This is the inspirational demo of this product I was looking for! Artistry in the way the effects are used. Sparingly and appropriately for maximum impact. Have just ordered. Wish the artist was credited in the main blurb though. She's great.
Great demo. Great song and voice...reminds me of everything I like about Tori Amos, but unique. That BodyRez really does the trick. That looper is really great. Hell I'd buy it for that alone (almost) since I love to beatbox. The split cam is a HUGE help to see how the TC is being used. Thanks! Totes sold.
😁😁😁 I'm psyched! I bought a Jamman some years back...but honestly? I'm a vocalist - a balladeer- more than a guitarist...and I'll be trading in, and up this year! I like the harmonies...as well as the looper and the depth... Sweet! TY
Nice demo. The musician has a great voice. I would like for the video to have been twice as long and focus a bit more on using and tweaking the guitar effects. Most of the videos I've seen talk only about using the vocal effects and customizing them. I bought the unit so I wouldn't have to bring several guitar pedals along for a performance.
Sounds great! I never had too much problem dialing in a very usable acoustic tone with my VLP GTX. Cut the middle boost the bass a bit of reverb and compression and it was there. I did have some microphone feedback issues
Like just for the last song and echo fx. Edit_ I bought the unit last week. It seems pretty good, I haven't done anything with it that blows me away yet, I'm sure that'll come. For now I'm just using my Boss VE8, and dipping my feet in with this.
Great job, super vocals and guitar work. I just had a question about the PlayAcoustic if I may - say I would like to record harmonies in a DAW (and most of the tracks are already recorded) - can I use the aux in to playback the recorded parts in order to generate the chord-specific harmonies, or does that feature only work with a live guitar input? If this requires a techie from TC-Helicon is there a good contact you could direct me to? Thanks again for your music. Richard (Ricky) from Hartford CT
The unit looks for a guitar first, if it can't find a chord, it'll check the AUX and again if not, it'll use an internal mic on the system that sees if there are any other instruments or chords on stage it can reference from.. Hope that helps.
Could you please describe the setup of the song in the beginning? Which guitar was used? Which pickup was used? Which guitar settings were used? Which vocal settings were used? I really like the sound...
@TC Helicon, would you clarify a couple things, while I consider my pedalboard chain? 1: I use a voicetone T1 always on, does the play acoustic substitute it completely? 2: what is the fx block order? Especially for guitar
Hi TC, can you reveal the secret of how to use tap tempo to control the loop just like in this video? ps I've been a happy user of this product, you guys make awesome stuffs!
The loops in Play Acoustic are unrelated to the tapped tempo. She's just skilled at tapping the tempo and then recording a loop that's very close to the tempo she tapped. Other products like Touch 2 or VoiceLive 3 have an internal metronome that you can tap and then sync the loops to.
I've been using my Play Acoustic for a few years now and love it! I plug my Martin directly into the unit, but on some songs I use an open back banjo and set the key manually. Is it possible to use a y splitter cable to plug both guitar and banjo in, so I can free up a channel on the pa?
Hi, I certainly hope you can help me with this issue. I have TC Helicon Play Acoustic for a year or more. It was a great device! Just recently, the unit acts strange. It turn on OK, but suddenly it just HANG/ FREEZE. Display is ON, but all buttons and knobs not working. Unit can not detect input sound, no output either. I tried to RESET, also updated the unit with latest firmware via VoiceSupport. The problem still happens after a couple of minutes the unit ON.
Please help... I need firmware to restore and fix my TC Helicon Play Acoustic. There's none of this firmware in the official TC Helicon website (download section). Why????
i still do not know who this is nor how to buy her music!! also, this pedal is very cool but it's difficult for this 'plug-and-play' guy to use effectively.
Accessing tap tempo is a combo of two of the footswitches at the same time. It's either preset up and down or preset up and hit. I can't remember off the top of my head ;) The little red light was probably the input LED getting close to clipping a few times.
TC-Helicon can I update my voice liveplay to this standard or do I need to buy this aswell -as it looks the same I feel a bit cheated that you just rebrand the same thing slightly - can you update my play to this spec?.. I updated it but the 500 options of voices are all pretty much the same as in 2013 when I bought it
I use one cardioid mic (Ear Trumpet Myrtle) for both vocal and guitar. I like the minimalism and love the mic. Trouble is, whatever mild effects I apply to my vocals in the Play Acoustic, it ends up terribly distorting the guitar. Has anyone dealt with and remedied something similar? I do like the quality of my vocals, though, very much. (I know I absolutely cannot take advantage of harmonies, etc., because the guitar would also get harmonies.)
