TC Helicon Voicelive 3 Extreme 

Vocal & Guitar FX ProcessorDescriptionAbsolute Performance Power

VoiceLive 3 Extreme sets you free to focus solely on your performance with groundbreaking FX automation and backing track playback. Awe-inspiring vocal effects and rich guitar sounds run effortlessly by themselves. From the first song idea to the execution of complex live arrangements, everything you’ve worked for comes together in VL3X.

Features

NEW! Backing track import with FX automation for “tap-dance free” performances, synchronized to tracks

NEW! Performance recorder for live direct 24-bit audio, output to a USB flash drive

A complete vocal sound with next generation harmony processing, effects and tonal quality

Complete guitar sound via TC Electronic stomp box effects, Amp Tones and flexible outputs to your amp or PA

Powerful 3-phrase looping lets you create and store entire songs on-the-fly

Audience Connection Like Never Seen Before

Every single detail you need to make your song exceptional – every FX change, every harmony, every loop – every sonic nuance – can be prepared on VL3X before the show. This totally transforms your relationship to the audience. (Oh, and did we say that you can do all of this for over 100 songs?)

Recording and Sharing Power

Your inspired backing tracks and FX sequencing are beautifully matched by the onboard audio recorder that allows you to capture everything you do in glorious 24-bit quality. Record every live performance, every home practice, with professional studio fidelity and effects – both vocal and guitar. Turn your tour into EP material or your late night jams into SoundCloud gold.

Your Voice: Front and Center

With a mind-blowing vocal FX path featuring 11 independent effects blocks, over 180 different pre-programmed styles and more than 250 factory presets available right out of the box (and more available for free download), VL3X represents the absolute pinnacle of singers’ technology and is the perfect partner for your voice.

No Compromise Guitar X and Amp Tones

The guitar section of VL3X puts a premium stomp box collection at your feet – with rich tones from legendary FX makers TC Electronic – plus 30 amp emulations that can be customized far beyond belief. Together they make up an unbeatable piece of guitar road-kit.

Building Better Songs with Loops

Featuring 4 times the storage of VoiceLive 3, VL3X enables you to store every loop snippet or idea you have, allowing you to experiment with real-time song creation and exciting loop jams right until you drop. The smart LoopAssist™ and metronome functions help you to make tighter loops effortlessly and auto-expand allowing for different loop lengths.

Dedicated Vocal PA and Guitar Out

What makes VL3X an incredibly flexible performance system is the dedicated stereo vocal and stereo guitar amp outputs. Send your guitar sound directly to your favorite amp completely independent of the vocal output going to the PA – it even works when you’re looping.

Endless Possibilities

Intuitive display - see your settings at a glance.

Stompbox-style access to FX and controls

Vocal, Guitar and Looping indicator colours (with back image)

All the I/Os you need - including dedicated vocal PA and Guitar Out 

Automation and Tracks

STEP 1: Prepare to Captivate

VL3X fulfills your studio-to-stage journey. It starts in rehearsal with you loading up a backing track – whether it’s just drums, bass, or a full band mix. VL3X captures all your effects changes, syncing them to your track — harmonies, delays, guitar FX, anything you can think of. You can even record FX changes that would otherwise be physically impossible using the switches alone.

Preset Included

VL3X ships with included FX Automation for "Amazing Grace" for male vocals. The female version of the preset will be available for free download via VoiceSupport.

STEP 2: The Perfect Performance

It ends with you on stage, simply pressing “play” on VL3X and an amazing thing happens: Your track plays back with all the effect changes you perfected at home completely automated for your performance. Now you’re free to connect with your audience and your fellow players. All of that hard work you did before the gig – making your song sound just right – is heard every time you perform.

Up to 100 audio backing tracks can be loaded for live accompaniment via a standard USB key

MP3 and 16/24 bit WAV import formats supported

Onboard Sequencer records and plays back FX and Step activations live

Backing Tracks/Sequences load quickly via associated presets

Icon-based play/record/editing interface and waveform display

Bootleg Your Own Show

Combining all this automation power with VL3X’s recording feature means that you’re always able to capture exactly what the audience hears on a USB key output. Not only is this a fantastic rehearsal tool, but you can also push “record” at the beginning of your show and have VL3X deliver your own “board mix” – perfect for your press kit, uploading to social media, combining with your video footage or duplicating for sale at the end of the show.

