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1. want access to a guitar effect on the vocal page For example remapping the Double foot switch to Guitar HIT will give you access to guitar effects on the Vocal Layer right beside Vocal HIT VoiceLive 3 overview Parm1 and Parm2 By now you know how to remap footswitches and choosing between Latched and Momentary mode But what are the other two parameters Parmi and Parm2 good for Parm 1 and Parm 2 are part of the Loop Trig ger Buttonmap If you assign Loop Trigger to a footswitch you need to choose which loop and which track you would like to trigger when you tap that footswitch Parm 1 defines which Loop slot you are using see Basic Loop concepts and terms Parm 2 defines which track or combination of tracks you would like to trigger when press ing the button The available options are Loop A Loop B Loop C A amp B or A amp C Learn more about the Looper in The Looper 49 TCHELICON VoiceLive 3 overview Exp Pedal tab Getting the most out of your expression pedal If you have connected an expression pedal to your VoiceLive 3 you can define what the ex pression pedal should control in each Preset Being able to define the expression pedal tar get in each Preset gives you a lot of flexibility from one pedal Eos EO EPA PECAL CT EXP MINPOS EXP MASPOS OU 100 EXPRESSION PEGAL A HARMONY LEVEL GLOBAL OFF Use the Expression pedal
2. COMP REVERB HARMONY DRIVE Vocal Layer with some guitar effects remapped to vocal effect footswitches You may find that you would like to hang out on a particular layer Vocal or Guitar and have access to a key effect or effects from another layer Remapping foot switches allows you do to just that This is best referred to as a mixed layer This is a more ad vanced operational mode that we will cover later TC HELICON Introduction 3 Step footswitch To move to the next Step within the current Preset from 1 to 2 etc tap the Step footswitch Not all Presets have Steps STEP To move to the previous Step in the current Preset e g from 2 to 1 tap the Preset Down footswitch To enter the Step management screen hold the Step footswitch Step management 1 Fi mT lng LATER EUTTOH Step management You can use the current Preset or a different Pre set as a Step If you are using the current Preset make sure that it sounds the way you want it to before you enter Step management COPY TO STEF TO ACCEPT Adding a Step to a Preset TH IIL LATER EUTTOH DELETE las VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 If it is a different Preset enter Step management and then use the Preset Up and Preset Down footswitches to locate the Preset you would like to add as a Step A O COPY TO STEF TO ACCEPT LATER EUTTOH DELETE
3. IEP Adding a different Preset as a Step To accept changes tap Step To delete the current step tap the Layer foot switch To cancel press Home The Step footswitch can be Globally reassigned to several different functions such as Tap Tem po HIT Set Key any Vocal or Guitar effect and more We have found that remapping Step to enter leave the Looper can be incredibly useful in performance when you need quick access in and out For more information about Steps see Using Steps 4 uMod footswitch Tap the uMod footswitch to turn the micro modulation uMod effect on or off uMOD The uMod block encompasses effects such as Chorus Flange Detune and Rotor 16 TCHELICON 5 Delay footswitch Tap the Del ap the Delay footswitch to turn the DELAY Delay effect also known as echo on or off The Delay block encompasses effects such as 1 4 Note Multi Tap and Ping Pong Tempo tapping To access tempo tapping hold the Delay foot switch Tap the footswitch in time with your song A few taps are enough When you are happy with the tempo stop tap ping VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 6 Reverb footswitch Tap the Reverb footswitch to turn REVERB the Reverb effect on or off The Reverb block encompasses ef fects such as Hall Club Room and Plate Introduction 7 HIT footswitch Tap the HIT footswitch to activate or deac
4. Synth effects tend to best be used as an ac cent during a particular passage of a song not full time Manipulating the way you sing speak words into the microphone while Synth is active can greatly increase the effectiveness of the sound Elongating vowels and or over pro nouncing consonants will really make the ef fect stand out Editing the Vocal layer 59 TCHELICON Editing the Vocal layer Transducer block tab The Transducer effect is often referred to as Megaphone or Distortion but it really cov ers any manipulation of gain structure and EQ filters Distortion and filter effects are common across Rock Pop Country Hip Hip EDM and other genres VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Tips and tricks for working with the Transducer effect APOIO GeO Go EUTTONMAr M The first and most important tip is that any distortion or EQ filter effect can be very prone to feedback so bear this in mind when con necting your VoiceLive 3 to a 50 000 watt sta dium PA or the system at your local pub Use of Gate within the Transducer advanced edit parameters can reduce the chances of feedback when the effect is active Set the threshold such that the gate opens to let your voice through but closes mutes very soon after you finish singing This Craig s Corner video covering feedback can help a lot for both general PA use and Transducer effects youtube com watch v VIN1RJ4gcAo Cha
5. Before you begin VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 4 TCHELICON About this manual This reference manual will help you learn under standing and operating your VoiceLive 3 You can download the most current version of this reference manual from tc helicon com products voicelive 3 support To get the most from this reference manual please read it from start to finish or you may miss important information VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Getting support If you still have questions about the product af ter reading this reference manual please get in touch with TC Helicon Support tc helicon com support VoiceSupport VoiceSupport is the application that allows you to fully unlock the potential of your TC Helicon product and stay in touch with the latest news tips and tricks VoiceSupport key features include Professionally authored preset libraries Direct access to product manuals Update messaging helping you stay up to date with the latest software Drag amp drop preset management Customizable content about your products VoiceCouncil feeds for the latest advice for singers Firmware upgrading Account management Access to support You can download VoiceSupport for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X from tc helicon com products voicesupport Before you begin Please register your VoiceLive 3 To register your VoiceLive 3 using the
6. HIT off Think of them as two variations of a Preset Press the HIT button a couple of times Take note of which effects come on and off when HIT is active HIT on and inactive HIT off Now let s add an effect to the HIT on flavor of this Preset Activate HIT Now turn on an effect that is currently off For this example try uMod VOICELIVE 2 CLASSIC 3RD UP a T MoD AENT REVERS Eo m UE HARMONY PRESET A Pa MOD DELAY REVERB ft HIT DOUBLE HARMONY se Preset 2 HIT on Press HIT Notice that Mod and Harmony turns off VoiceLive 3 overview TCHELICON VOICELIVE 2 CLASSIC 3AD UP T DELAY HIT f DOUBLE THARMONY PRESET d MOD DELAY REVERB Er HIT DOUBLE HARMONY v Preset 2 HIT off Press HIT again You will see that Mod comes back on in addition to Harmony which was previously activated by pressing HIT TCHELICON VOICELIVE _2_ GLASSIC SAD UP EST REVERS T DOUBLE MOD DELAY REVERB Dr 4 p HIT DOUBLE HARMONY If you save the Preset your new HIT assign ment will be saved and you can control both UMod and Harmony with the single HIT button the next time you use the Preset 39 TCHELICON VoiceLive 3 overview Tips and tricks for using HIT effectively If you would like an effect to be ON regardless of the HIT button s state
7. VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 A RHYTHMIC RHYTHMIC STUTTER AA EUTTONMAP EEE ER CE PEDAL PRESET MODE LATCHED DELAY MODE PARMI PARME DELAY LATCHED RENERE MODE PARMI PARME RENERE LATCHED Buttonmap menu Use the Control Knob to scroll down and high light the line starting with HIT 4 PES Ea EUTTONMAP ETATS PRESET REWERE MODE PARMI PARME RENERE LATCHED HIT MODE UOC HIT LATCHED DOUELE MODE PARMI PARME COUELE LATCHEL Selecting HIT in the buttonmap menu Use the Mix Knob right below Mode to change the mode of the HIT footswitch from Latched to Momentary A TEMS a EUTTONMAP ETATS PRESET REWERE MODE PARMI PARME RENERE LATCHED HIT MODE UOC HIT MOMENTARY DOUELE MODE PARMI PARME COUELE LATCHED Changing Mode to Momentary Press the Home button This will take you back to the main or home screen Now press the HIT button just like you did be fore Notice how the blue light only comes on while you hold the button down That s Momen tary mode Try singing the same song again pressing hold ing the HIT footswitch when you want harmonies to activate Practice activating harmony for a single word or short phrase It s much easier in momentary mode Before you move on go back into the Vocal But tonmap screen and change HIT back to Latched mode 4 Peo Gy EUTTONMAP ETT PRESET RENERE MODE PARM PARME REN
8. Country in nature 2 Setup button Use the setup button to access to all system setup settings including Input Output MIDI Tone Guitar and more Push and hold the Setup button to enter the automated microphone and guitar gain setting mode 3 Store button Use the Store button to store Presets Tap once to activate the store procedure Tap again to confirm TCHELICON 4 Home button Use the Home button to return to the top level interface The screen will show Preset Num ber and any effects associated with the current layer 5 Control Knob Use the Control knob to move through Presets and scrolls up down when in an edit screen When in the Home screen press to add or remove the current Preset from the Favor ite genre 6 Vocal button Use the Vocal button to enter the Vocal edit screens This is where you can make changes to the vocal effects for the cur rent Preset For more informa Home tion see Editing the Vocal layer 7 Guitar button Use the Guitar button to en ter Guitar edit screens This is where you can make changes to any of the guitar effects for the current Preset For more in Guitar formation see Editing the Guitar layer VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 8 Looper button Use the Looper button to enter the Loop options screen Here you can control several general Loop options Looper 9 Mix knobs From th
9. RENERE LATCHEL uMod footswitch remapped to Rhythmic Mode changed to Momentary VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 63 TCHELICON Stutter block tab Stutter is essentially a small sampler used to make a quick recording of your vocal and play it back repeatedly in time with the music Depend ing on the division setting the sample used for the Stutter effect can be longer or shorter Stutter is great for Pop Hip Hop and EDM genres but can find a home in any style of music when used creatively VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Tips and tricks for working with the Stutter effect t takes some practice to learn when to press the stutter button in relation to your singing in order to get a good working sample Take some time to experiment with the timing of footswitch pressing and the division param eter to see how the two interact There is a Direction parameter that can play a reversed version of the sample Try changing it from Forward to Reverse Stutter is much easier to control and integrate into your performance when the button is set to Momentary operation When remapping Stutter to a footswitch remember to set that footswitch to Momentary Stutter can be used in a similar fashion to Har mony Hold see Tips and tricks for working with the Harmony effect Try starting the stut ter effect on a note then sing around that stut ter note with your lead voice while th
10. The Utility menu Loop limits 52 53 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 67 68 69 70 11 12 13 14 5 16 T1 18 19 80 80 84 88 Setup 89 Input tab 90 Output tab 94 Guitar tab 96 MIDI tab 98 Tone tab 102 System tab 108 Buttonmap tab 111 Pedal Calibration tab 116 Product info tab 116 Appendix 117 MIDI CC List 118 System Maintenance Factory Reset 119 Technical Specifications 120 Features 121 Design 121 Connections 122 Details 123 Included with VoiceLive 3 123 Product VoiceLive 3 Product firmware version 1 0 R70 Document Reference manual Document version date 2014 03 29 S TCHELICON Important safety instructions Important safety instructions VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 TCHELICON Se ee 10 11 12 13 Read these instructions Keep these instructions Heed all warnings Follow all instructions Do not use this apparatus near water Clean only with a dry cloth Do not block any ventilation openings In stall in accordance with the manufacturer s instructions Do not install near any heat sources such as radiators heat registers stoves or other apparatus including amplifiers that pro duce heat Do not defeat the safety purpose of the po larized or grounding type plug A polarized plug has two blades with one wider than the other A grounding type plug has two blades and a third grounding prong The wide blade or the third prong is p
11. signal falls under the threshold 104 TCHELICON Threshold parameter Manual Gate mode only Use the Threshold parameter to set the thresh old for the Gate When the signal level falls un der this value the gate is activated and attenu ates the signals as specified by the Atten uation parameters VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 EQ Mode parameter Use the EQ Mode parameter to choose between adaptive automatic and manual equalization Parameter settings Adaptive Automatically adjusts equalization settings as you sing Manual Equalizer settings are static and manually set Setup Shape parameter Adaptive EQ mode only Use the Shape parameter to control the amount of adaptive equalization applied to your voice The default setting is 50 105 TCHELICON Warmth parameter Adaptive EQ mode only Use the Warmth parameter to adjust the charac ter of adaptive equalization When you set it to On the equalization will sound warmer VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Low Mid High gain parameters Manual EQ mode only Use the Low Mid and High Gain parameters to set the amount of signal boost gain or attenu ation that should be applied to the low mid and high bands of the EQ Parameter range 12 to 12 dB Setup Low Mid High Freq uency parameters Manual EQ mode only Use the Low Mid and High Freq uency param eters to set the frequencies of
12. wanted feedback or drastic volume changes Test settings in rehearsal before trying them out at a gig Boost can be used when playing acoustic gui tar simply to raise the level slightly for a solo etc Editing the Guitar layer 69 TCHELICON Editing the Guitar layer Guitar Delay block tab Tips and tricks for working The Guitar Delay block works in the same man with the Guitar Delay effect ner as the Vocal Delay block Please see Vocal There are benefits to using the same Delay Delay block tab for an overview of the Vocal division for both guitar and vocal effects You Delay block can sync up the taps of the echoes on both signals and create some very interesting ef fects With the above in mind using similar but dif ferent Delay divisions can also be very ef fective For example try note on your Vocal and 1 8 note on the Guitar Slap echo is a very common guitar setting for classic country music sounds Using Delay effectively can make a very sim ply played guitar passage sound much more complex The Edge from U2 makes heavy use of Delay Using Delay briefly can highlight a portion of a song quite effectively Listen to Tangerine by Moist In the verses they use a brief Ping Pong type delay to expand a mono guitar to the stereo field 0 42 into the video youtube com watch v 6tkY81YGB44 Sorry for the less than awesome video qual ity on this
13. Metro nome off VoiceLive 3 s LoopAssist no lon ger guides your recordings and the Loop may fall off time with other time based effects like Delay or Rhythmic 85 TCHELICON The Looper TAP Tap TAP HIT footswitch rhythmically to define a new tempo While you are tapping a tempo the Preset Up and Preset Down foot switches will be lit in blue indicating that you can use them to fine tune the tempo in BPM steps SOUND Tap SOUND Reverb footswitch to open a new sub menu where you can choose which sound the metronome should make When you have chosen a sound you like press BACK EE C T kickonum RESTE SHAKER TAMB COWBELL SCOT TETE Metronome sound sub menu A F Metronome level As you can adjust the audio output for the Main Mix and Headphone Mix independently see 9 Mix Knobs it s your choice if the audience hears the metronome or not Tempo and Metronome As long as you haven t recorded anything into a Loop slot you can freely define the tempo for your loop using the TAP button Once you have recorded a Loop with the Metro nome ON the tempo will be locked meaning it cannot be changed later To change the tempo VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 you would have to delete the Loop completely or switch to another Loop slot If you record a Loop with the Metronome OFF you can still change the tempo later Sync sub menu T
14. Reverb footswitch TCHELICON VOICELIVE 479 0 SEC ENn Genre Setup re SEE ae SWAP SET ODUB SET PLAY PRESET A r4 HMOD DELAY REVERB A pee v STEP HIT DOUBLE HARMONY Recording Loop track B Now what makes working with separate Loop tracks so interesting is that your second Loop track Loop track B can be longer than Loop track A Still you will get the best results when Loop track B is a multiple of the number of beats in Loop track A For example if Loop track A is four beats one bar make Loop track B 8 or 16 beats two or four bars If you record longer than one multiple but less than two silence will fill in the gap You will see the same Set Play and Set ODub options you saw when recording Loop track A Choose one and press it when you are fin ished recording 82 TCHELICON If you chose Set Odub continue to record overdubs until you are finished then tap END ODUB Understanding loop track length To get a better understanding of how loop tracks of different lengths are played back in SMART Sync mode see SMART start by recording a simple loop of just counting numbers Loop track A Record the words one two three four as close to the metronome beats as you can Loop track B Record the words one two three four five as close to the metronome beats as you can When playing back you w
15. Slot 3 Tracks A and C Delay footswitch remapped to Loop Slot 3 Track B 66 TCHELICON Editing the Guitar layer Editing the Guitar layer VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 67 TCHELICON Editing the Guitar layer Press the Guitar button to enter the Guitar edit screen For more information about editing Style Level Control and other parameters associated with each effect see Editing an Effect VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Amp block tab The Amp effect not only simulates physical am plifiers but also provides controls for EQ pre and post Gain pre and post 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 There are multiple controls for each low mid and high EQ including bandwidth commonly known as Q and frequency If you don t like one or more of the factory Amp Styles the EQ options allow you to change it to suit your particular taste and tone requirements ame ORIWE DELAY REVERE COMP WAH u MOD OC TAUER LOL POST Mit POST HIGH POST B dE 18 dE E dE E LO PRE MID PRE HI PR LOCUT FC 0 dE 11 dE 1e dE e0 Hz LOF PRE MID F PRE HI F PRE 160 Hz EE ALE 3620 Hz Adjusting Amp EQ settings Tips and tricks for working with A
16. VoiceSup port software launch VoiceSupport and click on the ACCOUNT button Please note that registration of your product is NOT required to use VoiceSupport download presets update firmware or contact support S TCHELICON Introduction Introduction VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 6 TCHELICON Welcome to the Voice Live 3 reference manual First thank you so much for taking the leap and purchasing VoiceLive 3 We at TC Helicon are honored that you chose to spend your hard earned money on our vocal guitar and loop processing system and we are confident that VoiceLive 3 will fundamentally change your per formances As you discovered in the Quick Start Guide the short manual that came in the box VoiceLive 3 is easy to use at the top level but offers unprec edented depth in both control and editing We recommend you treat your VoiceLive 3 like any other new instrument and dedicate some time to learning how to use it Yes that means RTFM Read the full manual VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Design concepts Layers amp footswitch mapping VOCAL GUITAR A RU LOOPER VoiceLive 3 is built on the fundamental concept of layers From a design perspective there are thee layers to work with Vocal Guitar Looping You may switch between layers using the Layer footswitch which we will discuss in more detail later in the manual Es
17. detail in Editing the Guitar layer Then go to each Preset where you would like to use the same Reverb go to the Reverb settings and change the Global parameter to On Done This Preset will now use the Reverb set tings from the Global Preset CHIC CRT FEUERE CEL EG CHOIR TO RENERE DELAY TO RENERE 0 dE 0 dE LEAD LEWEL LJIDTH 0 dE 100 x GLOBAL on Setting Global to on links an effect to the set tings defined in the Global Preset VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Global effects are available for each and every effect in the Vocal and Guitar layers There are endless possibilities for Global effects handling but here are a couple we think you might like Use the same guitar effects across all Presets This essentially turns VoiceLive 3 s Guitar layer into a series of stomp boxes that you only need to set up once How do do that Simply edit ANY Preset until all of the guitar effects and footswitch assignments are how you like them Enter the Setup menu and navigate to the Sys tem tab using the horizontal Arrow buttons Dial the Control knob until the line saying All Guitar FX Global Off is highlighted Turn Mix knob 3 or Mix knob 4 under the dis play until Off changes to on Done Every Preset will now have the same guitar sounds LACET TA NRA 545TEM EUTTONMAP CONTRAST GLOEAL PRESET So z 441 GLOEAL NATPLAY SOURCE