I use the play acoustic too and the vocal effects never affect the guitar sound. Something must be wrong with your setup or your device is defective. Or are you playing live with loud guitar sound bleeding into your microphone? This would of course add harmonies to the guitar part that goes through the microphone.
@@dreamdancer8212 the Ear Trumpet Myrtle is a large-diaphragm "one-mic" solution for vocals/guitar and small groups, used by a lot of bluegrass/vintage-style performers. My situation is still the same, but I've found that when recording (Scarlett-->iPad), everything is good. I've managed to get a vocal/guitar sound, with just the one mic, that's quite nice and distortion-free. Very happy with that. But when I go directly into my amp (Henriksen Bud 6) the distortion is pretty nuts. I'm very careful about placement of the amp etc., and if I plug the mic directly into the amp, it sounds perfectly clean and nice. I *think* that the signal coming out of the Play Acoustic, into the amp, is maybe just too hot, even with a very very low gain setting on the Play Acoustic.
Gee, I'm sorry but I do not like the sound of the box when its On. It sounds very metallic. I don't hear any warm woody sound we should hear from an acoustic guitar. Maybe it is just this video. I wonder how the guitar would sound with our box if it was amplified through s microphone rather than a pickup?
Would someone be so kind to tell me how exactly she has managed to display the "Tempo" by hitting the middle switch? I am trying and dying here without any success. The manual is not of help at all. Thanks for your patience
+Wizz&Arts It's actually the Preset Up and HIT buttons pressed at the same time. Notice her foot was sort of cockeyed as it went down? She was pressing HIT too :)
+TC-Helicon Hey, thanks a lot - One must say what an excellent tool - creativity flows and songs are done by the minute.... I already got the voice works plus in my studio - Yeah, really love your stuff ;)
i have the pedal and I love it , but i was disappointed with the lack of Instructions , just a quick guide and I still havent found the looper function. If you can help please do
Hi Brentkev01, you can download the complete manual from our website: www.tc-helicon.com/products/play-acoustic/support. Also, there are a set of detailed Tutorial videos you can check out. They're in the playlist for Play Acoustic on our channel here on RUclips.
Can anyone tell me if Play Acoustic works well with 12 strings guitars? I'm on doubt if I buy Play Acoustic or Play Electric.... I think that Play Electric will be more usefull to me, once I didn't know if I can plug a electric guitar in Play Acoustic will works... I've both: acoustic and electric guitars and wish to use both on stage (in different moments, of couse)....
Yep, as long as we hear chord information we can detect for harmony. In play Acoustic, BodyRez can definitely work on the 12 string sound also. If you have both electric and acoustic, I'd probably go for a Play Electric. There's an amp setting called "Acoustic Shape" that is like BodyRez, but not quite as fully featured, that should still improve the 12 string sound in addition to all the stuff in there for your electric.
I was reading the questions on amazon where I ordered mine from today, from what they say, it does provide phantom power. But I'll know for sure when mine ships.
You've got a Play GTX, which has some guitar amp simulations for a more electric guitar focus. Play Acoustic leans towards acoustic players and can't do things like distortion. Your GTX also has hardware MIDI, which Play Acoustic does not... though that may or may not matter to you. If you're happy with your GTX and don't feel you want to focus specifically on acoustic performance, I would keep your money :)
+Aiden Myers Music Typically we record direct out of the XLR's in stereo. Often it's into a field recorder like a Zoom or into a small recording interface.
+TC-Helicon Thanx :) I Think I'll definetely buy "play acoustic". I'm searching something that could combine vocal and Guitar acoustic effects for my live shows. I'm also really curious about the looper.. I never have tryied some before but i think it could be an extra oomph for live shows (and also funny) .
Depends on whether you're happy with the acoustic sound from your amp! If you are, you could look at something like a Harmony Singer that doesn't do any guitar processing, but also has fewer effects and no looping. If you still want the presets, extra effects and looping Play Electric has a guitar in/thru that still captures guitar chords but can bypass the internal effects and go straight to your pedals/amp.
