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Digitech Vocalist Performer User’s Manual Table of Contents Introduction..........................................................................1 Jump Start ........................................................................1 Front panel description ........................................................2 Back panel description.........................................................5 Connections..........................................................................6 Operation...................
Warranty The warranty registration card must be mailed within ten days after purchase date to validate the warranty. DigiTech warrants this product, when used solely within the U.S., to be free from defects in materials and workmanship under normal use and service.
Introduction Thank you and congratulations on your purchase of the Digitech Vocalist Performer. This vocal harmony product is a breakthrough in ease-of-use, sound quality and affordability. Whether you sing for your own entertainment or for the entertainment of others, Performer can be your “singing partner” who can effortlessy hit the high notes and provide full-sounding backup hour after hour.
Front Panel 1) Harmony buttons These allow you to turn on and off up to two harmony voices at a time. The High and Higher buttons produce harmonies above your voice. the Double button produces slightly detuned copies of your voice on the same note. The Low, Lower and Bass buttons produce harmonies below your voice. 2) Scale selection buttons Choose a Major or Minor scale that sounds correct with your song.
3) Store button This is used when you want to save the settings you have chosen. In each program you may store the Key, Harmony voicing and Scale settings. When pressed, the number in the program window will flash. The flashing indicates that you have a choice of program number in which to store your new program. You can press the store button one more time to accept the current number or use the data wheel to choose another number before accepting. Press any other button to cancel the store operation.
10) Harmony level control This knob allows you to control the blend between your voice and the harmony voices. Turning this control to the right adds progressively more harmony voice level to the mix while keeping the volume of your voice constant. Your voice and the harmonies are equal volume at approximately one o’clock. At its furthest right position, the output is 100% harmony. 11) Reverb level control This knob allows you to vary the amount of reverb effect blended in with yours and the harmony voices.
Back panel 1) Power entry jack Insert the plug from the supplied adaptor here. This turns the unit on and off. 2) Footswitch jack You may connect a standard momentary footswitch for harmony muting only or a DigiTech FS300 footswitch for extra features.
Connections Live performance The graphic below shows the typical connection scheme. Your voice is fed through the microphone directly into Performer where it is harmonized and sent to your mixer/power amp. The output from Performer can be either mono (one cable) or stereo (two cables). Studio or alternate live setup The graphic below shows how you can drive Performer with an effects send from your mixer. This is useful if you want to add equalization to your voice before it is sent to Performer.
Operation Setting the input level Adjust the input level control until only the loudest notes you sing cause the Signal LED to turn orange briefly. The LED shows green when it hears a signal, orange at 3 dB below clipping (distortion) and red when the input signal has clipped. Setting the harmony level You can adjust the Harmony control to find the blend you like when at least one harmony voice is activated. Unlike standard mix controls, Performer’s Harmony control has a “smart” volume curve.
Bass (Octave down). This setting produces the same melody as your input voice but in the octave below. Adding the Bass harmony to your voice produces a sound reminiscent of gospel music. Adding one of the other harmony choices produces an even bigger sound. If you want to be the Bass singer in your group but you just can’t sing that low, try adjusting the Harmony level control all the way to the right. This way you can sing the part in a range you are comfortable in but the sound will be an octave lower.
To give you an example of the difference between the three Major scales, let’s try with a song everybody knows called “Louie Louie”. Set the key to E, pick the Major 3 scale and enable only the High voice. Push the cue button for a moment if you need a starting note. Now sing: “Louie Louie (pronounced Lou-eye), Whoa Baby I said we gotta go now.” The difference between the three scales occurs on the word “...Whoa...” which is the 5th of the scale.
To create a program with unique settings for the A and B parts, press the Part A button and select settings that will work for the main part of your song. Now press the Part B button and do the same for the alternate harmony. Store as described below. When you change programs using the data wheel, Part A is automatically loaded first. Stereo voice panning All stereo panning is pre-set in Performer. Your input voice is panned center and the harmony voice pan position depends on how many voices are on.
SPECIFICATIONS Microphone Input Balanced XLR, 1 KOhm Line Input Unbalanced 1/4 TS, -10 dBV level, 2.2 KOhm Microphone Input Range -39 dBV minimum to -17 dBV maximum Line Input Range -29 dBV minimum to -7 dBV maximum Line Outputs Unbalanced 1/4” stereo or mono, -10 dBV nominal Sampling 16 bit A/D conversion @ 48 KHz Frequency Response (dry) 20 - 20KHz Signal to Noise >92 dB A weighted Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise < 0.04% Power Requirements 9 VDC, 500 mA, tip negative Size 6.
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