It sounds perfect. The VoiceLive Touch is an OUTSTANDING piece of gear. I am SO happy with it right out of the box! If you play acoustic guitar and sing in a live situation, this piece of equipment will ONLY help you. I feel like I'm a good singer and an OK guitar player. The VLT is changing how I think about what I'm capable of as a solo artist. Do yourself a favor and get the 3 Button G-Switch Footswitch. You WILL use it!

This is a vocal processor first. As I've used it, I've realized that you really need a good acoustic guitar DI as well. I have an LR Baggs Para Acoustic and I love the way it all comes together now. WIth OUT a good DI, I feel like the VLT tints the sound of my guitar in the loop. Now, I MIGHT be doing something wrong, but I hear a different guitar sound in the loop when I go straight in and my guitar has a very nice tone normally. The vocal harmonizing capacity of this unit is AWESOME. I used it for 2 songs that I played at a local High School 36 hours after I opened the box. It AMAZED people. There were kids looking around to see where the other singers were.

There is a learning curve to everything. This is no different. Be sure to utilize the software to drag and drop which sounds you'd like to have close together. TCH has made it SO nice. PLUS-they have some fun stuff you can put on your VLT in addition to all of the presets. It seriously expands the number of options you have.

I've only had it a week and I love it. It seems sturdy. I hope to be using it for a few years. I LOVE this thing. Seriously.

You can spend a lot more money on just a harmonizer and a decent loop pedal. You DO have options. I feel like TC Helicon looked at what people really WANTED and directly addressed THAT in a decisive and powerful way. I don't NEED the top of the line looper. They cost between $350 and $550. PLUS a vocal harmonizer? That is a LOT of cash. This unit gives me EVERYTHING I need to do what I do well.

I haven't had to call.

I don't know of another product like it. Especially the fact that it is BUILT to go on your mic stand. FREAKING GENIUS. And I can have a pedal with customizable button configurations? Ok. Now I just sound like a salesman. Let me say it "I do NOT work for TC Helicon!" The thing is just THAT COOL.

I sing, play guitar, piano, and bass

Singer/Songwriter

The quality is what you'd expect from TC... exceptional! There are very few vocal sounds you wouldn't be able to get out of this unit, from sweet Beatles doubling to full-on T-Pain auto-tune, lush reverbs, megaphones and other cool special effects. The global tone is a great simple way to get a nice sound, with tone shaping and dynamics in a simple to use preset form. The guitar/MIDI/MP3 tracked harmonies are AMAZING... never thought I'd use the harmonies, but I use them a LOT!

I can't think of anything I would use in a performance situation that I couldn't get from this unit. VLoop is cool, although I don't use live... but it IS a blast to play around with at home. It's a great feature for someone doing a single act with a guitar, for instance. With reverbs, doubling, delays, auto-tune, megaphones, mod effects and more, it has literally everything... and you can use them all at once. The gloabls pitch correct is so transparent you almost don't believe it's on... but it's FANTASTIC when your voice starts to get tired after song 42 toward the end of the night! The only thing you have to be careful of is relying on it too much and becoming lazy. on that note, it would be nice to have an alternate 'monitor' output on this machine which you could utilize to feed a non-corrected signal.

The unit is well-layed out, with the whole touch interface thingy working incredibly well, and the stand-mount is very handy! In fact, part of the fun when performing is being able to tweak and experiment on the fly. As a guitar player too, I'm definitely going to get the foot switch to be able to turn harmonies on and off on the fly. The Voicelive Touch was designed to put all of these cool features at the vocalists fingertips, and works well... SO well that I'm sure you'll have sound engineers pissed off because THEY aren't controlling everything. Just do what I did... tell them that they don't ask me to to put my Boss GT-10 guitar processor at the board end of the snake, so why should the vocals be any different!

The unit seems to be built very well. The only thing that worries me slightly is the touch interface. I've seen stuff like this go wonky before, but I presume TC would have made sure this was good and sturdy as well. I guess only time will tell...