  

Vocal FX

TC-Helicons Most Comprehensive Vocal FX Suite

It’s all here: Doubling, Harmony, Echo, Reverb, HardTune, Flanger, Chopper, Choir and more. But it’s here with a difference: with upgrades, new modes and new harmony options. 

Vocal FX Highlights

Upgraded & expanded suite of our renowned vocal effects

New Harmony sounds – Pedal, Fixed, and Mixed Mode

New Vocoder with Voice Controlled Synth and Robot Modes

Adaptive Tone for a truly professional, produced sound

HIT button to create FX impact

VoiceSupport app for downloading & managing more presets

Included Vocal FX

DOUBLE

DELAY

REVERB

HARD TUNE

SYNTH

TRANSDUCER

MICROMOD

HARMONY

CHOIR

RHYTMIC

STUTTER 

New Sounds and Styles

Expand your musical possibilities with exciting, new Harmony modes - Pedal, Fixed, and Mixed-Mode - There’s also an authentic Vocoder with voice-controlled polyphonic synth and robot modes so you can play your voice like an instrument. FX upgrades include new delay filters, new HardTune styles and better sounding doublings.

Personal Sound Engineer Included

Equipped with our trademark Adaptive Tone™, VL3X is your personal sound engineer providing the one feature no singer should be without: automatic and intelligent control of Compression, EQ, De-essing, and Gating, giving your voice the impact and presence to always stand out in the mix.

Get Loud, No Clipping

The automatic Mic Gain feature takes the guesswork out of setting your input level properly. Simply sing your loudest into the mic and VL3X will set your mic gain automatically for the best signal-to-noise ratio and freedom from nasty input distortion.

Guitar and Amp FX

No Compromise Guitar FX and Amp Tones 

The guitar section of VL3X rivals even the most pristine pedal boards – thanks to legendary effects from TC Electronic® like Flashback Delay, Hall of Fame Reverb, Corona Chorus, and Vortex Flanger. And you can also choose just the perfect amp emulation from vintage British to classic American.

Guitar FX Highlights

TC Electronic TonePrint™ FX Styles & Great Tone Classics

New Talk Box, Rhythmic, Octaver, Wah and Compressor

Convenient preset FX styles OR customize at will

Acoustic guitar styles with BodyRezTM shapes

Guitar chords automatically guide Harmony & more

Fast & accurate guitar tuner

HIT button to turn on multiple FX

Creativity Amplified

What can you change in the guitar and amp presets?  Here’s an example: The Amp effect not only simulates physical amplifiers, but also provides controls for EQ, Gain, Tube/Transistor simulation and speaker emulation. The level of EQ control in the Amp block is huge, providing controls for both the pre-gain and post-gain stage parametric EQ – something that most real-world amplifiers don’t offer.  We’re talking about crazy deep customization —same goes for all of the guitar effects.  Don’t be ashamed of your sonic obsessions. They can all come true.

Included Guitar and Amp FX

AMP

DRIVE

DELAY

REVERB

COMPRESSION

WAH

ΜMOD

OCTAVER

RHYTHMIC

BodyRez™ for Acoustic Guitar More of an acoustic player? VL3X will optimize the sound of an electro-acoustic guitar with ground-breaking BodyRez™. Carefully placed filters and fast acting compression combine to reduce “piezo-quack”, making your amplified guitar sound like the beautiful full-bodied instrument it is. Dial in as much or as little BodyRez as you need and use the handy EQ controls to fine-tune the dynamics of your sound.

The Unbeatable Guitar Road Kit

The FX smorgasbord only starts with the TonePrint effects styles. If you’re a seeker of sounds, you’ll be blown away by the options. It’s loaded with great tone classics such as wah, octave, tremolo, and more. Did we mention that Guitar chords automatically guide vocal Harmony, HardTune, and Synth effects?

Guitar and Headphone Cable

VL3X comes with a specially designed combination Guitar & Headphone Cable too! This is a revelation if you use in ear headphones because it combines your guitar and headphone lines into one slim cable so you have ample freedom to move while you groove.

