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Table of Contents Introduction .................................................... page 4 Using & Understanding the Effect ..............page 22 Quick Start .......................................................page 6 Using the Effects ............................................page 23 Using Two VoiceTone Pedals ....................... page 12 Adaptive Shape EQ ......................................................page 23 Adaptive Compression ...............................................
Introduction Welcome to VoiceTone Correct We at TC-Helicon believe that VoiceTone Correct will finally make you truly satisfied with your live vocal sound. More than any other musicians, vocalists are understandably not happy with their live sound. The reason is typically obvious - the singer has no control of the sound system and most often there is no sound engineer to help.
Introduction About TC-Helicon At TC-Helicon we truly believe that the voice is the world's most beautiful instrument. We don't mean to degrade other beautiful instruments, but the singing voice is the anthropological source for all things melodic. In the words of the founders of TC-Helicon, "Everything we do is dedicated to this instrument (the singing voice).
Quick Start Step 1: Step 2: Connect your microphone to a mic cable Connect the mic cable to the Mic Input on Correct. NOTE: Make sure Correct is not powered.
Quick Start Step 3: Step 4: Connect a mic cable to the Main Output of Correct. Connect the mic cable from Correct to a mic input on your sound system. NOTE: At this point it would be best to turn the gain and/or volume on your sound system's mic input to off.
Quick Start Step 5: Step 6: Set all EQ and/or compression on your sound system mic channel to off, or unity (middle position - no boost or cut). Turn the Input Knob fully left and set the last four knobs on Correct to their default position as indicated. NOTE: Correct is going to supply the EQ and compression for your voice automatically. After it has been turned on for your voice, a live sound engineer can decide if they want to do any further processing.
Quick Start Step 7: Step 8: Connect Correct’s power adapter to main power and to the Power Input on Correct. While singing through your microphone, turn the Input Knob to the right until the Input Light turns green, sometimes orange on louder parts, but never red.
Quick Start Step 9: Step 10: Raise the gain and/or volume on your sound system mic input channel and master volume until you hear a good level from your vocals. You're ready to hear Correct on your voice. a. Turn the Live Engineer effects on or off with the Right Footswitch b.
Quick Start Step 11: Here are some quick tips on understanding what Correct will do for your live vocal sound. Live Engineer (LE effects): On Regardless of your microphone, mic technique or whether you are a Bass or Soprano, the LE effects will optimize the balance of low and high frequencies and smooth the loud and soft parts of your singing to make you sound your best. Your sound will be clear and defined and will fit well into your mix.
Using Two VoiceTone Pedals You can use two VoiceTone pedals in series. For example, a great combination is to have VoiceTone Correct feeding a VoiceTone Create pedal. Generally, Correct should be the first device in the chain. Step 3: Connect the second VoiceTone pedal, in this case Create to the PA. Step 4: Step 1: Set VoiceTone Create’s Input Knob fully left. Follow the Quick Start guide for both VoiceTone Pedals.
Front & Back Panel Descriptions 1. Guide Output 2 1 Alternate output with full time pitch correction when it’s only desired in stage monitors. Diagram below shows possible routings 3 2. Main Output Typical output for use with sound system. Diagram below shows possible routings. POWER 3.
Front & Back Panel Descriptions 1 2 3 4 1. Input Knob 6 5 Controls the microphone pre-amplifier gain. Correct can accept dynamic or condenser microphones. 2. Input Light Indicates the input level of the microphone. Flashing green, sometimes orange is good. Flashing red is clipping, which is not good. 9 3. Shape Knob 10 Controls the amount of Shape EQ on the voice. 12 o’clock is the default position, full left is off. 7 11 8 12 4. Compress Knob Controls the amount of compression on the voice.
Front & Back Panel Descriptions 6. Pitch Knob 11. Dry to Guide Button Controls the amount of pitch correction effect on the voice. 12 o’clock is default position, full left is off. When enabled, the Guide Output will feature your pitch corrected voice in parallel with your natural voice. This can make it easier to hear the pitch correction effect in high level situations. 7.Warmth Button Enables the Warmth EQ. 12. Display Button 8.