Looping in most of our products doesn't have quantization or metronome functions to assist with the loop creation. Believe me I was TERRIBLE at looping when I first tried it. Now, I can quite confidently make a loop. It just takes practice to time the button presses to the beat when you start and stop the recording. I found that practicing with a metronome going really helped me get the hang of it. Don't give up! You'll get there for sure.
Gee, I'm sorry but I do not like the sound of the box when its On. It sounds very metallic. I don't hear any warm woody sound we should hear from an acoustic guitar. Maybe it is just this video. I wonder how the guitar would sound with our box if it was amplified through s microphone rather than a pickup?
This is the inspirational demo of this product I was looking for! Artistry in the way the effects are used. Sparingly and appropriately for maximum impact. Have just ordered. Wish the artist was credited in the main blurb though. She's great.
Can someone trell me who this woman is...I love her playing, and would like to find mo9re of her music.
I don't know if you ever found out, but her name is Stephanie Forryan.
Perfect performance
What a voice. Great songs as well. The unit looks interesting too😁
Amazing product and amazing performance
Great demo. Great song and voice...reminds me of everything I like about Tori Amos, but unique. That BodyRez really does the trick. That looper is really great. Hell I'd buy it for that alone (almost) since I love to beatbox. The split cam is a HUGE help to see how the TC is being used. Thanks! Totes sold.
Awsome first tune great ! An your vocals👍🏾😍
That was amazing
so so good. you make it look so easy. great sound
😁😁😁 I'm psyched! I bought a Jamman some years back...but honestly? I'm a vocalist - a balladeer- more than a guitarist...and I'll be trading in, and up this year! I like the harmonies...as well as the looper and the depth...
Sweet! TY
Great demo and nice vocals
Sound greats!!!
i wish i could give same shivers when i play
Awesome, awesome product for singer/songwriters and WHO by the way is singing? She's great.
guitardude4700 Her name is Stephanie Forryan. facebook.com/stephanieforryanmusic
Nice demo. The musician has a great voice. I would like for the video to have been twice as long and focus a bit more on using and tweaking the guitar effects. Most of the videos I've seen talk only about using the vocal effects and customizing them. I bought the unit so I wouldn't have to bring several guitar pedals along for a performance.
great job! Finally a great review. best
Great performance
That Martin sounds great.
Wow Amazing.
Beautifully played song ☺👍
well i just bought the body rez and the tc helicon vocal harmonizer..why i didnt see this before..
Sounds great! I never had too much problem dialing in a very usable acoustic tone with my VLP GTX. Cut the middle boost the bass a bit of reverb and compression and it was there. I did have some microphone feedback issues
Like just for the last song and echo fx.
Edit_ I bought the unit last week. It seems pretty good, I haven't done anything with it that blows me away yet, I'm sure that'll come.
For now I'm just using my Boss VE8, and dipping my feet in with this.
very nice!
Great job, super vocals and guitar work. I just had a question about the PlayAcoustic if I may - say I would like to record harmonies in a DAW (and most of the tracks are already recorded) - can I use the aux in to playback the recorded parts in order to generate the chord-specific harmonies, or does that feature only work with a live guitar input? If this requires a techie from TC-Helicon is there a good contact you could direct me to? Thanks again for your music. Richard (Ricky) from Hartford CT
The unit looks for a guitar first, if it can't find a chord, it'll check the AUX and again if not, it'll use an internal mic on the system that sees if there are any other instruments or chords on stage it can reference from.. Hope that helps.
who is the artist?? i want to buy her stuff. AND I ordered it!!
Stephanie Forryan is her name. Search my channel for a 3 hour show and concert we did :)
Could you please describe the setup of the song in the beginning? Which guitar was used? Which pickup was used? Which guitar settings were used? Which vocal settings were used? I really like the sound...
Looks like a Martin, which normally come with a Fishman Prefix pickup. BodyRez settings were probably the default in the unit.
@TC Helicon, would you clarify a couple things, while I consider my pedalboard chain?
1: I use a voicetone T1 always on, does the play acoustic substitute it completely?
2: what is the fx block order? Especially for guitar
Awsome!
Hi TC, can you reveal the secret of how to use tap tempo to control the loop just like in this video? ps I've been a happy user of this product, you guys make awesome stuffs!
