Boss VE-500 Vocal Performer Effects Pedal

Powerhouse Vocal Tools for Your Pedalboard

If youre 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 hasnt always been so easy to give your vocal sounds that same attention to detailuntil 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.

Looping, FX, and Vocal Harmonies On Demand

This vocal power plant is the perfect pedalmate to your existing pedalboard. An onboard instrument input and through output allows the VE-500 to generate smooth, natural, intelligent vocal harmonies just by listening to your chord voicings. No theory or programming is required. A clean XLR mic preamp with adjustable gain and onboard +48V phantom power provide the all front end you need for favorite stage condenser or dynamic mic. Meanwhile, the VE-500’s 99 programmable user presets keep whole sets’ worth of 32-bit floating point effects distortion, delay, filtering, reverb, and more ready at a moment’s notice. Stereo XLR outputs deliver your best performances directly into a PA system or recording medium for safekeeping

BOSS-grade pedal effects for your voice

Who says guitarists should get all the fun? The BOSS VE-500 unlocks the same artistic expression from your voice that your favorite BOSS pedals do from your instruments.

Sweeten, loop, or harmonize

The BOSS VE-500 offers three ways to electrify your vocals onstage and in the studio.

• 32-bit multi-effects unit Looking for the perfect stereo reverb or delay to connect your vocals to the heart of a song? In the mood for a little grit and distortion? How about a vocoder or telephone effect? The VE-500 offers limitless options for sweetening your voice onstage. 99 user presets store your favorites for quick access.

• Dedicated looper whether you’re a solo or ensemble artist, the VE-500’s dedicated looper function will dazzle your audience with on-the-spot overpassing. Singing over built beats and harmonizing with your own voice are just some of the possibilities waiting for you in the VE-500.
• Intelligent harmonizerThe VE-500 proves that you don’t have to be a gifted singer or trained music theorist to create compelling vocal harmonies for your choruses. Just run the unit as an insert alongside your other pedal effects, and be amazed as the VE-500 creates rich, natural-sounding vocal harmonies at the slightest prompting.

Harmonizes via guitar or MIDI

The VE-500 generates intelligent real-time 2- and 3-part harmonies just by listening to your chord voicings. Tracking is top notch, and voicings sound sweet and musical. The VE-500 also features a MIDI input to be fed parts from a laptop or keyboard controller.

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

Specs

• Processor Type: Multi-FX Vocal Processor
• Number of Channels: Mic + Instrument
• Form: Pedal
• Presets – Factory: 50
• Presets – User: 99
• Looper: 60 seconds (mono), 30 seconds (stereo)
• Effects: Harmony, Pitch Correction, Reverb, Vocoder, Delay, Modulation, Distortion, Filtering
• Analog Inputs: 1 x XLR (mic), 1 x 1/4″ TS (instrument)
• Analog Outputs: 2 x XLR (L/R), 1 x 1/4″ TS (instrument thru)
• MIDI I/O: 1 x 5-pin DIN (In), USB
• Other I/O: 1 x 1/4″ TRS (footswitch control/expression)
• USB: 1 x Type Micro-B (audio, midi)
• Computer Connectivity: USB (Librarian Editor management)
• Power Source: 9V DC power supply (included)
• Power Usage: 310mA (w/ phantom power), 210mA (w/o phantom power)
• Height: 2.5″
• Width: 6.75″
• Depth: 5.43″
• Weight: 1.93 lbs.