Setup Configurations Phantom Power Before using any setup configuration, determine the type of microphone you are using: Dynamic microphone: phantom power off. Condenser microphone: phantom power on. Enabling Phantom Power: 1. Confirm that your sound system master level is off. 2. Connect Correct's power adapter to main power and to the Power Input on Correct. 3. Press and hold Dry to Guide Button and Display Button simultaneously until the Phantom Power Light comes on.
Setup Configurations Standard Setup The standard setup for VoiceTone Correct couldn't be easier - put Correct between your microphone and your mic input on your sound system. In this configuration only Main Output is used. Connecting and Enabling for Standard Setup: 1. Connect your microphone to Correct’s Mic Input. 2. Connect to your sound system as in diagram on this page. Main Output to mic input channel on your sound system. 3.
Setup Configurations Main / Monitor Setup While Correct’s pitch correction is so transparent that your audience may never know you're using it, we suspect there'll always be purists who'd rather the audience hear only their raw and naked voice. Using the Guide Output, you can route your pitch corrected voice to your monitor mix, while your audience hears no correction effect from the Main Output. Connecting and Enabling for Main/Monitor Setup: 1. Connect your microphone to Correct's Mic Input. 2.
Setup Configurations Sound Engineer Setup If you are in a situation where a live sound engineer mixes your vocal sound, there are some details you should provide to them when working with VoiceTone Correct: 1. Correct can supply phantom power if needed. assumption that the overall sound system has a flat response with no dynamics processing. In the vast majority of cases, it won’t be necessary to add any more EQ or compression.
Setup Configurations Advanced Settings: Tuning Reference If you know that the instruments you are singing with are not tuned to A440, or you hear that your corrected voice doesn’t sound in tune, then you need to change Correct’s tuning reference. 1. Press and hold the Warmth, Shape, and Compress Buttons simultaneoulsy as you plug the power adapter into Correct. The Pitch On Light flashes to indicate you are ready to change the tuning reference. 2.
Setup Configurations Advanced Settings: Manual Shape The Shape EQ can either run in adaptive or manual mode. Adaptive mode will function the vast majority of the time to provide just the right amount of EQ for your voice. Manual mode can be useful for applying specialized EQ curves. When the Shape Knob is turned fully left, there will be no boost or cut. When it's turned fully right, there will be a fixed amount of High Boost and Low Cut.
Using & Understanding the Effects With all knobs set to 12 o'clock, Correct sounds great in almost every situation. We've gone through a lot of effort to see that it does. The following sections in the manual will allow you to get the best from Correct, as well as learn more about what it takes to get a good vocal sound. Using the Effects: Use these sections to try out each effect in Correct to hear the different qualities they give to your live vocal performance.
Using the Effects: Adaptive EQ Adaptive Shape EQ Set up the product as follows: Shape Control: 12 o’clock Compress Control: off De-Ess: off Pitch: off Warmth Button: off Adaptive Shape Button: on Adaptive Compress Button: on Now try singing a song into Correct. The Adaptive Shape EQ takes approximately 30 seconds to completely adapt to your voice. While you’re singing press the Right Footswitch to turn the LE effects on and off.
Using the Effects: Adaptive Compression Adaptive Compression Set up the product as follows: Shape Control: 12 o’clock Compress Control: 12 o’clock De-Ess: off Pitch: off Warmth Button: off Adaptive Shape Button: on Adaptive Compress Button: on Sing while turning the LE effects on and off. What you’ll hear Adaptive Compression is a tricky effect to perceive, but will significantly help your voice stay balanced in a mix.
Using the Effects: De-ess De-ess Set up the product as follows: Knob to add more sizzle to your voice with out making the ess sounds excessively loud. Shape Control: 12 o’clock Compress Control: 12 o’clock De-Ess: 12 o’clock Pitch: off Warmth Button: off Adaptive Shape Button: on Adaptive Compress Button: on Sing or say words with lots of S's like "necessary" or "sustenance" while turning the LE effects on and off.
