oehman Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 I did a quick video explaining a simple set up to use the HD500X for guitar and vocals into powered speakers. My usual band set up is Variax--HD500X--Mackie Mixer--Powered EV speakers Vocal Mic --TC Helicon VoiceLive Play-- mixer -- Roland Drums direct to mixer Bass direct to mixer IEM for me & bassist/floor monitor for drums But I wanted the simplest setup possible for doing solo shows. The HD500X rocks. Vocals sound almost as good as the Helicon (I do miss the pitch correction a little...) By using dual input patches, I can do a solo show with Variax VDI cable HD500X 3 XLR cables Microphone Mic Stand iPhone (for backing trax) 1/8 to 1/8 cable one or two powered speakers. Entire setup can fit on the back seat of my car! YouTube link is 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColonelForbin Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Sweet!!!!! Well done, gotta check out this video.. I have only scratched the surface of using the gear with dual inputs, very cool to see people using the XLR input for vocals like this. You won't miss the pitch correction; it's a lovely crutch, but in the end, just makes your actual vocal ability suffer. I had a VoiceLive 3, and I *loved* it. But I relied on it too much, and just to see what I was really singing, recorded the dry un-pitch corrected signal along with the pitch corrected signal. Oh man.... Painful. I sounded awful. I have heard myself in standard recordings with no pitch correction, and my singing and pitch control was way,way better. The issue I had was, either you stage monitor only the dry signal, then you can't hear what the VL is doing for pitch correction. Or, you stage monitor both the pitch correct and the dry tone, and you are constantly pitch correcting yourself to make the slight phasing go away. Which is not a bad idea - but you would only want to run the pitch corrected voice to the mains at that point, so again, a bit of a disconnect from the stage to the audience. If you have a good soundperson, they can make sure the right parts go the correct ears, bit without one--you are risking major mess. OOPs! just sent the audience the un-pitch corrected signal, and sent the pitch corrected to stage. You think you are singing in tune because you can't hear that you are out of tune, and the audience hears you wailing away all pitchy and it sounds terrible. Not a pleasant thought.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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