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Electro-Harmonix Voice Box Vocal Harmony Machine/Vocoder

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Electro-Harmonix Voice Box Vocal Harmony Machine/Vocoder
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Vocal Harmony Processor/Vocoder with Nine Presets, Reverb, Formant Control, Mic Preamp, Phantom Power, and Balanced XLR Line Output

The Electro-Harmonix Voice Box vocal harmony processor/vocoder makes it easy to get a variety of cool vocal effects and multiple harmonies, effortlessly! The Voice Box lets you generate 2- and 4-part vocal harmonies by keying off of your guitar or keyboard. You can blend effects, add the onboard reverb, and even dial in "male" or "female" formants to your liking. You get nine presets with a dedicated footswitch, plus a mic bypass switch, too. Why let the instruments have all the fun? Get creative with your vocals and plug in the Voice Box!

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars February 6, 2026

/sweetwater blessings

By Sweetwater Customer
Music Background: Piano Lessons in childhood plus more lessons in adulthood. Lead worship in church for about 20 years,

My son, Scott and I truly appreciate all who work at Sweetwater.
The knowledge and care in giving us while we try to convey what we need is very much a big help. Thank you for your quick
responses and outstanding services. It is so wonderful to be able to leave a wish list, also. It helps us know what our son wants for any holiday plus birthdays. I give you all a big thank you.
Best of wishes to all who work there and especially for Max Rice. You all rock.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars January 13, 2026

Great vocoder, that's it

By Sweetwater Customer from Florida

I have been trying to get this pedal to properly work as a harmonizer for a while now. Not only do the harmonies sound very robotic (which I can forgive because it's a vocal processor, it's not going to sound perfect), the pedal can not process correct harmonies fast enough or even correctly. If you sing perfectly in tune and play the simpliest chords, it'll process it (maybe). Not to mention it does NOT work with a keyboard. Now, onto the good. The vocoder is fantastic. It does a great job of taking the sound of whatever your pumping through with your instrument and make a very cool and unique sound. You have a decent amount of control over the blend and sound that you want to acheive through the pedal. I love using it as a vocoder, but I'm extremely dissapointed in the harmonizing function. If I wanted to buy just a vocoder, I would've bought a something different. I would not recommend, or buy this again. Extremely dissapointed.

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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars November 20, 2025

Works great (with one caveat...):

By Don M. from Madison, WI
Music Background: Lifetime pro player and recordist.

This is the third device of this type that I've owned. I wish I'd kept a TC Electronics harmonizer (no longer made) I had a few years ago, but that's water under the proverbial bridge. I have a similar Boss unit which is optimized for use with acoustic guitar. The instrument and vocal signals are mixed to all outputs, so use with a guitar amp is out.

THIS unit (the E-H) works really well: tracking of the guitar signal is very good, the effects themselves are very useful, editing and storage works as described. It's quite easy to use.

The only problem is not a deal-breaker, but it IS going to make using this on gigs unnecessarily challenging:

Why would ANYONE put the I/O jacks for this unit on the SIDES? The 6" wide case, once mic and instrument cables are patched in, requires a foot-and-a-half of available space to have adequate room to plug everything in. This makes it really hard to use on a pedalboard, or even to have other pedals nearby.

Clearly, it didn't have to be that way. Set-up hassles on gigs will make this more difficult to use professionally than it needed to be. Mike (Matthews), this could have been an easy 5-star review.

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars June 10, 2025

Staple in Our Sound

By Ben W. from CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH

The band I use this in is an Electric Light Orchestra tribute and it works great for replicating the vocoder sounds from the 70s and 80s. We have not even tapped into half of what this voice box can do and it's already become a staple to our sound on stage.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars May 13, 2024

Eagles in a Box

By Carmadillo from Fort Worth, Tx
Music Background: Gigging Musician and Home Studio owner

I have had this pedal since 2009-ish. It can be amazing. The presets are not very good right out of the box - cartoonish and chipmunk like. However, when you take the time to dial in each preset to match your voice and genre, and then save your adjustments, the results are amazing. I routinely cover "Lying Eyes" and people rave about the 4 part harmonies I dialed in on preset #7. "Eagles in a Box". Oh, and did I mention it is built like a TANK. I have gigged with it 50-70 times a year since 2021 and had no issues other than the 9v power supply quit which I replaced with a different $ unit with a 500ma rating. I recommend this pedal all the time and have friends from Indie to Country that use it and love it.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars April 13, 2023

Great Vocoder!

By Happy A.
Music Background: Audio Engineer

I had a tcelectronic talk box pedal, I sold it and got this, the blend knob is a game changer, always sounds great! I love Electro-Harmonix pedals, they make great sounding, reliable products that are a deffinetly worth the price!

Rated 1 out of 5 stars June 14, 2022

Don’t waste your money

By Walt M. from Texas
Music Background: 40 years in cover bands

I wish I had returned it. I've used several harmonizers and nothing compares to the Digitech Vocalist 5 for ease of operation and end results. Unfortunately, they're no longer made and eBay is your best bet. I didn't hear anything that was remotely usable on this EH unit

Rated 5 out of 5 stars February 6, 2021

Wonderful addition

By Brian F. from Greeley, CO
Music Background: Clarinet in the Junior High Band. Vocals and bass guitar in a band called Psychogenic Formulations. 1968-1972. Bass guitar in our church band for many years. Performing wife my wife for the past 5 years.