18. haven t heard Voodoo Child Slight Return by Jimi Hendrix or later Stevie Ray Vaughan go listen to it now That s Wah in a nut shell youtube com watch v d81fdU8EP28 In fact there s also some interesting delay ef fects and reverb in there too Wah is basically a carefully constructed EQ filter that you can sweep up and down the frequency spectrum with a foot operated pedal VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Tips and tricks for working with the Wah wah effect Our Wah effect block also includes a few Touch Wah styles that simulate moving a foot pedal based on your playing volume and pace If you don t have an expression pedal try one of the Touch styles Playing with Wah can increase your chances of feedback since this effect is boosting a range of frequencies Of course Jimi would have a great argument for feedback being a good thing Try combining the Wah effect with Octaver for a Wah Bass sound Editing the Guitar layer 13 TCHELICON Editing the Guitar layer uMod block tab Similar to the Vocal version of this effect Mod provides micro pitch shifting and timing effects for your guitar Some of the most famous Mod effects include Flanger Chorus and Detune We have conspired with TC Electronic s guitar pedal gurus namely Tore Mogensen to rec reate two of their best modulation effects for VoiceLive 3 Vortex Flanger and Corona Chorus A
19. is a good setting for use with a PA or FRFR Full Range Flat Response speaker Off Speaker simulations are turned off This is a good global setting if you are plugging into a nice amplifier and want to maintain its sound relative to the guitar effects 96 TCHELICON Output Mode parameter Use the Output Mode parameter to specify if gui tar output levels should be variable or fixed Parameter settings Unity Gain Maintains a constant guitar level output regardless of Mix settings If you have an expression pedal connected and have it set to control guitar volume the guitar output level will be affected Variable Level Changes to the guitar level on the Mix screen will affect the level of the gui tar outputs This parameter is only applicable to the 1 4 guitar outputs not the XLR outputs The XLR outputs always allow variations of guitar level via the mix screen as long as no 4 guitar outputs are con nected VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Gate Threshold parameter Use the Gate Threshold parameter to set the threshold for the guitar gate A gate closes or mutes the sound when it reaches a specific low volume threshold To set the gate effectively play a note or chord letting it ring out for a while You will notice that it reaches a certain volume and then goes com pletely silent This indicates that the gate has closed effectively muting the output T
20. it started At this point you may want to compare the ap parent level of the current Preset to other Pre sets in VoiceLive 3 and then use the Level Trim controls on the Preset tab for Vocal or Guitar to make adjustments There is also a Pan control available in both the Vocal and Guitar Preset tabs that allow you to pan the vocal or guitar signal left or right The default setting is C for Center It can be especially useful to assign Guitar Pan to an ex pression pedal if you would like to create stereo guitar loops which we will discuss later Additionally you can create some interesting vo cal sounds by panning the lead vocal completely to one side and then add effects There s a De lay Pan control in the Delay edit parameters too Try panning the lead vocal to the far right and the Delay Pan to the far left for interesting results VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 VoiceLive 3 overview 51 S TCHELICON Editing the Vocal layer Editing the Vocal layer VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 52 TCHELICON Press the Vocal button to enter the Vocal edit screen For more information about editing Style Level Control and other parameters associated with each effect see Editing an Effect VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Harmony block tab Harmony is TC Helicon s most popular effect and some might argue the most impressive one too The Harm
21. just activate it for both HIT ON and HIT OFF For some effects such as Reverb it is common to leave them on all the time HIT can control any or all of the effects for both guitar and vocals or guitar vocals simul taneously Use the process described above while on the Guitar layer to change the effects associated with Guitar HIT VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Using ALL HIT What s better than being able to have separate HIT footswitches for the Guitar and Vocal layer How about one footswitch to rule them all This feature is called ALL HIT and you can easily as sign it to a footswitch as described in Remap ping a footswitch Press the Vocal button Press and HOLD the right Arrow gt to jump all the way to the end of the available effects pages Use the lt or gt button to locate the Buttonmap page Use the Control Knob to scroll down and high light the line starting with HIT Use the Mix Knob to change the HIT assign ment from Voc HIT to ALL HIT APO TA EC Ea EUTTONMAP DELAY MODE PARTI PARMIE DELAY LATCHED REWERE MODE PARMI PARME REWERE LATCHED HIT MODE PARMI PARMIE ALL HIT LATCHEL HIT footswitch remapped to ALL HIT Press Home Now the HIT footswitch controls HIT for both Guitar and Vocal effects in this Preset When you press HIT you will see that it now lights up pur ple instead of blue indicating that it s con
22. less Y Once you start thinking like that you will Know that your skills have moved beyond using Style and you will likely find the experience of editing advanced parameters more thrilling than daunt ing Remember to go through the Store procedure af ter you have made changes to a Preset Changes are not stored automatically If you edit a Preset and switch to another Preset without storing all changes you made will be lost VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Defining and using Global Effects Each effect in VoiceLive 3 can load and use Global settings Global settings make editing ef fects much easier and faster but you need to un derstand the concept to use it effectively How does it work First you define a Global Preset in the Sys tem menu This Preset is the Preset from which any other Preset can pull settings for any ef fect Think of this Global Preset as a template or master In the screen shot below you will see that Preset 491 has been defined as the Global Preset You can change this Preset if you like However we recommend making yourself fa miliar with editing the Global Preset and turning Global ON in other Presets before you reassign the Global Preset LAIT NRA 5257TEmM EUTTONMAP CONTRAST GLOEAL PRESET So 441 GLOEAL NATPLAY SOURCE ALL GUITAR Fa GLOBAL OFF OFF GLOEAL TEMPO GLOBAL KEY SCALE on on Global Preset set to Preset no 491 If you invest s
23. like you to keep in mind as you look at the diagrams OUTPUTS A MIC LINE GUITAR MONITOR VOICE U YV J THRU IN THRU L MONO R DRY Z i I Q Z eo 1 Inputs to VoiceLive 3 will be to the left of the back panel image 2 Outputs from VoiceLive 3 will be to the right of the back panel image 3 There are two boxes on the bottom of each diagram The VoiceLive 3 box shows what you hear from your VoiceLive 3 headphone output The P A box shows what you hear from the P A speakers 4 We don t account for other inputs instruments when showing what you hear from the P A SO you won t see pictures of drums etc 5 In a lot of cases what you hear will be the same for both VoiceLive 3 headphone output and P A but it can also be different OEG VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 22 S TCHELICON VoiceLive 3 overview VoiceLive 3 overview VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 23 TCHELICON Getting started setting up Instead of jumping directly into a whole bunch of descriptions of parameters and fine tuning con trols now is a good time to back up a bit and ap proach VoiceLive 3 from a Let s use this thing perspective First if you haven t read through the VoiceLive 3 Quick Start Guide that came in the box we sug gest you do so now The minimum gear you will need from here is Your VoiceLive 3 microphone eit
24. operation Storing Presets and HIT Behavior When you have set HIT Behavior to Snapshot mode you must save the Preset for each HIT state on and off in order for your changes to be stored Prepare both variations of the Preset on and off and store them like this Turn HIT off Turn the effects on that you would like to use when HIT is off VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Press the Store button twice Turn HIT on Turn the effects on that you would like to use when HIT is on Press the Store button twice Tapping tempo You can use Tap Tempo to have the tempo based effects align with the tempo of your song Press and HOLD the Delay footswitch You should see the Delay footswitch pulse with a purple LED and the current tempo in beats per minute will be displayed Tap the Delay footswitch in time with the song you are performing or about to perform After a few beats stop tapping the footswitch and wait for the Tempo display to disappear lf it is not already on activate the Delay effect with its footswitch You should hear your Delay taps trail off in time with the music There is another function in the tap tempo win dow that you may find handy Let s try it Enter Tap Tempo mode the same way you just did You will notice that the Preset up and Preset down footswitches are lit solid blue These footswitches allow you to inc
25. signals from the XLR outputs on VoiceLive 3 One XLR carries the vocal sounds and the other XLR carries the guitar sounds This allows you to balance the vocal and guitar levels via your mixer Dual Mono can be espe cially effective at a venue with a sound tech The guitar and vocal signals are separated and can be controlled independently making the tech s mixing job easier LATE OUTPUT PA oS Eee EUTTONMAP OUTPUT MODE ALA OUT LEWEL DUAL MOND MIC LEWEL HEADPHONE LIMITER TALK TRIM 0 dE 0 dE Setting Output Mode to Dual Mono Changing VoiceLive 3 from Mono default to Dual Mono output Press Setup Use the lt or gt Arrow buttons to move to the Output page Use the Control Knob to move the selection bar until Output Mode is highlighted white Turn the Mix Knob directly below the Out put Mode box on the screen until the mode changes to Dual Mono Press Home to exit 26 TCHELICON Stereo vocals and a guitar amplifier INPUTS MIC LINE GUITA F RU PS 3 D MONITOR IN THRU ee xD HE N YZ i This setup is great if you have got a guitar amp and want to send VoiceLive 3 s guitar sounds to that amp instead of to the PA VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Q 5 VOICE L MONO R BD KR Ez CA 7 a gE S B O e e ee aXe lt VoiceLive 3 overview You may want to make a quick ad
26. the low mid and high bands of the EQ Parameter range 20 to 20480 Hz 106 TCHELICON Setup Mid BW parameter Manual EQ mode only Use the Mid BW parameters to set the band width of the EQ s mid band Parameter range Narrow 0 11 to 8 77 Wide VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 107 TCHELICON System tab Contrast parameter Use the Contrast parameter to set VoiceLive 3 s display contrast Depending on the angle that you view the screen from different contrast settings may make things easier to read VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Global Preset parameter Use the Global Preset parameter to define a Global Preset that should be used as a start ing point reference for all Presets where effect blocks are set to Global ON Usually you will find the Global setting at the bottom of every effect block edit screen As soon as you change Global from OFF to ON within an effect block the corresponding effect settings from your the Global Preset will be ap plied to that effect For more information see Important The link between the Global Preset and other Presets goes both ways Setup Global NatPlay Source parameter Use the Global NatPlay Source parameter to de fine a global signal source for the NaturalPlay feature Use this parameter if you want to make sure that only audio or control data from a spe cific source is used to determine key scale For more in
27. to performing 29 TCHELICON Getting to know VoiceLive 3 While some product manuals take a path through all of the functions and features we are going to lead you on a tour of VoiceLive 3 from a practi cal use standpoint If you follow along on your VoiceLive 3 while reading the following pages you will get a good grasp of most of the key fea tures in the box It may seem as though we jump around through various menus and operations but trust us that this is a good way to get to know the unit while making practical changes in the process Stick with us VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 There s no place like Home Using all the features described on the follow ing pages you might find yourself deep in some sub menu or parameter list Don t panic Just press the Home button and you will return to VoiceLive 3 s Home screen The Home screen shows The number of the current Preset The name of the current Preset The effect blocks currently assigned to the six footswitches labeled uMod Delay Reverb Hit Double Comp and Harmony Drive on the currently active layer Guitar or Vocal VoiceLive 3 overview Using the Control knob While on the Home screen the Control Knob moves through Presets Turning the knob clockwise right will move up through Presets Turning the knob counterclockwise right will move down through Presets Pressing the control kn
28. to the Aux input try turning this control down Setup Aux Vocal Cancel parameter When you activate Aux Vocal Cancel Voice Live 3 will attempt to remove vocals from re corded stereo music coming into the Aux input Please note that the ability for Voice Cancel to work its magic is highly dependent on the mix of the incoming music Stereo recordings with vocals directly in the middle and instruments panned far to the left and right tend to work the best 92 TCHELICON Monitor Level parameter Use the Monitor Level parameter to control the level of the signal received at the Monitor input jack If your incoming monitor mix is distorting try turning this parameter down VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Setup 93 TCHELICON Output tab Output Mode parameter Use the Output Mode parameter to selects the output mode for VoiceLive 3 Parameter settings Stereo The left XLR output jack carries the left ste reo channel The right XLR output jack carries the right stereo channel Mono The left XLR output jack carries the summed with effects mono vocal amp guitar channel signals The right XLR output jack carries the summed without effects mono vocal amp guitar channel signals The dry channel includes Tone and Auto Chromatic Pitch Correction if applicable The dry channel does not contain HardTune effect s Dual Mono The lef
29. tracks that can guide VoiceLive 3 s Harmony and HardTune features you may want to make a small change to the System setup so you can define the key and scale for the song you are singing and change Presets without having to change the Key setting each time Press Setup Use the lt and gt Arrow buttons to navigate to the System tab Using the Control Knob to highlight Global Key Scale Change the Global Key Scale to ON This will set one global key scale for all Pre sets in VoiceLive 3 You can change this global key scale on the fly later Press Home to exit AT ET PT Ty 5257TEmM EUTTONMAP CONTRAST GLOBAL PRESET so z 441 GLOEAL MATPLAY SOURCE ALL GUITAR Fh GLOEAL OFF OFF GLOEAL TEMPO GLOBAL KEY SCALE OFF on Using Global Key Scale Once you get more familiar with VoiceLive 3 you may want to turn Global Key Scale off in order to save a different Key Scale per Preset Setting Key Scale manually If you are a singer without an instrument you may not want to rely on sone external input Instead we ll set the Key Scale for your song manually For simplicity let s sing Happy Birthday in C using our Major 2 scale You will need to find C as your starting note un less you have perfect pitch then you are awe some To set the key scale lf it isn t selected select the Vocal layer by pressing the Layer footswitch Press and HOLD the Harmo
30. which other effects like Harmony are sent to the uMod block This allows you to add uMod effects to whichever components of the signal you would like and keep other signals clean RO A GED ETT MOD E LEAD TO MOL HARM TO uM00 0 dE 0 dE LEAD LEVEL CHOIR TO MON 0 dE 0 dE GLOBAL OFF Lead to uMod and Harm ony to uMod param eters Remember that 0 dB means high volume not no volume Most level controls max out at 0 dB but a few such as Guitar Trim in the Headphone Mix can go higher 61 TCHELICON Choir block tab Formerly a part of the Harmony effect block Choir was split into its own effect in the TC Heli con VoiceLive Touch 2 Separating these effects gave us the opportunity to provide more styles and parameters for controlling the Choir sound We have defined Choir as its own effect block in VoiceLive 3 too so you have extra control over the way it sounds Choir makes a great companion to Harmony es pecially when you are trying to create a group sound You can use Choir by itself too which can give its own unique flavor to the vocal VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Tips and tricks for working with the Choir effect When using Choir with Harmony start with a low level setting and move up from there Us ing too much Choir level can make the overall output sound a bit robotic or effected With the above suggestion keep in m
31. with your own vocal guitar and loop sounds The incoming monitor IN does not get passed back out of the unit so you can rest assured that it won t cause feedback Headphone Mix VoiceLive 3 s headphone mix is independent of the output mix allowing you to hear what you want in your headphones or IEMs without af fecting what comes from the main outputs OLMED HEADPHONE Min ae Ee GTR TRIM LOOP TRIM METRONOME HEADPH OUT 0 dE 0 dE 15 dE 15 dE Headphone Mix 10 TCHELICON Introduction This monitoring capability can literally eliminate the need for expensive belt packs transmitters secondary mixers and other gear required for a custom IEM solution Using our included Guitar Headphone cable you only use one cable to connect your guitar and headphones IEM s to the unit VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 11 TCHELICON Top panel overview 1 2 4 5 TCHELICON VOICELIVE 5 Home Vocal Guitar Looper VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Introduction Below is a brief description of the top panel con trols and buttons Full functionality for each will be described in more detail later 1 Genre button Use the Genre button to sort Presets based on their musi cal genre or featured effects For example you may want to restrict the Presets visible to you in VoiceLive 3 to those that are defined as Rock or
32. 03 29 Talk Trim parameter Use the Talk Trim parameter to adjust the volume of your lead voice when Talk Bypass mode is engaged It s not uncommon for performers to want a little bit more or less volume through the PA when effects are bypassed Setup 95 TCHELICON Guitar tab Input Gain parameter Use the Input Gain parameter to adjust the input level for the Guitar IN To set this correctly do the following Plug in your guitar Turn your guitar s volume control to maximum Play the loudest you normally would Turn the Input Gain parameter up until only the green and yellow LEDs of the Level indicator light up f you see the red LED light turn Input Gain down until the red LED no longer lights This is your optimal Input Gain setting VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Phase parameter Use the Phase parameter to invert the phase of the guitar signal Parameter settings Normal Signal phase is maintained as it is at the guitar input Inverted Incoming signal phase is reversed It can sometimes be beneficial to invert the phase of a guitar to prevent feedback from stage monitors This is especially applicable to acoustic guitars Setup Speaker Sim Enable parameter Use the Speaker Sim Enable parameter to switch the speaker simulation portion of the guitar Amp effect block on or off Parameter settings On Speaker simulations are active This
33. 2 5 P OUTPUTS 7 UE men om ct TCHELICON This allows you to enjoy the full benefits of stereo oe a ES ON es audio effects OOST NC 68 e mra xD LA LATE OUTPUT PA oS EES EUTTONMAP OUTPUT MODE ALA OUT LEVEL STERED MIC LEVEL HEADPHONE LIMITER TALK TRIM HN MID To Q 0 dE 0 dE a af Setting Output Mode to Stereo T BE 070 ee ee Changing VoiceLive 3 from Mono default to Stereo output Press Setup Use the lt or gt Arrow buttons to move to the Output page Use the Control Knob to move the selection bar until Output Mode is highlighted white Turn the Mix Knob directly below the Out put Mode box on the screen until the mode changes to Stereo Press Home to exit When choosing Stereo ensure the PA is ac tually outputting a stereo signal It s common for a PA to have 2 speakers but still be mono VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 25 TCHELICON Dual Mono PA connection for vocals amp guitar if applicable INPUTS OUTPUTS MIC LINE GUITA MONITOR a IN THRU THRU CPS P a 5 z VOICE L MONO R DRY FX ma cD A SA am 10 VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 we TCHELICON a af g e e CET VoiceLive 3 overview This diagram shows a Dual Mono output mode Dual Mono sends two mono
