DigiTech Exhibits New Vocalist Live 4 Vocal Harmony & Effects Processor

Jul 31, 2007

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DigiTech®, a leading manufacturer of guitar signal processors, and a Harman International company (NYSE-HAR), is showing the Vocalist® Live 4 vocal harmony and effects floor processor at this Summer NAMM Show. The new Vocalist® Live 4 furthers DigiTech's ongoing philosophy of developing products designed to supply musicians with the best sounding, most creative tools possible.

The Vocalist® Live 4 vocal harmony processor is the big brother to DigiTech's Vocalist Live 2 and both units employ the powerful technology of musIQ™ which accurately creates multi-part harmony by analyzing guitar chords. There is no tedious programming or knowledge of complicated music theory needed. Simply play any guitar chord and the Vocalist® Live 4 knows exactly which great sounding harmony to create. The user can choose from a 3rd, 5th or octave above or below, or unisons to create up to 4 part harmony. It's that simple.

The Vocalist® Live 4 feature set also includes:

• Selection of lead voice effects; Compressor, Reverb, Delay, Preamp effects and EQ
• 24-bit/44.1kHz audio quality
• Built-in mixer with Vocal, Harmony and Guitar level controls
• Pitch correction with four adjustable parameters
• Vocal enhancement effects matrix allows up to five parameters of Preamp, Compressor/Gate, EQ, Lead Effects, Harmony, Reverb, Echo Delay and Guitar effects
• Store and recall up to 50 User presets; select from 50 Factory presets
• 2+10-character easy to read LED display
• Major/Minor and Key Change Up/Down buttons with LED display
• Harmony, Effects and Preset Up/Down pedals
• On board chromatic guitar tuner
• XLR mic /line input with level adjustment, low-noise preamp and +48V phantom power
• 1/4" guitar input, 1/4" guitar pass-through and guitar ground lift
• Balanced Stereo 1/4" line and balanced stereo XLR outputs
• Rugged road worthy all-metal chassis
• Power supply included

The Vocalist® Live 4 has an MSR of $699.00.

About musIQ™ Harmony Technology
musIQ™ is a revolutionary technology that eliminates the need to enter key and scale information into the Vocalist Live 4 as it listens to the notes/chords played on a guitar and makes sure that the harmony voices fit with the music. Real-time processing discerns the individual notes and key signatures that are played to automatically generate appropriate vocal harmonies that complement the lead vocal. musIQ™ is a trademark of 3dB Research® Ltd.

For more information, visit their web site at www.digitech.com.