TC-Helicon Harmony Singer 2

Amazing bit of kit. I don't use the harmonies often, but the reverb control & 'Tone' button are brilliant...EQ, de-esser & dynamic pop filtering. This with an SM58 is a great little rig.

What's not to like

I'm moving to solo acoustic and needed to fatten the sound. After one hour I have fallen under its spell. Great tone, great reverb and of course, great harmonies. This is exactly what I needed.

4 months great then big problem

Loved this pedal, added so much to my performance and overall vocal quality. Only bought it back in february, but the past 2 gigs a MAJOR problem occurred. Without any sort of warning it randomly created a HUGE explosion of buzzing / feedback that nearly blew the speaker and deafened the audience, made me look so bad. It stopped once I restarted the sound systems. Found similar complaints online, had to remove the pedal to finish the gig. I’m going to see about replacing it and pray it doesn’t happen again because when it worked it was a must-have for my set.

So good I bought it twice

Such a handy unit for both size, function and price. Fits easy on pedal board.

Hatmonys are as good as you'll get without bring the real deal. And harmonies follow instrument quite well without lag time.

Ensure unit is bought with updated software, or at worst ensure to do it yourself.

Worth buying.

Love this pedal

I use this pedal so often when I am gigging now, it really helps to bring out the best in the vocals once you know which harmonies work in each song you are singing. You can choose from so many different variations of harmonies and what level you want them to be at. Also the tone button helps to improve your live vocal sound for a quick sound check

Great product, nice sounding

I could compare this product with Boss VE-2 and the TC-Helicon Harmony Singer 2 sounds more natural to me. It has nice and quick response of chord changes. The tone button is also great. It really makes your voice sounding better and more smooth. Very simple and easy to use.

I really recomend.

Nice, creative tool for your performance setup

I bought this pedal as a street musician needing some extra layers to my sound. I'd heard alot about the TC Helicon Harmony Singer range, and was excited to try it.

In terms of its harmony capabilities, it does a great job picking up the thirds, but has trouble sometimes getting the 5ths in tune. It's very important to be clear with the tonality you're playing on your instrument, and aim to get the chord or note played before the voice enters. Otherwise, you find yourself with a harmony that matches your earlier chord.

I'm pleased with the build; it's solid, though the knobs are quite high, so can quite easily be nudged slightly off where they want to be with your foot, if you're not watching exactly what you're doing. Same goes for the tone button, which I rarely use, as I find that the low cut and additional highs are a bit too much.

The reverbs are nice, subtle when used lightly, but you'll definitely get nicer plates from the desk.

Caution - buzz: only working with XLR3 Cannon cables and connectors

If you use a Cannon-Jack cable or a Cannon-Cannon with a Cannon-jack adaptor on the mix/amp side, you will get a lot of noise (electric BUZZ). Microphones usually work with that kind of cable/adaptor, but this Effect DOES NOT. I have an old mixer with only Jack-type inputs, and I get a big buzz which disappears only... using a different mixer. TC Helicon should write it big and clear on the effect box, which contains no instruction. An instruction leaflet can be downloaded, but still DOES NOT contain any warning about Cannon and Jack inputs.

When it works its brilliant, but high frequencies confuse it, if you whistle or input notes or unusual tones(laughter etc) into it, it breaks up adding a high digital crackle, have had to turn it off & on again many times & the tone of your vocal changes each time!

So good I sold the voicelive

Yup, after learning to use a Voicelive 3 I came across this little beauty. It does what we want, and due to the KISS principle (keep it simple stupid) less is more.

Oh sure we can no longer sound like the chipmunks, and we can't get the hard tune to work but we don't want those features in any case. Guitar pedals are easy to find and in any case our VOX VTXs give us a better end result. Add in the fact we can run it off batteries, and after a pretty short period the VL3 went off to ebay. Accurate, fast and just about perfect we love the HS2, but after a couple of years we had to send the unti backunder warranty. It keeps on randomly switching off and on.