TC-Helicon Play Acoustic

Submitted on July 18, 2014

Information

TC-Helicon introduces Play Acoustic – blissful vocals and rich guitar tone for the acoustic player

TC-Helicon is excited to introduce Play Acoustic - the next level of complete vocal and guitar processing for the acoustic player.

Play Acoustic combines all the things needed to make a live acoustic performance shine; lavish vocal sounds, perfect backing harmonies, best-selling guitar FX, and unique processing that preserves guitar tone and makes every six-string sing – in perfect harmony with the voice.

Main Features

Professional Vocal Effects and Tone with natural sounding Vocal Harmonies guided by your guitar
Guitar FX styles from TC Electronic’s Hall of Fame Reverb and Corona Chorus pedals
BodyRez™ filtering and onboard EQ and DI for impeccable acoustic guitar tone
Guitar feedback-proofing with notch filter and phase controls
Separate vocal and guitar outputs, or a stereo mix of both

Great Vocal Sound

Play Acoustic comes packed with all the goose-bump inducing vocal effects that TC-Helicon are renowned for: Unbelievable vocal harmonies, tasty delays, lush reverbs, thick doubles, cool modulations, edgy hardtuning, and raw distortions.

Best of all, the portamento and humanization of the harmony effects have been improved, making Play Acoustic's tireless two-singer backing group more realistic than ever. And don’t worry about setting the key. Play Acoustic follows the guitar chords automatically for harmonies that stay in tune and in time.

Perfect Guitar Tone

The sound of resonating wood is what gives an acoustic guitar its particular sonic allure, and this is where BodyRez™ comes in. New and unique to Play Acoustic, the BodyRez algorithm restores acoustic tone to guitars fitted with undersaddle pickups. Carefully placed filters and fast acting compression combine to reduce “piezo-quack”, making the guitar sound like the beautiful full-bodied instrument it is. Dial in as much or as little BodyRez as needed and use the handy EQ controls to fine-tune the dynamics of the sound.

Tailor-made guitar FX from TC-Helicon's sister company TC Electronic add a sweet touch of magic with essential styles from the bestselling TonePrint pedals – Hall of Fame Reverb and Corona Chorus – while the direct Guitar DI output ensures signal fidelity all the way from pedal to PA.

Finally, separate mono XLR outputs for vocals and guitar makes it painless for any sound engineer to mix the levels perfectly for the audience, or users can set the output to Stereo and create their own custom panoramic stereo mix.

Feature Overview

Complete vocal path including Tone, Harmony, HardTune, Reverb, Double, Delay, μMod (chorus/flange, etc.), and Transducer (megaphone/distortion FX)
Global Adaptive EQ, Compression, De-ess, Gate & Pitch Correction
Note-perfect Vocal Harmonies using Auto Chord Detection from guitar input
2 Voices of NaturalPlay Harmony, plus 2 voices of humanized Doubling
TC Electronic guitar FX with styles from Hall of Fame Reverb and Corona Chorus
Dedicated Guitar and Vocal FX access/edit buttons
BodyRez™ EQ, compression styles optimized for undersaddle piezo pickup acoustic guitars
Narrow notch filter to tame acoustic guitar feedback
Low and high shelving plus fully parametric guitar EQ controls
Separate vocal and pro-quality guitar DI outputs or stereo mix
Low-noise Mic-preamp
VLOOP™ performance looper for vocal and/or guitar with undo and redo
Simple effects customization with styles and icons
RoomSense microphones for monitoring and practicing
Key/Scale harmony mode for setting specific song keys via the footswitches
Plug in and practice with your mobile device via AUX or stream tracks and record over USB including a Vocal Cancel function
Navigate factory presets by Genre and mark Favorites
USB for audio streaming and connection to VoiceSupport, our free app
Compatible with the MP-75 Modern Performance Vocal Microphone and Sennheiser e 835 fx microphone with Mic Control
Optional Switch-3 for additional performance control
Headphone output