Digitech has announced the Vocalist Live FX, a vocal (duh) processor that includes anti-feedback circuitry with (according to Digitech) up to 12 bands of frequency filters, in addition to Lexicon reverb and dbx compression.
Digitech Vocalist Live FX
The device comes with an MSRP of $350, which suggests that it’ll be available from retail outlets in the neighborhood of $250. That’s about a third less than the price of a Kinder AFB+, the basic standard for harp anti-feedback devices. And the Kinder doesn’t pack a reverb or compressor, either. The Vocalist Live FX includes a feature called Live Adapt that listens to key, tempo, and so on to assign FX settings (such as, we presume, delay and/or reverb settings), and the feedback suppression is automatic.
I’m a little confused about the availability of this piece. Digitech’s site says it’s available as of April 2013, i.e. three months ago; but it doesn’t seem to be available at Musician’s Friend, Sweetwater, or any of the other usual suspects. I’ll ping the guys at Digitech to ask what’s up with that. In the meantime, this thing looks like it might be useful for harp players, so stay tuned.