34. ALL GUITAR Fh GLOBAL OFF on GLOEAL TEMPO GLOBAL KEY SCALE on on Set All Guitar FX Global to On to use the same guitar effect in all Presets Make sure a particular effect always sounds the same Want a certain Delay available in every Preset No problem Just edit the Global Preset s Delay setting Go to each Preset where you would like to use the same Delay go to the Delay settings and change the Global parameter to On Always use the same guitar amp model but have everything else change Easy Adjust the Global Preset s Amp setting the way you want it Go to each Preset where you would like to use the same Amp go to the Amp settings and change the Global parameter to On Updating Global settings The Global system is opt in This means each Preset carries its own individual settings until you change an effect to Global Once that hap pens the current Preset and Global Preset set tings become shared Once you have changed an effect to Global ON any edits you make within that Preset af fect the Global settings as well This means you don t have to bounce back and forth be tween the Global and current Preset to make changes to Global effects It also means that you need to be aware of the above so you don t accidentally edit a Global setting thinking you are only editing the current Preset With great power comes great respon sibility TCHELICON Intr
35. ERE LATCHEL MODE LATCHED COUELE MODE PARMY PARME COUELE LATCHEL Changing Mode back to Latched 36 TCHELICON VoiceLive 3 overview Remapping a footswitch Since you have just seen the Buttonmap page this is a good time to remap a footswitch to a different effect Since there are 11 vocal effects and 9 guitar ef fects in VoiceLive 3 but only 6 footswitches the ability to assign new functions to these foot switches gives you a lot of flexibility Lets remap Mod to HardTune Later you can remap any footswitch as you wish for this ex ample please follow along Press the Vocal button Navigate to the Buttonmap tab using the lt and gt buttons Use the Control Knob to highlight the line starting with UMod It s at the top of the page As you can see the uMod is assigned to the uMod effect Use the far left Mix Knob to remap the uMod footswitch to Hard Tune Peo EU EUTTONMAP EG ufo MODE HARDTUNE LATCHED DELAY MODE PARMY PARME DELAY LATCHED REWERE MODE PARMY PARME RENERE LATCHED Remapping the uMod footswitch to HardTune Press Home If you look at the top left corner of the screen you should see HardTune there uMod will be gone VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 T HARDTUNE RTE RTE T HI olf DOUBLE HARMONY sss O O O O uMod footswitch remapped to Hard Tune When you press the uMod footswitch you will se
36. EUEL ee TRAILS 0 dE 100 on GLOBAL OFF Global set to Off in the Delay block Change it to On using the mix knob right be low the parameter COGENT CELAS GEL GTA uMO0 TO DELAY CHOIR TO DELAY 0 dE 0 dE LEAD LEWEL WIDTH TRAILS 0 dE 100 on GLOBAL on Setting Global to On for the Delay block Settings from the Global Preset will be applied to this effect immediately You will also see that the tab name has changed from Delay to Delay GBL indi cating that this particular effect is using Global settings VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Important The link between the Global Preset and other Presets goes both ways Before you make any tweaks to the effect you have just made Global there is something you should know If Global is ON in any Preset and you make changes to the settings of the respective effect this will change the settings of the Global Preset and all other Presets where that particular effect is set to Global on That can be really handy or a disaster if you are not prepared for it Using the Global Preset to copy effect settings into a Preset As you just read the link between the Global Pre set and other Preset goes both ways However you can also use this feature temporarily to copy effect settings from the Global Preset to another Preset and then edit them independently Select a Preset Select an effect that should use th
37. English Manual TCHELICON TCHELICON VOICELIVE 5 Genre Setup Hold for Mic Gain PRESET DELAY REVERB HOLD FOR LOOPER bad lt O D E lt D CD TCHELICON Important safety instructions Caution Service Warning EMC EMI Explanation of graphic symbols Before you begin About this manual Getting support VoiceSupport Please register your VoiceLive 3 Introduction Design concepts Top panel overview Footswitches overview Back panel inputs and outputs Diagram legend Diagrams VoiceLive 3 overview Getting started setting up Quick troubleshooting tips Getting to know VoiceLive 3 Tips and tricks for working with layers and effects VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 OO ND NN ND O1 O1 O1 O1 12 14 19 21 22 23 24 29 30 48 Editing the Vocal layer Harmony block tab Double block tab Vocal Delay block tab Vocal Reverb block tab HardTune block tab Synth block tab Transducer block tab Vocal uMod block tab Choir block tab Vocal Rhythmic block tab Stutter block tab Vocal Buttonmap block tab Editing the Guitar layer Amp block tab Drive block tab Guitar Delay block tab Guitar Reverb block tab Comp ression block tab Wah Wah Wah block tab uMod block tab Octaver block tab Guitar Rhythmic block tab Guitar Buttonmap block tab The Looper Basic Loop concepts and terms Entering and exiting Loop mode Your first loop
38. MP ORE CELAY REVERE COMP WAH LUS OC TAUER p Guitar uMod block set to Corona Chorus Fast style VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Tips and tricks for working with the Guitar uMod effect Modulation effects aren t just for electric gui tars Styles like Silky Detune and Medium Detune can really enhance the sound of an acoustic guitar Flanger creates a very obvious effect and can make an electric guitar part stand out from the rest of the song Chorus sounds great for both acoustic and electric guitar 14 TCHELICON Octaver block tab When we released VoiceLive Play GTX lots of folks loved the guitar processing but kept on asking for a single guitar effect addition an Oc taver The ability to play bass on your guitar opens up a whole new world of song composi tion especially when looping The Octaver is a monophonic pitch shifter that allows you to play single line guitar parts and have them shifted to another note The most common use aS we mentioned above is to sim ulate a bass guitar but there are other imple mentations as well You can blend your original guitar signal with a shifted signal to create some great sounds VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Tips and tricks for working with the Octaver effect When using the Octaver effect remember to play one note at a time Unlike some of our other pitch shift processing Oc
39. RASE SLOT TETE Utility menu Back Tap BACK uMod footswitch to move up from the Utility menu or one of its sub menus until you are back on the main loop screen 84 TCHELICON The Looper Input sub menu Tap INPUT Delay footswitch to open the Input sub menu In the Input sub menu you choose which input s the Looper will record This feature allows you to use a specific input or inputs for various loops e g your microphone for a beat box section and your guitar for a chord progres sion while preventing sound from other inputs entering your loop With the above in mind you could be playing guitar and singing simultaneously while only re cording your voice or your instrument into the Looper This gives you a lot of flexibility The available input options are Voc Guit For recording your vocals with ef fects and your Guitar Guitar Aux for recording the signal at your Voice Live 3 s Aux jack Voc For recording your vocals with effects All For recording vocals guitar and the Aux signal q a ETEA vocau RTE TE pf AUX VO AU SCOT TUE TT Loop input sub menu Select the option you want to use by tapping the respective footswitch Press BACK to exit the INPUT menu VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Save Tap SAVE Reverb footswitch to store your loop to the current Loop slot The current Loop slot number i
40. With the button held down press the power switch on your VoiceLive 3 Wait until you see the System Maintenance Screen You should see the System Maintenance screen immediately If you see the normal VoiceLive 3 screen without the System Main tenance banner on top you haven t pushed the button inside the headphone jack correct ly Try again Choose the desired option from the menu us ing the Control Knob Appendix Updating the firmware using a USB flash drive lf you cannot update the firmware of your Voice Live 3 using VoiceSupport software you can perform a firmware update with a USB flash drive Format the USB flash drive to the FAT32 file system see the manual of your computer op erating system for instructions Reformatting a USB flash drive will erase all data on it Copy the syx file containing the firmware update to the USB flash drive Insert the USB flash drive into the USB host port on your VoiceLive 3 Boot your VoiceLive 3 in System Maintenance as described in Entering System Mainte nance Mode Select the Update from USB drive option 119 S TCHELICON Technical Specifications Technical Specifications VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 120 TCHELICON Features Vocal Effects Looper Guitar Effects Presets Storage Footswitches Preset management Design Size Height Width Depth Weight We
41. acts as a simple start stop for the tracks you have recorded The available options are Track A Track B Track C Track A amp B and Track A amp C You can assign multiple footswitches to dif ferent loop triggers and switch between them at will 4 Peo EAU EUTTONMAP ETT PRESET ufo PARMI PARME LOOP TRIGR SLOT 3 TRACK A E DELAY MODE PARM fale DELAY LATCHED RENERE MODE PART PARME RENERE LATCHEL UMod footswitch remapped to triggering Loop tracks A and C from Loop Slot 3 VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 4 Teo Gey EUTTONMAP ETT PRESET uMOD MODE PART PARME LOOP TRICA SLOT 3 TRACK A C DELAY PART PARME LOOP TRIGR SLOT 3 TRACK E REWERE MODE PARMI PARME RENERE LATCHED Delay footswitch remapped to EEA Loop track B from Loop Slot 3 Keep in mind that tempo metronome settings are saved with each Loop Accordingly trigger ing a Loop using a remapped footswitch will in voke these settings This means that when you have mapped Loop tracks from two different Loop slots to two footswitches and they have different tempos the other tempo dependent effects in your VoiceLive 3 such as Delay and Rhythmic will change tempo to follow the newly activated loop footswitch remapped to a Loop trigger has a special loop icon and shows which loop slot and track is associated with it in the display LL AE CON T REFERE 1 MU Sy HARMONY a uMod footswitch remapped to Loop
42. ameter Use the Mic Switch Function parameter to ac tivate Mic Control and assign a function to the switch on your microphone Activates microphone control and sets its func tion Parameter settings Off uMod Delay Reverb Vocal HIT Double Harmony Transducer HardTune Rhythmic Stutter Choir Synth Harm ony Hold Step Tap Tempo Bypass All HIT Preset Up Preset Down Preset Step Harmony must be active for this to have an ef fect Tapping the Mic switch will switch to the next or previous Preset Holding the Mic switch will reverse direction increment decrement Setup Mic Switch Mode parameter Use the Mic Switch Mode parameter to set the operation mode of the switch on your Mic Con trol enabled microphone Latched Tap the Mic switch to activate the assigned effect tap it again to deactivate it Momentary The assigned effect is on only when you keep the Mic switch pressed For more information see Change a button from Latched to Momentary mode 112 TCHELICON Footswitch jack parameter You can use the Footswitch jack on your Voice Live 3 to connect either a TC Helicon Switch 3 or a second expression pedal Parameter settings Switch 3 Use this setting if you have con nected a Switch 3 to the Footswitch jack Expression Pedal Use this setting if you have
43. anual 2014 03 29 Editing an Effect Now that we have heard some sounds let s edit an effect in a Preset You can choose to edit ei ther the Vocal or Guitar effects whichever you like To edit the Vocal effects within a Preset press the Vocal button HARMON EEE EE OA EE H HIGH LEAD LEWEL LEWEL 0 dE 3 dE HIT Editing Vocal effects HIT CONTROL To edit the Guitar effects within a Preset press the Guitar button AMP ORIWE DELAY REUERE COMP LAW PTT OCTAVER T NS HALL OF DECAY LEUEL FAME HALL jag 11 dE on HIT CONTROL Editing Guitar effects Both effect layers Vocal and Guitars have a se ries of tabs There is a tab for each effect within a Preset and there are a couple of extra tabs for other Preset options like Button Mapping and Expression Pedal assignment All the effect edit screens that you can access using these tabs have a similar structure On top of each edit screen you will find simple and easy to use controls while scrolling down us ing the Control Knob will show more parameters that offer more advanced parameters for deeper editing On the top level most effects have four main pa rameters 1 Style Style sets the sound of the effect For example you might choose a Hall or Stu dio reverb type 2 Parameter 1 The first parameter shown varies from effect to effect and will have a different name it will not be called Para
44. ap SYNC the Double Comp footswitch to en ter the Sync sub menu In the Sync sub menu you can define how VoiceLive 3 s Looper should sync to a given tempo The options in the Sync sub menu are described below SMART Select SMART to use all features of VoiceLive 3 s LoopAssist LoopAssist chooses how and when to trim and extend loops based on what you have already recorded Pressing the SWAP button will toggle between Loop track B and Loop track C making the change when you reach the end of the current loop Loop tracks A and B or Loop tracks A and C can play simultaneously SMART enforces a relationship between the pri mary Loop track track A and Loop tracks B and C In other words Loop tracks B and C can exist as a multiple in bars of Loop track A but they cannot be shorter See the QUANTIZE section below for a step by step comparison between SMART and QUAN TIZE It s much easier to hear and see than to read about 86 TCHELICON SERIAL When you choose SERIAL in the Sync sub menu Loops are played back one after the other waiting for each loop to finish before proceeding to the next In SERIAL mode Loop tracks A B and C play in dependently and cannot be played at the same time This mode is useful if you have three song sec tions or progressions and want to alternate be tween them Of course you do not have to prog ress from Loop A to B to C in that order you may play back lo
45. blend it with the first From here on in EVERYTHING is advanced specific editing Try manipulating the other pa rameter on the screen be it decay time lead level speed or whatever is shown there Notice how it changes the sound of the effect Use the Control Knob to scroll down You will see many many different controls and parameters on each effect tab DON T PANIC Typically advanced parameters are defined and loaded with the Style you choose and should sound pretty darned good as they are If you have got some audio engineering experience or own one of our other products like VoiceLive 2 44 TCHELICON VoiceLive 3 overview you may recognize some or all of the advanced controls If you don t recognize anything there are two paths you can take 1 Don t touch anything you don t recognize Slowly back away from the advanced menu There be dragons in that cave 2 Turn every parameter as far as it will go in each direction and see what happens Whether you choose 1 or 2 It s totally fine We can t tell you how fast or far to venture into the depths of VoiceLive 3 All we can do is recom mend that you treat VoiceLive 3 like any other in strument or skill you would try to learn and give things some time From our own experience you know it s a good time to venture deeper into the menus and con trols when you say to yourself Hmm This would sound perfect if only the X was a bit more
46. can sound terrible Experiment with different amounts of the Feedback parameter More Feedback cre ates more echoes while very low amounts of feedback can create Call and Answer style effects Try out the various Filter Style options within the Delay Edit screen They allow you to make the echoes of your Delay sound different These filter styles can add interesting effects to your delays such as megaphone radio or lo fi sounds or mimic the sound of classic analog and digital hardware delays HARMONY COUELE ELA REVERE HAROTUNE SYNTH A CLASSIC SLAP hit LEWEL HIT CONTROL 18 dE HIT SOURCE ee FILTERSTYLE TIME 120 EPT MEGAPHONE DIN L DELAY L DIN R DELAY R La 110 ras 1H 110 ras Filter Style parameter When using Delay on both your guitar and vo cals experiment with using the same OR dif ferent divisions on each Delay to crate inter esting rhythmic landscapes 56 TCHELICON Vocal Reverb block tab Reverb is one of the most basic effects You will probably find some form of Reverb at every live performance and on every recording Essentially Reverb simulates a physical space and how the sound of your voice is positioned in it Typically Reverbs are defined by the space they are trying to replicate or the device proces sor medium used to generate the reverb effect With the above in mind you will see Reverb styles in our products with names like Amster dam Hal
47. connected an expression pedal to the Footswitch jack Fore for information see Working with a second expression pedal VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Expr ession Pedal Function parameter If you have connected a second expression ped al to the Footswitch jack use the Expr ession Pedal Function parameter to assign a function to this expression pedal The second expression pedal can be assigned to one of the following controls Off Lead Octave Down Lead Octave Up Harmony Octave Down Harmony Octave Up Harmony DoubleLevel Delay Reverb Level Harmony Level Double Level Vocals uMod Level Vocals Delay Level Vocals Reverb Level Synth Level Lead Level Vocal uMod Delay Reverb Level Vocal Level Aux Level Vocal Delay Sends Vocal Reverb Sends Rhythm Depth Rhythm Division Stutter Division Guitar uMod Level Guitar Delay Level Guitar Reverb Level Guitar Delay Reverb Level Guitar Rhythmic Depth Setup Guitar Rhythmic Division Guitar Amp Post Gain Guitar Amp Pre Gain Guitar Level Guitar Pan Looper Level Headphone Level Guitar Delay Send Guitar Reverb Send 113 TCHELICON Expression Min imum Position parameter If you have connected a second expression ped al to the Footswitch jack use the Exp ression Min imum Position parameter in the Setup
48. d in Presets will be overridden as long as Global Tempo is On Setup Global Key Scale parameter Use the Global Key Scale parameter if you want to use one global key scale When Global Key Scale parameter is set to On and you set the Key and Scale parameters in a Preset s Harmony block edit screen this key and scale will apply to all Presets and the effects that utilize key and scale information 109 TCHELICON Tuner Reference parameter Use the Tuner Reference parameter to set the reference frequency for the built in tuner The de fault setting is 440 Hz VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Hit Behavior parameter Use the Hit Behavior parameter to define how manually switching effect blocks on or off should affect the HIT function For more information see HIT Dynamic vs Snapshot Setup 110 TCHELICON Buttonmap tab Every VoiceLive 3 preset has its own Button map tab allowing you to remap the six effect footswitches uMod Delay Reverb HIT Dou ble Comp and Harmony Drive both for the Vo cal and the Guitar layer For more information see Remapping a footswitch In addition to these Preset specific Buttonmap the parameters on the Setup menu s Buttonmap tab allow you to remap the Step button and the Mic Switch on your Mic Control enabled micro phone VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Step Button Function parameter Use the Step Button Function param
49. d to Momentary On the Buttonmap tab each effect footswitch is represented by sets of two two lines Use the Control Knob to select a set for example uMod The first word in the first column is the name of the effect footswitch as it is printed on the de vice The name of the effect currently assigned to this footswitch is shown directly below it For now you should see uMod with uMod directly underneath If you are on the Guitar edit page you will see uMod and G uMod respectively Assign another effect to the uMod footswitch by turning the Mix Knob directly below the pa rameter It doesn t matter if the effect you choose here is already mapped to another button For ex ample if you choose Harmony you will now have Harmony mapped to both the uMod but ton and the Harmony button default That s OK it just shows how remapping works Press the Home button to return to the Home screen VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 You will see that the effect you have chosen is now shown in the top left corner of the screen and will activate if you press the uMod button Typically remapping footswitches is great for three situations That darn button is in the wrong place hate where it is and want to move it would like footswitch access to an effect that isn t already assigned to a button For example you might want access to Synth so you decide to remap the Delay button
50. doable but a bit more work that necessary Enter the STEP If you treat the Verse Preset as your starting point perhaps name it simply with your song name you can add Steps to that initial preset to cover the other sections of your song in the or der that they are needed So let s assume that you have created the three different presets that represent your three song 31 TCHELICON VoiceLive 3 overview sections You d now create Steps within your Verse preset like this Step 1 Verse Step 2 Chorus Step 3 Verse Step 4 Chorus Step 5 Bridge Step 6 Chorus As you perform you simply press the STEP button once for each song section as it comes along It s a much simpler way to manage several presets in a song For more information about creating and deleting Steps within a preset see Step management VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Using Preset Genres and Favorites If you are playing classical pop you may not care much for Pre sets that have been optimized Genre for Alternative rock and vice versa And if you have created or fine tuned ten Presets for your show you may now want to scroll through the hundreds of other Presets that you are working with in the studio Genres to the rescue As described earlier the Genre feature allows you to filter the Presets in VoiceLive 3 based on the musical genre or primary effect Using Genres Tap the Genre but
