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title: "TC Helicon VOICELIVE PLAY 3-Button Vocal Effects Stompbox with Looping, Compatible with PC and Mac"
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# RoomSense harmony auto-detection Looping with seamless layering 3-button intuitive control TC Helicon VOICELIVE PLAY 3-Button Vocal Effects Stompbox with Looping, Compatible with PC and Mac

**Brand:** tc helicon
**Price:** C$31991
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🎤 Step up your vocal game and never miss a beat with VOICELIVE PLAY 3!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** TC Helicon VOICELIVE PLAY 3-Button Vocal Effects Stompbox with Looping, Compatible with PC and Mac by tc helicon
- **How much does it cost?** C$31991 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ni](https://www.desertcart.ni/products/48432636-tc-helicon-voicelive-play-3-button-vocal-effects-stompbox-looping)

## Best For

- tc helicon enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted tc helicon brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Loop Your Creativity:** Build complex vocal layers live with easy-to-use looping functionality that keeps your audience hooked.
- • **Plug & Play Versatility:** USB compatible with PC and Mac, plus AUX input for backing tracks—your all-in-one vocal powerhouse.
- • **Practice Smarter, Not Harder:** Real-time pitch feedback and singing stats help you sharpen your skills and own every note.
- • **Effortless Harmonies with RoomSense:** Automatically generates perfect vocal harmonies—no music theory needed, just pure performance magic.
- • **Pro-Level Vocal Effects at Your Feet:** Compact stompbox with 200+ artist-inspired presets to elevate your live and studio sound instantly.

## Overview

The TC Helicon VOICELIVE PLAY is a compact, 3-button vocal effects stompbox designed for professional-quality live and studio vocals. Featuring over 200 presets inspired by popular songs and artists, it offers RoomSense automatic harmony generation, seamless looping, and a practice mode with real-time pitch feedback. Compatible with PC and Mac via USB, this lightweight unit delivers studio-grade vocal effects and intuitive control, making it an essential tool for vocalists seeking to enhance their performance with ease.

## Description

Free delivery and returns on eligible orders of £20 or more. Buy TC Helicon VOICELIVE PLAY 3-Button Vocal Effects Stompbox with Looping, Compatible with PC and Mac at desertcart UK.

