I had the DoD Votec, and the Electrix WarpFactory Vocoder. Neither one really suited my needs; the VoTech had piss-poor sound quality, and the Warp was too Dance-oriented for my needs. The Vocal 300 is great. Its presets are awesome, and are of great sound quality, no hiss, no problems. The unit itself is well laid-out, and easy to navigate. Creating patches is a snap! Also the Vocal 300 is housed within a tough metal chassis. Kudos to digitech for such a great tool. Highly recommended for spicing up vocals.

I'm not a vocalist, but if you horn players haven't realized it yet you can use this too. I use it on my sax and it rocks. It gives me just enough reverb and delay when i need it and it lets me adjust it for special situations. Its very easy to use and if your in the market for a personal effects unit, this is definitely the way to go.

Feature:
the great thing about this is the character voices you can assign to the patches. judging by some of the names such as Monster, Cyborg, and Alien, i'm guessing this thing was aimed at electronic and industrial musicians who are looking for interesting character vocals to add to their music. i couldn't imagine how they would fit in more mainstream genres of music, but it'd be interesting for one to experiment.

Quality:
i've given mine quite a beating and it's still perfectly responsive. no complaints in this section. it's a bit heavy, made of metal, and sturdy as hell. the foot pedal has a nice pressure about it, making it easy to push to the exact point you want without going over your range. i think it was well made.

Value:
personally, i think it's worth the price. i will say it's better for live performances than in recordings, but in recordings you have a good deal of software you can purchase and mess with to get similar effects, though i still use it in recordings.

Desirability:
well, the box with the "Cyborg" patch displayed on the unit makes it very appealing to people who are fans of Front Line Assembly, Ministry, the Deftones, and other types of bands that use a lot of interesing vocal effects. i don't really think the purple color suits this box...i'd personally prefer red or black or white or something but that's just me. it really doesn't matter what color it is. it looks easy to use and it is.

Sound:
the sound quality is great. it avoids the hiss you'd get out of the other vocal processors that are around the same price range, and definitely better than using a lot of stop boxes or what not.

Overall:
i think i will continue to use this product until i wear it down to nothing, and then i'll jst buy another one or something more up to date when the time comes.

This thing has lots of really fun effects that
can inspire creativity. Very easy to use live.
The chorus effect is not as strong as I would
like, but an inexpensive chorus pedal can be used
on the mixer. For some reason the XLR
output does not work right on mine, but the line
output is fine. Lots of fun...I'm keeping mine!

The sound is very professional, good features to play with.. the only thing is that the expression pedal is very tricky.. enjoy the the analog delay a lot.. u can almost make ur own back up vocals using the analogue delay + expression pedal right... great piece to have on stage whether you use little or a lot of effects, knowing that u can punch is a cool telephone effect when everything goes quiet, or use one of those tv effects by switching pitch is great.. i reccomend this for live bands.. unless something better comes out, this is the best i've found so far
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Feature:
Most of the features are not needed... but they actually do work. I use it with most of them turned off, except the EQ, and the reverb.

Quality:
It works fine, and most importantly, I found it to be very quiet in operation... I noticed very little hiss etc. I acutlaly wish the pedals were a little bit bigger but then the whole thing has to get bigger too... I got to wehere I could hit the right pedal pretty easily.

Value:
Again... only get it if you need it... it would be better to have a real sound engineer atr the FOH station... but... if you need something like this... this one works well for the money. I don't think you will see it on many "true pro" stages... but I have used it to good affect.

Desirability:
It has no sex appeal to me... I would MUCH rather have an actual sound tech... I just can not afford one. I don't think it is actaully "cool" to be hitting a bunch of foot switches during fmy performance... but... it can work.