51. e Home screen turn ing any mix knob enters the Mix screens Main Head phones and Effects Within an Edit page the mix knobs adjust values and settings 10 Arrow buttons When you are on the Home screen you can use the Ar row buttons to move through Presets When you are on an Edit screen use the Arrow buttons to move between pages 11 NP LED The NP LED lights when Nat uralPlay chord information is received via Guitar MIDI Aux or RoomSense 12 Level LEDs The Level LEDs show input lev el for the Mic input The red LED also lights if any other in put for example your guitar clips too much signal Introduction 13 TCHELICON Footswitches overview PRESET TALK TUNER VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 V DOUBLE REVERB HARMONY Introduction Below is a description of the footswitches on VoiceLive 3 Some switches will be discussed in more detail later in the manual 1 Preset up Preset down footswitches Tap the Preset Up Preset Down footswitches to move through PRESET Presets Hold the Preset Up Preset Down footswitches to quickly scroll through Presets Tap both footswitches simul taneously to enter Talk Tuner mode Talk Tuner mode mutes guitar output activates the guitar tun er and bypasses all vocal ef fects so you can speak to your audience TALK TUNER You can still tap the Preset Up and Down P
52. e flag from a Preset sim ply press the Control Knob again 32 TCHELICON VoiceLive 3 overview What is NaturalPlay Wait Wait What key is it in What key is it in A device creating harmony voices and correcting what you are singing to the right scale is a won derful thing But how do you tell that device what key the next song is in Do you have to program it as part of a Preset Do you have to set it up for each song What if you get it wrong on stage NaturalPlay to the rescue If you have a guitar connected to VoiceLive 3 it will automatically guide key and scale for any Harmony voices or HardTune effects You don t need to make any changes to the system for this to work Just play your guitar normally chords work best and sing Similarly if you connect a MIDI enabled key board using a MIDI cable VoiceLive 3 will follow your playing to determine key scale for Harmony voices and Hard Tune If you sing to backing tracks and don t have a guitar or MIDI keyboard connected VoiceLive 3 will read key scale information from a music Signal present at the Aux jack this might be a backing track from an MP3 player or smart phone Finally VoiceLive 3 can also read key scale information from the Monitor In jack As you see NaturalPlay has you covered no matter what your setup is VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Using Global Key Scale If you do not have an instrument or backing
53. e jumped on board with looping have likely made a really really good loop in the past only to see it vanish into thin air when you power off the device VoiceLive 3 allows you to store your creations right in the box L aL C EMPTY A Ay BACK IINPUTI SAVE pf METI ISYNCI TERASEL AE Loop Utility menu with Save function Not only can you store your loops you can assign a stored loop to a Preset This in our opinion is a game changer Imagine recording a really cool ambient loop synced to the tempo of your song while you are at home and then fire it off at your gig If the band is using a click track everything will line up perfectly with what you are playing including all of your time based vocal and guitar effects This storage ability removes a lot of the repetitive nature of building loops live in front of an audi ence Sure it s neat the first time you see some one build a loop live but then it gets a bit boring It often takes a while to get all of the bits of the loop recorded You can do that work in advance and then add to things in real time during per formance TCHELICON Introduction If you are using backing tracks you can even re cord them into the looper and use VoiceLive 3 as your complete playback system VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Complete guitar effects With VoiceLive Play GTX we introduced our first comple
54. e settings from the Global Preset as a starting point Set Global for this effect to on This will copy the settings for this effect from the Global Preset to the current Preset Set Global for this effect to off again This breaks the link between Global and current Preset allowing you to modify the set tings locally Using the Mix Controls As you probably have realized by now there is a lot going on under the hood of your VoiceLive 3 Wouldn t it be great if you could control the levels of the signals going in and out of VoiceLive 3 As it turns out you can and you do not even have to press any buttons While on the Home screen touch move any of the four Mix knobs right below the display to enter the Mix screen There are actually three separate mix pages or tabs Main Mix Headphone Mix Effects Mix Select the mix you want to control using the Ar row buttons The last selection will be remem bered so when you use the Mix knobs later you will be editing the previously selected mix Main Mix Main Mix controls the sounds that come from the XLR Out and Guitar Out jacks mAN mis HEADPHONE Min EFFECTS Min GUITAR LOOPER AUH METRONOME G dE Ode dE 15 dE Main Mix controls 46 TCHELICON VoiceLive 3 overview Use the Mix knobs to adjust the levels of the sig nals shown on screen Keep in mind that if you are connecting the Gui tar Out jack to a guitar ampl
55. e stutter runs It can help to mimic the stutter sound with your lead voice while you do this Phrases like yeah nah nah etc can work well Editing the Vocal layer 64 TCHELICON Vocal Buttonmap block tab Buttonmap is probably one of the coolest new features in VoiceLive 3 Don t like where the Harmony button is Remap it Want to have direct footswitch access to an effect that isn t uMod Delay Reverb HIT Double Comp or Harmony Drive Remap it Don t feel like switching between the Vocal and Guitar layer Remap a Vocal button to a Guitar effect or vice versa Want to trigger a loop with one button from the Vocal or Guitar layer Remap a button to Loop Trigger VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Remapping buttons Use the Control Knob to highlight the but ton you would like to remap Physical button names are on the top in each selection box and the mapped button is on the bottom Use the Mix Knob on the far left to change the button mapping lf you wish set the footswitch to Momentary mode using the Mix Knob under the Mode column Editing the Vocal layer Tips and tricks for working with the Buttonmap There are separate Buttonmap tabs on the Vo cal and Guitar edit screens They are indepen dent of one another so you can remap foot switches for each layer When you have remapped a footswitch the Home display will show you which effect has b
56. e that HardTune is now controlled by that but ton Remapping can be performed for any effect in VoiceLive 3 Vocal and Guitar effects are not re stricted to their home layers This means that you can remap a vocal effect to the guitar layer and vice versa Since the Buttonmap page is available in each Preset for both vocal and guitar layers you can create a custom button mapping for every Preset in VoiceLive 3 Here are some Buttonmap examples Remap a Guitar effect to Shift so you have easy access to the Octaver effect CC CIE UMod footswitch remapped to Octaver Change a Vocal effect to Synth so you can use the Talkbox effect LETTS aT SYNTH THT f DOUBLE THARMONY SS SSeS ee Reverb footswitch remapped to Synth SYNTH ET ER EE ITA HIT CONTROL LREDS 0 Ode HIT Move Guitar HIT from the Guitar layer to the Vocal layer so you can change multiple guitar sounds effects without leaving the Vocal layer To control multiple Vocal and Guitar effects si multaneously without having to leave the cur 3 TCHELICON VoiceLive 3 overview rent layer you can assign Vocal HIT to the HIT footswitch and Guitar HIT to the footswitch right next to it Double THARDIUNE T DELAY f SYNTH T om D HIT PTT SSS See ae aaa Ss Double footswitch on the Vocal layer remapped to Guitar HIT Remember that remapping a Guitar effect to the Vocal layer needs to be don
57. e time just like today s musicians do Here is an interesting article about the Beatles and their use of VariSpeed ofbuckleyandbeatles wordpress com 2010 12 05 beatles production tricks part ii varispeed VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Tips and tricks for working with the HardTune effect When you want the HardTune sound choose the Pop style It takes some practice to sing the right way and get the most out of HardTune Practice sliding and gliding from note to note in order to emphasize the jumps in pitch provided by the Pop setting After a while you will be able to enhance the effect as you sing When you are using HardTune with a wedge monitor or in ear monitors IEMs it s totally normal to hear some phasing type sounds as your natural voice interacts with the cor rected voice output from VoiceLive 3 Check out this Craig s Corner video for more about phasing youtube com watch v KWrEluiDXsA If you would like subtle correction that still re spects any key scale you have set for Harmo ny try the Correct Natural style To emulate some of the effects used on the Beatles recordings try the Gender Bender style and turn the Gender control down a few clicks to slightly lower the sound of your voice Any time the HardTune effect is active Global Pitch Correction settings in the Setup menu are temporarily overwritten When the Hard Tune ef
58. e via the Vocal Buttonmap VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Talk Tuner Mode Before you get too far into playing your guitar through VoiceLive 3 it s a good idea to become familiar with the Talk Tuner mode The tuner offers a couple of neat features for both guitar and vocals so non instrumentalists might want to read this section too To enter Talk Tuner mode press both the Preset up and Preset down footswitches simultaneous ly for two seconds When you enter Talk Tuner mode the guitar will be muted so you can tune without your audi ence hearing it and any vocal effects will re moved from the signal The vocal effects are re moved so you can talk to your audience without effects cluttering up what you are trying to say While in Talk Tuner mode you can still use the Preset up and Preset down footswitches to change Presets This is especially handy if you are tuning changing guitars or addressing the audience between songs and want to have the next needed Preset loaded when you are fin ished To exit Talk Tuner mode simply press both the Preset up and Down button simultaneously again When exiting there is no need to hold for two seconds You can also press any of the ef fect footswitches to exit Talk Tuner mode Guitar Effects For those of you playing guitar this is a good time to try out the various guitar effects in Voice Live 3 If you are a vocalist without a guitar go get a coffee
59. ect Now when you press HIT again Harmony turns off but Delay comes back on with the Reverb This may not be what you want VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Using HIT in Snapshot mode You might want HIT to ALWAYS turn on off only those effects you have saved for HIT within the Preset That s where Snapshot mode comes in No matter what effects are active at the time HIT will always override them and just turn on off what you have saved Typically Dynamic can be a great editing mode while Snapshot can be a more fool proof live performance mode Changing HIT mode from Dynamic to Snapshot Press the Setup button Use the lt or gt buttons to navigate to the Sys tem page Use the Control Knob to scroll down to the HIT Behavior parameter Change HIT Behavior from Dynamic to Snap shot LAIT NRA 5257E EE GLOEAL MATPLAY SOURCE ALL GUITAR Fh GLOEAL GLOEAL TEMPO GLOEAL KEY SCALE OFF on TUNER REFERENCE HIT EEHAUIOR 440 0 SNAPSHOT Changing HIT Behavior from Dynamic to Snap shot Storing Presets Since we are talking about storing a change to your Preset let s do it Tapping the Store button accesses the Store screen where you may name assign and save your Presets In the upper part of the Store screen you will see the current name of the Preset Use the Mix Knobs under the display to control the following functions Cursor a
60. ed XLR Control USB USB A Mini B MIDI In Out 5 Pin DIN Pedal 1 4 TRS phone jack Mic Control Available with TC Helicon MP 75 Microphone or Sennheiser e 835 fx mic Details Power External Power Supply Mains Voltage Power Consumption 270 540 Ohms 100 to 240 VAC 50 to 60 Hz auto select lt 14W Technical Specifications 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 Operating Requirements 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 VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 123 TCHELICON Technical Specifications Included with VoiceLive 3 VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Region specific power supply USB cable Quickstart guide Guitar Headphone combo cable 124 TCHELICON Technical Specifications TCHELICON
61. een remapped If you forget where you have remapped a button look there Vocal effects have a small microphone image next to them Guitar effects have a small gui tar and system controls have a small wrench This can help you to see what the remapped footswitch will affect When remapping footswitches from one layer to another footswitches from another layer Guitar effects used on the Vocal layer and vice versa will be dimly lit in either blue Vo cal or red Guitar when they are off to remind you that pressing that footswitch will activate an effect from a different layer This is a good reminder showing you at a glance which inter layer remappings you have made 65 TC HELICON Editing the Vocal layer Remapping Loop Triggers Loop triggers allow you to map a specific loop to a specific button PER PRESET This can be used for a loop you have saved and want to inte grate into every performance of a specific song or can even be used to store an entire backing track that you can associate with the Preset Remapping a Loop Trigger is slightly different from the Vocal or Guitar effects because you need to define a couple of additional parameters For more information about the Looper see The Looper First you need to set which particular Loop slot the trigger will use tracks from Next you determine which track or tracks that particular footswitch will trigger when pressed Essentially the Loop Trigger
62. endent of the layer you are currently con trolling Put another way You can have the Vocal layer active blue LEDs will show that you can use footswitch to control the vocal effects but sim ply press the Guitar button the blue one on the top panel to enter and edit the Guitar effects TCHELICON VOICELIVE np moD b Editing Guitar effects while on the Vocal layer VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 TCHELICON VOICELIVE PRESET Rent A HMOD DELAY REVERB HOLD Fo B v STEP HIT DOUBLE HARMONY Editing Vocal effects while on the Guitar layer As there are no effects linked to the Looper lay er we will cover Looper operations in a separate section of this manual VoiceLive 3 overview General Vocal amp Guitar layer usage The basic concepts of accessing effect settings and going from simple to advanced editing are explained in Editing an Effect In addition to the effects tabs in the Vocal and Guitar edit screens you will find the Buttonmap Expression and Preset tabs 48 TCHELICON Buttonmap tab Remapping footswitches We have already made some changes on the Buttonmap tab in Remapping a footswitch so you have seen it before Let s dig a little deeper into it now Enter the Vocal or Guitar edit screen Navigate to the Buttonmap tab Earlier in the VoiceLive 3 overview we re mapped a footswitch and changed the Mode from Latche
63. eshooting ideas if you are not hearing sound VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 l m not hearing my voice Do the Level LEDs near the Control Knob light up when you sing No Try a different cable Try a different microphone Did you go through the Auto Gain procedure described in the Quick Start Guide Press and hold the Setup button Follow the on screen instructions Are you using a condenser microphone Press Setup Navigate to the Input tab Change the Input Type parameter to Con denser Yes ls your PA receiving signal Check your PA manual for details on how to check input levels Turn up channel input trims until you see signal If you have a separate mixer ambplifier Is the PA turned on Are the speakers connected VoiceLive 3 overview l m not hearing my guitar Check that your guitar is turned all the way up Are you connected to an amp Is it turned on If you are in Dual Mono mode make sure both of the channels on your PA mixer are turned up and unmuted according to your PA mixer manual Are you in Tuner mode Accidentally pressing the Preset up Preset down footswitches simultaneously will enter Tuner mode muting guitar output If you see a guitar tuner on the screen and the Preset up Preset down LED s are lit solid red you are in Tuner mode Press Preset Up or Preset Down to exit OK back
64. eter to re map the Step footswitch to another function One of the following functions can be mapped to the Step footswitch This setting is not stored as part of your Presets it is applied globally The Step footswitch LED will light in blue Vocal Red Guitar or Purple Loop System depending on what you have assigned to it Parameter settings Step Pitch Cor All Mute uMod Delay Reverb Voc HIT Double Harmony Transducer HardTune Rhythmic Stutter Choir Synth Harm ony Hold Set Key Tap Tempo Bypass GuMod G guitar G Delay G Reverb G HIT G Comp Setup G Drive G Amp G Rhythm G Octaver G Wah G Mute All HIT Looper Harmony must be active for this to have an ef fect Toggles the Loop layer You may find this a more convenient way of entering the Loop layer quickly compared to holding the Layer button 111 TCHELICON Step Button Mode parameter Use the Step Button Mode parameter to set the operation mode of the Step button Latched Tap the button to activate the as signed effect tap it again to deactivate it Momentary The assigned effect is on only when you hold down the footswitch For more information see Change a button from Latched to Momentary mode VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Mic Switch Function par
65. fect is turned off any settings from Global Pitch Correction will reactivate Editing the Vocal layer 58 TCHELICON Synth block tab Synth effects are created when a carrier sound modifies a signal your voice to create an inter esting combination of the two elements Common use includes the classical guitar talk box where the notes played on an electrical guitar dictate the pitch and sound of the voice output regardless of what you sing You don t have to use a guitar though it could also be sounds from a keyboard or other instrument VoiceLive 3 offers polyphonic more than one note at a time Synth effects so you can play chords on your instrument and have them act as the carrier sounds It s a really great effect to have fun with We have also included several carrier sounds in VoiceLive 3 so you may use the Synth effect block without an instrument signal VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Tips and tricks for working with the Synth effect When using the Synth block to generate the well known talk box effect of the seventies it really pays to know exactly the notes you want to output and practice them ahead of time It sounds great when you play the right melody but the effect can lose its luster pretty quickly if you meander around or play the wrong notes for the song With the above in mind there s nothing wrong with shredding a crazy solo either
66. ffect can add some presence to your lead voice preventing it from being overpowered by the Harmony Adding some 4 Voices Wide Double effect when using the Harmony effect can signifi cantly enhance the group sound of the Har mony voices especially when using two or more Harmony voices VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 55 TCHELICON Editing the Vocal layer Vocal Delay block tab Delay is often referred to as echo and emulates sound bouncing or repeating at regular inter vals AS opposed to Reverb whose reflections of sound can be somewhat chaotic in the rep resentation of a physical space Delay is much more consistent in its sound output Typically Delay is used either as a special effect with levels high enough to be clearly heard or as a more subtle companion to Reverb Using Delay as a special effect can create very interesting highlights within a performance but can like Reverb become distracting or over whelming when used too heavily Stereo Delays can be especially interesting if you are performing with a stereo PA or for studio re cording VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Tips and tricks for working with the Vocal Delay effect Make sure to set the correct tempo for any Preset with Delay either via tempo tapping See Tapping tempo or on the Delay Edit tab Delay timed to your song sounds great while off time delays
67. formation see What is NaturalPlay Parameter settings Auto VoiceLive 3 listens to any audio or con trol data coming from the Guitar input MIDI or USB port Aux input RoomSense micro phones to determine the key scale that should guide Harmony voices and HardTune Guitar Audio received at the Guitar input is used to determine key scale MIDI MIDI note messages received at the MIDI IN jack are used to determine key scale Aux Audio received at the Aux input input is used to determine key scale RoomSense Audio received by the built in RoomSense microphones is used to deter mine key scale 108 TCHELICON All Guitar FX Global parameter Use the All Guitar FX Global parameter to lock the guitar effects in their current state This is a great feature if you would like to use one set of guitar effects across all Presets much like indi vidual stomp boxes instead of having guitar ef fects change with every Preset VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Global Tempo parameter Use the Global Tempo parameter if you want to use one global tempo setting instead of using the tempo settings stored as part of each Preset When Global Tempo parameter is set to On any tempo set via Tempo Tapping see Tapping tempo the Delay effect edit screen or Loop Metronome see Metronome sub menu will apply across all Presets The tempo values store
