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

Description

TC Electronic - VoiceLive 3 Extreme sets you free to focus solely on your performance with groundbreaking FX automation and backing track playback. Awe-inspiring vocal effects and rich guitar sounds run effortlessly by themselves. From the first song idea to the execution of complex live arrangements, everything you’ve worked for comes together in VoiceLive 3 Extreme.

Key Features:

Audience Connection Like Never Before

Every single detail you need to make your song exceptional – every FX change, every harmony, every loop – every sonic nuance – can be prepared on VL3X before the show. This totally transforms your relationship to the audience. (Oh, and did we say that you can do all of this for over 100 songs?)

Recording & Sharing Power

Your inspired backing tracks and FX sequencing are beautifully matched by the onboard audio recorder that allows you to capture everything you do in glorious 24-bit quality. Record every live performance, every home practice, with professional studio fidelity and effects – both vocal and guitar. Turn your tour into EP material or your late night jams into SoundCloud gold.

Your Voice: Front & Centre

With a mind-blowing vocal FX path featuring 11 independent effects blocks, over 180 different pre-programmed styles and more than 250 factory presets available right out of the box (and more available for free download), VL3X represents the absolute pinnacle of singers’ technology and is the perfect partner for your voice.

No Compromise Guitar FX & Amp Tones

The guitar section of VL3X puts a premium stomp box collection at your feet – with rich tones from legendary FX makers TC Electronic – plus 30 amp emulations that can be customised far beyond belief. Together they make up an unbeatable piece of guitar road-kit.

Building Better Songs with Loops

Featuring 4 times the storage of VoiceLive 3, VL3X enables you to store every loop snippet or idea you have, allowing you to experiment with real-time song creation and exciting loop jams right until you drop. The smart LoopAssist™ and metronome functions help you to make tighter loops effortlessly and auto-expand allowing for different loop lengths.

Dedicated Vocal PA and Guitar Out

What makes VL3X an incredibly flexible performance system is the dedicated stereo vocal and stereo guitar amp outputs. Send your guitar sound directly to your favourite amp completely independent of the vocal output going to the PA – it even works when you’re looping.

Step 1: Prepare to Captivate

VL3X fulfils your studio-to-stage journey. It starts in rehearsal with you loading up a backing track – whether it’s just drums, bass, or a full band mix. VL3X captures all your effects changes, syncing them to your track — harmonies, delays, guitar FX, anything you can think of. You can even record FX changes that would otherwise be physically impossible using the switches alone.

Step 2: The Perfect Performance

It ends with you on stage, simply pressing “play” on VL3X and an amazing thing happens: Your track plays back with all the effect changes you perfected at home completely automated for your performance. Now you’re free to connect with your audience and your fellow players. All of that hard work you did before the gig – making your song sound just right – is heard every time you perform.

• Up to 100 audio backing tracks can be loaded for live accompaniment via a standard USB key
• MP3 and 16/24 bit WAV import formats supported
• Onboard Sequencer records and plays back FX and Step activations live
• Backing Tracks/Sequences load quickly via associated presets
• Icon-based play/record/editing interface and waveform display

Bootleg Your Own Show

Combining all this automation power with VL3X’s recording feature means that you’re always able to capture exactly what the audience hears on a USB key output. Not only is this a fantastic rehearsal tool, but you can also push “record” at the beginning of your show and have VL3X deliver your own “board mix” – perfect for your press kit, uploading to social media, combining with your video footage or duplicating for sale at the end of the show.

TC Helicon's Most Comprehensive Vocal FX Suite

• Double, Delay, Reverb, hard Tune, Synth, Transducer, µMod, Harmony, Choir, Rhythmic, Stutter.

New Sounds and Styles

Expand your musical possibilities with exciting, new Harmony modes - Pedal, Fixed, and Mixed-Mode - There’s also an authentic Vocoder with voice-controlled polyphonic synth and robot modes so you can play your voice like an instrument. FX upgrades include new delay filters, new HardTune styles and better sounding doublings.

Personal Sound Engineer Included

Equipped with our trademark Adaptive Tone™, VL3X is your personal sound engineer providing the one feature no singer should be without: automatic and intelligent control of Compression, EQ, De-essing, and Gating, giving your voice the impact and presence to always stand out in the mix.

Get Loud, No Clipping

The automatic Mic Gain feature takes the guesswork out of setting your input level properly. Simply sing your loudest into the mic and VL3X will set your mic gain automatically for the best signal-to-noise ratio and freedom from nasty input distortion.

No Compromise Guitar FX & Amp Tones

The guitar section of VL3X rivals even the most pristine pedal boards – thanks to legendary effects from TC Electronic like Flashback Delay, Hall of Fame Reverb, Corona Chorus, and Vortex Flanger. And you can also choose just the perfect amp emulation from vintage British to classic American.

Guitar FX Highlights

• TC Electronic TonePrint™ FX Styles & Great Tone Classics
• New Talk Box, Rhythmic, Octaver, Wah and Compressor
• Convenient preset FX styles OR customise at will
• Acoustic guitar styles with BodyRezTM shapes
• Guitar chords automatically guide Harmony & more
• Fast & accurate guitar tuner
• HIT button to turn on multiple FX

Creativity Amplified

What can you change in the guitar and amp presets? Here’s an example: The Amp effect not only simulates physical amplifiers, but also provides controls for EQ, Gain, Tube/Transistor simulation and speaker emulation. The level of EQ control in the Amp block is huge, providing controls for both the pre-gain and post-gain stage parametric EQ – something that most real-world amplifiers don’t offer. We’re talking about crazy deep customisation —same goes for all of the guitar effects. Don’t be ashamed of your sonic obsessions. They can all come true.

• Amp, Drive, Reverb, Delay, Compression, Wah, µMod, Octaver, Rhythmic.

BodyRez for Acoustic Guitar

More of an acoustic player? VL3X will optimise the sound of an electro-acoustic guitar with ground-breaking BodyRez™. Carefully placed filters and fast acting compression combine to reduce “piezo-quack”, making your amplified guitar sound like the beautiful full-bodied instrument it is. Dial in as much or as little BodyRez as you need and use the handy EQ controls to fine-tune the dynamics of your sound.

Guitar & Headphone Cable

VL3X comes with a specially designed combination Guitar & Headphone Cable too! This is a revelation if you use in ear headphones because it combines your guitar and headphone lines into one slim cable so you have ample freedom to move while you groove.

Looping Highlights

• Powerful multi-track looper with intuitive control layout and infinite overdubs
• 3-phrase looping with selectable layering and serial techniques
• LoopAssist™ with smart metronome, quantise and MIDI Sync for perfectly synced loops
• Auto expansion of loop length allows you to create long loops on top of short ones and vice versa
• 50 loop slots store up to 3 loops of 8 minutes each

Endless Styles & Genres

The GENRE feature allows you to easily browse hundreds of presets by style, effects type and artists. Choose a genre that suits you and VL3X will list the presets that match your preference — perfect for when you’re looking for that specific sound or need inspiration.

Hundreds of FX to Hit

There’s a whopping 250+ factory presets and on-board storage for 500. Download and manage hundreds more via our free VoiceSupport app. Chains of up to 10 FX changes can be added to each preset and accessed with the step button.

It Comes with Ears

VL3X’s built in RoomSense™ technology listens to your music to guide your harmonies. RoomSense can also be blended in with your headphone mix to allow you to hear the room sounds - especially useful with in-ear monitors.

VoiceSupport

VL3X is designed to evolve with you. VoiceSupport gives you new presets, firmware updates and maintains your personal database of presets. All you need is a USB equipped Mac or Windows computer.