TC-Helicon VoiceWorks Vocal Effects Processors

by TC-Helicon

Product Features

• A complete signal path from mic input to stereo output. All you add is a PA, (or DAW) and your voice
• Capable of creating up to 5 part harmony or doubling with your voice
• Harmonies can be controlled by MIDI keyboard or by setting key and scale
• 100 user-programmable presets
• Editor program for Mac and PC available free via download

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 19 x 8.2 x 1.8 inches ; 4.1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 7.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B0002E5482
• Item model number: VoiceWorks
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,449 in Musical Instruments (See Top 100 in Musical Instruments)
  • #11 in Musical Instruments > Recording Equipment > Signal Processors > Effects Processors > Vocal Effects Processors

Product Description

TC Helicon VoiceWorks has multi-voice harmonies, transparent pitch correction and fat automatic double-tracking, all so realistic you can solo them with confidence. VoiceWorks includes superb TC Electronic effects and the new HarmonyHoldTM, which lets you freeze your backing harmonies while you sing over them. For live performance, Song Mode allows you to save internal sequences of up to 50 songs with 30 user presets per song. Add TC Helicon's quality mic preamp (complete with 48V phantom power) and TC Electronic Compression, EQ, Tap-Tempo Delay and Reverbs and you have an amazing vocal channel with 100 user presets at your fingertips. TC Helicon VoiceWorks Features HybridShiftTM harmony generation for smooth, natural sound 4 independent harmony voices, 4 distinct harmony Modes: Scale, Chord, Shift and MIDI Notes 2 Lead-voice Thickening Voices - one voice above and one voice below Humanization of harmony voices utilizing: FlexTimeTM, Vibrato, Inflection, Pitch randomization, Portamento Selectable Equal-tempered and Just tuning for harmonies HarmonyHoldTM Scale-based Pitch Correction for studio and live performance Fully adjustable Gender and Voicing per voice High Quality Mic Preamp with 48V phantom power TC Electronic 3-band EQ plus low cut TC Electronic Compressor/Gate TC Electronic Reverb/Tap-tempo Delay Song Mode for live performance allows you to save internal "sequences" of up to 50 songs with 30 user presets per song MIDI CC control over all parameters

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WAY beyond my expectations!, December 12, 2010

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Alexandre - See all my reviews

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This review is from: TC-Helicon VoiceWorks Vocal Effects Processors (Electronics)

I'd watched the videos on TC-Helicon's website before buying this from Amazon, my hope was that it would be half as good as advertised. It's two or three times better than I could have ever imagined!
1. The pre-amp is excellent.
2. The compressor is better than my stand alone unit.
3. The doubling is great, really gives you that professional sounding vocals.
4. The harmonies are exceptional, let me repeat, EXCEPTIONAL. I'm not that great a singer, this thing is magic in a box. You do NOT need to use midi for the harmonies, I'd say about 3/4ths of the setting don't require any midi input, don't get me wrong, the midi presets are amazing, you can literally hold a note with your voice, and say hold the C note on the keyboard, and it will bend it as far as you're willing to go up the keyboard!
5. The voice correction, I believe, is making me a better singer. It coaxes you to move your voice to get the harmonies in tune, which is not hard. Yes, you can take it to the extreme and have the "cher" effect.
I don't post reviews often, but this thing is so far beyond my expectations, I had to let others know. You will not regret this purchase!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding sound but big learning curve to get good results, August 11, 2009

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Daniel Montgomery (Chelsea, MI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: TC-Helicon VoiceWorks Vocal Effects Processors (Electronics)

The quality of the harmonies the Voiceworks can create is amazing. There is a big learning curve, however. It is important to obtain and study the manual (although the manual falls way short of completeness), as well as doing some serious experimenting to see what works best for you on a given song. There is now a free computer-based software editor available on the TC Helicon site which will help tremendously in setting up and modifying presets. I found the factory presets to have way too heavy fx applied for my taste, perhaps so that people with marginal voices trying it out in the store will be impressed with how much it improves the way they sound. Many of the factory presets are just to demo the wide range of sounds the Voiceworks is capable of producing. If you can sing at all, this unit can help you sound even better. 99 presets, but you have to overwrite the factory settings to save your own modifications. It is important to use the proper harmony mode for a given song. Every setting can be controlled and customized utilizing the software to keep from having to wade through the display menus on the unit, which can be confusing. The optional 3-button footswitch is almost a must-have item for live use.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Bang For The Buck, July 18, 2008

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Dan "Drum Man" (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: TC-Helicon VoiceWorks Vocal Effects Processors (Electronics)

This device has exceeded my expectations. It has a great mic preamp. The doubling feature is worth the price alone. Fully adjustable and natural sounding pitch correction. Great sounding harmonies. And this device is awesome with the guitar-based harmony control. Accurate harmonies on the fly. The learning curve might be a little higher than some products, but TC is vastly superior to anything I've heard. I'm buying another one for my dad for his birthday.