TC-Helicon VoiceLive 3 Extreme Reviews

Very good device

This is very useful if your back-up singers are not reliable, you don't have a good (or any) sound guy or you also play the guitar and you need a good all-in-one solution. What I do not like is the fact that I cannot send a stereo track (two separate L/R channels + a separate metronome track to the mixing console). If this would be possible then the thing would be unbeatable for mini bands where you need to go as cheap as possible but still maintain a good quality and image as a full band.

Hilarious, complex, awesome

I've had this up and running for a while now and don't feel like I've even started to scratch the surface of the features available.

The guitar effects are great, and if it was your only pedal you would still have a pretty comprehensive range of sound available to you - they all seem good quality and great sounding with a huge range of presets.

The voice effects are also great, and range from subtle vocal enhancements to ridiculously fun stuff that I hope you would never use in a performance ;)

In combination is where this pedal really shines though, the impressive looper, the guitar sound analysis to create in tune vocal harmonies is just amazing!

Be prepared to invest some time in this though, lots of youtube tutorials are available, and loads of online resources... ultimately your just going to sit there for hours playing with the presets and making some strange sounds and not get anything done! Such fun though!

Brilliant TC-Helicon VoiceLive 3 Extreme

Such a brilliant piece of equipment, I have no words. It seems as though the days of blunt, lifeless live vocal sound are gone. This thing is an all in one package, the possibilities of working with it are imense, and it can be used in really a lot of scenarios, but the Extreme version of the voicelive 3 comes with a great priviledge of making it easy along with making it sound great.

First of all the tone function is so great; the compression, de-essing, eq, and other things that they won't even reveal what they put in this thing, it ''produces'' your vocals in a way that for me was never attainable live. And it kills feedback really effectively, but you'll have to learn how to setup this thing as it's a really complex system, it works great out of the box though, so don't fear. ;) I'm just saying that you can really get even a lot more out of it if you spend time studying it, as for me, I have it for a couple of months, and I'm still finding out new stuff that constantly amazes me.

I completely love the backing track & effects automation possibility, I've actually setup a preset for every song, with the song name in the title, I've assigned one button (in the button mapping section) to ''Play track'' and after that I don't have to worry about anything, the mixing levels, adding of harmonies, megaphone effects, doubles, delays, anything, after I programmed it, it just turns on on it's own, and I'm left in peace to completely devote myself to the performance. This thing actually feels so seamless to integrate into the band, and gives you great artistic freedom, while not affecting or burdening your performance. And the quality and what it adds to your sound live is unprecedented! :)

The best ''music gadgets'' I ever bought!! :D

P.S. I don't even need to speak about how good and correct it makes the harmonies, but be sure to tinker with it, and learn how it works, as you can really get brilliant results with some ''playing with the buttons'' ;)