It’s not going to sound as natural is the VE-8’s “acoustic resonance”, but, overall, you can get a decent tone with a bit of punch to it.

A touch of reverb, an occasional "chorus" setting for variety, these things are very easy, for this easily annoyed player. Alkaline battery (AA, LR6) x 6 Current Draw 360 mA Expected battery life under continuous use Alkaline battery: Approx. If you’re looking for a pedal of this sort primarily for the harmonies, I highly recommend listening to tons of samples of these pedals in a style similar to what you’re going for.

The Boss VE-8 puts revolutionary effects, vocal tuning and harmonic processing into one compact pedal. Articulate and rich BOSS sound processing helps to bring the best out of your vocals and guitar sound, providing you with with simple yet intuitive controls that let you affect everything from Acoustic Resonance on the guitar to enhancing vocals or adding Reverb.

Just use the dedicated footswitch to lay down a percussive rhythm, chord progression, vocal counterpoint, or whatever you like. You can route those outputs to all kinds of things from speakers to house system to anything in a pedal chain with similar jack setups. There’s also a nice vocal doubling effect, a useful feature for adding fullness and presence to your voice as needed.Hybrid and Fixed harmony modes provide you with different settings for added versatility, suitable for a range of performing and recording applications. The VE-8 can be operated either by mains power (psu sold separately) or with batteries, making it ideal for buskers and mobile performers.

These are smushed together but the top graphic is from the VE-8 manual, bottom is back of the Ditto. The dedicated guitar channel includes Acoustic Resonance, reverb, chorus, tuner, and various effects, plus phase invert and notch filter for feedback control. One of the reasons I selected the VE-8 was it has 1/4" unbalanced outputs (as well as XLR balanced) so I can run the output into my Boss RC-3 loop station (very capable) and then into the Fishman Loudbox Artist amp.If I had my own spot and time, I would take a couple of my guitars that have undersaddle pickups and use my Fishman Aura Spectrum DI and Boss VE-8.