TC-Helicon : VOICELIVE 3 TC-Helicon

Vocal Effects Processor and Harmonizer with Vocoder, Talkbox, Guitar FX, and Looper

The TC-Helicon VoiceLive 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-aluminum 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've 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, EQ, add reverb, and add harmonies. Three different harmony modes allow you to control the specifics of harmonization. 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 quantization 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.

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

Humanizes 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 modeling, drive, delay, reverb, compression, resonant filter, µMod (flange, chorus, de-tune), shifter, rhythmic/tremolo, talkbox (part of vocoder)

3iC Power Platform

Utilizes three independent cores to doubles the processing power of the previous model, the VoiceLive 2

Polyphonic Vocal Synth and Vocoder

Enables voice-controlled synthesizer 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

EQ

Expands EQ 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 customization 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-Color 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