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[idol_wild]

I am a big advocate of manipulating my vocals with some reverb and/or delay. Some of the venues I have played don't have the ability to make this work and I would like to bring my own set-up with me on tour, especially as I'm beginning to take my music a little bit more seriously. Plus, I want to start looping and layering vocal harmonies and use different effects on each vocal loop.

Am I being naive to think that all I'll need is my own delay or reverb pedals added to the mic set-up? Or is this bad practice?

[John W]

First thing that strikes me is the possible feedback you could create, but i don't know i have little experience with it all really.

[milner]

are you trying to become the male sandi thom?

[Fast Caz]

Originally Posted by milner

are you trying to become the male sandi thom?

........ shite?

[idol_wild]

Originally Posted by milner

are you trying to become the male sandi thom?

No. I'm trying to become the male Kitchen Cynics.

[Jan]

Originally Posted by idol_wild

No. I'm trying to become the male Kitchen Cynics.

Alan is a lady?

[Nefarious C]

If you have a spare three/four hundred quid kicking about you could achieve a lot of those things with a vocoder, your current set of pedals and a small midi keyboard.

[John W]

Originally Posted by Nefarious C

If you have a spare three/four hundred quid kicking about you could achieve a lot of those things with a vocoder, your current set of pedals and a small midi keyboard.

Sorted

[milner]

Originally Posted by Jan Deal

Alan is a lady?

haha i was just going to say alan has been hiding a big secret for years now.

[soundian]

Originally Posted by idol_wild

I am a big advocate of manipulating my vocals with some reverb and/or delay. Some of the venues I have played don't have the ability to make this work and I would like to bring my own set-up with me on tour, especially as I'm beginning to take my music a little bit more seriously. Plus, I want to start looping and layering vocal harmonies and use different effects on each vocal loop.

Am I being naive to think that all I'll need is my own delay or reverb pedals added to the mic set-up? Or is this bad practice?

It's fraught with technical difficulties. Loopbacks would need to be controlled by you and shouldn't cause too much trouble but adding (and having the ability to adjust) your own FX onstage means you need a monitor mix that's going to rival the FOH* and still not feed back. Good luck with that.


* otherwise you might have it sounding great on stage but it's a minging mess out front, and there's squat the engineer can do about it.