6 words... YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR! You can find units that claim to do SOME of what this machine does for less money, but none of them will do it all, and none of them come close for effect QUALITY.

I'll have to give them the benefit of the doubt, as I've never had to use it... They have a great reputation, so I would hope they would protect that by providing good support.

This is a FANTASTIC piece of gear... both from a practical standpoint, and in terms of "SEX APPEAL". I absolutely GUARANTEE you will add at LEAST 4 or 5 songs to your setlist (or maybe WRITE four or five NEW songs) based on what you can NOW do with this unit in your arsenal! (...and you haven't LIVED until you've shut up that drunk in the front row who's been requesting "Sweet Home Alabama" all night by playing it with auto-tune like T-Pain!!)

30 years Performer/Producer/Engineer

Rock and others...

I have been impressed with the qualiy of the effects as well as the loops. Pretty much, what you put in, you get back.

Just amazing! This is really a hugh box full of vocal effects, just about everything I'll ever need. A footswitch is almost mandatory. I also wish it had a little more loop time or the ability to add memory.

Once you learn a few basic operations, it gets fairly simple. The interface is very reliable but not always intuitive.

I haven't tried it, but it feels like you could throw it down a flight of stairs! I've never had a piece of gear that felt this well made.

This box is the most fun I've had with a piece of gear in years. It does everything well and has a set of features that are fantastic and useful. You have to work with it to get a decent performance, but what you get back, sonically, is well worth it. $$450 - $500 is a lot pay for a normal effects box, but this is so much more than that. I've found that I can play with the Live Touch and a Mackie SRM450 without using a mixer. There are so many ins and outs! I love this thing!

I assume it will have good support due to the excellent reputation of the company. However, I have not had a need to call yet.

Pretty sexy for a effects box! It is well built, thoughtfully engineered and fantastic sounding.

Active Musician

Commercial - pop, jazz, blues

Sound quality is very good and more than suitable for either live or recording purposes.

The unit is extremely robust. Like all equipment of this type, there is a small learning curve, but in my own case I found it easy to use and navigate. It has more than enough options to keep even the biggest techno file happy.fits nicely onto a mike stand and looks professional as well as being functional for its purpose.

Very easy to get great sounds from this device. Some tweaking can be involved but at least when you find the sound or options you want, you can save it so it can be recalled again. The device comes with proprietary software that allows you to backup all your filings and stored settings as well.

The unit although not large is rather heavy, rubber coated case and robust front selection screen. All in all, a well made unit, obviously designed for stage or on road use. Although I haven't tested mine this way, it looks like it would handle a beer spilt across it as well.

It is a fair amount of money for this unit. Isit worth it?. In my view yes. Well made, great sounds for you voice, even if you voice is not too crash hot to start with.

I had not delt with TC Helicon products before I purchased the voice live touch and associated foot switch.

20 plus years in various groups and bands, along with solo endevours. Guitar and violin

Classical, rock, 60/40, middle of the road, folk, jazz, just about anything.

I've been able to use VLT in a couple practice settings with different speaker configurations. So far so good, as usual effect devices that use a mic as the input source can vary from room to room but so far it has been pretty tolerant and consistent. High quality sound as would be expected from TC Helicon.

Anybody mixing their own sound and using this will appreciate the touch feature and the quick access to a master level dial. No more scrambling for the board or trying to get the attention of the sound guy you just met during setup. The touch interface is much more sensitive than I thought it would be, it will detect the lightest touch you can imagine but yet doesn't trigger off an object or even your finger in a glove. I'm intrigued by this. ; P Heat sensitive??

