full range of guitar effects processing products.