I bought the Voice BOX July of 2017. Well, now that were COVID-19 homebound I thought I'd finally write a review.
My wife and I perform together. I play the guitar, she plays the Ukulele and we both sing.
We use the Voice Box at every gig.
We both can sing harmony for the other, but some songs need more voices. We narrowed our harmony settings to 4.
It's a wonderful addition.
In 2019 we had 87 gigs. In 2020 we played 14 gigs before everything shut down. We can't wait to hit the road again. Be safe

Rated 5 out of 5 stars January 25, 2021

Great vocal processor

By Nate from East of middle of nowhere
Music Background: Ambitious amateur

This is the second similar vocal processor I have bought, thus one is the better of the two... it tracks really well, and follows my guitar key accurately. You can make multi part harmonies sound good, or you can just dial a little reverb in if you are looking for a more subtle effect. The band and I definitely like messing around with it, can't wait to use it live when that can happen again. One note is that it is probably best not to run on your pedalboard unless you are sticking with just one setting. I mounted it on my mic stand, and can adjust much easier on the fly.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars December 26, 2020

Perfect for the home studio...and always great service from Sweetwater!

By Mitchell G. from BUFFALO, NY
Music Background: performer-Bassist and singer

I bought the Electro-Harmonix Voice Box for use as a home studio gadget, and so far so good....and Sweetwater's processing, shipping speed and follow up are second to none!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars September 14, 2020

NICE LITTLE BOX

By Phil from Winston-Salem, N C
Music Background: D J, voice talent & audio producer

The Voice Box from Electro-Harmonix is a pretty nice box. I had a harmonizer from them back in the early 80's. It was very well made and served me well on the road. This unit is just as robust and I look forward to many years with it. I haven't had a chance to really get into it, but I did find it very intuitive to set up. I'll meed more time tuning the harmonies though. Being a D J, I really wanted it for the vocoder function and it works really well. It is a bit noisy but nothing a little noise reduction can't take care of. I have already used in in a couple pieces of production. By the way, the service and delivery from Sweetwater was excellent! They even provided some sweets to enjoy with the product.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars January 23, 2020

Not very usable if you need quality sound

By Craig from Texas
Music Background: musician for over 50 years

This pedal does work like it says. However, it adds reverb (and lots of it) even when the reverb knob is all the way down. There's no way to completely turn it off unless the pedal is bypassed. What good is that? Almost EVERY system you play through will already have reverb or delay effects already processing on your vocal channel so if you can't run this pedal dry, you get normal reverb through PA when bypassed but when engaged, there's way too much. The reverb is so present it stands out like a sore thumb when engaged. And aren't we all looking for a NATURAL sound? Also, there's no ground lift switch like on most other pedals of this type. We weren't able to even have it hooked up on the pedalboard of the other guitar player because it made a horrible loud noise. When we used our other pedal on his board (it has a ground lift switch), it was totally silent. This pedal is unusable for live sound or anywhere you need to perform to an audience.

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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars September 16, 2018

Great piece of equipment to add to your show

By Shane from Lindeman
Music Background: Gigging musician

Lot of capability, lot of options. I use this for my solo shows and it really helps a lot. I'm used to singing with two other guys but this really sounds like a whole chorus of people. Only thing is, you can't run phantom power from your board to it otherwise you'll get a hum so I use a XLR to 1/4" adapter.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars February 28, 2013

Great piece of equipment

By Jerry H. from Burnet, Texas
Music Background: Hobbyist

This "Voice Box" is pure magic. I have a small (Yamaha) PA system which I use for small local venues, retirement homes, church groups, jam sessions, etc. I consider myself a semi-pro as I think I was actually paid once. Plugged the box in and had a great time entertaining myself for a couple of hours. A word of caution, use a good microphone for best results. A cheap mic produces a less than desirable sound and doesn't do "the Box" justice.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars December 20, 2012

Excellent!!

By J from PA
Music Background: singer/songwriter

Perfect for "doubling" my voice. Very smooth n realistic.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars October 10, 2012

Freakin' Awesome!

By Steve J. from Melbourne, Australia
Music Background: 30 year semi-pro bassist, guitarist and pro sound guy.

Had my first play with this great pedal yesterday and I've never had so much fun (or worked so hard, jeez I need to work on my pitch ;-)

If you're looking for a simple vocal harmoniser, this is about as simple as they get and still work, and this works really well. Yes, you're limited to the standard presets and one variation of each, but the versatility in each preset should accomodate a typical 3 or 4 setlist.

The easiest way to use this is to give it it's own mic, just to one side of your main mic and set it to all effect/no dry, giving a whole channel on your mixer to harmonies, separate to your main vocal channel. Moving your mouth to equally between the 2 mics is easy than trying to stomp the pedal on and off for harmonies.

There are better units, but not at this price, and the ease of use makes it great for solo or small combo use. Seriously, playing with this is the most fun you can have with clothes on, and it won't drink the bar tab dry like real backing singers ;-)

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars April 14, 2009

The Voice Box is awesome

By AvonJunky from Staten Island, NY
Music Background: Active Musician, Recording Engineer

I just bought the Electro Harmonix Voice Box and it rocks. The vocoder works great and sounds really cool when it's triggered by a guitar. The harmony modes work great, just as long as you sing on pitch. If not, there's still the octave and whistle mode that work great and don't have to follow the key you're playing in.

The Voice Box also sounds really cool when you put horns through it instead of vocals. It's definitely a sick toy.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars April 8, 2009

wonderful sound

By Josh from Clinton, MA
Music Background: obsessed hobbyist.

A fun and great sounding vocoder, the VOICE BOX is simple as can be and really versitile.

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