Background Information

As we all know already, there are many technical loop pedals for instruments when it comes to live performance. Whether it be for guitars, bass, keyboard. But what is there for vocals?
For this project, I will be creating a vocoder for vocalists and hope to be able to use it in my own live performance. A vocoder is very similar to a talk box.
The inventor of the vocoder was Homer Dudley, whose reason behind inventing the electronic device, was to, intentionally reduce the cost of all the expense of copper cables which are used to effectively signal through vocals in a live performance.