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The 87a is phantom powered so you can just jack into your Voice Live 2 ang get to rocking. So why do you spend the money to have this great sound and sing through completely dry monitors. If your voice is getting swallowed up by the band you probably need to shelve your overal band EQ.

IOW they need to be better to you, relax the aggression so their singer can be heard. Everyone knows, bit hates to admit, that low stage volume creates a better mix out front…the soundman won't have to compete with the band to get a good sound…if he/she know what they are doing. Hey, did you start of using your Voice Live 2 by settin your Auto Gain. Engage all of the auto buttons in the upper left…it sounds better.

OH, distortion with the Voice Live 2. This was a problem early on, before all of the upgrade patches came out…please stay up to speed with those upgrades through your voicelive application that came with the unit. If you're not you're totally missing out on some great add ons and fixes. Anyway, I discovered the distortion feature while using a crappy EV microphone.

Typically I use pretty expensive tools. However, I was being a lil' lazy one day and just hooked up a EV Raven, dynamic microphone. I never get the distortion when using condensers. Anyway, I was really huffing on the mic and it kept distorting…totally freaked me out. Good mic technique is what cured this.

I realized that when my lips were pressed against the mic and I was singing hard that it would distort. Simply employing better mic technique and keeping my mouth of the mic cured this for me, when using dynamic mics.

Here's the thing, if you're having to really wail on the microphone and your veins are popping out just to hear yourself then it's your band's fault. Communicate with them and have them turn down to a comfortable level, or buy more PA than they have so your vocals will split skulls, or find a band that cares enough about you to support you.

Feedback? I never have this problem. It has to be the gain staging. Ya' know you could pick up a cheap TC-Electronics C300 Compressor, Gate, Limiter, and apply it to the vocal mix only…this will knock down most of your feedback and give you some extra punch. Just trying to help friend! :)

Just curious…how many TC Helicon users are Plug-in-play IOW, you just jack in your mic, send a signal to the mains, and shoot from the hip hoping all will come together swimmingly?

How many TC Helicon Users are Tweakers? IOW, you read the manual, discover the technolgical depths of your hardware, and program the device to meet your utmost expectaion?

I don't think either is a better or worse method than the other, so please be honest. I'm just curious to see who does what with their hardware and perhaps meet some other technicians to share ideas with.

When replying also tell me what you use your TC Hardware for the most and what your favorite FX patches are. Do you make your own or use what's provided?

Namaste,

Brian

I had asked Bill if there is a software solution that would enable an artist to convert audio to MIDI (namely vocal audio). For a long time I've wanted to develop tracks without using any musicians. I wanted to conceptualize all of the parts and compose them with my voice.

IOW, sing a line then export the notation of that audio into MIDI. I would then want to take the MIDI track and assign various sounds via soft synths in order to compose an entire piece using only vocal data as the musical source.

Well, I found my own answer. This technology is starting to appear over the horizon. Most of you probably aren't this much of a nerd, but for those who are check out Melodyne Studio. It's going to be incredible!!! Currently, it's only available for ProTools and is not supported on WIndows 64 bit platforms, but does work on 32 bit and they plan to have it operational in Windows 7. OF course…it works with MAC!

Not only is it better than Antares Auto Tuner, for ptich alighment, it also will analyze audio data and allow you to export MIDI files. It also separates each pitch variation enabling you to move the slices around to create new melodies out of the original. Very cool!

An even more incredible feature is that you can import polyphonic audio (fist time ever) into it and it will disect then split that audio into layers, allowing you to see and manipulate the original source data. For any of you that understand what I'm talking about – THIS IS FLIPPIN' REVOLUTIONARY and also something I've hoped TC-Helicon will embrace in the future. Nothing against die hard musicians but…I want to do it all with the voice…so, with the aid of TC Hardware and this new software, I may just see my ultimate vocal dream come into fruition. It's a good time to be alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Namaste,

Brian

Well, no doubt you went and bought the flagship and no it's not easy if you're not a little bit of a geek. The only way to really get to know that unit is to start at the beginning of the manual and page to the back. Perhaps devote of month of your creativity to understanding that expensive unit instead of your usual musical approach. It's a very deep unit. I favor the Voive Live 2 because it's a workhorse in the studio as well as live and you don't need to tweak it as much as some of the more expensive TC hardware. Let me know what you hope to accomplish with it and I'll see if I can help you discover more about it…email is:

w1nds1gn@yahoo.com

Namaste,

Brian

Are you delving into it deeply enough? The editing features are laid out way simpler than the Voice Live 1. There's tons of reverbs, delays, modulations, you name it…under the hood. You can also genderize your harmonies. There's over 180 presets in there…everything from esoteric alien junk to saucy jazz styles…they really didn't leave anything out…sounds like you need to get inside of the unit and explore the manual page by page.

