TC Helicon VoiceLive 3 Extreme Effects Processor with MCA100 Adapter and Audix OM2 Microphone
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TC Helicon VoiceLive 3 Extreme Vocal & Guitar FX Processor
Included Effects
Vocal Effects
- µMod
- Echo & Delay
- Reverb
- Harmony
- Double
- Transducer
- Rhythmic
- HardTune & Correction
- Choir
- Stutter
- Vocoder
- Adaptive Tone
Guitar FX
- Amp Modeling
- Drive
- Delay
- Reverb
- Compression
- Resonant Filter
- Wah
- µMod (Flange, Chorus, De-tune)
- Shifter
- Rhythmic/Tremolo
- Talkbox (part of Vocoder)
Control
- 250 factory presets
- Memory for 500 presets
- 10 steps per preset
- 10 footswitches
- 6 preset-assignable footswitches for enabling/disabling FX blocks
- Backing track & FX automation control via footswitches
- Detailed editing
- Genre and Styles preset categories
Design
Size
- Height: 3 inches (76 mm)
- Width: 13.8 inches (350 mm)
- Depth: 8.5 inches (216 mm)
Weight
- Weight: 5 lb. (2.3 kg)
Construction
- Anodized extruded aluminum and steel chassis
- Rubberized edit/mix knobs
- Recessed rubberized handle
- 192 x 64 Blue STN LCD, White Back light display
- Tri-colored Footswitch Light ring
- Capacitive touch edit controls with LED indicators
Connections
Analog Inputs
Voice
- Connector: Combo Balanced XLR/Balanced TRS 1/4″ phone jack
- Input Impedance Balanced: 3.08 kOhm
- Mic Input Level @ 0 dBFS: -52 dBu to +7 dBu
- Line Input Level @0dBFS: -40 dBu to +19 dBu
- EIN @ Max Mic Gain Rg = 150 Ohm: -127 dBu
- Mic SNR >100 dB at typical Mic Input gain
- Phantom Power: +48V (on/off via setup menu)
- A to D Conversion 24 Bit, 128 x oversampling bitstream, 110 dB SNR A-weighted
Guitar
- Connector: 1/4″ phone jack
- Guitar Input Impedance: 1 MOhm
- Guitar Input Level @ 0 dBFS: -2 dBU to 14 dBu
- Guitar Input SNR >108 dB
- A to D Conversion 24 Bit, 128 x oversampling bitstream, 110 dB SNR A-weighted
Monitor
- Connector: Balanced XLR
- Input Impedance Balanced: 25 kOhm
- Monitor Input Level @ 0 dBFS +16 dBu
Aux
- Aux: 1/8″ stereo mini jack
- Aux Input Level @ 0 dBFS +2 dBu
Analog Outputs
Voice
- Connectors: balanced XLR
- Output Impedance Balanced/Unbalanced: 300/150 Ohm
- Output Range 0 dBFS Line Level: +14 dBu; Mic Level: – 2dBu
- Dynamic Range >109 dB, 20 Hz to 20 kHz/li>
- Frequency Response +0/-0.3 dB, 20 Hz to 20 kHz
- D to A Conversion 24 Bit, 128 x oversampling bitstream, 115 dB SNR A-weighted
Guitar
- Connectors: 1/4″ TRS phone jack
- Output Impedance Balanced/Unbalanced: 442/221 Ohm
- Output Range 0 dBFS Line Level: +14 dBu; Mic Level: – 2dBu
- Dynamic Range >105 dB, 20 Hz to 20 kHz note
- D to A Conversion 24 Bit, 128 x oversampling bitstream, 106 dB SNR A-weighted
Headphone
- 1/8″ Mini stereo jack, 50 Ohm, +14 dBu max
Guitar thru
- Buffered Guitar Input
- Connector: 1/4″ TRS phone jack
- Output Impedance Bal/UnBal: 270/540 Ohms
Monitor thru
- Direct connection to Monitor input
- Connector: Balanced XLR
Control
- USB: USB A, Mini-B
- MIDI: In/Out: 5 Pin DIN
- Pedal: 1/4″ TRS phone jack
- Mic Control using TC-Helicon MP-75 Microphone or Sennheiser e 835 fx mic
Power
- External Power Supply Mains Voltage: 100 to 240 VAC, 50 to 60 Hz (auto-select)
- Power Consumption: < 14 W
Safety
- EMC – Complies with: EN 55103-1:2009, EN 55103-2:2009, FCC CFR 47 Part 15B and ICES-003:2004 4th Ed
- Safety – certified to: IEC 65, EN 60065, UL6500 and CSA IEC 65, EN 60065, UL6500 and CSA
Environment
- Operating Temperature: 32° F to 122° F (0° C to 50° C)
- Storage Temperature: -22° F to 167° F (-30° C to 70° C)
- Humidity: Max. 90 % non-condensing
Manufacturer's Description
TC Helicon VoiceLive 3 Extreme Vocal & Guitar FX Processor
Absolute Performance Power