Review: Very clever piece of kit, takes a bit of getting used to but worth it - So the backstory is we’ve recently put our old school band back together but the vocalist moved away so I’ve had to step in. Never sang in a band before but I have played in them quite a bit so I have a reasonable level of experience. Decided I needed to some vocal effects and after doing some research settled on the TC-Helicon Play. So far so good, observations below… Initial setup: There is a cartoon style quick start guide which gets you up and running easily enough but be aware you’ll have to go in and learn some of the setup controls to make the best of the unit based on your own requirements, microphone, PA setup etc… The menu takes a few minutes to get used to but it’s actually pretty intuitive when you get used to it. Controls: The selection knob is cool, you can quickly cycle through presets with eace and the buttons all feel solid and high quality. As stated below most stuff is pretty intuitive – only a couple of moments where I have scratched by head once or twice but I downloaded the PDF instruction book and referred to the forums a couple of times which are pretty good. Tone settings: This is set globally and you have a variety of settings to choose from, I have a bit of a trebly / upper mid range voice to I selected a setting that adds a bit of warmth and it has made a bit difference. It auto applies various compression and EQ settings and as long as you’re happy enough to let the unit do all the thinking for you it is basically like having a sound engineer working for you in a stomp box. Auto tune: Seems like in a lot of reviews I read about these types of units everyone just kind of skips over auto tune like they are embarrassed to admit using it. Well guess what, I use it and that’s one of the reasons you buy a unit like this! I don’t want to sound like Cher or Kanye but you know what? When you’re 10 or 12 songs in and you’re aiming for that stretched high note sometimes a little help is really handy! There is a global setting that sets the overall ‘how dramatic you want it’ setting and then you can turn it off and on plus tweek some other settings on a per preset basis. I was after a natural sounding key correction for those moments where it’s clear I’m still new to being the front man and it manages that really well. I haven’t tried some of the more ridiculous settings because, well, why would you? One point to note which is mentioned in the instruction book – sometimes when using auto tune you hear a ‘doubling effect’ which can seem a bit weird when singing, it can be a bit off putting to be honest – that’s because you can hear both the ‘in tune’ output signal through the speakers and the ‘not quite so perfect’ version resonating in your head. That’s nothing to do with the unit; it just means it’s working and helping you out, you’d get that with every auto tune unit. Harmonies and doubling: Struggled a bit with harmonies at first and I would say don’t over use them – nothing looks more obvious on stage that one guy singing away with the voice of a choir but after making sure I got the key and various other settings right they seem ok to use in short bursts for emphasis. The doubling I use a lot more but be sure to use the level to bring up or down the effect to where you want it. Other effects: You can do all kids of weird and wonderful stuff like megaphone effects, change gender etc… all of which are very good but often best used in a limited fashion. I have used the transducer setting on a couple of songs though with good effect. Using the presets: The way the unit works is that you create a preset which gives you a base setting, for example a bit of reverb, delay and auto tuning perhaps and then for each pre-set you can also create a ‘Hit’ setting on which you can store additional settings such as doubling or harmonies. This works really well and is pretty intuitive, it certainly works for the majority of songs we perform where you may want to add emphasis on the chorus but there are occasions where you are better off creating two presets next to each other and swapping between them. For example I haven’t found a way of having one reverb setting for the main sound and another when you apply the Hit setting so if you want a different setting you need to use two presets. Navigating the presets is pretty easy though, the knob cycles through them quickly, you can create ‘favourites’ etc… and creating a new one is pretty straightforward. Looping: It does looping. It does it loads better than I can so I’ve only messed around with it as I have no idea what I’m doing. The only time I’ve used it was to insult our guitarist repeatedly and hilariously during band practice and it worked very well. Practice mode: This was a big plus for me in that you can plug an MP3 player (or whatever) into it via the AUX socket and if you’re on the right setting it can attempt to strip out the vocals of the song so you can practice singing along almost as if it were a backing track. In practice I’ve found this works quite well with tracks that have very clear, easily distinguished vocals, you get mixed results with other stuff but tbh it’s not bad at all. You also see how well you are doing at hitting all the right notes as it keeps track and tells you which notes you’re struggling with. I look at this when I’m feeling brave. Silly stuff: My kids love the Barry White, Tinkebell and various robot settings. There’s quite a cool one where you can sound like Predator or another which is like Princess Leia in the part of Return of the Jedi when she’s disguised as a bounty hunter and rescuing Han from Jabba’s palace. But anyway, you can have a lot of fun with it. If you have the rest of the gear you can also set up a great home karaoke machine by plugging in a tablet to the AUX, setting it in practice mode and loading up those YouTube video’s with the lyrics on. From a guitarists point of view: I play electric guitar as well in the band and so a small stomp box format to sit alongside by guitar effects unit is ideal rather than anything touch operated. I did for a while consider going for the more expensive version which incorporates electric guitar effects as I liked the idea of having everything in one unit but to be honest I when I looked deeper into it there seemed to be too many limitations on how you swap between guitar effects while performing etc.. and I could imagine it getting a bit confusing, also the range of effects was pretty limited compared to the separate guitar effects unit I use so I opted for the straight forward vocal ones which is about £40-50 cheaper than the Play Electric version at the time of writing. Overall then this unit is excellent. I went to music college for a while back in the 90’s and you would have had to pay thousands for technology that could do what this unit does and some of them hadn’t even been invented (if you wanted to sound like you were singing through a telephone you had to use a telephone). Great value for money, yes there are much more comprehensive units out there for more money but if you want something to help you sound great without a load of fuss then this is for you. Our other guitarist is actually considering getting one just to help out with backing vocals.
Review: More than happy! - I was a little sceptical about the claims for this unit, but having used it for a few weeks I am more than happy with results! It has a huge range of options and I've played with only a small percentage of them (haven't even tried the looping yet!). I set it up so that I play the guitar through it and my friend routes her mic into it. It just adds so much body to the vocal and guitar performance even before you add the harmony effects. Once they are added it sounds tremendous! Of course it does require that you are a reasonably competent guitarist - hit the wrong chord and it will follow you with unpleasant results!! Not cheap but very effective!