Another thing, seems as though you might be dealing with some of it's early issues before all of the upgrade patches. Are you keeping up with them using the Voice App that comes with it.

If not, you're gonna' wanna install that App and get all the upgrades that are comin' to ya! It's difficult for me to understand what more you would need…I'm very geeky and find there's way more to this unit than one would expect. If you need help digging into it or uncovering some of its beauty feel free to hit me up at w1nds1gn@yahoo.com

Namaste,

Brian

It's worth every penny my friend. I'd be lost without it. Like you, I've spent years looking for a “sound” solution to what I wanted to accomplish via processors, tubes, preamps…etc. Hats off to ya' for going the extra mile with an eventide…yeah that stuff isn't cheap. The Voice Live 2 is the perfect solution to all that studio gadgetry that we all love so much. I feel your pain, as what comes out in the studio, often does not transfer in a live setting. The VL2's auto gain, gates, limiters squelch all the “feedback” worries right out of the box. Do follow the startup directions when ya' get one though…you'll be happy you did. Hey, I beta tested the VL2 for TC-Helicon and spent a very extensive 1-1/2 months with it. I went through every feature and detailed out my findings in a blog on their site as well as MySpace. Check out the blogs here if you like http://www.myspace.com/voxiferation

Namaste,

Brian

Please be more specific. What do you want them to do together? Right out of the box, you can sing directly into your Voice Live 2, record the dry, wet, or both signals into a stereo or mono track. You could also route an effects chain in ProTools to use the Voice Live 2 like an effects plugin. Another way to use them together, say you don't have a keyboard, is to create a MIDI track in ProTools and have it connected to the MIDI in of the Voice Live 2. You could preprogram your MIDI chord changes, using the MIDI Track/Piano Roll feature, to guide the Voice Live Harmonies. There's a plethora of ways to use the two together. I run a ProTools and a Sonar rig…lem'me know exactly what you're shooting for and I'll let you know if it's something that can be brought into frution for you :)

Namaste,

Brian

Regards Brett Lee

My live rig is different than my recording rig and consists of the following:

1) Shure ULXP24 / Beta 87a Wireless Mic + Receiver
2) Shure PSM400 In-ear Monitors
3) Sennheiser eW-100 Wireless Mic + Receiver
4) TC-Helicon Voice Live 2
5) TC-Helicon Voice Live 1
6) TC-Helicon Voice Tone Synth
7) TC-Helicon Voice Tone Create
8) Hercules Mic Stand

But having spoken to a number of rock singers Kelly Jones (sterophonics) told me a few months back that he wouldnt go anywhere without a 58 and Myles Kennedy swaps between that and a senheiser but then you look at their show and compare the amount of on boards effects racks etc and engineer they have the can use just about anything. Feedback destroyers and all kinds…

As we have no engineer, are not famous but are still using 2 extremely powerful quality mackie speakers in a reasonable size venue. I found my lead vocals get swallowed up when I access the vocal live presets when using a radio system or when I turn it up “distortion central”. so this is a concern. Jack inputs certainly dont help either !!!

I really want to use a wireless system as I love the freedom to roam but they feedback more often than not. They thing is, its so difficult to go into a music shop and test the mics as I am not with my band and we are not playing at full volume so its pretty pointless.

I have tried a couple of Electro voices already and they were “ok” ,but hitting high rang notes ala (sweet child) or (since you been gone rainbow) etc in a live environment they don't cut it for me.

I use a front floor peavy monitor (dry) for vocals on stage and the band also sing BVs through it, so I sound great through that but our stage is becoming even more complex and the voicelive and how it works on stage is now priority for me.

we gig “every” single weekend and booked the whole of 2010 so whatever I use, it has to withstand a lot ! CAD195 is for acoustics agreed not a live rock mic of anykind.

I have so many options and my head is spinning so maybe I should just get rid of the voicelive and change to voice tone pedals or should I just find a mic system that will work with it.

questions, questions ???