68. genre and analyze how they are using reverb When using Reverb on both vocals and guitar it can be useful to use the same settings or at least the same Style for each so the listener gets the impression of vocals and guitar being in the same simulated physical space Editing the Vocal layer TCHELICON HardTune block tab This effect has become very very common in recent years Most people remember when Cher released the song Believe featuring the first commercially represented use of heavy and ro botic sounding pitch correction Since the release of Believe there have been many advances in pitch correction technology allowing both extreme and subtle or transparent vocal correction It s a misnomer to only equate vocal pitch correction with AutoTune and T Pain Subtle use of pitch correction is a staple of almost every recording and many live perfor mances too A neat little bit of music history The Beatles used pitch correction on their albums How Back then a control called VariSpeed on their tape recorders was used to manipulate the play back speed and therefore the pitch of recorded material Often it was done for effect but Va riSpeed was used for all sorts of purposes It s fun to keep that fact in mind when people disparage modern music for its use of pitch cor rection or any other effect or recording tech nique The Beatles used every tool available to them at th
69. gs are independent of each other rep resenting the Vocal and Guitar layers respective ly To learn how you can create inter layer map pings see Remapping a footswitch VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 17 S TCHELICON The Looper The Looper VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 78 TCHELICON VoiceLive 3 has a three track gt Looper which is an extremely gai powerful performance tool We have taken our experiences from past products including Voice Live Touch 2 and VoiceLive Play PER to create our most exciting and flexible Looper ever VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Basic Loop concepts and terms Let s make sure that you understand the basic concepts and the terminology used in this chap ter Loop A loop or loop track is a basic re cording of music or any kind of audio for that matter that can be recorded and then played back repeatedly Overdub Something that is recorded while another previously recorded piece of audio music is being played back In theory you could pile up hundreds of overdubs turning one basic loop into a complex piece of music Loop track In each Loop slot see below VoiceLive 3 allows you to store three separate Loops Loop track A Loop track B and Loop track C Depending on the setting you made in the Sync sub menu see Sync sub menu you can either switch between these three track
70. he key is to find a gate threshold setting that allows for your instrument to naturally ring and sustain but still reduces noise when you are not playing You will need to experiment to find the optimal set ting for your personal style and needs Setup 97 TCHELICON MIDI tab Source parameter Use the Source parameter to determines which MIDI input VoiceLive 3 should use Parameter settings USB VoiceLive 3 receives MIDI information from the USB port MIDI VoiceLive 3 receives MIDI information from the hardware MIDI IN port VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Filter parameter Use the Filter parameter to filter out specific MIDI information from the incoming MIDI data stream This is helpful if you would like VoiceLive 3 to re spond to certain types of information like pro gram changes but not others such as Continu ous Controller CC messages The parameter setting you choose here tells VoiceLive 3 what NOT to respond to Parameter settings None All incoming MIDI data is responded to if applicable PrgChange All incoming Program Change messages are rejected SysEx Any incoming System Exclusive Sy SEX data is rejected PC SysEx All incoming Program Change messages and SysEx data are rejected Setup MIDI Channel parameter Use the MIDI Channel parameter to set the MIDI Channel that VoiceLive 3 listens to for incom ing MIDI information This
71. her Dynamic MP 75 SM58 OM5 etc Condenser Beta 87A enCore 300 etc An XLR cable microphone cable to connect your microphone to VoiceLive 3 A guitar or MIDI keyboard if applicable Headphones The Guitar Headphone cable that came with your VoiceLive 3 VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 GUITAR ce TCHELICON n AN D Se Q Q VoiceLive 3 overview If you would prefer to use VoiceLive 3 via your PA you will need one or two additional XLR cables to connect VoiceLive 3 s XLR outputs to inputs at your mixer A lot of PAs are mono and only require one XLR connection If you have a stereo PA you will want to connect both Voice Live 3 XLR outputs to your mixer Connecting VoiceLive 3 to your mixer PA Determine whether your mixer PA is stereo or mono Connect the appropriate number of cables from VoiceLive 3 s XLR outputs to the mixer PA inputs 1 for mono 2 for stereo If your P A is Stereo you will need to pan one channel left and the other one right in order to receive the benefits of VoiceLive 3 s stereo ef fects Watch the Craig s Corner episode about con necting to a mixer youtube com watch v qq0AOtafljs 24 TCHELICON VoiceLive 3 overview Stereo PA connection for vocals and guitar if applicable This diagram shows a Stereo output mode Stereo sends a Left and Right signal via the XLR outputs to your PA or mixer P
72. ifier you likely want a fixed output level In the Guitar tab of the Setup menu you will find a parameter called Output Mode that controls this lf you set Output Mode to Unity Gain this is the default this will set one master output volume for the guitar signals coming from the Guitar Out jack LAC GUITAR GT bn EER So EUTTONMAP INPUT GAIN PHASE 10 dE NORMAL SPEAKER SIM ENABLE OUTPUT MODE OFF UNITY GAIN GATE THRESHOLD 68 dE Output Mode set to Unity Gain If you wish to vary the output level of the Guitar Out e g when you are connecting VoiceLive 3 to a mixer or recording interface change the setting to Variable Level TAT CT GUITAR TT TS EES EUTTONMAP INPUT GAIN PHASE 10 dE NORMAL SPEAKER SIM ENABLE OUTPUT MODE OFF WARIRELE LEVEL GATE THRESHOLD 68 dE Output Mode set to Variable Level You can set the levels of both Aux and Metro nome signals to Off if you wish to remove their VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 sounds from the XLR outputs and only use them over your headphones or IEMs Headphone Mix Headphone Mix allows you to independently set the signal levels for the headphones or IEM con nected to the Headphone jack In other words You can have a headphone or in ear monitoring mix that is independent of what goes out to the XLR outputs OGTR HEADPHONE Mle EEE GTR TRIM LOOP TRIM METRONOME HEADPH OUT 0 dE 0 dE 15 dE 15 dE Headphone Mix cont
73. ight Construction Display Other Connections Analog Inputs Voice Connector Input Impedance Balanced Mic Input Level 0 dBFS Line Input Level 0 dBFS VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Technical Specifications uMod Echo amp Delay Reverb Harmony Double Transducer Rhythmic HardTune amp Correction Choir Stutter Vocoder Adaptive Tone Multi track looper Layered for verse chorus B C over base loop A with infinite overdubs 10 x three track loop storage 45 minutes total loop time Amp Modeling Drive Delay Reverb Compression Resonant Filter Wah uMod Flange Chorus De tune Shifter Rhythmic Tremolo Talkbox part of Vocoder 250 factory presets 500 presets 10 steps per preset 10 footswitches 6 preset assignable footswitches for enabling disabling FX blocks Genre and Styles preset categories 3 inches 76 mm 13 8 inches 850 mm 8 5 inches 261 mm 5 Ib 2 3 kg Anodized extruded aluminum and steel chassis Rubberized edit mix knobs Recessed rubberized handle 192 x 64 Blue STN LCD white backlight display Tri colored footswitch light rings Capacitive touch edit controls with LED indicators Combo Balanced XLR Balanced TRS 1 4 phone jack 3 08 KOhm 52 to 7 dBu 40 to 19 dBu 121 TCHELICON EIN Max Mic Gain Rg 150 Ohm Mic SNR Phantom Power to D Conversion Guitar Connector Guitar Input Impedance Guitar Input Level 0 dBFS Guitar Input SNR t
74. ill notice that the two tracks line up for the first four then Loop B says Five and goes silent for three more beats then repeats LOOP B Other Sync modes are discussed in more detail later see Sync sub menu Next let s try Swap VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Undo and Redo Have you made a mistake maybe in your fourth or fifth overdub No reason to throw away the whole track You can easily undo your last over dub i e remove it from the Loop track and if you change your mind you can restore it To undo the last overdub tap the Looper foot switch To redo undo the undo thereby restoring the last overdub tap the Looper footswitch again The Looper Using Swap Swap is a great new feature that allows you to maintain your Loop track A while moving seam lessly between two additional tracks Loop track B and Loop track C We are still following our Your first loop exam ple and at this point you should have recorded Loop track A and Loop track B Let s move on to recording Loop C When you are ready to record a new Loop track as Loop C tap Swap Loop track B will stop playing and you will begin recording LOOP C TCHELICON VOICELIVE Ic W115 SEC EE c SS wae SWAP SET ODUB SET PLAY IMETI SIOPA ODUBA 1 EPmM 120 PRESET HMOD DELAY REVERB pu Vv HIT DOUBLE HARMONY Using Swap You
75. ind that high levels of Choir can be used to create a very pronounced effect sound which could be just what you want The Speaking style can be used with any kind of Hip Hop Rap Spoken Word etc to add a sense of a group saying something to gether Editing the Vocal layer 62 TCHELICON Editing the Vocal layer Vocal Rhythmic block tab Tips and tricks for working with Rhythmic effects use VoiceLive 3 s tempo to the Vocal Rhythmic effect chop break up pan or otherwise manipulate Using Vocal Rhythmic in combination with your voice in time with the music Guitar Rhythmic can create some really inter esting sounds Depending on how you set the depth and target Try increasing and reducing the Depth pa controls Rhythmic can be mild or wild and apply rameter to alter the relationship between the to either your lead vocal or the Harmony voices lead or harmony voices and the Rhythmic ef fect Setting the Target parameter to Harm Level and using a long division makes the Harmony voices swell and fade slowly Try changing the Type parameter to create dramatic variations in the output sound Rhythmic can benefit from momentary use applying the effect to brief sections of your vocal Try remapping the Rhythmic effect to a footswitch and set its mode to Momentary APOGEE Ee ETT D uMOD MODE RHYTHMIC MOMENTARY DELAY MODE PARMI UNE DELAY LATCHED RENERE MODE PARM PARME
76. itar Compressor 21 Guitar uMod 23 Guitar Octaver 25 Guitar Amp 27 Guitar Wah 29 Guitar Boost 30 Vocal Harmony Key C C D D E F F G G A A B values 0 11 respectively 31 Vocal Harmony Scale MAJ1 MAJ2 MAJ3 MINT MIN2 MIN3 CUST values 0 7 respectively 46 Guitar Reverb 47 Guitar HIT 50 Vocal Vocoder Synth 51 Vocal Rhythmic 56 Vocal HIT 104 Vocal Choir 110 Vocal Harmony 111 Vocal Double 112 Vocal Reverb 13 Vocal HardTune 115 Step value represents Step Number i e 1 Step 1 2 Step 2 etc 116 Vocal uMod 117 Vocal Delay 118 Vocal Transducer 119 Harmony Hold 123 ALL NOTES OFF VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Appendix 118 TCHELICON System Maintenance Factory Reset You can boot VoiceLive 3 in a special System Maintenance that will allow you to perform sev eral system maintenance functions including a factory reset VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Entering System Maintenance Mode Turn off your VoiceLive 3 Unplug headphones if attached Using a toothpick or a small wire we recom mend a straightened paperclip press the button that is inside the Headphone jack The button is small and at the very end of the in side of the jack You don t need to use much force so please be gentle You will feel a small click when the button presses
77. itar effects If you are a singer and if you have set the key scale correctly in the previous step the harmo nies should follow your lead melody correctly Even if you play an instrument that could be used for NaturalPlay you may want to try setting the VoiceLive 3 overview key scale manually Why The manual settings can give a slightly different harmony output than the one you get when playing chords Natural Play You may prefer one or the other depending on the song you are playing and singing It is not uncommon for advanced users to utilize Natural Play for some Presets and Key Scale for others 34 TCHELICON Using the HIT footswitch As you sing your song with guitar or without try tapping the HIT footswitch In this Preset HIT will activate and deactivate the Harmony effect each time you press the button once on and once for off TCHELICON VOICELIVE ft PRESET nm 4 HMOD DELAY REVERB 616 Fe v STEP HIT DOUBLE HARMONY VOICELIVE 2 CLASSIC 3RD UP 8 E v STEP HIT DOUBLE HARMONY HIT on Note the additional highlighted effects Practice using HIT to turn the Harmony on and off at interesting points in the song This skill is VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 essential for using the effects in time with your music It may take a while to get the hang of things if you have never used footswitch based effects before Don t worry if you are not
78. justment to the guitar output if you are connected to an amp It might be desirable to turn off VoiceLive 3 s speaker simulations while preserving all of the other guitar effects This will allow the charac ter of your amp to stay the same from Preset to Preset Follow the Stereo PA connection instructions to change your output mode to Stereo Turning speaker simulation off Press Setup Use the lt or gt Arrow buttons to move to the Guitar tab Use the Control Knob to move the selection bar until Speaker Sim Enable is highlighted Turn the Mix Knob directly below the dis play until the setting for Speaker Sim Enable changes from On to Off Press Home to exit LAIT GUITAR ET TS EES EUTTONMAP INPUT GAIN PHASE 10 dE NORMAL SPEAKER SIM ENABLE OUTPUT MODE OFF UNITY GAIN GATE THRESHOLD BH dE Turning speaker simulation off For Mono vocals via the PA and guitar sounds via a guitar amplifier follow the diagram above but connect only the Left XLR output from Voice Live 3 to your PA and set the output mode to Mono 27 TCHELICON The kitchen sink everything hooked up MIC LINE GUITA aa 7 MONITOR IN THRU LE D RENTE URL SARANA Z T aN E ailm Monitor VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Q E P U U m RL EE VoiceLive 3 overview It s unlikely that you will have absolute
79. l or Hockey Arena when represent ing a physical space You might see Plate or Spring when referring to the type of device used to create a particular kind of Reverb CHENE CRETE REVERE EG MUSEUM Reverb tab VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Tips and tricks for working with the Vocal Reverb effect Timing your Reverb to the song you are per forming can really enhance your overall son ic landscape Try picking shorter Reverbs lower decay time for faster songs and longer Reverbs higher decay time for slower songs A 1 3 second Decay Time is very common for mid tempo popular music Timing a Reverb so that it breathes with your song can sound great By breathing we mean that the Reverb ends on a beat or every other beat for example Use this calculator to figure out what Reverb time to set in order to time your effect to the song nickfever com delay calculator Use the chart provided on this page to de termine which note division to use If for ex ample you would like your Reverb to end on every other beat use the note result Overuse of Reverb can make your vocals sound washed out and hard to understand Underuse of Reverb can result in a flat sound ing vocal However it s very common in con temporary pop music to use very little or no Reverb opting instead for Doubling HardTune and other effects Listen to popular records from your favorite
80. ld the Layer button to re enter the Looper The flashing HIT button now represents Tap Tempo so you can tap in a new tempo now if you wish While you are tapping the current tempo will be displayed When you stop tapping the unit will return to the main Loop screen If you haven not tapped a new tempo press BACK uMod footswitch to return to the main Loop screen VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Start recording When you are ready to start recording press the footswitch associated with REC A the Harmony Drive footswitch to begin recording your first loop track You can sing play your guitar or do both When you reach the end of the segment you want to record try to press the REC A foot switch as close to the beat as you can Our LoopAssist feature helps with this but try to be as accurate as possible The Looper Set Overdub vs Set Play While recording your first basic loop you will see two new options on the screen TCHELICON VOICELIVE emery c empty f fal 471 0 SEC Genre Setup SWAP PRESET A MOD DELAY REVERB A Er STEP HIT DOUBLE HARMONY Set Play and Set Overdub To finish recording the current loop and imme diately have it played back tap the footswitch associated with Set Play Harmony Drive Your new loop will be played back To finish recording the current loop and im mediatel
81. lead voice can be delayed is dependent on the number of generated voices Auto Similar to Voice Sync Auto delays your lead voice relative to the overall latency of all active effects not just generated voices While this mode is the most accurate in terms of timing it can also introduce the most sig nificant feeling that what you sing comes out of the box a split second later For some this latency is unnoticeable for others it s dis tracting Try the various modes to determine which one works best for the feeling and the resulting sound output 91 TCHELICON Lead Mute parameter Use the Lead Mute parameter to mute all incom ing lead vocal signals Parameter settings on off When Lead Mute is on it mutes either micro phone or line level signals whichever is plugged into the combo jack Lead Mute is great for post processing prerecorded dry vocals Post processing prerecorded dry vocals Send the dry vocal from your DAW to the Mic Line input Turn Lead Mute on Record the resulting effects only signal to a new track in your DAW Blend the original dry vocal track and new wet vocal tracks together in the mix VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Aux Level parameter Use the Aux Level parameter to control the level of the signal received at the Aux input jack If you are getting distortion when connecting an exter nal music source
82. llows you to make some really great sounds In previous products all harmony voices were defined by a single type i e they were guid ed by an instrument NaturalPlay or defined by a fixed key and scale In VoiceLive 3 you can de fine a different method of harmony note output for each voice The new Mixed Mode harmonies allow you to for example set one voice to follow your guitar Natural Play the second voice to follow a key scale a third voice to only sing a single Fixed note and a fourth voice to only sing the root note of any chords you are playing on your guitar Pedal This flexibility allows you to create some very so phisticated setups and vocal arrangements You can mix and match any of the available modes for the four harmony voices You could have three NaturalPlay voices and a fixed voice or two scale based voices one fixed and one NaturalPlay voice It s completely up to you HARMON pi CRETE Te GSS CEE H MODE 11 MODE 13 MODE Wy NATPLAY PEDAL SCALE u1 UDICING Un FIRED u3 PEDAL UU SCALE LOL 0 G43 0 unl 11 LEVEL We LEWEL LE LEWEL U4 LEWEL 0 dE 0 dE 0 dE 0 dE Mixing NaturalPlay Fixed Pedal and Scale modes in one Preset Keep in mind that when you are using mixed mode harmony you will need to define the correct key scale Scale or note Fixed and play your instrument NaturalPlay Pedal in order for the combination of voices
83. ly every thing seen here hooked up to VoiceLive 3 but the above diagram can serve as a general con nection diagram that you can use to configure your personal setup The setup shows 1 Microphone 2 Guitar 3 Music Player 4 Incoming Monitor or cue mix from the Front Of House mixer 5 Monitor THRU to another monitor 6 Headphone out possibly using the head phone guitar cable and In Ear Monitor s 7 XLR Outputs carry stereo vocals to the P A 8 Guitar Outputs carry stereo guitar sounds to amps 9 Switch 3 and Expression pedal for extra controls 10 MIDI IN for NaturalPlay chord information from a keyboard NaturalPlay will listen to Guitar Keyboard over the AUX input and will automatically switch between Guitar Key board if they are both plugged in 11 MIDI OUT to control a DAW perhaps with backing tracks and or show control soft ware Loop and Metronome sounds generated by VoiceLive 3 are not shown but any Vocal Loops will be sent out via the XLR outputs and Guitar loops will be sent out via the Guitar outputs The Metronome can be heard in the XLR Main Mix and headphone mix or just the headphone mix depending on your mix settings 28 TCHELICON Quick troubleshooting tips After following the VoiceLive 3 Quick Start Guide and referring to the diagrams in Getting started setting up you should hear your voice and instrument s via your VoiceLive 3 Here are a few troubl
