I've been going an acoustic show at local pubs with my acoustic guitar, mic into a TC Helicon Play Acoustic pedaldirect to PA for a couple of years. I found that while the TC pedal has great vocal harmony capabilities, I didn't use them that much. But rather I wanted more processing for guitar tones.
So recently, I swapped out my acoustic guitar and TC Helicon Acoustic pedal for a JTV69 and HD500x. I'm really enjoying what this gives me in terms of guitar applications. Acoustic guitars plus electric guitar/amps sounds direct to PA. I've got the HD500x setup when Variax is on input 1 and mic is on input 2 with split presets for separate processing of guitar and vocals feeding hard panned XLR outs with the outputs adjusted accordingly.
This has been working great so far, but I'm finding that I'm spending most of my time working on the acoustic and electric guitar sounds. Now that I've got those dialed in, I'm started to think about what I can have the HD500x do to my vocals, if anything. Right now, I just have them going through the signal chain dry or maybe with a splash of reverb.
My question is, are there others here using the HD500x to process live vocals? If so, what sort of effects blocks do you find useful for that application? Just trying to get the best live vocal tones out of it that I can.