TC-Helicon VoiceLive 3 Guitar/Vocal Effects Processor and Looper

Description

The TC-Helicon V oiceLive 3 Guitar/Vocal Effects Processor and Looper is designed for live performance and recording applications, providing extensive vocal effects, guitar stompbox effects, and 45 minutes of phrase looping in a durable extruded-aluminium footpedal chassis. The unit offers 11 independent effect blocks, over 180 different styles, and over 200 factory presets. It also provides storage for up to 500 presets and the option to download additional presets online for free.

Once you'Voe tooled around with it, you'll find it a very powerful resource—more than enough to enliven a set of solo singer/songwriter material; and that's just one of its many uses.

On the vocal side, the pedal can be used to correct pitch, adjust tone, gate, compress, AEQ, add reverb, and add harmonies. Three different harmony modes allow you to control the specifics of harmonisation. Moreover, harmonies can be generated based on a variety input signals, such as built-in room microphones, a 1/4" input jack, a stereo 3.5mm input jack, a 5-pin DIN MIDI connection, and more. This allows you to create realistic three-part harmonies as determined by the chords you're playing on a guitar, a piano, backup track, or a MIDI instrument; it also allows for a degree of improvisation and exploratory meandering in musical motifs.

For guitar, the unit includes extensive stompbox effects like delay, reverb, chorus, talk box, chopper, bass wah, and drive effects. The unit also includes a wide range of amplifier emulations, from vintage British to classic American amps. These amplifier simulations can be tweaked in depth via the UI.

The pedal can also be used to loop both guitar and vocal phrases with quantisation to a metronome, infinite overdubs, recallable presets, and up to 45 minutes of non-volatile memory. It offers three-phrase looping, allowing you to build different sections of a song as you go along—particularly useful if you'd like to alternate between verses, choruses, and bridges in your live music. With the three-phrase looper, you can play such songs while building up the arrangement as the song progresses.

The pedal features dedicated stereo vocal and separate stereo guitar amplifier outputs for connecting to a PA and guitar amplifier respectively. A specially designed guitar and headphone cable allows for connection to an in-ear monitoring system and enables practice without the need for an external amplifier.

Features

Vocal Effects & Three Harmony Modes

• Fixed-Harmony Mode Sings the desired note regardless of the chord
• Pedal-Harmony Mode Sings an interval from each chord
• Mixed-Harmony Mode Blends fixed, pedal, natural-play, scale, and shift harmonies
• Improved Harmony Hold Holds harmonies with greater accuracy
• Improved Portamento Humanises voices to make harmony sound more realistic
• Improved Shifter Range Allows ±3 octave shifts
• Various Vocal Effects Includes µMod, echo & delay, reverb, harmony, double, transducer, rhythmic, hardtune & correction, choir, stutter, vocoder, and adaptive tone

Guitar, Synthesis, More

• Guitar Effects Includes amp modelling, drive, delay, reverb, compression, resonant filter, µMod (flange, chorus, de-tune), shifter, rhythmic/tremolo, talkbox (part of vocoder)
• 3iC Power Platform Utilises three independent cores to doubles the processing power of the previous model, the VoiceLive 2
• Polyphonic Vocal Synth and Vocoder Enables voice-controlled synthesiser with on-board waveforms and vocoder sounds such as robot and guitar talkbox
• RoomSense Microphones Control harmony from room sound such as a live band and add ambience to monitor mix
• Improved Hard-Tune Functionality Enables more or less noticeable degrees of tune correction and features separate buttons for control over hard-tune and transducer transitions
• Improved Doubling Provides more accurate and better sound quality when doubling
• Half-Note Delay Divisions Allows choice of delay divisions
• Hit Button Turns on/off multiple vocal and guitar effects
• AEQ Expands AEQ range and precision for voice and instrument
• Multiple Guitar-Output Paths Allows the user to specify the output sends for guitar/instrument signal

Looping & Loop Storage

• 3-Phrase Loops Allows song-building through looping with three independent phrases
• LoopAssist Helps user timing when pressing loop button for seamless looping
• Loop Storage Saves loops in up to 10 independent loop sessions with all performances settings and up to three loop tracks per session for a total of 30 total loop tracks and 45 minutes of non-volatile loop storage
• Separate Output for Voice and Guitar Looping Sends vocal loops to stereo/mono XLR outputs and guitar to stereo/mono TRS with loop level controls
• Additional Metronome Sounds Provides kick drum, stick, shaker, tambourine, and cowbell samples for metronome

More

• Remappable Buttons Allows for customisation of the 6 footswitch functions
• Backup to USB Enables saving presets to USB memory stick for future recall
• All Mute Silences vocals and guitar for breaks
• 4-Channel Stereo Out (Guitar + Vocal) Enables recording stereo vocals and guitar separately
• Automatic Gain Control Automatically adjusts gain level when user sings at loudest level
• Remote Microphone Control Enables control of vocal effects using the TC-Helicon MP-76 or Sennheiser e835 fx microphones
• Input Sensing (Aux/Mon) Automatically sets the correct level based on the source plugged into the input
• Output Sensing (Guitar) Automatically removes guitar signal from XLR outputs when plugging in guitar out
• Programmable Hit Button Turns on multiple effects at the same time, layers effects, and creates quick A/B scenes for each preset
• Presets with FX Chains Creates CHAINS of up to 10 effect changes for each preset
• Independent Headphone Mix Provides input for a headphone monitor mix and pass-through to other monitors
• Included Guitar and Headphone Cable for IEM's Combines guitar and headphone cables into one cable for easy setup
• Capacitive-Touch Buttons Provides easy touch interface for main menu buttons
• Multi-Colour Footswitch LEDs Provides visual feedback of what effect or control is being accessed
• Power-Cable Strain Relief Prevents power cable from being pulled out during a show
• Kensington Lock Allows unit to be securely locked