TC Helicon PLAY ACOUSTIC Vocal and Acoustic Guitar Effects Stompbox

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TC Helicon PLAY ACOUSTIC

3-Button Vocal and Acoustic Guitar Effects Stompbox with BodyRez and Looping

Product Features

• 3-button stompbox combines studio quality vocals, pristine guitar sounds and creative looping
• Seven professional vocal effects and tone processing with intuitive control
• BodyRez filtering, on board EQ, and DI for impeccable acoustic guitar tone
• Guitar FX styles from TC Electronic HALL OF FAME REVERB, FLASHBACK DELAY and CORONA CHORUS pedals
• VLOOP performance looper with undo/redo and unlimited overdubs
• More than 200 song- and artist-inspired vocal pre-sets
• High-quality, low-noise mic preamp for pristine vocals
• USB for streaming audio, pre-set downloads and firmware updates.
• Compatible with remote Mic Control using the TC Helicon MP-75, MP-76 or Sennheiser* e835 FX microphones.
• Optional SWITCH-3 or SWITCH-6 foot switch for more performance control
• Power supply included.

The Natural Companion

Play Acoustic combines all the things you need to make a live acoustic performance shine: lavish vocal sounds, perfect backing harmonies, best-selling guitar effects, and unique processing that makes your six-string sing – in perfect harmony with your voice.

 

What Every Singer Wants

Keep your vocals clean with a tight reverb or simple harmony – or go all out with tasty delays, thick doubling, edgy hardtuning, cool modulations, and raw distortions. The choice is yours with hundreds of presets from the most popular styles.

 

Acoustic Alchemy

Play Acoustic treats your guitar with the respect it deserves. Tailor-made guitar FX from TC Electronic add a sweet touch of magic and our new BodyRez gives you a fuller, acoustic tone when you’re playing through a PA.

 

Vocal FX + Guitar FX in One Pedal

1. Access your effects directly, choose the presets you want and find the styles you like.
2. Easily browse hundreds of preset sounds.
3. Add dazzling effects for the chorus, or strip it down for the verse, you decide!
4. Dedicated inputs and outputs for your voice and guitar – plus inputs for headphones, auxiliary devices, an expansion pedal and USB for recording, updates and new presets.

 

What They Say

“You can dial in a fantastic guitar sound, fill a room with amazing vocal effects and backing harmonies, and even loop musical phrases. This simple stomp box contains some serious technology in an easy-to-use platform.”

The Vocal Sounds You Love

Play Acoustic is loaded with vocal effects from our best-selling VoiceLive® series: reverb, doubling, HardTune, µMod, tap delay and transducer. Get inspired with incredible, natural sounding harmonies guided automatically by your guitar. There’s also Adaptive Tone for an optimally produced sound every time you sing.

 

Vocal FX Highlights

> 100s of presets from the most popular styles

> Adaptive Tone - your personal sound engineer

> Easier than ever to create and personalize your sound.

> Practice favorite tracks with Vocal Cancel

> Even more control with our Mics and Footswitches

 

Delay

Also known as Echo, delay repeats the input sound in various ways, from single “taps” to multiple panned asynchronous repeats. Often, delay is mistaken for reverb in a song. It’s typical in a recording to use a small amount of both delay and reverb to create the desired spatial effect.

For more information on the technical aspects of reverb, see: Wikipedia Delay

 

Reverb

Short for Reverberation, reverb simulates an acoustic space like a concert hall or a bathroom. Typically, slower songs use longer reverb and faster songs use shorter reverb.

For more information on the technical aspects of reverb, see: Wikipedia Reverberation

 

HardTune

Some people know it as the Cher or T-Pain effect. We call it HardTune. It’s a very aggressive form of pitch correction that forces the voice to “jump” from one note to the next in an almost robotic way. The effect works the best when confined to a set scale, where the intervals between notes are more noticeable. To get the most out of the effect, you’ll need to adapt your singing style to help accentuate the way that your voice shifts from note to note. Try sliding between notes.

