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TC-Helicon VoiceLive (No Longer Available)

Item ID: VoiceLive

Footswitch-Controlled Mic Preamp with Harmony, Pitch Correction and Effects

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TC Studio-Quality Vocal Effects Onstage!

When you're in the studio you use great tools to get the best out of your vocal performance. You spend time auditioning mic preamps, reverbs, EQs, delays and effects to get a recording just right. With the new TC-Helicon VoiceLive you can now have all your vocal tools in one dedicated box for live performance! With VoiceLive you get the same quality processing you'd expect in a studio environment: EQ, compression, delay and reverb algorithms with the renowned TC-Quality that professionals have come to expect. VoiceLive also contains the best harmony, pitch correction and doubling algorithms from TC-Helicon's acclaimed rack mounted vocal processor, VoiceWorks.



TC-Helicon VoiceLive at a Glance:
  • Easy control of vocal processing at your feet
  • Natural sounding harmonies
  • Realistic, transparent pitch correction
  • Rugged, road-ready construction

Vocal processing control at your feet!
TC-Helicon worked with numerous performing vocal artists during the design of VoiceLive. Using the feedback from these artists and TC-Helicon's experience in vocal processing, VoiceLive was designed for easy control in any setup.

Eight footswitches and four selectable control modes make VoiceLive easy to use in performance. Preset Mode gives you fast hands-free access to harmony parameters like key and scale type. Song Mode lets you select from stored songs and navigate through their steps. Direct Mode gives direct access to VoiceLive's stored presets - it's as easy as selecting stations on your car radio! Finally, Voices Mode lets you individually toggle each harmony voice on/off using the top four footswitch buttons.

A user footswitch is assignable to Tap Tempo (for the delay effect), Harmony Hold, and to many other useful VoiceLive parameters. Get more creative control by adding an expression pedal to your VoiceLive to sweep through assignable modifiers.

The most natural sounding harmonies
Creating realistic background vocals is easy with VoiceLive. Four unique harmony logic algorithms add harmonies with varying amounts of intelligence. The VoiceLive generates harmony parts from your lead voice - or if you're looking for even more punch from your harmonies, let a second singer use VoiceLive to create a multi-voice back-up ensemble.

VoiceLive uses the same revolutionary technologies to generate real-time harmonies as the TC-Helicon rack-mount harmony product, VoiceWorks. Each of the four harmony voices uses TC-Helicon's Hybrid Shifting algorithm. This superior pitch-shifting algorithm is combined with a voice-trained pitch-detection algorithm and human-modeled naturalization parameters so the VoiceLive can create natural harmonies to reinforce your live performances.

Transparent Pitch Correction
Driven by TC-Helicon's voice-trained pitch-detection algorithm, VoiceLive's automatic pitch correction is the most transparent available. With factory and custom scales, the "Correct" block can fix intonation problems in any musical style. Amount, Attack and a 200-cent window control make natural pitch correction easy to achieve.

In addition to the studio quality signal path, TC-Helicon developed and implemented VOS Limiter - an optical limiter optimized for voice. The analog architecture of the VOS Limiter ensures that you'll never distort the mic input while maintaining premium sound quality.

Built for the road
To ensure the integrity of your vocal performance, VoiceLive is assembled with rugged components. The bottom plate is constructed using a powder-coated steel-plate with anti-skid rubber matting. The buttons and data knobs are recessed and reinforced by double aluminium construction. Rear mounted die-cast steel handles protect your cables and make it easy to carry. You don't need to be gentle with VoiceLive!


TC-Helicon VoiceLive Features:
  • Studio-quality mic preamp (Burr Brown INA163 based) with VOSTM Limiter and 48V phantom power
  • Vocal Processing technology based on VoiceWorks
  • The most natural sounding vocal harmony available using proprietary TC-Helicon technology
  • HybridShift harmony generation for smooth, natural harmony voices
  • Humanization of harmony voices utilizing: FlexTime, Human-Modeled Vibrato, Inflection, Pitch randomization, Portamento and gender
  • Four harmony control modes for intelligent voicing and/or MIDI control
  • Selectable Equal-tempered and Just tuning for harmonies
  • HarmonyHold freezes harmony voices for more interesting harmony phrasing.
  • Automatic pitch correction using factory and custom scales
  • Lead voice doubling
  • TC Electronic 3-band EQ, low cut and compressor/gate
  • TC Electronic reverb & tap-tempo delay
  • Eight smooth-travel footswitches
  • Five edit knobs for hands-on preset editing
  • Expression pedal input
  • MIDI control over all parameters
  • MIC pass thru to post mixing by Front of House engineer
  • AUX input to reverb/delay
  • 24-bit harmony processing
  • Balanced XLR mic and 1/4" TRS line inputs
  • S/PDIF digital I/O

TC-Helicon VoiceLive gives you studio-strength processing onstage!