VoiceLive 3 Extreme sets you free to focus solely on your performance with groundbreaking FX automation and backing track playback. Awe-inspiring vocal effects and rich guitar sounds run effortlessly by themselves. From the first song idea to the execution of complex live arrangements, everything you’ve worked for comes together in VL3X.
Features
- NEW! Backing track import with FX automation for “tap-dance free” performances, synchronized to tracks
- NEW! Performance recorder for live direct 24-bit audio, output to a USB flash drive
- A complete vocal sound with next generation harmony processing, effects and tonal quality
- Complete guitar sound via TC Electronic stomp box effects, Amp Tones and flexible outputs to your amp or PA
- Powerful 3-phrase looping lets you create and store entire songs on-the-fly
Audience Connection Like Never Seen Before
Every single detail you need to make your song exceptional – every FX change, every harmony, every loop – every sonic nuance – can be prepared on VL3X before the show. This totally transforms your relationship to the audience. (Oh, and did we say that you can do all of this for over 100 songs?)
Recording and Sharing Power
Your inspired backing tracks and FX sequencing are beautifully matched by the onboard audio recorder that allows you to capture everything you do in glorious 24-bit quality. Record every live performance, every home practice, with professional studio fidelity and effects – both vocal and guitar. Turn your tour into EP material or your late night jams into SoundCloud gold.
Your Voice: Front and Center
With a mind-blowing vocal FX path featuring 11 independent effects blocks, over 180 different pre-programmed styles and more than 250 factory presets available right out of the box (and more available for free download), VL3X represents the absolute pinnacle of singers’ technology and is the perfect partner for your voice.
No Compromise Guitar X and Amp Tones
The guitar section of VL3X puts a premium stomp box collection at your feet – with rich tones from legendary FX makers TC Electronic – plus 30 amp emulations that can be customized far beyond belief. Together they make up an unbeatable piece of guitar road-kit.
Building Better Songs with Loops
Featuring 4 times the storage of VoiceLive 3, VL3X enables you to store every loop snippet or idea you have, allowing you to experiment with real-time song creation and exciting loop jams right until you drop. The smart LoopAssist™ and metronome functions help you to make tighter loops effortlessly and auto-expand allowing for different loop lengths.
Dedicated Vocal PA and Guitar Out
What makes VL3X an incredibly flexible performance system is the dedicated stereo vocal and stereo guitar amp outputs. Send your guitar sound directly to your favorite amp completely independent of the vocal output going to the PA – it even works when you’re looping.
Endless Possibilities
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Intuitive display - see your settings at a glance.
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Stompbox-style access to FX and controls
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Vocal, Guitar and Looping indicator colours (with back image)
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All the I/Os you need - including dedicated vocal PA and Guitar Out
Automation and Tracks
STEP 1: Prepare to Captivate
VL3X fulfills your studio-to-stage journey. It starts in rehearsal with you loading up a backing track – whether it’s just drums, bass, or a full band mix. VL3X captures all your effects changes, syncing them to your track — harmonies, delays, guitar FX, anything you can think of. You can even record FX changes that would otherwise be physically impossible using the switches alone.
