TC-Helicon VoiceTone H1 Reviews

Extra extra extra everything!! NExt level addition!

There are a lot of vocal harmonisers on the market, but this one has guitar mic control, it is responsive like nothing I have ever used and I love it very very much!

Two singers for the price of one!!

I’m a solo singer / guitarist and I bought this to get some harmonies on my vocals when playing live. It does a reasonable job for the price and is a great entry level model. It’ll sweeten up your vocals provided you don’t play a bum note on the guitar (because it selects the harmonies based on what the guitar is playing). You can set it to other modes but that’s how I was using it. Overall I liked it but it left me wanting more - so I went for its bigger brother (PlayLive Acoustic) and am super happy with this.

Great piece of kit

Absolutely love this, hours of fun, sturdy and easy to use

Very realistic harmonies

Very human like harmonies, i use the third up all the time, very quick guitar signal tracking, recommended for acoustic guitar + vocals as well as in a band, taking the guitar signal from a rhythm guitarist.

Great on what it does

Simple, good tracking, good sound, build like a tank and a great footswitch. No more to ask

great pedal pity no internal tuner.

Easy to use with good harmonies

This little unit does a great job of providing several nice harmony selections and the mix lets you blend them nicely into whatever volume level you are playing. I did find that the mic input was not a strong connection with any of my mic cables and has often disconnected itself during performance when I step on the pedal to activate the harmony, which immediately dropped the vocals from the PA. A Deadly disconnect. I now take extra precaution when stepping on the pedal and checking where the input cable is located when setting up.

Voice tone pedal

Another great product from tc helicon great build quality

Just Ok

These pedals do what they say but unless you’re playing a guitar for the pedal to identify your key do not expect to just leave them on the floor and be able to press the switch on and off because they do need a key change in between every song so it kind of defeats the purpose having to keep going back to it with your hands. You can set the pedal on its chromatic setting to identify every note but then you won’t get the hard tune effect.

The pedal also has a gain dial on the side which is hand if you’ve got really gain hungry mics but turn the gain on the pedal up even halfway and your mic has waaaay too much gain. Much more than your mixing console would provide which is completely un-necessary and if you set the gain too low on the pedal you get weird distortion, noise and loss of quality.

Again great product from TC.

Good , simple reliable

exactly what I was looking for

Simple unit

Does what it says on the tin,good solid unit

Quality on a budget

This is a basic harmony pedal with no built in affects, but then it's also one of the cheapest around. Getting the wet/dry mix right is essential to getting a realistic sound without it sounding robotic, but once you get it right it works well to fill out backing vocals. It would be better if it had a doubling setting as well as the voices above and below, but at the price you're only going to get the basics.

Very good for the price

I am a keyboard player/vocalist and I wanted to experiment with harmonies as I had listened to other musicians and wanted to try it. As an entry level unit this is great. Not expensive but not a huge feature set either. You get what you pay for and this is great value for money.

Great for live performance

I love this pedal for live gigs it really opens up the possibilities for a fuller vocal sound when performing solo.You just have to be very subtle with using the dry/wet setting.It can sound to synthetic when wound up.I use it at about 9 'o'clock it lets your voice take the main role with subtle harmonies in the background. I use it with a guitar and find it has good true tracking keeping the voice harmonies fairly accurate.

Good value for money!

I have this plugged into my keyboard for automatic chord detection which is a bit an off-label application and I had some trouble with it until I split the keyboard into two audio outputs, left hand [with predominantly bass patterns] to left channel and right hand with the harmony to right channel so the H1 doesn't 'hear' the left hand play and the chord detection worked a lot smoother. If you're playing slow arpeggios it might still get confused but with some sustain pedal it is quite effective.

TC-Helicon Voice Tone H1

I have owned a few TC-Helicon Harmony-G units in the past and thought I would try the H1. Its really simple to hook up and use and has acceptable harmony tones. You do have to choose your harmonies before you perform a song and cannot change them on the fly (as you can with the Harmony-G). The harmonies tend to waver at times or are perhaps too sensitive but I cannot tell yet if this is due to guitar chord sensing or ambient noise at gigs. What I do know is that the Harmony-G unit did not have this problem, but then it was a more expensive unit. To sum up, I would not buy this unit as my main vocal harmonizer, and only use mine as a back up to my Harmony-G.