I’ve been getting a lot of pressure from the singer in my band to hook him up with effects for his vocals lately.  I’ve been reluctant to put together a vocal effects system for him because of the usually kludgey nature of adding effects to live vocals: running a mic straight into a guitar stomp box, then into a mic preamp.  This tends to translate into anemic sound, noisy signal and angry live sound engineers. Enter the Boss VE-20 vocal processor, a dedicated microphone level, voice processing stomp box. The VE-20 is typical Boss, and I say that in a complimentary way: Boss effects tend to do what their box says they’re going to do, and are built solidly.  The VE-20 is no exception: sturdy metal construction in a twin pedal housing (the left pedal controls global bypass and loop recording, the right pedal controls harmony bypass and patch selection, or can be assigned to several other functions as well.  On the back panel, the input is a combo jack accepting either an XLR (with a full +48vdc phantom available) or 1/4” input.  Outputs are a stereo pair of XLRs running at mic level, and a 1/4” stereo line / […]... Click on the title for more