Preset Included
VL3X ships with included FX Automation for "Amazing Grace" for male vocals. The female version of the preset will be available for free download via VoiceSupport.
STEP 2: The Perfect Performance
It ends with you on stage, simply pressing “play” on VL3X and an amazing thing happens: Your track plays back with all the effect changes you perfected at home completely automated for your performance. Now you’re free to connect with your audience and your fellow players. All of that hard work you did before the gig – making your song sound just right – is heard every time you perform.
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Up to 100 audio backing tracks can be loaded for live accompaniment via a standard USB key
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MP3 and 16/24 bit WAV import formats supported
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Onboard Sequencer records and plays back FX and Step activations live
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Backing Tracks/Sequences load quickly via associated presets
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Icon-based play/record/editing interface and waveform display
Bootleg Your Own Show
Combining all this automation power with VL3X’s recording feature means that you’re always able to capture exactly what the audience hears on a USB key output. Not only is this a fantastic rehearsal tool, but you can also push “record” at the beginning of your show and have VL3X deliver your own “board mix” – perfect for your press kit, uploading to social media, combining with your video footage or duplicating for sale at the end of the show.
Vocal FX
TC-Helicon's Most Comprehensive Vocal FX Suite
It’s all here: Doubling, Harmony, Echo, Reverb, HardTune, Flanger, Chopper, Choir and more. But it’s here with a difference: with upgrades, new modes and new harmony options.
Vocal FX Highlights
- Upgraded & expanded suite of our renowned vocal effects
- New Harmony sounds – Pedal, Fixed, and Mixed Mode
- New Vocoder with Voice Controlled Synth and Robot Modes
- Adaptive Tone for a truly professional, produced sound
- HIT button to create FX impact
- VoiceSupport app for downloading & managing more presets
Included Vocal FX
- DOUBLE
- DELAY
- REVERB
- HARD TUNE
- SYNTH
- TRANSDUCER
- MICROMOD
- HARMONY
- CHOIR
- RHYTMIC
- STUTTER
New Sounds and Styles
Expand your musical possibilities with exciting, new Harmony modes - Pedal, Fixed, and Mixed-Mode - There’s also an authentic Vocoder with voice-controlled polyphonic synth and robot modes so you can play your voice like an instrument. FX upgrades include new delay filters, new HardTune styles and better sounding doublings.
Personal Sound Engineer Included
Equipped with our trademark Adaptive Tone™, VL3X is your personal sound engineer providing the one feature no singer should be without: automatic and intelligent control of Compression, EQ, De-essing, and Gating, giving your voice the impact and presence to always stand out in the mix.
Get Loud, No Clipping
The automatic Mic Gain feature takes the guesswork out of setting your input level properly. Simply sing your loudest into the mic and VL3X will set your mic gain automatically for the best signal-to-noise ratio and freedom from nasty input distortion.
Guitar and Amp FX
No Compromise Guitar FX and Amp Tones
The guitar section of VL3X rivals even the most pristine pedal boards – thanks to legendary effects from TC Electronic® like Flashback Delay, Hall of Fame Reverb, Corona Chorus, and Vortex Flanger. And you can also choose just the perfect amp emulation from vintage British to classic American.
Guitar FX Highlights
- TC Electronic TonePrint™ FX Styles & Great Tone Classics
- New Talk Box, Rhythmic, Octaver, Wah and Compressor
- Convenient preset FX styles OR customize at will
- Acoustic guitar styles with BodyRezTM shapes
- Guitar chords automatically guide Harmony & more
- Fast & accurate guitar tuner
- HIT button to turn on multiple FX
Creativity Amplified
What can you change in the guitar and amp presets? Here’s an example: The Amp effect not only simulates physical amplifiers, but also provides controls for EQ, Gain, Tube/Transistor simulation and speaker emulation. The level of EQ control in the Amp block is huge, providing controls for both the pre-gain and post-gain stage parametric EQ – something that most real-world amplifiers don’t offer. We’re talking about crazy deep customization —same goes for all of the guitar effects. Don’t be ashamed of your sonic obsessions. They can all come true.
