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Originally Posted by RockerDuck
Owning both. the Play acoustic has better vocal harmonies and sound, and the acoustic is good. On the Ve-8 the guitar sounds great and the vocal harmonies, are meh. You have to get real close to the mic for them to work and not so good sounding. The DI out of the play acoustic is silent and good, on the VE-8 the DI out is loud white noise. The play acoustic edges out the VE-8 for an all in one pedal. And the VE-8 does have the same learning curve for accessing the hidden controls.
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We chose the VE-8 and love it. Both units do have a learning curve and even the VE-8 has some internal programming to master. What did it for us was the external knobs that the VE-8 does have, like reverb, volumes and the most important - notch! The ability to dial out problem frequencies on the fly at a gig is critical for me.
I originally agreed with the above quoted statement in bold. But what we discovered was that the mic gain (a small knob on the back) was down too low. If you boost the gain up significantly (and turn the volume out knob down, obviously) then the harmonies sound great.
The VE-8 got rid of an entire pedal board cramming all those pedals previously used into a single aesthetically pleasing, well-built, relatively easy to use pedal that runs on batteries. The perfect unit to use with our Bose S1, especially when we're running on battery which these days is all the time even when external power is available.