Here's the only bummer. The manual was a total let down. The 'quick start' was as expected but the full manual.. oh my. It's clear the loop feature is what they are concentrating on. You really have to dig deep into the edit mode to try and find basic effects. Take for example a simple operation like setting the delay. Enter the delay edit mode then select a delay "style" 1-17. There is nothing to tell you what style 1,2,3... etc are. Plan on spending hours writing your own description. Cmon TC, include a list. : / Hopefully something will be made available soon. Plan on doing the same thing for your reverb, double, mods styles. And what the heck is with the software??!! I expected the voice support tool to allow me to really dig into the editing of patches. All I can do is move presets around... really?? My previous vocal effects systems, Guitar mod multi pedals with USB interface had PC editing ability. Very little info in the manual about.. *PATCH EDITING *Vocoder operation *Where / how to get .Syx files for import *Voice support software and what the action / menu icons do *Preset parameters (would be nice to know if your trying to create a favorite... you know so you don't have to re-invent the wheel every time you create a new favorite) Pages and pages of information about looping. So yea, that's cool if your into that.

Feels like they crammed a lot into that little space. As mentioned the touch interface is high tech compared to the on / off switches and dials I am used to using. Time will tell how it holds up. Physically it feels tough as nails.

Purchasing anything TC Helicon hurts a little. For me it was worth the 300 extra dollars (over the competitors offerings) for the control that this offers.

Ok, so the tech support responses are really good and they were very friendly, they deserve an 8 or 9. It's just I felt some of the questions I asked shouldn't need to be sent to the company. A little more attention to the manual or pre-populating some additional knowledge on VoiceCouncil would have prevented hours of searching FAQ's and forums. Being so close to product launch there is understandably not much community information yet.

Heck yea, this is a cool new approach that works well for me.

Active Musician

Rock, Progressive

Bass playa for 40 plus yrs. Professionally

Funk, R&B, Gospel, Lite Jazz, Rock

Quality!!! The product all together is superb! access to the functions one uses the most easy to program and afterwords its touch and go. The harmonies with the MIDI are incredibly realistic! Well done TC-Helicon.

I am a single artist, so I do everything myself and I use MIDI a lot. For me this is what I was looking for, and it already has given me a couple of gigs... Paid for! Great product, highly recommended for any one that sings.

Worth every penny.

Had no need to do so yet. I got i from Zzounds and I buy most everything for these guys and they are very helpful and customer oriented. Zzounds has a great team!!!

Aesthetics and technical super and I would not go to another gig without it!!!

Active musician

Portuguese Pop and Folk

Vocals,Guitar,Keys 40 yrs Played professionally 30 yrs

Pop,Rock, Smooth Jazz,Soul

My experience is 20+ years as a singer/bass player/audio tech. Being in the market for a vocal processor, and after reading so many raving reviews about the VLT, I had to get one. Initially I was attracted to the all-in-one-compactness and ease of set up as well as the innovative stand mounting/touch screen, which is quite impressive. Though I wasn't nearly as bowled over by it's sound as many of the people were in the reviews I had read. The sound was quite synthetic and "pitchy" as a matter of fact. And, the utter lack of editable parameters hinders the ability to fine tune the effects and many times leaves you with only one option... adjusting the effect's level. That being said, you should be aware that the way the signal flow is configured by design, rendered the VLT to be useless IMO. Let me explain: For what ever their reasoning was, TC "tied" the reverb and delay effects together internally. The result of this is that when you attempt to adjust the delay level to your desired amount, you will find that although you've lowered it considerably, that you are still hearing a lot of delayed signal. After turning the delay level all the way down to "off," you'll still hear quite a lot of delayed signal. Why is that you might ask? (Good question, I asked it myself) It's because the delay signal is still passing through reverb effect, pre-fader if you will. At this point, your only option for lowering the delay level becomes lowering the reverb level. What does this mean in plain English?... If you want reverb on your vocal, you're getting an equivalent amount of delay with it whether you like it or not! I'm not making this stuff up... TC's tech support say's this is normal and intended operation and is not a malfunction. My jaw still has a bruise on it from when it hit the floor. Needless to say, I had no choice but to send it back. ZZounds was very cooperative in regards to this and their customer service is second to none.