84. me Inputs 5 MIDI In INPUTS OUTPUTS 6 Footswitch for Switch 3 In MONITOR VOICE IN THR MN eNe R DRY You can also connect a second expression THRU f N f R LF C SS SS Zz N U F pedal here see Working with a second ex nn C pression pedal AUX Q a J O o 7 Expression pedal In QE GND LIFT LL gt UMN i VoiceLive 3 inputs overview VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 19 TCHELICON OUTPUTS MIC LINE GUITAR MONITOR VOICE GUITAR FOOTSWITCH TC LL CO N 2 IN OINO R DRY ae aN FB 12VDC Moe NS E U OM OM ee 3 Via THRU TN 0000 000 ni 0 08000002 0000 000 VoiceLive 3 outputs overview VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Introduction Guitar THRU If you only need chord detec tion and want to pass your dry guitar signal onto a different processor or record a dry gui tar track use the THRU jack to pass your gui tar signal to your amp Monitor THRU The Monitor THRU jack al lows you to receive an incoming Monitor IN signal from a mixer and pass it on to another monitor Headphone out Connect headphones or IEMs to the Headphone out and use the Head phone Mix to set up your personal mix Main Outputs The Main Outputs carry Vo cals amp Effects If nothing is connected to the Guitar outputs Main outpu
85. ment Parameter settings Normal The default value It is advised to keep this setting unless you are encountering problems Slow Reduces the data transfer rate If you are having trouble with failed Preset syncing or firmware updates using VoiceSupport soft ware try this setting Setup 101 TCHELICON Tone tab VoiceLive 3 s is equipped with a voice optimized Tone block that applies Compression EQ Gat ing and a De esser to the lead voice The set tings for these components are not stored as part of Presets they are applied globally We recommend using the Adaptive settings for Compression EQ and Gating as a starting point and only adjust these components of the Tone block manually if you run into specific issues Tone parameter Use the Tone parameter to switch the Tone block on or off VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 De ess parameter Use the De ess parameter to adjust the amount of adaptive de essing removal of sss sounds that should be applied to your voice The default setting is 50 Setup Compression mode parameter Use the Compression Mode parameter to choose between adaptive automatic and manual com pression Parameter settings Adaptive Automatically adjusts compression settings as you sing Manual Compression settings are static and manually set 102 TCHELICON Compress parameter Adaptive Compression mode only Use the Com
86. menu to define the parameter value that should be associated with the minimum down position of this second expression pedal For more information see Exp Pedal tab Get ting the most out of your expression pedal VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Exp ression Max imum Pos ition parameter If you have connected a second expression ped al to the Footswitch jack use the Exp ression Max imum Position parameter in the Setup menu to define the parameter value that should be associated with the maximum up position of this second expression pedal For more information see Exp Pedal tab Get ting the most out of your expression pedal Setup SW3 1 SW3 2 SW3 3 parameters These parameters are only available when the Footswitch jack parameter has been set to Switch 3 Each Switch 3 footswitch can be assigned to one of the following controls Step Pitch Corr ection All Mute Guitar and Vocal mute uMod Delay Reverb Vocal HIT Double Harmony Transducer HardTune Rhythmic Stutter Choir Synth Harm ony Hold Set Key Tap Tempo Bypass G uMod G Delay G Reverb GHIT G Comp G Drive G Amp G Rhythm G Octaver G Wah 114 TCHELICON G Mute All HIT Looper Harmony must be active for this to have an ef fect Toggles the Loop la
87. meter 1 To continue with the Reverb example Decay time is located here 3 Parameter 2 Again this control will vary from effect to effect but is commonly the Level control which controls the overall volume of the effect 4 Control control sets the state of the effect and how it is controlled Off The effect is inactive On The effect is active regardless of the status of the HIT button HIT On This effect is active only when the HIT button is ON HIT Off This effect is active only when the HIT button is OFF You may also change this control by press ing the footswitch associated with this effect if it is mapped to a footswitch This can be a quick way to set up several effects to come on or off when HIT is pressed 43 TCHELICON The concept of HIT on and HIT off can be a little confusing at first but you will soon get the hang of things A user suggested this analogy It can be useful to think of HIT on as throw ing a bunch of effects onto a table and HIT off as knocking or wiping a bunch of effects off of the table Effects that are on simply can t be knocked off the table and effects that are off can t be put onto it using HIT Back to editing Turn off ALL effect blocks but one It doesn t matter which effect you leave on so long as you can clearly hear the effect For this ex ample we assume that you are using the Har mo
88. mp simulation On some amplifiers what is called PreGain and PostGain in VoiceLive 3 is called Gain and Volume respectively More PreGain results in more distortion at high levels If you want a crunchy or distort ed sound turn down the PostGain adjust PreGain until you reach the amount of distor tion you like then turn up PostGain until the output volume is similar to that of other guitar Presets You can do this by ear Styles that have Clean Crunch etc in their names can still be adjusted to have more less or no distortion using the PreGain and Post Gain controls 68 TCHELICON Drive block tab VoiceLive 3 s Drive effect can act as a Boost Drive or both Essentially the Drive block has its own set of PreGain and PostGain parameters which are in dependent from the Amp simulation block When Boost is active these settings replace the cur rently active Amp settings changing your sound There are a few preconfigured Drive styles make sure you give them a try VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Tips and tricks for working with the Drive effect Since the Amp settings are replaced by the Boost settings when Boost is active it s pos sible to make your amp quieter or less distort ed when Boost is active You should probably avoid setting PreGain and PostGain for the Amp and Boost blocks to wildly different values You may encounter un
89. nce with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interfer ence to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equip ment and receiver Connect the equipment into an outlet on a cir cuit different from that to which the receiver is connected Consult the dealer or an experienced ra dio TV technician for help VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 For customers in Canada This Class B digital apparatus complies with Ca nadian ICES 003 Cet appareil num rique de la classe B est conforme a la norme NMB 003 du Canada Important safety instructions Explanation of graphic symbols A A The lightning bolt triangle is used to alert the user to the presence of unin sulated dangerous voltages within the unit s chassis that may be of suffi cient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock to humans The exclamation point triangle is used to alert the user to presence of impor tant operating and service instructions in the literature accompanying the product S TCHELICON Before you begin
90. nging the Buttonmap setting for the footswitch assigned to the Transduc er effect from Latched to Momentary al lows you to quickly add doses of the ef fect to specific words or phrases in your song Simply remap one of the Vocal layer footswitches to Transducer and change its Mode to Momentary see Buttonmap tab Remapping footswitches uMOD MODE TRANSOUCER MOMENTARY DELAY MODE PARMY PARME DELAY LATCHED REWERE MODE PARMI PARME RENERE LATCHEL UMod footswitch remapped to Transducer 60 TCHELICON Editing the Vocal layer Vocal uMod block tab Pronounced Micro Mod the Mod block in cludes effects like micro pitch shifting hence Micro Mod Flanger Chorus Rotor and more These effects can be subtle like Thicken or quite extreme with Tube Up or Alien Voiceover VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Tips and tricks for working with the Vocal uMod effect Try combining Mod set to one of the Clone Wider or Thicken styles with your Harmo ny or Double effects to increase the depth of sound Songs like Believe by Lenny Kravitz use Flanger to create its iconic sound lf you use styles like Cylon or Alien Voiceover it s probably best to use them for small sections of a song or for a fun effect while addressing the audience rather than a full time effect The advanced controls allow you to determine
91. ny effect in the Vocal layer Press the Vocal button Navigate to the Harmony tab VOICELIVE HARMONY e T Am COMP S EE Switching off all effect blocks except for Har mony VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Change the Style parameter using the Mix Knob directly below Style on the screen Notice how the sound of the effect changes It can be a subtle change or a drastic one de pending on the Style TCHELICON VOICELIVE PRESET Ve HMOD DELAY REVERB Er g v STEP HIT DOUBLE HARMONY hg papu T COMP Changing the Harmony Style parameter Once you have chosen a Style that you like you are 90 of the way there We will skip over to the Level parameter now Using the Mix Knob directly below the Level parameter change the level volume of the ef fect Find a setting that sounds good to you Now turn on another effect It still doesn t matter which one Notice how the two effects interact with each other VoiceLive 3 overview TCHELICON VOICELIVE PRESET nr uMOD DELAY REVERB v STEP HIT HARMONY Use the lt or gt Arrow buttons to navigate to the effect you just activated In the image above that s Delay Try changing the Style of the newly activated effect Find a style that sounds good with the other effect you had turned on Adjust the Level control of the new effect to
92. ny footswitch until the Set Key Scale screen appears Press the Preset up Preset down footswitches until the key reaches C lf the scale is not already Maj 2 tap the Step button repeatedly until the display shows Maj 2 Let the Key Scale screen time out and dis appear by not doing anything for a few sec onds PRESET LATER KEY SCALE a TEP PRESET Setting Key and Scale 33 TCHELICON Depending on the song you are singing Major 2 MAJ2 may not be right for you To learn which scale Harmony notes are gener ated based on your input note check out our Scale Chart support tc helicon com entries 21051886 Scale chart for TC Helicon products VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Let s try Harmony Navigate to Preset No 2 Classic 3 up us ing the Preset up Preset down switches or the Control Knob Make sure that you are on the Vocal Layer The LEDs around the footswitches should be blue If they are not press the Layer button You should see the Reverb HIT and Harmony footswitch lit in blue lf Harmony and HIT are not lit press the HIT button TCHELICON VOICELIVE 2 CLASSIC 3RD UP t EO m T HARMONY lt v STEP HIT DOUBLE HARMONY ee Preset 2 Classic 3rd up If you are a guitar playing singer you can play your guitar and sing now You should hear a har mony following your lead vocal and also hear some gu
93. o D Conversion Monitor Connector Input Impedance Balanced Monitor Input Level 0 dBFS Aux Connector Aux Input Level 0 dBFS Analog Outputs Voice Connectors Output Impedance Balanced Unbalanced Output Range 0 dBFS Dynamic Range Frequency Response D to A Conversion Guitar Connectors Output Impedance Balanced Unbalanced VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 127 dBu gt 100 dB at typical Mic Input gain 48 V on off via setup menu 24 Bit 128 x oversampling bitstream 110 dB SNR A weighted 1 4 phone jack 1 MOhm 2 to 14 dBu gt 108 dB 24 Bit 128 x oversampling bitstream 110 dB SNR A weighted Balanced XLR 25 KOhm 16 dBu 1 8 stereo mini jack 2 dBu balanced XLR 300 150 Ohm Line Level 14 dBu Mic Level 2 dBu gt 109 dB 20 Hz to 20 kHz 0 0 3 dB 20 Hz to 20 kHz 24 Bit 128 x oversampling bitstream 115 dB SNR A weighted 1 4 TRS phone jack 442 221 Ohm Technical Specifications 122 TCHELICON Output Range 0 dBFS Line Level 14 dBu Mic Level 2 dBu Dynamic Range gt 101 dB 20 Hz to 20 kHz D to A Conversion 24 Bit 128 x oversampling bitstream 106 dB SNR A weighted Headphone Connector 1 8 Mini stereo jack Impedance 50 Ohm Output Range 14 dBu max Guitar Thru Input Buffered Guitar Input Connector 1 4 TRS phone jack Output Impedance Bal UnBal Monitor Thru Signal flow Direct connection to Monitor input Connector Balanc
94. ob while on the Home screen will set the current Preset as a Favor ite For more information see Using Preset Genres and Favorites On an Edit or System screen the Control Knob acts as a vertical scroll control Use it to navigate up or down through parameters and settings 30 TCHELICON Using the Arrow buttons Use the two small Arrow buttons located be neath the Control knob to move through Presets and edit pages While on the Home screen use the Arrow but tons to move through Presets To select the next Preset press the right Ar row button To select the previous Preset press the left Arrow button On an Edit or System screen the Arrow but tons allow you to move left and right through the tabs in that menu For example the Vocal edit screen has a sep arate tab or page for each vocal effect The Arrow buttons move from left to right through these tabs VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 What is a Preset VoiceLive 3 and many other TC Helicon devices are based on the concept of Presets Essen tially a Preset is a record of all the settings for a group of effects that you can recall quickly and easily The Preset concept is extremely flexible A Pre set can be general purpose like a simple Re verb or Harmony sound But a Preset can also represent a specific song or portion of a song via multiple effects and settings A good modern analogy fo
95. oduction Multi track looper Alai l FC EMPTY EMPTH GLOT 1 EPM 126 Looper main view Having access to multiple independent loops al lows for a lot of flexibility and functionality when looping Our multi track looper has some really amazing performance features that will help you to make great loops The Swap feature allows you to record two loops and alternate between them with the push of a footswitch This is particularly useful for record ing different sections of a song like a verse and chorus and quickly moving between them EMPTIS Ll A 411 5 SEC SWAP RECB SLOT 1 EPM 126 Looper Swap feature Loop length no longer matters In some loop ers your longest loop track will dictate the length of all others which can be a big hassle Imagine a beat box style rhythm that is 1 bar long anda guitar progression that is 8 bars long In the past you would have to record 8 bars of the beat box segment in order for there to be enough VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 to play your guitar part over Now you can re cord unequal length phrases Record your 1 bar beat box on one loop Track then record your 8 bar guitar section on another There are a few different Sync modes in the Looper so be sure to read the The Utility menu to familiarize yourself with the way they affect your loops Store loops Those of you who hav
96. ome time into creating effects that you like in your Global Preset you can then ac cess these effects in any other Preset by simply setting one parameter We have defined a Global Preset for you already the factory default is 491 but you can make your own We suggest placing the global Preset in a loca tion quite far from your other Presets in the box so you don t accidentally overwrite it Any Pre sets that depend on the information in the Global Preset will be affected if you delete or change it Defining the Global Preset Press the Setup button Use lt or gt to navigate to the System tab Use the Control Knob to highlight Global Pre set Use the Mix Knob below Global Preset to change its value to represent the Preset num ber you would like as your Global Preset Using an effect from the Global Preset Select a Preset that you would like to link to the Global Preset Press the Vocal or Guitar button depending on which effect you would like to edit Navigate to the effect tab for the effect that you would like to link to the Global Preset e g Delay CHE CELAY GIE QUARTER FEEDEACK LEWEL HIT CONTROL So z 15 dE HIT Delay effect block settings Use the Control Knob to scroll down to the Global parameter It should say Off 45 TCHELICON VoiceLive 3 overview CHIEN CELAN GIE uMOD TO ELAY CHOIR TO DELAY 0 dE 0 dE LEAD L
97. one VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 70 TCHELICON Editing the Guitar layer Guitar Reverb block tab The Guitar Reverb block works in the same man ner as the Vocal Reverb block Please see Vocal Reverb block tab for an overview of the Vocal Reverb block Using surgical skills that would make Victor Frankenstein green with envy we have trans planted TC Electronic s popular Hall of Fame Reverb pedal into VoiceLive 3 s Guitar layer Now you can enjoy the classic HoF sound alongside your vocal effects GIG EES GSE REVERE iQ PCT GT oT Guitar Reverb block set to TC Electronic s Hall of Fame Plate reverb VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Tips and tricks for working with the Guitar Reverb effect Try using same style of Reverb for both Vocal and Guitar This helps glue the two sounds together into a shared physical space Using a very obvious Reverb during a solo section can help differentiate the solo from the rest of the song If you are playing very fast heavy music you may be tempted to use no Reverb at all Typi cally if you listen to a recording of this type of guitar sound there will be a small amount of Reverb used Try one of the Cozy Corner or Wool type Reverbs for a very subtle addition of the effect 71 TCHELICON Compression block tab Compression is used across almost all modern music production styles from studio to li
98. ony effect creates harmony vocals from your lead voice This harmony can contain up to four voices each with different intervals key scale sources pan humanization and other settings Harmony can be used to add a single voice of harmony up to a larger group sound depend ing on your application Editing the Vocal layer Tips and tricks for working with the Harmony effect Subtle is often better when using any Har mony effect Typically when we hear com plaints about the created voices sounding ro botic or fake it can be attributed partially to the Harmony voices being overly loud in the vocal mix Level settings of 6 or dB lower can often yield great results even if the voices aren t imme diately obvious High and Low styles are the most com monly used harmonies in popular music If you are a male or have a lower voice try High If you are female or have a higher voice try Low When using a multi voice Harmony style like High amp Low or High amp Higher try adjust ing the Pan and Level parameters in the Vocal Edit screen to adjust the location and volume of each voice To expand on the above try turning on Voice 3 and Voice 4 Set each to copy the settings of the existing two voices Pan them oppo site to the existing voices and reduce their level slightly This puts one High amp Low pair on the Left and Right of the ste
99. ops in any order VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 QUANTIZE Just like SMART QUANTIZE uses VoiceLive 3 s LoopAssist feature It will make your loops fall onto the nearest beat of the current tempo But other than SMART QUANTIZE does not extend or trim Loops For a good example of the difference try this In the Sync sub menu select SMART Record a short loop on Loop track A Record a onger loop on Loop track B Let them play back and take note of how it sounds and looks in the display Delete both loops from Loop tracks A and B see Erase sub menu Now record a longer Loop on Loop track A Record a shorter Loop on Loop track B Notice that the shorter B loop is automati cally extended with empty space to match Loop track A Once again delete both Loops In the Sync sub menu select QUANTIZE Record a longer loop on Loop track A Record a shorter loop on Loop track B and try to make it divisible into Loop track A For example if Loop track A is four bars long make Loop track B two bars Notice how Loop track B now loops multiple times for each loop of Track A This is a better mode if you would like to re cord a longer Loop track A perhaps a chord progression and a shorter Loop track B per haps a beatbox section The Looper Our apologies for such a long list of steps but it s probably best to see and hear the diffe
100. or follow along to learn about the Guitar layer Press the Layer footswitch You should notice that VoiceLive 3 s LEDs turn RED indicating you are now on the guitar layer Look at the screen too You will see that the effect names have changed and there is a small guitar icon in each of the boxes there are small microphone icons in each Vocal layer box TCHELICON VOICELIVE CLASSIC 3RD UP e COMP O PRESET A Pa HMOD DELAY REVERB A Heo con HARMONY Guitar layer active While playing your guitar tap some of the foot switches to turn the various guitar effects on and off Change a guitar effect to Momentary mode as described in Change a button from Latched to Momentary mode However press the Guitar button instead of the Vocal button to begin the process You are now in Guitar Edit mode and 38 TCHELICON you can move to the Buttonmap screen from there There is a separate Buttonmap screen for both the Vocal and Guitar layer but that s a can of worms we can open later VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Editing HIT Return to the Vocal layer by pressing Home If you are on the Guitar Layer indicated by red LEDs press the Layer button until the Vocal layer is active You can easily edit the effects contained within the HIT function It is possible to have effects ac tive when HIT is on or off We refer to these two states as HIT on and