## Features

- Compact 3-button vocal multi-effects stompbox with looping makes it easy to have professional sound
- 200+ song- and artist-inspired presets, with hundreds more presets available online
- RoomSense mics automatically control harmony, no music theory required
- Quickly create pro studio quality vocals with a suite of production-caliber vocal effects
- Practice function with statistics collection and real-time pitch display gives you valuable feedback on your singing

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B0073V7PXO |
| Body Material | Plastic |
| Colour | blue |
| Customer Reviews | 4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars (818) |
| Date First Available | 19 Jan. 2012 |
| Hardware Interface | USB |
| Item Weight | 1.36 kg |
| Item model number | 996356005 |
| Material Type | Plastic |
| Power Source | Corded Electric |
| Product Dimensions | 10.16 x 27.94 x 17.78 cm; 1.36 kg |
| Scale Length | inches |
| Signal Format | Digital |
| Size | Small Medium Large X-Large 2X-Large |
| Voltage | 9 Volts |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** TC Helicon
- **Colour:** blue
- **Item weight:** 1.36 kg
- **Style:** VOICELIVE PLAY
- **Voltage:** 9 Volts

## Images

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## Available Options

This product comes in different **Style** options.

## Questions & Answers

**Q: do you need an instrument for the harmony or can you select the key manually like the h1?**
A: You dont need an instrument, you can select the key manually

**Q: Can it be connected to computer to do software upgrade and effect download?**
A: Yes, it can be. When you purchase this you also get Tc Helicon's "Voice Support" program for PC that has effects you can download, new presets, and up to date firmware updates.

**Q: does this device have a hard tune effects, something similar to sounding like t-pain?  also, does it have a vocoder like effects, sounding similar to daft punk vocals?**
A: The answer is yes. It's called an "Auto Tune" effect.

**Q: What about phantom power? Can I use a condenser mic?**
A: yes I have

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very clever piece of kit, takes a bit of getting used to but worth it
*by S***Y on 19 January 2016*

