Product Review - TC Helicon VoiceLive Play

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Published in SOS February 2012

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The VoiceLive Play offers powerful vocal processing with simple footpedal control.
J G Harding
TC Helicon, who specialise in vocal processing, offer products in a variety of formats. I’ve previously looked at their VoiceLive Touch and VoiceLive Rack, which both use capacitive touch control for accessing a wide variety of voice-optimised treatments.
For those who aren’t familiar with TC Helicon’s current range, the company’s goal with these products is a noble one: to bring studio-like vocal processing to the stage. They aim to do this by providing a comprehensive set of effects tailored for the voice within a single unit, including preset-based adaptive compression, de-essing and equalisation; pitch processing in the form of correction, doubling and hard tuning (think Kanye West-style Auto-Tune); and conventional effects such as reverb, flanger, delay, chorus, rotary speaker, distortion and so on.
The VoiceLive Play’s chassis and control system has a lot in common with TC Helicon’s stomp boxes, such as the VoiceLive 2 and 2 Extreme. These units squeeze a lot of power into a multi-pedal format, giving the singer the same effect-changing freedom that guitarists will be used to. Housed in a sturdy metal shell, the VoiceLive Play’s controls are somewhat stripped down as far as multi-effects units go, comprising just three footswitches, a continuous rotary encoder and several rubber buttons, and the device is a little less intimidating too.
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