It is hard to rate the VLT's features because it has just about everything that a vocalist could ask for as far as effects are concerned, but it lacks terribly in editability. What would otherwise be a 10, I have to give a 5 though could very well be much lower considering the delay/reverb issue. There is a looper which could be cool if you're into using one. One feature that I would have liked to see on a processor at this price is a line input. This would allow for the use of an external preamp.

The VLT is actually quite easy to use once you learn how to use it. However, this can take a little while considering the shear lack of included documentation. The supplied User Manual is incomplete to say the least. As a matter fact, if you want a more informative (though still very much incomplete) User Manual, you must go to TC's website and download/print your own. All of the information necessary to operate the VLT is still not included here. There are videos on TC's site that are quite helpful in some respects. Many of the features and functions must be learned by hands-on operation and scrolling around experimenting with it. Though once you do these things and remember them, it is pretty nice to work with.

There can only be good things to say about the innovative design and build quality of the VLT. In this respect, TC hit the ball out of the park.

How do you place a value on a feature-packed device that doesn't work as it should?

I dealt with TC support via email. They responded once per day, except for when I finally narrowed down the delay/reverb problem and asked them specifically if this is a problem or is it normal? It took them two days to respond that it was normal; though it is clearly not normal.

The appeal of this product is in it's form rather than it's function.

20+ years as a bass player/singer/audio tech

Rock type music

As for me TC always sounds good. I had to apply only small correction on mixer and that's all. You can't adjust almost anything inside the box, but its adaptive algorithms gives a good result.

I would say 10. But... This device is positioned as a looper. But I don't need looper. I need vocal processor - that's all. There is almost everything you need from vocal processor: Chorus, hard-tune, delay, reverb, voice double, harmonizer. Easy enough to plug the device to the computer. But the only thing you can do with computer is to rename the presets... Well - that's good, as there is no other way to do it inside the device's interface.

Manual is poor. But it take about several hours, and you feel very comfort with the device. Commutation on the rear panel is little bit inconvenient. To many connectors at the small area and I feel it can damage input of the device. Not all jacks are suitable for the device - because space is limited. So, you have to think about compact and reliable connectors with flexible wires. One more thing. You cannot edit nothing. So if you choose some type of effect you can edit only its output parameters (level, width, tempo), but you cannot change its inside parameters. Well, that's TC Electronic policy. But actually TC make its work good. So if you don't like to go deep in the settings (sometimes I do) VoiceLive touch up for you. Actually you can adjust 5 banks of 5 presets - you will never need more. As for me big disadvantage: you cannot run the device on battery. Only power supply.

I think it crafted good.

This device is more democratic from the viewpoint of the price comparing to other TC products. Well. You recieve everything in one box for 500$ - not bad.

I had a question and received the answer during couple hours.

"Must have for live gigs" - no doubt.

Worship leader

Worship, Lite Rock

Since high school, ukulele, guitar, bass. Gig in a contemporary Hawaiian Band

Contemporary Hawaiian, reggae, pop, all kinds that fit the request or mood.

My music runs some 50+ years. I play Piano, Organ, Bass, Guitar, Drums, Professionally for 45 years.

I embrace all forms of music. All the above.

Vocalist since 2005, home studio recording and working on creation of lyrics and vocals for original music now

just about it all...

Music Producer, Song Writer

R&B, rap, rock, hip-hop, country, blues, Christian, electronic, chillwave ragtime, reggaeton, dance, dubstep, etc.

"Absolutely Superb!" The Engineers at TC Helicon are Genius's. Parameter adjustments Just add's the the Genius....

I have Not Connected an Instrument to the Device Yet, but feel strongly that it will Sound Excellent!

Made Very Strudy! Of The Highest Quality!

Well Worth the Price for The Technology You are Receiving

TC Helicon "ROCKS!"

Slight Learning Curve, But Once Learned.....Nothing Can Beat It!

Write/Produce/Sing

Christian, Electronic,hip-hop

Rock Vocalist, guitarist,bassist,soundman,lyricist

Hard Rock,Blues Influenced,melodic & metal.accapella