Included Guitar and Amp FX
- AMP
- DRIVE
- DELAY
- REVERB
- COMPRESSION
- WAH
- ΜMOD
- OCTAVER
- RHYTHMIC
BodyRez™ for Acoustic Guitar
The Unbeatable Guitar Road Kit
The FX smorgasbord only starts with the TonePrint effects styles. If you’re a seeker of sounds, you’ll be blown away by the options. It’s loaded with great tone classics such as wah, octave, tremolo, and more. Did we mention that Guitar chords automatically guide vocal Harmony, HardTune, and Synth effects?
Guitar and Headphone Cable
VL3X comes with a specially designed combination Guitar & Headphone Cable too! This is a revelation if you use in ear headphones because it combines your guitar and headphone lines into one slim cable so you have ample freedom to move while you groove.
Looping
Looping Dominance
Create intricate songs and on-the-spot re-arrangements with the VoiceLive 3 platform’s powerful multi-looper.
Looping Highlights
- Powerful multi-track looper with intuitive control layout and infinite overdubs
- 3-phrase looping with selectable layering and serial techniques
- LoopAssist™ with smart metronome, quantize and MIDI Sync for perfectly synced loops
- Auto expansion of loop length allows you to create long loops on top of short ones and vice versa
- 50 loop slots store up to 3 loops of 8 minutes each
Massive Looping Memory
We’ve packed VL3X with even more memory & storage than our already incredibly powerful VoiceLive 3 - hours of looping time and infinite overdubs let you create countless sets of songs – and store them for instant recall.
A Deeper Look at the Looping Features
VL3X is totally dedicated to expanding your looping abilities.
Your Looping Assistant
The LoopAssist™ function helps you make tighter loops effortlessly. It does this through intelligently correcting your loop’s start and end points, or stretching loops of varying lengths to mesh everything together – a feature that goes way beyond many looping pedals.
Additional Features
Endless Styles and Genres
The GENRE feature allows you to easily browse hundreds of presets by style, effects type and artists. Choose a genre that suits you and VL3X will list the presets that match your preference — perfect for when you’re looking for that specific sound or need inspiration.
Hundreds of FX to Hit
There’s a whopping 250+ factory presets and on-board storage for 500. Download and manage hundreds more via our free VoiceSupport app. Chains of up to 10 FX changes can be added to each preset and accessed with the step button.
Next Gen Power
Under the hood VL3X has three independent cores dedicated solely to vocals, guitar and looping. More memory and lightning fast access means double the processing power of our previous benchmark: VoiceLive 2.
Bursting with New
There are, literally, scores of new features in the VoiceLive3 platform – including vocal FX, guitar FX, the looper, UI, I/O and platform.
Command Center
VL3X is designed to empower you in performance, giving you easy access to presets and sounds while providing complete customization of footswitch functions and deep edit control. The LAYER button allows you to switch between the Vocal, Guitar or Looper/Backing track control layers. Each layer gives you instant access to layer-specific functions via the footswitches, with the LCD display showing a clear view of which footswitch controls what effect.
In and Outs
- 4-channel stereo outputs with dedicated vocal and guitar channels
- Independent headphone and monitor mix
- Combo Jack for Main inputs and automatic input/output sensing
- Monitor mix input and pass-through to other monitors
Format Philosophy
- Consistent 3-layer UI philosophy
- Vocals, Guitar and Looper/Backing Track each have their own performance access footswitch layout
- Stompbox-style access to individual effects in both vocal and guitar layers
- LCD display shows current footswitch labels
- Complete customization of footswitch assignments across layers to suit your personal style and requirements
Make it a Hit
The HIT button turns on multiple effects at once to add effect layers or to create quick A/B scenes for each preset. Use it to add dazzling vocal effects for the chorus, or strip down a guitar part for the verse, or even a combination of both vocal and guitar effects changes – you decide.