So the backstory is we’ve recently put our old school band back together but the vocalist moved away so I’ve had to step in. Never sang in a band before but I have played in them quite a bit so I have a reasonable level of experience. Decided I needed to some vocal effects and after doing some research settled on the TC-Helicon Play. So far so good, observations below… Initial setup: There is a cartoon style quick start guide which gets you up and running easily enough but be aware you’ll have to go in and learn some of the setup controls to make the best of the unit based on your own requirements, microphone, PA setup etc… The menu takes a few minutes to get used to but it’s actually pretty intuitive when you get used to it. Controls: The selection knob is cool, you can quickly cycle through presets with eace and the buttons all feel solid and high quality. As stated below most stuff is pretty intuitive – only a couple of moments where I have scratched by head once or twice but I downloaded the PDF instruction book and referred to the forums a couple of times which are pretty good. Tone settings: This is set globally and you have a variety of settings to choose from, I have a bit of a trebly / upper mid range voice to I selected a setting that adds a bit of warmth and it has made a bit difference. It auto applies various compression and EQ settings and as long as you’re happy enough to let the unit do all the thinking for you it is basically like having a sound engineer working for you in a stomp box. Auto tune: Seems like in a lot of reviews I read about these types of units everyone just kind of skips over auto tune like they are embarrassed to admit using it. Well guess what, I use it and that’s one of the reasons you buy a unit like this! I don’t want to sound like Cher or Kanye but you know what? When you’re 10 or 12 songs in and you’re aiming for that stretched high note sometimes a little help is really handy! There is a global setting that sets the overall ‘how dramatic you want it’ setting and then you can turn it off and on plus tweek some other settings on a per preset basis. I was after a natural sounding key correction for those moments where it’s clear I’m still new to being the front man and it manages that really well. I haven’t tried some of the more ridiculous settings because, well, why would you? One point to note which is mentioned in the instruction book – sometimes when using auto tune you hear a ‘doubling effect’ which can seem a bit weird when singing, it can be a bit off putting to be honest – that’s because you can hear both the ‘in tune’ output signal through the speakers and the ‘not quite so perfect’ version resonating in your head. That’s nothing to do with the unit; it just means it’s working and helping you out, you’d get that with every auto tune unit. Harmonies and doubling: Struggled a bit with harmonies at first and I would say don’t over use them – nothing looks more obvious on stage that one guy singing away with the voice of a choir but after making sure I got the key and various other settings right they seem ok to use in short bursts for emphasis. The doubling I use a lot more but be sure to use the level to bring up or down the effect to where you want it. Other effects: You can do all kids of weird and wonderful stuff like megaphone effects, change gender etc… all of which are very good but often best used in a limited fashion. I have used the transducer setting on a couple of songs though with good effect. Using the presets: The way the unit works is that you create a preset which gives you a base setting, for example a bit of reverb, delay and auto tuning perhaps and then for each pre-set you can also create a ‘Hit’ setting on which you can store additional settings such as doubling or harmonies. This works really well and is pretty intuitive, it certainly works for the majority of songs we perform where you may want to add emphasis on the chorus but there are occasions where you are better off creating two presets next to each other and swapping between them. For example I haven’t found a way of having one reverb setting for the main sound and another when you apply the Hit setting so if you want a different setting you need to use two presets. Navigating the presets is pretty easy though, the knob cycles through them quickly, you can create ‘favourites’ etc… and creating a new one is pretty straightforward. Looping: It does looping. It does it loads better than I can so I’ve only messed around with it as I have no idea what I’m doing. The only time I’ve used it was to insult our guitarist repeatedly and hilariously during band practice and it worked very well. Practice mode: This was a big plus for me in that you can plug an MP3 player (or whatever) into it via the AUX socket and if you’re on the right setting it can attempt to strip out the vocals of the song so you can practice singing along almost as if it were a backing track. In practice I’ve found this works quite well with tracks that have very clear, easily distinguished vocals, you get mixed results with other stuff but tbh it’s not bad at all. You also see how well you are doing at hitting all the right notes as it keeps track and tells you which notes you’re struggling with. I look at this when I’m feeling brave. Silly stuff: My kids love the Barry White, Tinkebell and various robot settings. There’s quite a cool one where you can sound like Predator or another which is like Princess Leia in the part of Return of the Jedi when she’s disguised as a bounty hunter and rescuing Han from Jabba’s palace. But anyway, you can have a lot of fun with it. If you have the rest of the gear you can also set up a great home karaoke machine by plugging in a tablet to the AUX, setting it in practice mode and loading up those YouTube video’s with the lyrics on. From a guitarists point of view: I play electric guitar as well in the band and so a small stomp box format to sit alongside by guitar effects unit is ideal rather than anything touch operated. I did for a while consider going for the more expensive version which incorporates electric guitar effects as I liked the idea of having everything in one unit but to be honest I when I looked deeper into it there seemed to be too many limitations on how you swap between guitar effects while performing etc.. and I could imagine it getting a bit confusing, also the range of effects was pretty limited compared to the separate guitar effects unit I use so I opted for the straight forward vocal ones which is about £40-50 cheaper than the Play Electric version at the time of writing. Overall then this unit is excellent. I went to music college for a while back in the 90’s and you would have had to pay thousands for technology that could do what this unit does and some of them hadn’t even been invented (if you wanted to sound like you were singing through a telephone you had to use a telephone). Great value for money, yes there are much more comprehensive units out there for more money but if you want something to help you sound great without a load of fuss then this is for you. Our other guitarist is actually considering getting one just to help out with backing vocals.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ More than happy!
*by P***9 on 30 March 2016*

I was a little sceptical about the claims for this unit, but having used it for a few weeks I am more than happy with results! It has a huge range of options and I've played with only a small percentage of them (haven't even tried the looping yet!). I set it up so that I play the guitar through it and my friend routes her mic into it. It just adds so much body to the vocal and guitar performance even before you add the harmony effects. Once they are added it sounds tremendous! Of course it does require that you are a reasonably competent guitarist - hit the wrong chord and it will follow you with unpleasant results!! Not cheap but very effective!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ TC Helicon voicelive 3 ExtremeGreat machine!
*by M***T on 7 January 2021*

TC Helicon Voicelive 3 Extreme as total selection of all parameters. Everything you may need and more to adjust to your liking. It will take a long time to use everything available. Total voice tone & harmony control, massive guitar effects, looper with massive memory, add your own backing tracks automation of effects linked to backing tracks Midi. In fact everything you dreamed of I am still programming to my liking, there are 500 pre-set slots to play with. You will need to download the full manual 200 pages it will help you. A perfect upgrade to make from TC Helicons other lower models. this will help you to understand how these machines operate there is so much available! It would help you to move on to the best! (Superb!!!)

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