VoiceLive Vs. Voicetone Create and/or Correct

Okay, here is a breakdown.

First off, do you want harmonies? Because if you do, you need the voicelive or voiceworks. The pedals do not have harmonies. If you do want harmonies, then do you want to control them yourself or will your engineer do it. If it is you, then you need the voicelive because the voiceworks can just me rackmount at the board. I use the Voicelive and actually do a lot of Zeppelin so I set up an ocatve higher or lower ocatve harmony to add another dimesnion to my voice.

Personally I love my voicelive, but I am a kid so I had to have the pedals too. The pedals are basically the coolest thing to come along for singers in a long time. Just like guitar pedals, which I use to sing through as a kid. If you are on a budget and only need a few things to get started, the Voicetone create gives you all the effects, plus some infelcetions like telephone voice, grit, thickening... If you are more worried about the spectral sound, the Correct pedal gives you EQ, compressions, de-essing... The pedals go for $345 and the other processors are twice that price. So, in the end, it is really about what you need right now, versus your budget. For a quick fix I'd get the Create if it were me and buy the Correct soon after. But if I were a person who wanted harmonies, go for the Voicelive. However, I wouldnt't put it past TC to cre4ate a ahrmony pedal soon, which means you could add that to your growing voice pedal obsession

Hi There!

Having worked with VoiceLive for a couple of years now, I would consider myself a power user, but I feel that this machine is a little too complicated in live situations (as long as you aren't a singing
guitarist). As a lead singer you have to concentrate on your performance and don't want to continuously step around on footswitches (although that could look like an interesting dancing style...). This, in addition to the hundreds of complex parameters, is what from my opinion, turned the usability down for anyone without a sound engineer diploma. In all the years(!) of excessive programming and re-programming, I have never been 100% satisfied with my sound. Okay, I've got to admit, that I have been the only(!) singer in a funk/soul/disco band where, besides our own songs, we covered all the 70's classics. I can tell you, it's hard work to program only a single song with all those complicated jazzy, funky harmonies, but on the other hand, "Earth Wind & Fire" out of the Box sounds quite impressive...

Well, my latest project is a Jamiroquai tribute show (Man, I feel lost among all those rockers here ), and so I got myself a pair of "real" backing singers. I've been selling my VoiceLive again and only a few days ago got hands on my new VoiceTone pedals. Wow! With all its adaptive routines, "Correct" really gives me the comfort, I was missing from VoiceLive. Simply reduced to the max, very good! "Create" on the other hand features all the sounds you know from modern or classical recordings. It has a much wider variety of effects, compared to VoiceLive and only a few tweaking possibilities, but for me that is more than enough. Nevertheless, I am eager to get to know the "Super Edit Mode", TC has announced for the end of august.

Want to know more about my experiences with VoiceLive and VoiceTone? Just contact me.

Last edited by JayDaSinga (2007-08-09 05:15:15)

Where can I find a link to this "Super Edit Mode?"

Could someone e-mail me good VoiceLive presets for Rock/Metal singing like Skid Row, Judas Priest, Steelheart ect. No harmonies needed, accept for doubling maybe. My address --> kolly@webinfo.fi. For example like the ones that Jaime played with Jonathan Spencer singing Dream Theater.. Something like that.

THanks,

K

The harmonies made the decision for me as well... BTW anyone have a preset for Carry On?

Thanks Jaime I'm sure I could figure out each part then I'll post.. BTW Great book!!! I ordered the PDF and have the warmups on a CD for my pre-practice ritual.. I've taken lessons before but I have never been as jazzed as this...

P.S. the apple cider vineger isn't all that bad

I have had the VL almost since it came out and I have to say that I love it!

But I am a fiddler and like to have control over my sound, particularly given that much of my early amateur and professional life was in clubs with no soundman. Some nasty experiences in clubs WITH soundmen have not helped! Yes, the VL is very complicated, you don't quite need a diploma in sound engineering (nice one, Jay!) but almost. And it does have one big disadvantage; you don't get distortion, which you do with Create. On the other hand, the new Harmony Control pedal, which looks like an incredibly powerful tool, can't be used with Create or Control. But, as others have said here, if you don't want harmonies, who cares?!

I don't have either of these pedals, but I am very interested in getting Create, which seems to be much closer to what I need for one of my projects. But I'm keeping my VL for all the other projects, and my next purchase will be the HG Control.

By the way, I am a singer only, and unlike Jay, I have no problems whatsoever dancing on the pedals. I have the editor for the VL and my three set lists are stored there and recalled to the pedal as I need them. So Dancing can actually be kept to a minimum wtih a little sideways thinking. But there again, my bands don't have so much need of a highly visual frontman like Jay's; in my case it's enough that I leap around a little in the guitar solos!