The loops in Play Acoustic are unrelated to the tapped tempo. She's just skilled at tapping the tempo and then recording a loop that's very close to the tempo she tapped. Other products like Touch 2 or VoiceLive 3 have an internal metronome that you can tap and then sync the loops to.
Wonderful...can you save the loops with this? Also, what microphone is being used here? Thanks
Do nylon string guitars work well with the TC Helicon Play Acoustic.
Hi great sound, can i just ask, what model is the sennheiser mic she is singing through? thanx
I've been using my Play Acoustic for a few years now and love it! I plug my Martin directly into the unit, but on some songs I use an open back banjo and set the key manually. Is it possible to use a y splitter cable to plug both guitar and banjo in, so I can free up a channel on the pa?
Ślicznie !
Who is this lady?? How can I hear more of her music??
Great song and voice but what is the songs
Hi, I certainly hope you can help me with this issue.
I have TC Helicon Play Acoustic for a year or more. It was a great device! Just recently, the unit acts strange. It turn on OK, but suddenly it just HANG/ FREEZE. Display is ON, but all buttons and knobs not working. Unit can not detect input sound, no output either. I tried to RESET, also updated the unit with latest firmware via VoiceSupport. The problem still happens after a couple of minutes the unit ON.
What song is the first song Fool? I searched for the lyrics and can't find it.
Please help... I need firmware to restore and fix my TC Helicon Play Acoustic. There's none of this firmware in the official TC Helicon website (download section). Why????
Kiero uno...donde lo consigo soy de perú
Does anyone know if body res works well with other acoustic instruments, such as mandolin?
Que micrófono se está usando ?
i still do not know who this is nor how to buy her music!! also, this pedal is very cool but it's difficult for this 'plug-and-play' guy to use effectively.
WOW!! 🫵🏼😎
How did you do the tap tempo? By pressing the up button? And what is the little red flashing light? And why doesn't my pedal have one :)
Accessing tap tempo is a combo of two of the footswitches at the same time. It's either preset up and down or preset up and hit. I can't remember off the top of my head ;)
The little red light was probably the input LED getting close to clipping a few times.
super
wow
i just bought my Playacoustic and has a Bluescreen, anyone with this problem? the solutions i found on internet doesnt work.... !!!
Please, would you tell me how to fix the explosive sound with playacoustic and what causes it? This thing is killing my perfomances.
Try updating the firmware via VoiceSupport. We did address some pops/clicks quite a while back. www.tc-helicon.com/products/voicesupport/
TC-Helicon can I update my voice liveplay to this standard or do I need to buy this aswell -as it looks the same I feel a bit cheated that you just rebrand the same thing slightly - can you update my play to this spec?.. I updated it but the 500 options of voices are all pretty much the same as in 2013 when I bought it
I use one cardioid mic (Ear Trumpet Myrtle) for both vocal and guitar. I like the minimalism and love the mic. Trouble is, whatever mild effects I apply to my vocals in the Play Acoustic, it ends up terribly distorting the guitar. Has anyone dealt with and remedied something similar? I do like the quality of my vocals, though, very much. (I know I absolutely cannot take advantage of harmonies, etc., because the guitar would also get harmonies.)
I use the play acoustic too and the vocal effects never affect the guitar sound. Something must be wrong with your setup or your device is defective. Or are you playing live with loud guitar sound bleeding into your microphone? This would of course add harmonies to the guitar part that goes through the microphone.
@@dreamdancer8212 the Ear Trumpet Myrtle is a large-diaphragm "one-mic" solution for vocals/guitar and small groups, used by a lot of bluegrass/vintage-style performers.
My situation is still the same, but I've found that when recording (Scarlett-->iPad), everything is good. I've managed to get a vocal/guitar sound, with just the one mic, that's quite nice and distortion-free. Very happy with that. But when I go directly into my amp (Henriksen Bud 6) the distortion is pretty nuts. I'm very careful about placement of the amp etc., and if I plug the mic directly into the amp, it sounds perfectly clean and nice. I *think* that the signal coming out of the Play Acoustic, into the amp, is maybe just too hot, even with a very very low gain setting on the Play Acoustic.
Gee, I'm sorry but I do not like the sound of the box when its On. It sounds very metallic. I don't hear any warm woody sound we should hear from an acoustic guitar. Maybe it is just this video. I wonder how the guitar would sound with our box if it was amplified through s microphone rather than a pickup?
do you guys have an guitar only pedal withought the voice functions ?
