V256 Vocoder : Affordable vocoder

This is a really cool piece of kit. It can be used to blend vocals with any instrument really but works great with guitars and synthesizers. It even has its own built in basic synthesizer that can generate its own carrier signal to modulate the voice, which can be triggered with a midi controller. There's a good range of sounds to be had from this unit also with male/female options to make the voice deeper or higher in pitch. It has a pitch control to tune your voice to other frequencies. It can also provide phantom power to condenser mics which is handy if you want to use this with a shotgun mic. The one down side I found was that using this with an SM58 was too sensitive and the pick up pattern was picking up the sound of the drum kit making it impossible to use in a live setting. Maybe a pre-amp is needed to take the edge off. Also going to try with a shot-gun mic and see how that works.