Re: Any tips for an "audio pitched down" device?

[John Mazzarella <jmazzarella@erols.com>]

"William R. Walker," wrote:

> Hello Per, At one time I had a Digitech IPS 33B, a rack mount harmony
> proccessor that did everything from simple octave up and octave down, to
> full on diatonic three part harmonies, to whammy effects, to deep space
> station like ambient effects. Essentially, a beer budget Eventide
> harmonizer. The model that came after that was DHP55 that allowed up to
> five part harmonies, so you could do instrumental boy band
> harmonies!(Yikes!) I agree with Stan that the whammy pedal is a good bet 
>if
> you want something on the floor. Also, the boss octaver would be a worthy
> candidate, much more worthy than Arnold Schwarzenegger (hardy har har
> har!). And last but not least, if you can locate a used Boss VF1 half 
>rack
> proccessor, that has some very useable pitch transposition functions, not
> to mention a fairly convincing frettless bass model and a host of other
> cool effects both conventional, (reverb, chorus, delay) and non-
> conventional (VG8 style modeling,psuedo synth sounds, and ring 
>modulation).
> Michael Manring turned me on to the VF1, the last time he played in Santa
> Cruz, and I found one used on ebay for pretty cheap. The VF1 is a half 
>rack
> 24 bit device with plenty of headroom, clean transparent sound, and a
> dedicated hi-Z input on the front for guitar or bass. A very deep box.
> Bill

Is the Boss VF-1 useable as a vocal processor if I ran it in the aux send 
of my
mixer?  Reverb, delay, etc?