101. ou are not already on the Looper layer go there now by pressing and holding the Layer button The Looper setting up the metronome Let s turn on the Metronome MET so you can make your loop to a consistent beat As you can see there are six segments in the display which correlate to the six footswitch es The lower left segment is labeled MET and represents the HIT footswitch Tap the HIT footswitch TCHELICON VOICELIVE mMPTY a y 1 SOUND METON MET MUTE EPmM 120 PRESET LL Enr 4 HMOD DELAY REVERB A wae v STEP HIT DOUBLE HARMONY Metronome settings The HIT footswitch will begin flashing purple indicating that the Metronome is now active If you are using headphones you should hear a Kick Drum Metronome If you don t hear a metronome sound over your headphones Press the Home button Move any of the MIX knobs to access the Mix page Navigate to the Headphone Mix page using the Arrow buttons Turn up the Metronome Level Press and hold the Layer button to re enter the Looper 80 TCHELICON If you are connected to a PA you should hear a Kick Drum Metronome If you don t hear a metronome sound over your P A Press the Home button Move any of the MIX knobs to access the Mix page Navigate to the Main Mix page using the Ar row buttons Turn up the Metronome Level Press and ho
102. our keyboard for VoiceLive 3 to respond to Use the Split Note parameter to define a split point Use the Split Direction parameter to control whether notes above or below that note are included Above Any notes above the Split note are listened to for MIDI note information Below Any notes below the Split note are lis tened to for MIDI note information VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Vibrato Boost parameter Use the Vibrato Boost parameter to set how VoiceLive 3 should process incoming MIDI mod ulation data Parameter settings Boost The modulation data received via MIDI is added to the vibrato already applied to Har mony voices Manual The modulation data received via MIDI is directly controlling the Vibrato amount Setup Pitchbend Range parameter Use the Pitchbend range parameter to define the range that pitch bend information can affect the current note s This value is represented in semi tones The default value is 12 1 octave 100 TCHELICON Sysex ID parameter Use the SysEx ID parameter to set the Sysex ID that is used for addressing devices If you are using VoiceSupport for firmware up dates and or Preset management you need to set the SysEx ID to 0 VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 SysEx Dump Rate parameter Use the SysEx Dump Rate parameter to set the speed of MIDI data transfers for firmware up dates and Preset manage
103. parameter is useful if you have multiple MIDI devices and want to send specific commands to individual devices 98 TCHELICON CC Channel parameter Use the CC Channel parameter to set the MIDI Channel that VoiceLive 3 listens to for incom ing MIDI Continuous Controller CC information The MIDI Channel and CC channel can be differ ent This means that you can have VoiceLive 3 respond to Program Change information on one channel and to CC information on another VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Transpose parameter Use the Transpose parameter to shift incoming MIDI note data up or down by up to 4 octaves If the output note after transposition falls outside the available MIDI notes i e if it is really high or really low the nearest octave note will be used instead For example if you have set Transpose to 4 octaves but the note falls too far outside of the acceptable MIDI note value range the sys tem will try the next nearest transposition octave of 3 If 3 is also too low it will try 2 etc Setup Split Note parameter It is possible to define a specific area of your MIDI keyboard for VoiceLive 3 to respond to Use the Split Note parameter to define a split point Use the Split Direction parameter to con trol whether notes above or below that note are included Parameter settings C 1 to G9 99 TCHELICON Split Direction parameter It is possible to define a specific area of y
104. parameter to choose from many controllable targets Use the Exp MinPos parameter to define the parameter value that should be associated with the minimum down position of the ex pression pedal Use the Exp MaxPos parameter to define the parameter value that should be associated with the maximum up position of the expres sion pedal The MinPos and MaxPos parameters can be useful when you would like to limit the effective range of the pedal For example if you assign the expression pedal to control harmony volume you may want the harmonies to turn down slightly when you rock the pedal all the way back but not turn them off completely To achieve this effect you would set Exp Minpos to something higher than 0 VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 try something like 50 or 70 This allows you to make large easy to perform movements with the pedal without changing the level of the har monies too drastically PEs EO EPA PEDAL CT EXP MINPOS ExP MASPOS 10 100 lt EXPRESSION PEGAL A HARMONY LEVEL GLOEAL OFF It can be useful to limit the expression pedal range for parameters such as Guitar Volume Harmony Volume Delay Feedback Rhythmic Depth etc Working with a second expression pedal If you want to you can use a second expres sion pedal with your VoiceLive 3 Connect this second Expression pedal to the Footswitch jack As opposed to the expression pedal connected to
105. press parameter to control the amount of adaptive compression applied to your voice 50 is the default VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Threshold parameter Manual Compression mode only Use the Threshold parameter to set the signal level where compression should be applied Setup Ratio parameter Manual Compression mode only Use the Ratio parameter to set the amount of compression that should be applied when the signal level is over the Threshold The Ratio is defined as a 1 X ratio where X is the number of decibels dB of reduction in level for every 1 dB over the Threshold value 103 TCHELICON Gate parameter The gate turns down the volume of the micro phone line signal when the input signal falls un der a certain threshold Use the Gate parameter to choose between adaptive automatic and manual compression Parameter settings Off No Gate is applied Adaptive The Gate is adjusted automatically Manual The Gate threshold can be set by the user VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Lead Atten uation parameter Adaptive and Manual Gate mode only Use the Lead Atten uation parameter to set the attenuation of the lead voice once the signal falls under the threshold Setup Harm ony Atten uation parameter Adaptive and Manual Gate mode only Use the Harm ony Atten uation parameter to set the attenuation of the harmony voices once the
106. r a Preset is a user ac count on a computer Even though each user has access to the same hardware CPU RAM etc each user can change their desktop wallpaper icons on the desktop program behaviors and much more When each user logs in the com puter recalls all of their custom settings Depending on how you like you to work with ef fects you may find that you like to use a few gen eral purpose Presets and turn effects on and off manually during your performance Or you might be the kind of guy or girl who likes to spend a bit more time in advance of the performance to create Presets for all sorts of things Or you may be somewhere in between Any amount of edit ing or Preset manipulation is fine You can get as programmer or seat of the pants as you like VoiceLive 3 overview Using Steps A Step is at its core a Preset within a Preset Here s how it works Let s use a typical song pop song structure as an example Verse Chorus Verse Chorus Bridge Chorus Now let s assume that you want a complete ly different sound for your Verse Chorus and Bridge sections The HIT function is great if you need two variations within a song but here you ll obviously need more Now the easiest way to accomplish this is to make a separate Preset for each song section This means that on stage you now have to re member where those presets are and move be tween them for each part of the song It s totally
107. rease or decrease the tempo in 1 BPM increments For example press the Preset down foot switch to decrease the tempo Manually adjusting the Tap Tempo can be handy if you want to set a specific tempo e g when you have to follow a click track And of course both methods can be combined Use tapping to get close to the desired tempo and use the Preset footswitches for fine tuning 42 TCHELICON VoiceLive 3 overview Using Global Tempo Depending on how you would like to man age tempo within VoiceLive 3 you can choose whether tempo information is recalled from each individual Preset or managed globally lf you would like to store specific tempos within your Presets simply set the tap tempo as de scribed in Tapping tempo and save the Preset If you would like to set one tempo and have all Presets follow it you will need to head into the System menu Press the Setup button Use lt or gt to navigate to the System tab Use the Control Knob to scroll down to the Global Tempo option Use the Mix Knob to change the value to ON Press the Home button LAINE ONE S45TeM EUTTONMAP GLOEAL NATPLAY SOURCE ALL GUITAR Fh GLOBAL OFF OFF GLOEAL TEMPO GLOBAL KES SCALE on on TUNER REFERENCE HIT EEHRUIOR 440 0 SNAPSHOT Global Tempo on Now any tempo you tap will immediately be ef fective and be used for whatever Preset you choose VoiceLive 3 Reference m
108. renc es in action to fully understand how Smart and Quantize modes work 87 TCHELICON The Looper FREE This one s easy to explain No metronome or other sync Loops are all recorded completely independently and can take any form length Go crazy VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Erase sub menu Tap ERASE the Harmony Drive footswitch to enter the Erase sub menu In the Erase sub menu you will find options for erasing your Loops Erase Loop track A Erase Loop track B Erase Loop track C Erase All Loop tracks GS C J BACK ERASEB ERASEC d ERASE A ERASE ALL AREE EP Erase sub menu Erasing loops directly You can easily delete a single loop without hav ing to go to the Erase sub menu While you are on the main Loop screen simply press hold the ODUB button for a Loop track Reverb or Harmony footswitches respectively Loop limits The total loop time available in VoiceLive 3 is 45 minutes Individual loop Tracks can be up to 8 minutes 88 TCHELICON Setup Setup VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 89 TCHELICON Setup Setup contains all of the sys tem wide parameters for VoiceLive 3 Each page or tab Setup is described in its own section of this chapter Hold for Mic Gain Tap the Setup button to enter the system menu Tap the Arrow buttons to switch between the tabs of the system menu VoiceLi
109. reo field with High being slightly dominant on one side and Low on the other High Low Lead High Low Harm 1 Harm 2 Voice Harm 3 Harm 4 lt Left Right gt Panning Harmony Voices 53 TCHELICON Editing the Vocal layer To further expand try adjusting the Smoothing and Humanization parameters for each of the four voices so that each voice ends up a bit dif ferent from the other On the Buttonmap tab of the Setup menu you can remap the Step footswitch to various controls Try remapping the Step footswitch to Harmony Hold When the Harmony effect is active press the Step footswitch now as signed to Harmony Hold to fix the current harmony note and hold it You can then sing other notes as the Harmonies continue to sing the note you held We suggest to also changing the Step But ton Mode to Momentary to avoid accidentally turning Harmony Hold on and letting it hold a note indefinitely You will find that brief use of the effect is typically the best approach INPUT OUTPUT GUITAR MIDI TONE S95TEM EUTTONMAP f STEP EUTTON FUNCTION STEP EUTTON MODE MOMENTARY HARM HOLD MIC SWITCH FUNCTION MIC SWITCH MODE UOC HIT LATCHED FOOTSWITCH JACK SWITCH 3 Changing Step Button Mode to Momentary VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 NaturalPlay Scale Fixed amp Pedal Modes VoiceLive 3 offers a completely new way of com bining harmony voice modes that a
110. reset buttons while in Talk Tuner mode to change presets This is great for changing presets while addressing the audience to queue sounds for your next song To exit Talk Tuner press any button other than Preset Up or Preset Down For more information see Talk Tuner Mode TCHELICON 2 Layer footswitch Tap the Layer footswitch to swap between the Vocal and Guitar effects layers Vocal layer active Layer footswitch LED lights blue Guitar layer active Layer footswitch LED lights red Hold the Layer footswitch to access the Loop layer Loop layer active Layer footswitch LED lights purple To return from the Loop lay er to previously active layer Vocal or Guitar hold VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 HOLD FOR LOOPER HOLD FOR LOOPER HOLD FOR LOOPER Here are a couple of examples showing how the effects footswitches might look when each layer is active REVERB PRESET A fis im 2 5 F x 3 DOUBLE HARMONY COMP DRIVE Vocal Layer with Reverb Double and Harmony activated PRESET Guitar Layer with uMod let s say it s Flanger for this example Delay and Drive activated If you were previously on the Vocal Layer you would tap the Layer footswitch to move to the Guitar Layer changing the footswitch LED color from blue to red Introduction PRESET DOUBLE
111. rols The Guitar and Loop Trim controls allow you to increase or decrease the levels of Guitar and Loop relative to the Main Mix settings The one limitation this imposes is that you cannot set the Guitar or Loop controls in the Main Mix to Off and still hear them in your headphones Effects Mix Effects Mix allows you to adjust the overall sound of your presets Voices Controls the overall level of any voices generated by VoiceLive 3 This includes Har mony Double and Choir Voc Reverb Controls the overall level of the Vocal Reverb effect across your presets If you find yourself in a venue that has a lot of or very little natural Reverb you may not have the time to adjust the Reverb settings in all your Presets manually Instead use this con trol to better match the Reverb settings in your Presets to the physical space you are in Guitar Reverb Performs the same function as Voc Reverb for the Guitar Reverb in all your Presets 47 TCHELICON Tips and tricks for working with layers and effects As we discussed in Design concepts and Footswitches overview VoiceLive 3 is com prised of three Layers Vocal Guitar and Loop er Tapping the Layer button will give you access to the layer you would like to control Guitar or Vo cal Press and hold the Layer button to access the Looper Keep in mind that as we discuss editing Vocal or Guitar effects the editing process is inde p
112. rovided for your safety If the provided plug does not fit into your outlet consult an electrician for replacement of the obsolete outlet Protect the power cord from being walked on or pinched particularly at plugs con venience receptacles and the point where they exit from the apparatus Only use attachments accessories speci fied by the manufacturer Use only with a cart stand tripod bracket or table specified by the manufacturer or sold with the ap Y paratus When a cart is used use caution when moving the cart apparatus combination to avoid injury from tip over Unplug this apparatus during lightning storms or when unused for long periods of time VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 14 Refer all servicing to qualified service per sonnel Servicing is required when the ap paratus has been damaged in any way such as power supply cord or plug is dam aged liquid has been spilled or objects have fallen into the apparatus the appara tus has been exposed to rain or moisture does not operate normally or has been dropped Caution You are cautioned that any change or modifi cations not expressly approved in this manual could void your authority to operate this equip ment Service All service must be performed by qualified personnel There are no user serviceable parts inside Important safety instructions Warning To reduce the risk of fire or electric shock do not expose
113. s or play them in certain combinations Loop tracks A and B or Loop tracks A and C Remember that each of these Loop tracks can encompass one or many overdubs Loop slot A Loop slot is a place where you can store the Loops you have recorded Each Loop slot can contains three Loop tracks as described above A B and C The Looper Loop Slots Loop Tracks Presets and the Buttonmap You can assign Loop Slots and Loop Tracks to footswitches using the Buttonmap feature and these settings are stored as part of every Pre set This allows you to select a Preset that will not only contain your Vocal and Guitar settings but also the basic building blocks for a song mapped to your VoiceLive 3 s footswitches 19 TCHELICON Entering and exiting Loop mode To enter Loop mode press and hold the Layer button The LED of the Layer footswitch will turn purple and the screen will display loop tracks and other information The loop screen shows a combination of con trols which relate to the six footswitches and track thumbnails that show you what you have recorded To exit Loop mode and return to the previously active layer Vocal or Guitar press and hold the Layer button TCHELICON VOICELIVE PRESET So uMOD DELAY REVERB Q 1 HARMONY Loop mode activated VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Your first loop Just to get you started let s make a quick loop If y
114. s shown below the UP and DOWN arrows on the far left of the Loop display To switch to another Loop slot press the Pre set up and Preset down footswitches The Loop slot number is saved with your oth er Preset information and is automatically re called when you load a Preset Undo Redo information is NOT stored with the Loop when saved _ L Lai CE EMPTY A EMPTY A UINPUTI SAYE pf METI SYNC VERASE SLOT 2 TETE T e A ry sack DONE SAYE Saving your Loop to the current Loop Slot Metronome sub menu Tap MET the HIT footswitch to enter the Metro nome sub menu In the Metronome sub menu you can turn the metronome on or off and change its sound Metronome sub menu The options in the Metronome sub menu are MET ON Tap MET ON Double Comp foot switch to turn on the metronome and all re lated sync features The Metronome is more than a simple click track It generates an audio signal guiding you when you are recording loops but it also syncs with and controls the tempo MET MUTE Tap MET MUTE Harmony Drive footswitch to mute the audio output for the Metronome If you mute the Metronome it will still be active for tempo and LoopAssist but it won t make any sound MET OFF Tap MET OFF Delay footswitch to turn off the metronome and all related sync features Please note the difference between MET OFF and MET MUTE When you turn the
115. sentially when you tap the Layer footswitch the effects associated with the six effect foot switches labeled uMod Delay Reverb HIT Double Comp Harmony Drive will change from vocal effects to guitar effects or looping con trols Introduction You can even remap footswitches within a lay er or from one layer to another This approach solves one of the most common requests from our massively popular VoiceLive 2 unit I love it but want the X footswitch to be where the Y footswitch is We also recognize that layers and remappable footswitches can be a bit daunting to learn This is why we have designed the system to be consistent and straightforward Once you have learned how to remap one footswitch you know how to remap them all TCHELICON Introduction Global effects Another common request from TC Helicon users has been for global effects VoiceLive 3 allows you to define a specific Preset as the Global Preset This defines all of the effects and param eters within that Preset and allows them to be easily applied to other Presets What does that mean for you Easier quick er Preset creation and access to consistent sounds Here is an example want to use this great reverb on a whole bunch of Presets How do do that First edit the guitar reverb on your Global Pre set by default this is Preset no 491 Editing guitar settings is explained in greater
116. ssigned to Mix Knob 1 Use Mix Knob 1 to move the cursor the current ly selected character This is handy for quickly navigating to a position in the Preset name Letter assigned to Mix Knob 2 Use Mix Knob 2 to select the letter number or symbol for the current cursor position Ins ert Del ete assigned to Mix Knob 3 Turn Mix knob 3 clockwise right to insert an empty character a blank to the left of the cur rently highlighted character Turn Mix knob 3 counter clockwise left to the left to delete the currently highlighted charac ter Store to assigned to Mix Knob 34 Use Mix Knob 4 to select the Preset number where the current Preset will be stored 41 TCHELICON VoiceLive 3 overview If you want to save the Preset where it cur rently is do not change this value If you would like to save the Preset to another location change Store To to another num ber The name of the selected Preset slot will be displayed in the upper part of the screen Using Store To is handy when you would like to make several Presets with similar sounds You can create a master Preset and store it so a few different locations using Store To You can then edit those copies further if you wish STORE SE HASSIC 3RD UP CURSOR LETTER Ins gt STORE TO lt C DEL p Store menu When you are finished naming and assigning your Preset simply press Store again to com plete the
117. t XLR output jack carries the summed with effects mono vocal channel The right XLR output jack carries the summed with effects mono guitar channel VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 XLR Out Level parameter Use the XLR Out Level parameter to set the rela tive level of the signal going to the XLR outputs Parameter settings Mic Level Typically the best setting when connecting to a mixer PA This level closely replicates that of a microphone going directly into the mixer Line Level When connecting to a mixer PA line inputs this setting is a good choice Setup Links For a tutorial on PA basics Yorkville has an extremely useful PA Primer guide PDF yorkville com downloads other basicpaprim er pdf There is also a great Craig s Corner video epi sode covering Mixer Setup with TC Helicon devices youtube com watch v qq0AOtafljs And another with tips on eliminating feedback youtube com watch v VIN1RJ4gcAo 94 TCHELICON Headphone Limiter parameter Use the Headphone Limiter parameter to set the limiter level for the headphone output 0 dB allows for maximum potential headphone output Levels below 0 dB 3 dB etc will restrict or limit the maximum potential headphone out put When using in ear monitors you may want to set the limiter in order to prevent hearing dam age by transient loud noises such as feedback VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014