 

Transducer

Any effect that provides overdrive, distortion or filter falls under Transducer effects. You’ll find effects like Megaphone, Radio, Amplifier Emulation and more here. Always take care when using transducer effects in a live situation. Due to the extreme gains and eq’s imparted on the signal, these effects are very prone to

 

Natural Harmony

You have a tireless two-singer backing group which sounds more realistic than ever with improved portamento and humanization on our already renowned harmony effects. And don’t worry about setting the key: Play Acoustic follows your guitar chords automatically for harmonies that stay in tune and in time.

 

What Every Singer Needs

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

 

Practice Favorite Tracks with Vocal Cancel

Singing along is a great way to practice and perform. Plug in your MP3 player via the AUX In connector and use the Vocal Cancel feature to make your voice stand out over the vocals on the original track. You can also record and play back your singing using the USB connection to your computer and DAW.

Guitar FX Highlights

> Legendary TC Electronic Guitar FX – Hall of Fame Reverb, Flashback Delay & Corona Chorus

> New: BodyRez restores acoustic tone to your amplified guitar

> Guitar feedback-proofing with notch filter and phase controls

> Separate vocal and guitar outputs, or a stereo mix of both

> Extend Your FX Control with the optional Switch-3 pedal

 

Legendary Guitar FX from TC Electronic

Play Acoustic comes preloaded with select FX to best suit your acoustic guitar – including TC Electronic's award-winning TonePrint pedals, Hall of Fame Reverb, Flashback Delay and Corona Chorus. The direct Guitar DI output ensures signal fidelity all the way from pedal to PA.

 

 

 

Specification

Included Effects

Vocal FX          

µMod

Delay

Reverb

Harmony

Double

Transducer

Tone

HardTune & Correctio

Chorus

BodyRez

Guitar Anti-feedback

 

Guitar FX        

Reverb

Delay

Chorus

BodyRez

Guitar Anti-feedback

Tuner

 

Control          

100+ Song & Artist Inspired Presets, Memory for 500

Simple Vocal & Guitar FX Editing via Direct Access Buttons

Direct Access to Favorite, Genre, Mix and Setup Menus

Preset Up/Down and HIT Footswitch

Graphics LCD Display

Bump-Protected Mic Level

Dual-Colour Backlit Buttons

 

Design

Size     

Height: 1.8 inches (45 mm)

Width: 7.9 inches (200 mm)

Depth: 6.1 inches (156 mm)

 

Weight           

Weight: 2.2 lb. (1 kg)

 

Construction 

Dual die-cast clamshell design

Acrylic Lens

Punch-cut Metal connection panel

Rubberized footings

Backlit Graphic LCD Display

 

Connections

Analog Inputs 

Connectors: Mic.: balanced XLR, Guitar: unbalanced 1/4? TS, Aux: 1/8? stereo mini jack

Impedance: Balanced/Unbalanced: Mic.: 2.14/1.07 kOhm

EIN @ Max Mic Gain Rg = 150 Ohm : -127 dBu

Mic SNR: > 104 dB

Phantom Power: +48V (on/off via Setup menu)

Guitar Input impedance: 1 MOhm

Guitar Input Level @ 0 dBFS: 12 dBu

Guitar Input SNR: > 115dB

Aux Input Level @ 0dBu: +2dBu

A to D Conversion: 24 bit, 128 x oversampling bitstream, 110dB SNR A-weighted

 

Analog Outputs          

D to A Conversion: 24 bit, 128 x oversampling bitstream, 115dB SNR A-weighted

Connectors, balanced: XLR

Output Impedance Balanced/ Unbalanced: 80/40 Ohm

XLR Output 0dBFS: +2 dBu

Dynamic Range: > 109 dB, 20 Hz to 20 kHz

Frequency Response: +0.30/-0 dB, 20 Hz to 20 kHz

Headphone Out: 1/8? Mini stereo jack

 

Control          

USB: USB-B (Preset Management, Firmware Updates and audio I/O)

Pedal: 1/4? TRS phone jack

Mic Control using TC Helicon MP-75 Microphone or Sennheiser e 835 FX mic.

 

Safety And Regulations

Power 

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

12V DC 0.4A max output

Power Consumption: < 14 W
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

 

What's in the box?           

Region specific power supply

USB cable

User guide