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Specification Detail
Manufacturer Part Number 996-350011

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Reviews

Fun onstage, but "Studio Quality" is a stretch

by Dave Townsend from Everett, WA USA
October 14, 2008
Music Background: Musician for 40+ years, now just a weekend warrior
Three stars because it is a lot of fun to play with, especially if you perform solo or as a duo.

However, you'll never want to actually use this device for recording unless you're actua... read more [+]lly after a lo-fi effect.

Guitar players, don't waste your time on this unit (maybe the new VoiceTone Harmony-G is better for you). This device is really for keyboard players, because unless you're providing MIDI for it to follow, it's way too much work to program it for live performance.

For that matter, don't bother with it unless you enjoy tweaking electronic devices. If you're a presets-only person, you'll be frustrated because it does take a fair amount of fiddling. But if you're an old-school veteran knob-twister, don't be put off by its reputation for being hard to configure. That's the presets-only crowd talking. close [-]

Sounds Great, spotty support

by Bryan Gordon from Ulster County, NY
January 30, 2007
Music Background: Singer/songwriter/guitarist for 30 years
I find this unit difficult to rate because I consider "support" a big part of the equasion. I have had this unit for about a month now and there is no doubt that it can be a powerful tool... once you ... read more [+]learn how to use it.

First off, the manual is next to useless. For a unit with as many features as this has, the 50-60 page manual is totally inadiquate, basically telling you what the name of the screen you are on is... this barely enough for an intro chapter. They do provide you with a CD-rom that shows some step-by-step procedures with the word "simply" thrown in just before a jumble of steps. The CD is much more helpful than the manual, but how often am I going to be near a computer when rehearsing or gigging? These are the times when I will be tweeking and playing with the settings and will need quick access to info.

I had a few problems with the unit I couldn't figure out with the manual or the CD, so I went to the tc-helicon website to try to get some help... there was no phone # for tech help anywhere, you have to submit your question to the online forum. I did this and still haven't received a response... 5 day later!

In the end I have had to make due with searching the web for customer answers to my questions and countless hours of twiddling around with it to make any progress. I think for $800 I deserve a phone # and a useful manual. It's too bad because the lack of support and a comprehensive manual seem to be the only things getting in the way of a good review.

P.S. Previously I owned an Akai DuoBuddy which I bought as a floor model and never had any trouble figuring out how to work it... without a manual. close [-]

Not as good as I thought it would be

by daddyblue from Colorado
February 5, 2011
Music Background: Pro Musician
I bought one when it first came out. Was hoping for this was steller sound but quite honestly my old digitech vocal box sounded way better. This was a big investment to me, and it was $799 then. I ... read more [+]tried it on a couple gigs but it is really poorly designed for the working musician, I then sold it and bought a TC Helicon voice create box, i didn't like that much either, just sounded too small. Went back to my old digitech voice effect which is always great, thinking about getting one of their new harmonizers close [-]

Voicelive 1

by Spinny from USA
February 9, 2011
Music Background: Working musician
I rate this poorly because of the lack of company support. One year after voicelive2 comes out, they discontinue support for voicelive1. You can't even access older upgrades, let alone benefit from o... read more [+]wning the original floor unit model . VL2 technology is not backwards compatible in any way.
This has impacted my potential for selling the older product and buying the new one without losing a lot of cash. The units are not cheap at $800, and who wants to buy something the company stops supporting less than 3 years after its release?

I wouldn't want to be an $800 buyer of VL2 and have them release VL3 3 years later and then cut off support for VL2 as if it didn't exist.

I will spend my money on a company that has better support. Hell if I'm going to keep upgrading the same product for $800 every 3 years. I have music equipment from 15 years ago that I can STILL get replacement components for. close [-]

Voice Live

by Doug Roane from Dallas, TX
February 1, 2005
Music Background:
I have it. Its GREAT. But I must say make sure you set the internal EQ correctly or it will muddy up your vocals horribly.

Set your global EQ to 80HZ-1 low, 13K+9 high, and 2K6+3 mid wi... read more [+]th Q set to 1 as starting point. Set your global compressor to -15db, 2:1 and the gate to -45db.

Pick your reverb and delay within the various presets, or turn on the global FX for these too!

Then it works fabulously. Very convincing and not chipmunky at all. My favorite setting is preset #2 third above. So much of rock is done with one harmony about the lead, this just works wonderfully.

I am not a great singer whatsoever, but this thing actually makes me sound OK.

I worked with the Digitech Vocalist VR for a while on another project and it SUCKS!
This thing is convincing.


Best Regards,
Doug Roane
dougroane@sbcglobal.net close [-]
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