118. taver is mono phonic not polyphonic Try turning the Mix control up or down to blend some of your regular guitar sound with the shifted effect When simulating a bass line it helps to play like a bassist Your bass parts will sound much more convincing if you approach them with a bass player s ear Editing the Guitar layer 15 TCHELICON Guitar Rhythmic block tab The Guitar Rhythmic block basically works in the same manner as the Vocal Rhythmic block Please see Vocal Rhythmic block tab for an overview of the Vocal Rhythmic block For the Guitar Rhythmic block we have included an improved tremolo sound to better replicate the classic effect VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Tips and tricks for working with the Guitar Rhythmic effect Using Chopper or Pan based Rhythmic ef fects can add a lot of flavor to your sound es pecially when used as a special effect Similar to the suggestions for Delay experi ment with using the same Delay and Rhythmic divisions for guitar and vocals Conversely try different divisions to create more exotic sounds Editing the Guitar layer 76 TCHELICON Editing the Guitar layer Guitar Buttonmap block tab The Guitar Buttonmap works in the same man ner as the Vocal Buttonmap Please see Vocal Buttonmap block tab for an overview of the Vo cal Buttonmap Keep in mind that the Vocal and Guitar Button map settin
119. te guitar effects suite Previously we had provided Chorus Reverb EQ and Compres sion blocks VoiceLive Play GTX added Amp Distortion and Delay to the options greatly ex panding the sound possibilities for guitar play ers VoiceLive 3 takes that ball and runs with it In fact it pulls a Forrest Gump and runs straight out of the stadium and across the country GIG EES GSE REVERE ain PT GT ET LE HALL OF DECAY LEWEL HIT CONTROL FAME HALL jag 11 dE on Guitar effects in VoiceLive 3 The guitar effects in VoiceLive 3 come from some of TC Electronic s most successful effects like Corona Chorus Hall of Fame Reverb Vortex Flanger and Flashback Delay When you couple those beautiful effects with great amp modeling Drive Boost Compression Rhythm Tremolo Wah wah and Octave Down you can truly manipulate your guitar and vocal sounds as a cohesive unit Imagine your time based vocal and guitar effects being perfectly in sync without having to set up complex timing systems or tapping tempo on multiple devices Everything just lines up Advanced monitoring More and more people are jumping into the In Ear Monitor IEM pool It s a great thing to do but it can often require a fairly complex setup VoiceLive 3 offers two features that make cus tom monitor mixing really easy for you Monitor IN Using the Monitor IN XLR connection you can bring a monitor or cue mix into your Voice Live 3 blending it
120. the Expression jack which can be used dif ferently in each Preset the pedal connected to the footswitch jack only has a global setting it will control all Presets in the same way To use a second expression pedal Press Setup Navigate to the Buttonmap tab Select the Footswitch Jack parameter and set it from Switch 3 to Expression pedal Calibrating your expression pedal If you are connecting an expression pedal it must be calibrated To enter the calibration screen press the Set up button Use the lt and gt arrows to navigate to the Pedal Calibration tab EXPRESSION PEDAL CALIERATION FOR PEDAL CONNECTED TO EXPRESSION PRESS SETUP Follow the on screen instructions The Preset tab The Preset tab allows you to make changes to the Preset as a whole Most importantly you can adjust the overall level of the Vocal or Guitar signals within a Preset This allows you to balance your Presets so they all have the same apparent volume EO ET CU ETES PRESET B WOCAL LEVEL TRIM LEAD PAN 0 dE C Preset tab for the Vocal layer a GES ET A SST PRESET D GUITAR LEVEL TRIM GTR PAN 0 dE C Preset tab for the Guitar layer 50 TCHELICON When you are adding effects to the Vocal or Guitar signal path each of these effects inevita bly adds some gain volume to the signal chain This means that after adding several effects your Preset may end up louder than
121. this apparatus to rain or moisture and objects filled with liquids such as vases should not be placed on this apparatus This apparatus must be earthed Use a three wire grounding type line cord like the one supplied with the product Be advised that different operating voltages require the use of different types of line cord and attachment plugs Check the voltage in your area and use the correct type Voltage Line plug according to standard 110 to 125 V UL817 and CSA C22 2 no 42 220 to 230 V CEE 7 page VII SR section 107 2 D1 IEC 83 page C4 This equipment should be installed near the socket outlet and disconnection of the device should be easily accessible To completely disconnect from AC mains dis connect the power supply cord from the AC receptacle The mains plug of the power supply shall re main readily operable Do not install this device in a confined space For use at an altitude of 2000 m or lower Do not open the unit risk of electric shock inside TCHELICON EMC EMI Electromagnetic compatibility Electromagnetic interference This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital de vice pursuant to part 15 of the FCC rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in resi dential installations This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accorda
122. tivate HIT HIT can control Vocal HIT blue Guitar HIT red All HIT purple HIT HIT is covered in greater detail in Using the HIT footswitch 17 TCHELICON 8 Double Comp footswitch On the Vocal layer tap the Double DOUBLE Comp footswitch to turn the Double effect on or off COMP Double encompasses effects such as 1 Voice Tight 2 Voices Wide and 4 Voices Wide On the Guitar layer tap the Double Comp foot switch to turn the Compressor on or off VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 9 Harmony Drive footswitch On the Vocal layer tap the Har HARMONY mony Drive footswitch to turn the Harmony effect on or off DRIVE Harmony encompasses effects such as High 3rd up Low 4th below and Low amp Lower 4th below and 6 below On the Guitar layer tap the Harmony Drive foot switch to turn the Drive effect on or off Drive encompasses effects such as Boost Boost amp Drive and Drive Introduction TCHELICON Introduction Back panel inputs and outputs VoiceLive 3 offers extremely robust input and 1 DC Power connector output routing Using the Monitor IN THRU and 2 XLR amp Combo jack dedicated Guitar outputs effectively you can 3 Guitar input greatly reduce the amount of gear you need to 4 1 8 Stereo Aux input jack take to a performance Please note that Aux input and Monitor input are mutually exclusive Only one may be used at a ti
123. to sound good together Otherwise a Fixed voice could be singing a completely inappropriate note for your song Harmony can suffer from warbles when sound other than your voice is picked up via your microphone Check out this Craig s Cor ner video for a bit of TC Helicon Harmony his tory and some advice on reducing warble youtube com watch v pI CCTmv2ZM 54 TCHELICON Editing the Vocal layer Double block tab Tips and tricks for working Often referred to as Doubling or Double with the Double effect Tracking the Double effect mimics a singer re Tight Double styles will have less pitch and cording multiple versions of the same vocal pas timing variation than Loose styles will Tight sages and playing them back simultaneously styles therefore tend to be a bit more subtle The small differences in timing and pitch that even at higher effect levels result from the two recordings create a more full Try turning the Lead Level parameter to OFF and doubled sound when using one of the Wide styles This will effectively remove your voice from the middle It s quite common in contemporary music for of the stereo field and helps recreate the wide some sort of Double effect to be active during panned vocal style that can be heard on many the entire song albeit with varying intensity recent recordings Adding some 1 Voice Tight Double effect when using the Harmony e
124. ton Use the Mix Knob to scroll through available Preset Genres When you have found a Genre you would like to explore tap the Genre button again to con firm and exit Pressing any other button like HOME to exit Genre selection mode will not select the current Genre Make sure you use the Genre button to exit the menu and confirm your se lection The Genre button will be flashing to remind you to press it After selecting a Genre you will notice that scrolling through Presets gives you fewer op tions than before Presets are now filtered and only show options contained in your chosen Genre To return to seeing all Presets Tap the Genre button Use the Mix Knob to change the Genre to All Press Genre again to exit Using Favorites There is a special Genre called Favorite which you can assign Presets to Favorites can be used to quickly make a set list or showcase of Presets helping you to navigate more quickly through VoiceLive 3 To add a Preset to the Favorite Genre sim ply press the Control Knob down while on the home screen A small FAV tag will be shown in the bottom right corner of the display indicating that the current Preset is now flagged as a Favorite If you now enter the Genre menu and select the Favorite Genre only Presets that you have selected as Favorites will be available as you change Presets just as with other Genres To remove the Favorit
125. trolling both vocal and guitar hit There s also a wrench icon instead of a microphone showing you that you are no longer just controlling Vocal effects TCHELICON VOICELIVE 2 CLASSIC 3RD UP f i MENT REER PRESET MOD DELAY REVERB a v STEP DOUBLE HARMONY HIT footswitch remapped to ALL HIT 40 TCHELICON VoiceLive 3 overview HIT Dynamic vs Snapshot VoiceLive 3 s default HIT behavior is dynamic which means you can make edits to the effects contained within the HIT variation of the Preset by simply turning them on and off as described under Editing HIT It s a very quick and intuitive way of combining effects especially while edit ing a Preset That being said While on stage you may want to turn an effect on or off during the song but still have HIT activate and deactivate the specific effects you have defined Let s see an example Using HIT in Dynamic mode default You have saved the Preset with Reverb active all the time ON and Harmony only when you have turned on HIT HIT ON You start the song with HIT turned off so you just have Reverb but no Harmony voices on your voice You decide that it would be nice to have some delay for a particular section So you turn Delay on Then the chorus section of your song comes up so you press HIT to activate Harmony Reverb stays on and Delay goes off just as you would exp
126. ts also carry Guitar signals Guitar Outputs The Guitar outputs carry the Guitar signal If only one output is connected guitar output is automatically in MONO When you connect the Guitar Out s to your ampt s guitar sounds will be removed from the Main outputs MIDI Out The MIDI Out jack sends MIDI Con trol Change messages MIDI CCs related to footswitches and buttons pressed on Voice Live 3 If no CC is sent there is likely no CC assigned to that particular action Currently Vocal amp Guitar effects ON OFF and their respective levels are represented by MIDI Control Change messages If you experience hum from your guitar amp or PA try pressing the GRND LIFT switch locat ed between the Headphone out and the Left XLR output 20 TCHELICON Diagram legend The following icons are used in the diagrams in this manual i Microphone Acoustic Guitar Electric Guitar Keyboard or other instrument Monitor Mix Se VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Mixing Board 0000000288 Guitar Keyboard amp XLR cables gt QI gt TRS and TS cables dl ss 1 8 cable guitar cable Introduction N TCHELICON Introduction Diagrams On the following pages you will see some con nection diagrams We have set things up to give you clear and concise representations of what goes where There are a few things we would
127. ve In a nutshell Compression brings the loudest bits and quietest bits of the music closer together in apparent volume creating a more even sound For guitar using compression can enhance sustain or attack limit levels and or smooth out your overall sound For acoustic guitar it is common to use some compression full time while compression is of ten used during solos and boosted sections for electric guitar That being said Like with any other effect there are really no rules Use what sounds good to you In studio recording Compression is common on almost every track or group of tracks Compression can raise the output level of your guitar so be aware that it can also contribute to feedback VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Tips and tricks for working with the Compression effect Threshold is the level at which the Compres sor begins to affect the sound The lower the Threshold 30 dB is lower than 20 dB the sooner the Compressor will engage Ratio determines how much Compression takes place Ratio is typically defined as 1 X ratio where X is the number of decibels dB of reduction in level for every 1 dB over the Threshold value This can sound confusing but simply try to think of lower Threshold and higher Ratio as more Compression Editing the Guitar layer 72 TCHELICON Wah Wah Wah block tab If you
128. ve 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Input tab The Input page contains settings for all of the in puts in VoiceLive 3 Input Gain parameter Use the Input Gain parameter to adjust the input level for the Mic input If you have completed the Auto Gain procedure from the Quick Guide you likely won t need to adjust this To adjust the gain manually do the following Plug in your microphone If you have a condenser microphone change Input Type to Condenser Sing at your loudest Turn the Input Gain parameter up until only the green and yellow LEDs of the Level indicator light up lf you see the red LED light turn Input Gain down until the red LED no longer lights This is your optimal Input Gain setting Input Type parameter Use the Input Type parameter to select your mi crophone type Choose the one that best match es your setup The available options are Dynamic Mic E g SM58 OM5 MP 70 etc Condenser Mic Activates 48V phantom power MP 75 Mic enables Mic Control E835 FX Mic enables Mic Control 90 TCHELICON Global Pitch Correct parameter Use the Global Pitch Correct parameter to apply auto chromatic pitch correction to your incom ing microphone signal This feature is separate from the Hard Tune effect block and will be over ridden when HardTune is active We like to think of Global Pitch Correction as a little help gently guiding you to the ne
129. very good at it right away VoiceLive 3 overview Using individual effects Next turn off Harmony using the HIT button Try tapping the Double button to add the Double ef fect to your voice Do the same with Delay and uMod Try a few of the effects together and see what it sounds like 35 TCHELICON VoiceLive 3 overview Change a button from Latched to Momentary mode When you are turning effects on and off using the footswitches the default behavior for each switch is to work in latched mode This simply means that you press the button once to turn the effect on and again to turn the effect off Latched mode works for a lot of cases but there are probably times when you would like an effect to be active as you hold the button down and inactive aS soon as you release it This is called Momentary mode Since we just experimented with turning effects on and off let s change the way one of those ef fect footswitches operates Press the Vocal button Press and HOLD the right Arrow gt to jump all the way to the last Vocal tab This is a common behavior for the Arrow but tons If you press and hold you will jump to the far side of the effects Preset pages This can save you some time while editing Curious about all those tabs and their param eters Don t worry we will cover all the Vocal effects later Now press the left Arrow lt to navigate to the Buttonmap tab
130. will see the same Set Play and Set ODub options you saw when recording Loop track A see Set Overdub vs Set Play Choose one and press it when you are fin ished recording If you chose Set ODub continue to record overdubs until you are finished then tap End ODub 83 TCHELICON The Looper Now tap Swap You will see in the display that Loop track C continues to play until it reaches its end then VoiceLive 3 automatically switch es to Loop B TCHELICON VOICELIVE RS a 3 fi sabi ee EE EE AAT SWAP SIOPC ODUBC All STOP SIOPA ODUBA QUEUE D EPM 120 HOLD FOR Vv STEP HIT DOUBLE HARMONY Press ALL STOP to stop recording Stop loop playback by pressing ALL STOP HIT footswitch This completes our tutorial VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 The Utility menu We will now explore the UTIL ity menu where you will find many of the Looper options Tap the footswitch linked to the Utility menu the uMod footswitch to enter the Utility menu If you see SWAP in the top left menu seg ment press and hold the uMod footswitch to enter the Utility menu This press hold action is designed to allow the Swap button to do double duty depending on whether you have a B and C loop recorded Once you have entered the UTIL menu you will see several new menu options CL BACK LINPUTI SAVE pf METI ISYNGI TE
131. xt nearest semitone at all times Since this correction is al ways chromatic you can still sing a wrong note relative to the current key scale of your song but it does help with your overall pitch Parameter range 0 to 100 Try a setting of circa 40 for a transparent sound If you hear phasing between your natural voice and corrected voice this is totally normal Check out this Craig s Corner video for more in formation on pitch correction phasing youtube com watch v KWrEluiDXsA VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 RoomSense Auto Detect parameter Use the RoomSense Auto Detect parameter to add the RoomSense microphones built into your VoiceLive 3 to the available NaturalPlay sources Parameter settings On VoiceLive 3 will listen to the RoomSense microphones for Key Scale information if no Guitar MIDI or Aux signal is present Off VoiceLive 3 will ignore any music heard by the RoomSense microphones Setup Lead Delay parameter Use the Lead Delay parameter to apply latency compensation between your lead voice and ef fects Parameter settings None Your lead voice is passed through the unit as quickly as possible regardless of the number of effects and their latency Voice Sync Your lead voice is dynamically delayed ever so slightly so that any gener ated voices such as Harmony are lined up together perfectly The amount that your
132. y go into overdub mode allowing you to record additional takes over the first one tap the footswitch associated with Set ODub Double Comp Your new loop will be played back and you can record additional takes This is a great feature to use if you have rehearsed your loop performance and want to quickly build up loop components on top of one another 81 TCHELICON Overdubbing For this example let us end your first basic loop recording by tap the footswitch associ ated with Set Play Harmony Drive You should hear your loop Loop track A play ing back Next let s overdub something on Loop track A If you think of your Loop track A as a cake that first recording is the base layer of the cake and overdubs are more layers of cake or jam or whipped cream Mmm Cake When you are ready press ODUB A Harmo ny Drive footswitch and record an overdub When you are finished press END ODUB Harmony Drive footswitch TCHELICON VOICELIVE VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 TCHELICON VOICELIVE Recording an overdub If you would like to add several different over dubs you can keep the overdub recording running and add new parts each time the loop begins again The Looper Recording Loop track B Now while Loop track A is still playing back we will record something else onto Loop track B Yes it s another cake When you are ready press REC B
133. yer You may find this a more convenient way of entering the Loop layer quickly compared to holding the Layer button VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 SW3 1 SW3 2 SW3 3 Mode parameters Use the three SW3 Mode parameters to set the operation modes of the three footswitches on a TC Helicon Switch 3 connected to your Voice Live 3 Latched Tap the footswitch on your Switch 3 to activate the assigned effect tap it again to deactivate it Momentary The assigned effect is on only when you hold down the footswitch For more information see Change a button from Latched to Momentary mode Setup 115 TCHELICON Pedal Calibration tab For more information on pedal calibration see Calibrating your expression pedal VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 Product info tab The Product Info tab contains important informa tion about your VoiceLive 3 including Installed Firmware Version Serial Number Manufacture Date This information is valuable if you ever need to contact TC Helicon support Make sure you provide this information when creating a support incident Setup 116 TCHELICON Appendix Appendix VoiceLive 3 Reference manual 2014 03 29 117 TCHELICON MIDI CC List For effects that can be switched on or off Value 1 63 off 64 127 on CC No 1 Harmony Vibrato Boost 16 Guitar Rhythmic 17 Guitar Delay 19 Gu

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