This guitar pedal feels to me like my very own baby! I amd so grateful for you, Sweetwater, sending me this magnificent creation. I will cherish this vocoder for the rest of my life!

Vocal too soft even with blend knob,I think this is this only boss pedal I don't like,the dibitech talker was great

I've haven't seen it mentioned in any of Roland's ads or reviews of this unit on YouTube or other media that there is no way to bypass the effects and use a microphone dry. You will have to devise your own bypass perhaps with a mic splitter or use a separate microphone for your vocals without the pedal's effects. Poor design flaw. Beyond that, it works great.

Finally, a vocoder with a small footprint that I can put right in my pedalboard, right?? WRONG. Boss left out one very important feature: an XLR thru. This means if you sing onstage (like me), you can't use your vocal mic for this unit, you have to have another dedicated mic for the unit! Other vocoders (like the EH V256) have a mic "thru", so your vocal mic is patched in and in the PA when the unit is off, then when you engage it, your vocals are bypassed in the PA and power the vocoder engine...very useful onstage. I.E., ONE MIC for your voc, and the vocoder. With the VO-1, even with an XLR splitter, your vocals are still in the PA when the unit is on. And an effects loop? In lieu of an XLR thru??? Pointless..... Bad design, Boss.

But hey, it sounds killer! (as long as you're not onstage)

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