John,
Harmonizers is something I am going through at the moment. I have a TC Helicon Voiceworks on order.

The answer to your question though is I think like any other sound question. What I hear to what you hear. Many are satisfied with the on board harmonizers or the digitech. To me they are ok, but just that. They still have a donald duckish sort of it's a harmonizer not live singers sound to it to ME.

TC Helicon has demos on their site you could listen to and judge for yourself......they are very proud of their equipment $ wise though, but they are the best most realistic in pretty much everyone's judgement. http://www.tc-helicon.tc/

As far as Seperating the sound out, yes you can if the 2000 has 4 outputs, mains and subs, then the mic can be sent to the sub out while the rest of the board can run through the mains or visa versa. That way you will have seperate tracks on the recording. The other option for recording would be to lay down the accmp, then go back and lay in the vocals.

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jam on,
Terry http://imjazzed.homestead.com/Index.html

[This message has been edited by trtjazz (edited 02-20-2003).]