Sound:
This thing does not do anything that a skilled sound engineer could not do for you - if you had one - sitting out at the front of house board... but like I said... "if you had one". Further... it is hard to know what the "house" sounds like from "on stage". On the other hand... this thing actually does work... and you caqn dial in a pretty nice mix for your vocals with it. It is very quiet, and smoooth to operate, and not too hard to figure out even. Admittedly, most of the presets are virtually useless... but you don't need a thousand different settings... right... you just want one or two that sond good. I used this thing to set up two different settings, one for my vocals, and one for when I was playing my harp... and I could switch back and forth pretty easily, and very quietly. I was able to cut all the highs from the harp setting, and boost the reverb considerably.. which is what I wanted to do. Less is usuaally more when it actually comnes down to vocal effects, but this nthing had some nice features, and I was able to get what I wanted out if it. It does not support phantom power, so if fyou are usuiong a condensor mic, you will need to supply your own outbaord phantom power, but that is not too hard to do these days. Again, I don't think you are going to see this thing on Aerosmith's stage, and if you had a good attentive sound engineer, they could probably take care of you just fine... or even better... but if you are like most of us, and having to figure it out yourself, this thing might really be useful to you.... it is not junk, and at $ 200 I guess it is affordable?

Ease of Use:
It was not too hard to get the hang of... pretty simple once you get on to it.

Support:
I did call for tech support regarding the use of phantom power... which this unit does not support... but the support guy was knowledgable, listened to what i was asking, and knew the answers... can't ask for more than that... I also did not have to wait very long to talk to them, which I appreciated.

Overall:
Like I say... I didn't want to get this, but I wanted something I could switch my mic settings with between when I was singing, and when I was playing the harp... this thing worked for doing that, and it was simple enough that i could take it on stage, plug it in, and use it... with a mimimum of fuss for some sound guy out there who didn't reaaly want to do that much... I also tried an A-B switch for my mic, running it to two different channels on the mixer... which also worked fine... but then the sound tech has to mix the two different channels and pay attention.... with this thing, I can just tell him to run everything flat and dry, and let the 300 take care of the major changes... if the tech is paying attention and wants to fine tune it for the room, he can? There is never a substitute for a good sound tech who is paying attention... but good sound techs that are paying attention are expensive.

I was just commenting to my spouse last week about wanting a dedicated voice effects unit for my private practice sessions.

Most of what I find are not practical for the use desired, practice sessions. The DV 300 VEPP appears to be "exactly" what I want.

I am exceptionally discriminate in my choice of audio equipment, it has to be high quality, user friendly, AND as well, durable. I believe I may have found what I've been looking for in a vocal effects processor.

I am going to purchase the DV 300 VEPP.

I spent a few dollars on a TLS2 Peavy sound system, which included Two speakers, (12" wolfers and 9" horn) and a powered head w/all the goodies. The effects unit I purchased when I bought this system is high grade (if I menetioned the name, discrinanating musicians would recognize it) but, I have to say although it has a twin 24 bit engine processor per side, it's NOT that easy to use. It takes a while to learn it's use, and I think I still have a bit more to learn about it. I really didn't want to spend that much time just learning how to use an effects unit.

I appreciate the appearant ease of use and it's custom control ability. This makes it well worth the samll price tag to have "that much control" and function!

THANKS!

P.S. I need more equipment like this for a variety of functions in my private practice sesssions, with this quality, price (vs comp to others in same field) and durability. Please inform me of your entire product line.

Feature:
Needs more useable parameters. Also, would be nice if you could backup your custom settings. Mine had a glitch and I lost hours of programming.

Quality:
It is sturdy and easy to use.

Value:
It sucks. Don't buy it. Buy a real vocal processor. Spend another two or three hundred, even a thousand. Why throw your money away on this?

Sound:
The sound quality is fine, perhaps a bit of noise for vocals. The main thing is that none of the presets are really any good. Actually, none of the parameters are very good for vocals unless you're having a halloween party. I've been runing my guitar through it and getting some interesting sounds (so I don't feel like I blew over $200), but other than that, it sucks.

Support:
Haven't dealt with them. I'd ask them to give me my money back.

Feature:
Features were great, if using at home to practice.

Sound:
FEEDBACK CITY BABY!!!! This a simple toy for clowns tht don't use a real system. Everytime I used it, my sound guy wanted to smash the thing on me by the end of the night.