Looping

Looping Dominance

Create intricate songs and on-the-spot re-arrangements with the VoiceLive 3 platform’s powerful multi-looper.

Looping Highlights

Powerful multi-track looper with intuitive control layout and infinite overdubs

3-phrase looping with selectable layering and serial techniques

LoopAssist™ with smart metronome, quantize and MIDI Sync for perfectly synced loops

Auto expansion of loop length allows you to create long loops on top of short ones and vice versa

50 loop slots store up to 3 loops of 8 minutes each

Massive Looping Memory

We’ve packed VL3X with even more memory & storage than our already incredibly powerful VoiceLive 3 - hours of looping time and infinite overdubs let you create countless sets of songs – and store them for instant recall.

A Deeper Look at the Looping Features

VL3X is totally dedicated to expanding your looping abilities.

Your Looping Assistant

The LoopAssist™ function helps you make tighter loops effortlessly. It does this through intelligently correcting your loop’s start and end points, or stretching loops of varying lengths to mesh everything together – a feature that goes way beyond many looping pedals.

Additional Features

Endless Styles and Genres

The GENRE feature allows you to easily browse hundreds of presets by style, effects type and artists. Choose a genre that suits you and VL3X will list the presets that match your preference — perfect for when you’re looking for that specific sound or need inspiration.

Hundreds of FX to Hit

There’s a whopping 250+ factory presets and on-board storage for 500. Download and manage hundreds more via our free VoiceSupport app. Chains of up to 10 FX changes can be added to each preset and accessed with the step button.

Next Gen Power

Under the hood VL3X has three independent cores dedicated solely to vocals, guitar and looping. More memory and lightning fast access means double the processing power of our previous benchmark: VoiceLive 2.

Bursting with New

There are, literally, scores of new features in the VoiceLive3 platform – including vocal FX, guitar FX, the looper, UI, I/O and platform. If you really want to geek-out and see them all – along with some old ones – you can download this PDF.

Command Center

VL3X is designed to empower you in performance, giving you easy access to presets and sounds while providing complete customization of footswitch functions and deep edit control. The LAYER button allows you to switch between the Vocal, Guitar or Looper/Backing track control layers. Each layer gives you instant access to layer-specific functions via the footswitches, with the LCD display showing a clear view of which footswitch controls what effect.

In and Outs

4-channel stereo outputs with dedicated vocal and guitar channels

Independent headphone and monitor mix

Combo Jack for Main inputs and automatic input/output sensing

Monitor mix input and pass-through to other monitors

Format Philosophy

Consistent 3-layer UI philosophy

Vocals, Guitar and Looper/Backing Track each have their own performance access footswitch layout

Stompbox-style access to individual effects in both vocal and guitar layers

LCD display shows current footswitch labels

Complete customization of footswitch assignments across layers to suit your personal style and requirements

Make it a Hit

The HIT button turns on multiple effects at once to add effect layers or to create quick A/B scenes for each preset. Use it to add dazzling vocal effects for the chorus, or strip down a guitar part for the verse, or even a combination of both vocal and guitar effects changes – you decide.

Extend Control with Stompbox Expansion

Add a Switch-3 accessory pedal to extend your on-the-fly control. Assign any presets or custom combination of Guitar, Vocal FX - or Looping. There’s also Switch-6 so you can break out even more features.

It Comes with Ears

VL3X’s built in RoomSense™ technology listens to your music to guide your harmonies.  RoomSense can also be blended in with your headphone mix to allow you to hear the room sounds - especially useful with in-ear monitors.

More Mic, More Control

Now you can control your effects from a mic engineered for the sonic realities of modern vocal performance. Add the New TC-Helicon MP-76 with 4 user-assignable Mic Control™ buttons, the TC-Helicon MP-75, or the Sennheiser e835 FX.

Custom Gig Bag

Keep VL3X and essential gig items in the same, protected place. The VoiceLive Gig Bag is made of durable nylon construction with padded protection, has multiple inside pockets for microphone, cables & other gear and comes with a handy shoulder strap.

VoiceSupport

VL3X is designed to evolve with you. VoiceSupport gives you new presets, firmware updates and maintains your personal database of presets. All you need is a USB equipped Mac or Windows computer.

