TC-Helicon VoiceLive 2 Extreme

Overall a Voicelive is the equivalent of a multi-effects pedalboard for guitar, but here dedicated to the voice. This is a priori a great tool for a singer.

There are the Voicelive 1, Voicelive 2, Voicelive 2 Extreme Edition.
I have the one, I have experienced the 2, and I also have the Extreme Edition.
(I'm not talking VoiceLive Play is a simplified version of the above)

COMMON FEATURES

1. PREAMP FOR VOICE
They serve as the vocal mic preamp. We can, through the Voicelive, connect directly to the PC's sound card with a satisfactory result, or onstage connect directly to the mixer.
In 2 cases, the huge advantage is that the global settings and custom your voice are stored in the Voicelive and therefore completely independent and portable.
You arrive on any scene with your mic and VoiceLive and all your special effects are already in the box. Useless to ask the soundman you put more reverb on this song and the effect of delay on that one. Not to mention, of course, impossible to reproduce strange effects at the last moment.

2. PEDAL EFFECTS
They are designed to be manipulated on stage with the feet. And it works. You can also use your hands (!).
There are two types of effects:
- The essential basic effects like EQ, compression, reverb gate, etc.
- The effects of all kinds (like a guitar) multiple delay, distortion, chorus, flanger, etc etc. ..

3. Harmony MULTI-VOICE

- A. Change his tone of voice
The main feature of VoiceLive is to completely change the timbre of your voice. So if you have a voice rather slender man, you can turn it into a bass voice, or voice of a woman or child's voice.
Here we must return in fine settings, because the result can be amazing or .. ridiculous.
Some people reject the VoiceLive, saying that it is artificial and ridiculous, just because they do not know how to use it, or have not made the effort to resolve it.

- B. Generate a second voice, a third, etc.
Voicelive are the multi-voice. You can use your own voice to sing modifée simultaneously self (his normal voice). So you can sing along by a girl's voice (which is yourself), and all in real time. Which is great. Some will say "Why not sing then with a real girl?". Because the results are different. It does not exclude it. It's like drawing on the computer or draw on paper and then scan the drawing. The procedures are different and suddenly the results too. Another example: a synthesizer and a real piano. The one does not exclude the other.

- C. The second voice is a different tune than your voice.
The VoiceLive are harmonizers. So, in real time, they analyze the notes you made for the second voice sings eg third with you, or in unison, etc.. For this there are also many fine adjustments, just stick to the factory presets is not enough though very useful and resourceful.

4. AN IMPORTANT NOTE
Voicelive is not a voice synthesizer. He does not voice out anything. It just transforms your voice. What does that mean?
That means that if you sing like a toad, and you program voice to accompany you, you will have the joy of being accompanied by a .. chorus of toads! (Lol this comparison always makes me laugh).
So a good singer to be rich voice and worked better than average singer singers. More very beginners have trouble singing with different voices that are generated in real time with different notes. They struggle to keep their own melodic line and begin to sing out of tune. (As in a choir)

Therefore Voicelive not sing for you, and it is even harder to sing in some cases. on the other hand there are also effects that embellish hyper pros and flatter voice. As in the studios for singers known. And there it is easier to sing with VoiceLive than without.

UTILIZATION

I use to put 10 but it depends on Voicelive used and I speak thus in the end.

SOUND QUALITY

So I put 10 for the sound quality, but it also depends on the VoiceLive and I'll talk again at the end

OVERALL OPINION

Overall Opinion I put 10 without hesitation.
You will notice that I glossed connections. Because it is not the subject of this article. And it is findable on the internet. Similarly there are dozens of essential things I do not mean because it is not my purpose here.

MAINTENANNT HERE - MY TRUE ABOUT - A COMPARISON OF RAPID 3 VOICELIVE

1. I HAVE HAD THE FIRST VOICELIVE 1
I was amazed at the harmonizing effects of real-time voice generated.
Finally realized the dream to sing in perfect sync with double voice "someone" without too much hassle in endless repetitions.
on the other hand I was not satisfied with the overall tone of my voice output device.
Ie the preamp did not seem to suit me. In the end I adopted a mixed solution. I plugged in my voice as before on my amp directly without going through the VoiceLive, and I plugged in parallel as the signal of my voice VoiceLive keeping output only the second voice harmonized (without lead so).
The result was stunning for everyone.
But not simple side hardware and cables. And so little practice in the end I spent VoiceLive on stage.

2. I HAVE EXPERIENCED THE VOICELIVE 2
I met a singer and guitarist with whom I worked one year. He fell in ecstasy before my VoiceLive. He wanted to buy it. But the two came out. He bought two. Ho! Ho! I was jealous! Well, no, must know how to adjust. In the end the result was worse than mine (he was furious!). He asked me to settle his Voicelive 2. I dove into it.
The preamp is better. So he plugged his microphone directly and solely on Voicelive 2 with a final result correct. But I still preferred my sound mixed.
on the other hand although many parameters were almost the same, the menu design was radically different editing and really really more convenient with the 2.
And there were also some effects that I was lusting over a bit.
But now, being familiar with the complexity of VoiceLive 1 for the extra expense it entailed, I did not need to buy 2.

3. I PURCHASED THE EXTREME EDITION VOICELIVE 2
By chance I saw a version Extreme Edition was out. One of the important novelties: Better prémpli.
A better preamp? Which may finally allow me to connect my mic just above. More editing menu hyper practice 2? I hesitate. I hesitate. I read. This is not reasonable. I buy. Happiness.

The Extreme Edition has a better preamp. Now I plug my mic directly. But attention (that I do not know, I'm not a sound engineer) settings (including equalization) are not all the same for a voice output on stage, or voice recording. The secret I've found (and no doubt all engineers even more fans have always known) is a voice recording must be somehow "defatted" certain frequencies.
Then Extreme Edition has many more effects VoiceLive 1 and its connectivity is richer and more convenient (like the VoiceLive 2 normal).

In the end I am completely satisfied with the Voicelive 2 Extreme Edition. I found these amazing devices creative possibilities. And it is a tool that we exploit opportunities over the years.

So you think I sold the one? Well no. Because I realized that if 2 and Far had increased opportunities and simplified management of certain parameters, this simplification had even removed certain types of free settings.
Thus the great female voice that I was bluffing made with one, not the remake with 2 or extreme here because it sounds artificial. Amazing is not it?

CONCLUSION
The Voicelive 2 Extreme Edition and have a design very similar side menu. Voicelive different from 1. We can only choose 2 (single or Far) compared to 1. (Except for the case mentioned above).
That said Extreme Edition is commme its name indicates, an improvement Voicelive 2. If you have none, and that money is not a problem, buy the Extreme.
If you already have 2 normal, it is probably not necessary to buy the Extreme.

Here is a simple demo Voicelive 2 Extreme Edition (without explanation or detail)
If some of you want a detailed technical demo, let me know by comment below the video itself. I will if more people request, because of ç'est job.
(Listen with headphones if you want to better distinguish the timbre of voice)
<a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h26F2pFxsvA" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h26F2pFxsvA</a>

Good music at all.
kael