Using the Effects: Pitch Correction Pitch Correction Set up the product as follows: Pitch: 12 o’clock Display Button: on LE effect: on Sing and toggle the Right Footswitch to turn pitch correction on and off. What you’ll hear At this setting, Correct is optimized to produce transparent sounding pitch correction as well as create a comfortable pitch guide for you to sing with.
Understanding Live Engineer Effects What's the problem? 2. EQ If not treated properly, live vocals often sound: 1. Dynamics Vocals in music define the melody and the message in a song. In professional studio recordings, vocals are always clearly heard in the mix. In live situations, especially with full bands, the vocals often get lost. The human voice is very dynamic, meaning there can be a very significant difference in volume between the loudest and softest a person can sing.
Understanding Live Engineer Effects The best we can do to optimize clarity and intelligibility while reducing muddiness is to intelligently limit low frequencies without making them sound thin. A vocal running into a PA without EQ usually sounds quite dull. A sound engineer will often add high end to give sizzle to the vocal using a two or three band EQ. When you add a bit of high end with this type of EQ, instead of adding sizzle it actually adds “tin”.
Understanding Live Engineer Effects Current ways of solving the problems 1. Dynamics Fixing the problem of a vocal bouncing in and out of a mix is usually done with something called compression. Compression reduces the dynamic range of the audio being processed. To make a compressor work optimally, you need to match its operating range to the dynamic range of the signal it's processing. In a musical performance you usually have varying dynamics. You'll have loud parts and quiet parts in the performance.
Understanding Live Engineer Effects How Correct Solves the problems 1. Dynamics Correct features a new kind of compression; Adaptive Compression (Dynamic Smoothing™). This processing does exactly what the name implies. It has been designed to work optimally with a single voice input. Over the course of a phrase, Adaptive Compression will reduce your voice’s variance in levels. Whether your performance is loud or soft, Correct will work to make your vocals sit well in the mix and not bounce in and out.
Understanding Pitch Correction Getting comfortable with correction No one likes the idea of needing pitch correction. Everyone would much rather just sing in-tune. Correct helps you do this. The reality is that no one ever sings perfectly on pitch. This is not really a problem since it isn't necessary to be perfectly in pitch to have a good sounding vocal. In fact, natural pitch variances help make singers who they are. Sounding like a robot is not the goal.
Understand Pitch Correction singers will often use Correct when they are having trouble. When pitch correction is only applied in the mains, what often happens is that if the singer goes really off pitch, the pitch corrector corrects to the wrong pitch. This means that the pitch is actually more out than if it hadn't been corrected in the first place. This is what has given pitch correction a deservedly bad name for use in live performance.
FAQ & Troubleshooting FAQ & Troubleshooting: 1. I'm not getting any sound out of Correct a. Confirm the power adapter is properly connected by pressing the Right Footswitch on/off, and confirming the Correct On Light goes on/off. b. Confirm your microphone is connected properly by talking through the microphone and looking for the Input Light to light green or orange. If the Input Light is going on, check your connections and settings on your sound system.
FAQ & Troubleshooting 4. My corrected voice sounds out of tune a. It’s possible that the tuning reference of the instruments you are singing with are not tuned to the default setting of A440. Please see the Setup Configuration, Advance Settings: Tuning Reference section to change the tuning reference.
Specifications Analog Inputs EMC & Safety Complies with EN 55103-1 and EN 55103-2 FCC part 15, Class B, CISPR 22, Class B Certified to IEC 65, EN 60065, UL6500 and CSA E60065 CSA FILE #LR108093 Connectors Balanced XLR, Input Impedance 1kOhm Mic Input Sensitivity @ 0dBFS -44dBu to +2dBu Mic Input Sensitivity @ 12dB headroom -56dBu to -10dBu EIN -128dBu @ max.
