You have a Happy Non-Denominational Holiday Season Time too!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Thanks for the wealth of knowledge you shared in a few posts-I really appreciate your time and informative responses.  I'm glad TC Helicon has this forum!  I was surprised at how little the staff at the local Guitar Center (TC Helicon Dealer)knew about these products. 

I hope you and all who read this have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Thank you.

Johnny

Sure thing. The easiest way to work things for both Karaoke and Guitar would be to hook up as I suggested above, with a couple of tweaks for the Karaoke.

I'd run an Aux send from the Karaoke channel on the mixer to the VLT guitar in. Then just turn up the Aux level on the mixer so there's some level of the music entering the VLT. If you're using stereo for the Karaoke, just send a little Aux from each of the 2 channels. To make sure you don't actually get the Karaoke track in your vocal mix, just plug a guitar cable into the Thru jack, but don't connect it to anything on the other end. Doing it that way defeats any input from the Guitar IN and only uses the information for processing key/scale for Harmony and HardTune.

With things set up that way, the Karaoke track controls the harmonies, but you'll still have independent control over the track and vocal levels at the mixer.

Make sense?

-Craig

PS, if you want to play guitar along with the Karaoke, you'd need to choose either the Karaoke tracks to send to the Guitar IN, or your actual guitar. If you're going to be playing chords, the guitar is a good choice, but if you want to wail solos over the Karaoke mix, I'd use the track to guide the harmony, since solos etc. don't contain enough chordal information to determine a key. That was a long sentence, phew.

Can you advise for both with and without the guitar?  I normally play straight to amp but now may be extremely tempted to use some effects but perhaps not with karaoke!   

Thanks for your help.

Johnny

Ah gotcha. Do you want to also have guitar running, or just the Karaoke signal?

Cheers,
Craig

Thanks!

Johnny

I'd go directly into the VLT with your mic, then out to a channel (or two for stereo)on your mixer, via XLR or TRS. The jacks are physically connected and both offer the same quality and balanced signal path. Then, run the guitar into the Touch, then out to another channel on your mixer via the Thru.

Finally, plug your Karaoke source into another channel (or two for stereo) on your mixer.

That way, you'll have independent control over the Vocals, Guitar and Bed Tracks.

Hope that helps!

Hit me up if you have any other questions.

Cheers,
Craig

I would like to know the best way to connect the VLT in my simple setup for karaoke. 

Should the signal go from Line OUT on the mixer to AUX IN on the VLT, then TRS OUT to LINE IN(s) on the mixer?   

Is it best to use the XLR out when running in mono?

Can the same be accomplished using the guitar in and thru back to the mixer?

I checked the connections section of the manual however, I appreciate any feedback for best results.       

Thanks for the feedback!

Johnny