System RequirementsSpecifications

Included Effects

Vocal Effects

µModEcho & DelayReverbHarmonyDoubleTransducerRhythmicHardTune & CorrectionChoirStutterVocoderAdaptive Tone

Guitar FX

Amp ModelingDriveDelayReverbCompressionResonant FilterWahµMod (Flange, Chorus, De-tune)ShifterRhythmic/TremoloTalkbox (part of Vocoder)

Control

250 factory presetsMemory for 500 presets10 steps per preset10 footswitches6 preset-assignable footswitches for enabling/disabling FX blocksBacking track & FX automation control via footswitchesDetailed editingGenre and Styles preset categories 

Design

Size

Height: 3 inches (76 mm)Width: 13.8 inches (350 mm)Depth: 8.5 inches (216 mm)

Weight

Weight: 5 lb. (2.3 kg)

Construction

Anodized extruded aluminum and steel chassisRubberized edit/mix knobsRecessed rubberized handle192 x 64 Blue STN LCD, White Back light displayTri-colored Footswitch Light ringCapacitive touch edit controls with LED indicators 

Connections

Analog Inputs

Voice

Connector: Combo Balanced XLR/Balanced TRS 1/4″ phone jackInput Impedance Balanced: 3.08 kOhmMic Input Level @ 0 dBFS: -52 dBu to +7 dBuLine Input Level @0dBFS: -40 dBu to +19 dBuEIN @ Max Mic Gain Rg = 150 Ohm: -127 dBuMic SNR >100 dB at typical Mic Input gainPhantom Power: +48V (on/off via setup menu)A to D Conversion 24 Bit, 128 x oversampling bitstream, 110 dB SNR A-weighted

Guitar

Connector: 1/4″ phone jackGuitar Input Impedance: 1 MOhmGuitar Input Level @ 0 dBFS: -2 dBU to 14 dBuGuitar Input SNR >108 dBA to D Conversion 24 Bit, 128 x oversampling bitstream, 110 dB SNR A-weighted

Monitor

Connector: Balanced XLRInput Impedance Balanced: 25 kOhmMonitor Input Level @ 0 dBFS +16 dBu

Aux

Aux: 1/8″ stereo mini jackAux Input Level @ 0 dBFS +2 dBu

Analog Outputs

Voice

Connectors: balanced XLROutput Impedance Balanced/Unbalanced: 300/150 OhmOutput Range 0 dBFS Line Level: +14 dBu; Mic Level: – 2dBuDynamic Range >109 dB, 20 Hz to 20 kHz/li>Frequency Response +0/-0.3 dB, 20 Hz to 20 kHzD to A Conversion 24 Bit, 128 x oversampling bitstream, 115 dB SNR A-weighted

Guitar

Connectors: 1/4″ TRS phone jackOutput Impedance Balanced/Unbalanced: 442/221 OhmOutput Range 0 dBFS Line Level: +14 dBu; Mic Level: – 2dBuDynamic Range >105 dB, 20 Hz to 20 kHz noteD to A Conversion 24 Bit, 128 x oversampling bitstream, 106 dB SNR A-weighted

Headphone

1/8″ Mini stereo jack, 50 Ohm, +14 dBu max

Guitar thru

Buffered Guitar InputConnector: 1/4″ TRS phone jackOutput Impedance Bal/UnBal: 270/540 Ohms

Monitor thru

Direct connection to Monitor inputConnector: Balanced XLR

Control

USB: USB A, Mini-BMIDI: In/Out: 5 Pin DINPedal: 1/4″ TRS phone jackMic Control using TC-Helicon MP-75 Microphone or Sennheiser e 835 fx mic

 

Power

External Power Supply Mains Voltage: 100 to 240 VAC, 50 to 60 Hz (auto-select)

Power Consumption: < 14 W

SafetyEMC – Complies with: EN 55103-1:2009, EN 55103-2:2009, FCC CFR 47 Part 15B and ICES-003:2004 4th EdSafety – certified to: IEC 65, EN 60065, UL6500 and CSA IEC 65, EN 60065, UL6500 and CSA

Environment

Operating Temperature: 32° F to 122° F (0° C to 50° C)

Storage Temperature: -22° F to 167° F (-30° C to 70° C)

Humidity: Max. 90 % non-condensing

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