Yep, check out the BodyRez pedal from TC-Electronic. www.tcelectronic.com/bodyrez/
Would someone be so kind to tell me how exactly she has managed to display the "Tempo" by hitting the middle switch? I am trying and dying here without any success. The manual is not of help at all.
Thanks for your patience
+Wizz&Arts It's actually the Preset Up and HIT buttons pressed at the same time. Notice her foot was sort of cockeyed as it went down? She was pressing HIT too :)
+TC-Helicon Hey, thanks a lot - One must say what an excellent tool - creativity flows and songs are done by the minute.... I already got the voice works plus in my studio -
Yeah, really love your stuff ;)
i have the pedal and I love it , but i was disappointed with the lack of Instructions , just a quick guide and I still havent found the looper function. If you can help please do
Hi Brentkev01, you can download the complete manual from our website: www.tc-helicon.com/products/play-acoustic/support. Also, there are a set of detailed Tutorial videos you can check out. They're in the playlist for Play Acoustic on our channel here on RUclips.
Guys Thanks I actually found it , Keep the good work up , great pedal
Can anyone tell me if Play Acoustic works well with 12 strings guitars? I'm on doubt if I buy Play Acoustic or Play Electric.... I think that Play Electric will be more usefull to me, once I didn't know if I can plug a electric guitar in Play Acoustic will works... I've both: acoustic and electric guitars and wish to use both on stage (in different moments, of couse)....
Yep, as long as we hear chord information we can detect for harmony. In play Acoustic, BodyRez can definitely work on the 12 string sound also.
If you have both electric and acoustic, I'd probably go for a Play Electric. There's an amp setting called "Acoustic Shape" that is like BodyRez, but not quite as fully featured, that should still improve the 12 string sound in addition to all the stuff in there for your electric.
i already bought it...because of Jessicaaa ...........😅🤣
Does It provide Phantom power for condenser Microphones?
I was reading the questions on amazon where I ordered mine from today, from what they say, it does provide phantom power. But I'll know for sure when mine ships.
Yes
Tc helicon can you advise me should I buy this???
I have the same thing in white .. called voice live play
You've got a Play GTX, which has some guitar amp simulations for a more electric guitar focus. Play Acoustic leans towards acoustic players and can't do things like distortion. Your GTX also has hardware MIDI, which Play Acoustic does not... though that may or may not matter to you.
If you're happy with your GTX and don't feel you want to focus specifically on acoustic performance, I would keep your money :)
how is the audio recorded?
+Aiden Myers Music Typically we record direct out of the XLR's in stereo. Often it's into a field recorder like a Zoom or into a small recording interface.
What song is that from 1:20 min?
+Ben Moro Hmm, not sure, but you could ask Stephanie directly. facebook.com/stephanieforryanmusic/
+TC-Helicon Thanx :) I Think I'll definetely buy "play acoustic".
I'm searching something that could combine vocal and Guitar acoustic effects for my live shows. I'm also really curious about the looper.. I never have tryied some before but i think it could be an extra oomph for live shows (and also funny) .
do I need this if my AMP is high quality ? AER or JAM or ACUS ...
Depends on whether you're happy with the acoustic sound from your amp! If you are, you could look at something like a Harmony Singer that doesn't do any guitar processing, but also has fewer effects and no looping. If you still want the presets, extra effects and looping Play Electric has a guitar in/thru that still captures guitar chords but can bypass the internal effects and go straight to your pedals/amp.
Good job NOT aknowledging the musician as much as you should.
Who is the musician?
i bought your product in the hope that i can loop live but even in practice we can't get the right timing of the looper. Waste of my money!
Looping in most of our products doesn't have quantization or metronome functions to assist with the loop creation. Believe me I was TERRIBLE at looping when I first tried it. Now, I can quite confidently make a loop. It just takes practice to time the button presses to the beat when you start and stop the recording. I found that practicing with a metronome going really helped me get the hang of it. Don't give up! You'll get there for sure.
TC-Helicon i agree it never loops on time .... not long enough either
BodyRez good. Chorus bad.
Gee, I'm sorry but I do not like the sound of the box when its On. It sounds very metallic. I don't hear any warm woody sound we should hear from an acoustic guitar. Maybe it is just this video. I wonder how the guitar would sound with our box if it was amplified through s microphone rather than a pickup?