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The songs I'm currently working on require some reverb and other trickery on the vocals. Is it okay to put a microphone into a guitar multi-fx pedal? Do I need a different quality or something? Will it sound like shit?

I would really like something with an expression pedal to put swells on reverb and stoof.

No idea if it'll work or not, if you are planning to buy one I'd definitely look at the TC Helicon stuff, I've seen and I know quite a lot of people who use them.

Hmm, the prices on their kit looks pretty eye-watering. I'm thinking of some entry level zoom piece of shit or something:



But I don't know if it'll carry the right quality of signal or whatever for vocals. But then, everything is mic'd to some shitty PA which is controlled (most of the time) by some guy who doesn't get a good mix anyway so does ti matter?

They work for delay, reverb etc. but obviously for stuff like doubling you will need a vocal multi fx.
I saw a band using a Digitech one and it totally transformed the guys voice.

Was it this one Fran?



Looks cheap used and has an expression pedal.

I thought it was blue (may have been the stage lighting) but yeah, that looks the same.
They've been around a while, I was gonna get Kathie one when we were in Asylum and thats nearly three years ago.

Actually it should work perfectly, it'll just have to involve some clever signal processing. My friend runs his saxophone through a pedalboard of guitar pedals, it just involves DI's, impedance adjusters and a mini mixer.

The mic is usually intended for 600 ohm balanced input so you need a transformer like this
; from the pedal you can go into a high-impedance (line) input on the mixer or go back to XLR with another transformer. Watch out for earth loops.

Or here

if you want a more do-it-yourself approach.