BOSS VE-8 Acoustic Singer - Manual (Page 10)

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Settings of the Vocal Effects
ENHANCE
Improves the clarity of your voice
by making the input volume more
consistent.
[CORRECT] Button
Corrects inaccuracies in the pitch of your voice,
improving the precision of the harmony.
Display Button
of OFF Unlit
St SOFT Green
hd HARD Red
REVERB
Adds reverberations to the sound.
Use the knob to adjust the reverb level.
[TYPE] Button
Switches the type of reverb.
Display Button
AM AMBIENCE Unlit
rM ROOM Green
H1 HALL 1 Orange
h2 HALL 2 Red
HARMONY
“Harmony” lets you add a natural-sounding harmony
part to your own voice. Use the [HARMONY] pedal to
turn harmony on/off (p. 7).
[TYPE] Knob
Switches the type of harmony.
Type Explanation
VOCAL EFFECTS
ELECTRIC
A mechanistic sound in which the pitch
changes in steps (recently popular in pop
music).
DIST Vocal distortion
RADIO Radio-voice sound
HARMONY
HIGH
HIGHER
HIGH & HIGHER
LOW
HIGH & LOW
Adds one or two voices of natural-sounding
harmony according to the setting.
DOUBLE
Reproduces a technique in which the same
person records the identical melody twice to
layer the sound, giving it additional depth.
[LEVEL] Knob
Adjusts the volume of the harmony, or a parameter of the effect.
Type Explanation
ELECTRIC Ease of pitch change
DIST Degree of distortion
RADIO Volume of the Radio-voice
HARMONY Volume of the Harmony
Specifying the key of your song
[AUTO] Button (Auto Setting)
If the [AUTO] button is on, harmony will be added to your voice
according to what you play on the connected guitar.
*
If you are playing the guitar and singing, start by trying
the FULL setting, and use HYBRID if you don’t obtain the
harmony that you want If you’re not using a guitar, choose
the OFF setting and specify the key
Display Button Explanation
of OFF Unlit Harmony is added according to the key
specified by the [KEY] button.
FL FULL Red
Harmony is added according to the chord
progression played on the guitar.
hb HYBRID Green
Harmony is added according to the key
specified by the [KEY] button and according to
the chords played on the guitar.
[KEY] Button (Manual Key Setting)
1 Press the [KEY] button to set the key.
* Ex. (F#)
F# # symbol
(E )
Eb symbol
* Specify the key of the song that you’re singing, referring to
below.
Ex. If you’re singing a song in A minor, set to “C,” which is the
relative key.
* If the vocal effect TYPE is set to ELECTRIC, you can also set the
key to chromatic “Ch.”