Boss VE-20 Vocal Performer 4-stars Reviews

Features limited, but Boss quality

Quality is top notch as most Boss items. Features are limited specially with only 2 pedals and no editing-app. Sound wise is very good and will get you through gigs without any problem, but if you compare to VE 500 then it really dwarfs in flexibility (more fx, editing app, midi) and in sound (algorithms were improved). I upgraded to it, but kept the VE 20 as a backup

Good to cut feedback

• Good to add effects on vocals during rehearsals.

• With the EQ, you can cut one frequency at a time to see which one is creating a feedback and cut it to stop it!

• For gigs, it's good if you have specific settings that change from song to song or during songs themselves.

• If you just like one specific setup (a bit of delay, for example), it might be easier to ask that setup to the sound engineer.

Always good as a backup anyway!

Your bread and butter but not a pedal you'll use forever

This is a really good pedal. There are a lot of useful features and a lot of needless and unnecessary features that you'll never use.

The ability to make your own settings, save them, and change between different levels of reverb, compression, delay and other effects is great. I use it so I don't have to communicate to sound engineers about my desired vocal effects. It can cause a bit of feedback if reverb/delay are up too high but this can be fixed with a little tweak of the EQ.

Phantom power is also very handy if you have a mic that needs it, otherwise you can just use any passive mic.

It's built like a tank and the reverb and delay sound good for the price.

In summary,

I would recommend this pedal to a friend, 100%. I don't think it's the be all and end all but it's a great way to have more control over your vocals at a live performance.

a jack of all trades

I use this pedal for it's basic effects, things like echo and reverb, and i'm very satisfied with its performance. I've seen people doing crazy thing with it but I havent explored its full potential yet. I reccoment it to anyone who wants to treat vox as something more than singing the lyrics. As an istrument maybe.

The Boss!

Great pedal... The only limitation I found was that programming the pedals for different patches was a bit limited (up and down). I wanted to use 3 different patches but the reverb is set as a separate entity. Although the reverb level knob can be used on its own.

I found this to be a bit limited for my use although the sounds are really good. The loop is easy to use as well.

BOSS is good

Good piece of an equipment. Very easy to use.