Extend Control with Stompbox Expansion
Add a Switch-3 accessory pedal to extend your on-the-fly control. Assign any presets or custom combination of Guitar, Vocal FX - or Looping. There’s also Switch-6 so you can break out even more features.
It Comes with Ears
VL3X’s built in RoomSense™ technology listens to your music to guide your harmonies. RoomSense can also be blended in with your headphone mix to allow you to hear the room sounds - especially useful with in-ear monitors.
More Mic, More Control
Now you can control your effects from a mic engineered for the sonic realities of modern vocal performance. Add the New TC-Helicon MP-76 with 4 user-assignable Mic Control™ buttons, the TC-Helicon MP-75, or the Sennheiser e835 FX.
Custom Gig Bag
Keep VL3X and essential gig items in the same, protected place. The VoiceLive Gig Bag is made of durable nylon construction with padded protection, has multiple inside pockets for microphone, cables & other gear and comes with a handy shoulder strap.
VoiceSupport
VL3X is designed to evolve with you. VoiceSupport gives you new presets, firmware updates and maintains your personal database of presets. All you need is a USB equipped Mac or Windows computer.
Audix OM2 Dynamic Hypercardioid Microphone
The OM2 is a dynamic vocal microphone used for a wide variety of live, home and studio applications. This mic has clear and accurate sound reproduction, resistance to feedback and ability to handle very high SPLs without distortion.
The OM2 utilizes a tight, uniform pattern which helps isolate vocals from the instruments on stage. With a wide frequency range of 50 Hz - 16 kHz, the OM2 employs a VLM™ diaphragm for a clear, precise sound with exceptional voice response.
Designed with a slight bass proximity and a tailored mid-range, the OM2 has a full-bodied sound on small to mid-sized PA systems while retaining true sound on large or professional PA systems.
Features
- Transducer Type: Dynamic
- Frequency Response: 50 Hz- 16kHz
- Polar Pattern: Hypercardioid
- Output Impedance 250 ohms
- Sensitivity: 71.5dB
- Capsule Technology VLM Type B
- Off axis rejection 25dB
- Maximum SPL: 140dB
- Cable/Connector: 3 pin gold plated male XLR
- Polarity: Positive voltage on pin 2 relative to pin 3 of output XLR connector
- Housing: Zinc alloy
- Accessories: adjustable mic clip with 5/8" 27 thread stand adapter, zippered carrying pouch
- Dimension: (L x D): 6.73" x .944" (shaft)
- Weight: 10.5oz/298 grams
TC Helicon MCA100 Mic Control Adapter
Using vocal effects is a sure fire way to create an engaging performance for your audience, but sometimes you can feel chained to the location of your processor. TC HELICON Mic Control technology allows you to move around the stage while still controlling your effects.
Until now, Mic Control has only been available with the TC HELICON MP-75 and MP-76 microphones. With MCA100, you can add Mic Control to your favorite dynamic mic!
Get Moving!
Walk, run, prancercise or however you get around the stage, Mic Control lets you keep in touch with the crowd while firing off compelling vocal effects from wherever you are. Whether it's a great harmony or epic delay, it can be way cooler from up on top of the speaker tower you climbed.
Get Your Own!
You probably have a favorite dynamic mic that you love singing with. Instead of giving up that mic to gain Mic Control, you can have the best of both worlds. MCA100 connects to your existing mic and doesn't affect its sound in any way.
Get Bent!
Made from road-ready materials, MCA100 can survive the trials and tribulations of gig, after gig, after gig....
Get Lit!
Finding the magic button in the dark can be a challenge. With a sweet blue LED under the button, you can always locate the Mic Control switch in lots of different lighting situations.
MCA100 works with any dynamic mic and TC HELICON device that supports Mic Control. Please see your device's manual to check whether Mic Control is available on your product.
Features
- XLR Mic Control button compatible with all current TC HELICON vocal effects processors
- Use with your favorite dynamic microphone
- Lightweight, compact and durable
- LED-lit Mic Control button for visibility in low-light conditions
- Designed and engineered in Canada