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TC Helicon Play Acoustic Guitar & Vocal FX Processor

Must-Have Effects Unit for any Electro-Acoustic Musician

£279.00

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Product Description

The Play acoustic is the ultimate performance tool for acoustic musicians, with two independant channels of amazing TC Helicon processing and effects for the voice and your acoustic instrument. This one little box will enhance your performances wherever you go, and will expand your horizons with the sounds and tonal colours you can create.

A simple and effective design means you can quickly and easily create your setup and combinations, with selected presets for you to get immediate combinations which sound great so you can play around and try things out. Once your personal settings are done, the floorpedal design means you can cycle through your edited and factory presets easily during a gig with sturdy footswitches. This versatile little box is a must- have for any performing acoustic musician.

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What TC Helicon say about the Play Acoustic

The first ever combination of complete vocal and dedicated electro-acoustic guitar processing, Play Acoustic takes everything that VoiceLive Play gives to singers and adds award-winning TC Electronic guitar effects tailored specifically for the electro-acoustic player.

Now further add BodyRez™ and either stereo or dedicated DI outputs and you have all the tools you need to make a live acoustic performance shine. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or simply just practicing, Play Acoustic is the singing performing guitarist’s dream processor.

Key Features

  • Professional Vocal Effects and Tone processing with intuitive control
  • BodyRez™ filtering and on-board EQ and DI for impeccable acoustic guitar tone
  • Guitar FX styles from TC Electronic’s Hall of Fame Reverb and Corona Chorus pedals
  • Natural sounding Vocal Harmonies guided by your guitar
  • Guitar feedback-proofing with notch filter and phase controls
  • Separate vocal and guitar outputs, or a stereo mix of both

Play Acoustic - Harmonic Bliss

The natural companion for any modern singer-songwriter, Play Acoustic combines all the things you need to make a live acoustic performance shine; lavish vocal sounds, perfect backing harmonies, best-selling guitar FX, and unique processing that makes your six-string sing – in perfect harmony with your voice.

What Every Singer Wants

Keep your vocals clean with a tight reverb or simple harmony – or go all out with tasty delays, thick doubles, edgy hard-tuning, cool modulations, and raw distortions – the choice is yours. Best of all, we’ve improved the portamento and humanization of our renowned harmony effects, making your tireless two-singer backing group more realistic than ever. And don’t worry about setting the key. Play Acoustic follows your guitar chords automatically for harmonies that stay in tune and in time.

What Every Singer Needs

Equipped with our trademark Adaptive Tone, Play Acoustic acts as your personal sound engineer providing the one feature no singer should be without: automatic intelligent control of Compression, EQ, De-essing, and Gating, giving your voice the impact and presence to always stand out in the mix.

Acoustic Alchemy Achieved

Your acoustic guitar is both a powerful and delicate instrument, and we’ve made sure that Play Acoustic treats it with the respect it deserves. Tailor-made guitar FX from our sister company TC Electronic add a sweet touch of magic with essential styles from their best selling TonePrint pedals – Hall of Fame Reverb and Corona Chorus – while the direct Guitar DI output ensures signal fidelity all the way from pedal to PA.

The Resonant Wood

The sound of resonating wood is what gives an acoustic guitar its particular sonic allure, and this is where BodyRez™ comes in. New and unique to Play Acoustic, the BodyRez algorithm restores acoustic tone to guitars fitted with under-saddle pickups. Carefully placed filters and fast acting compression combine to reduce “piezo-quack”, making your amplified guitar sound like the beautiful full-bodied instrument it is. Dial in as much or as little BodyRez as you need and use the handy EQ controls to fine-tune the dynamics of your sound.

Intuitive Controls and Dedicated I/O

Operating and navigating Play Acoustic is as straightforward as it gets. Use the Up/Down foot-switches or central knob to easily browse factory presets, or use the GENRE button to find styles that you like. Dedicated VOCAL FX and GUITAR FX buttons let you access effects directly, and the intuitive user interface makes editing simple and fast. Create your own library of presets with the FAVORITE feature for easy “set-list” recall. Separate mono XLR outputs for vocals and guitar makes it painless for any sound engineer to mix the levels perfectly for your audience, or you can set the output to Stereo and create your own custom panoramic stereo mix.

Make It a HIT

HIT is a performance-inspired feature for building intensity into any vocal performance. Press the HIT button to turn on multiple effects at once and create quick A/B scenes for each preset. Use it to add dazzling vocal effects for the chorus, or strip it down for the verse – it’s your call.

Loop Around

The VLOOP™ performance looper allows you to create complete guitar and vocal loops for solo jamming or impressive layered live performances. VLOOP is also handy for soundcheck; record a short phrase and walk out into the audience to check levels while your “virtual you” plays!

In-Ear Monitoring

Use the embedded RoomSense mics to pick up the sounds from the room, the stage, or the instruments around you and add ambience to your headphone mix when performing or practicing. Optionally, our handy Guitar & Headphone Cable facilitates inexpensive in-ear monitoring with a convenient twist: two signals, one cable.

Sing Along with Vocal Cancel

Singing along is a great way to practice and perform. Plug in your MP3 player via the AUX In connector and use the Vocal Cancel feature to make your voice stand out over the vocals on the original track. You can also record and play back your singing using the USB connection to your computer and DAW.

Free Preset Downloads

Fire up our VoiceSupport app for access to hundreds of additional song and effects based presets as well as firmware updates and the latest news.

More Control

Add the TC-Helicon MP-75 or Sennheiser e 835 fx mics with Mic Control, or the Switch-3 footswitch for additional control of performance, effects and looping.

Dimensions:

  • Unit Length: 275mm
  • Unit Width: 162mm
  • Unit Height: 82mm
  • Unit weight: 1.36kg

Customer Reviews

4.8

24 reviews

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Mr david robertson19th Nov 2023

Value 5Looks 5Durability 5Sound 5

Mr Mike Fellowes18th Aug 2023

Value 4Looks 4Durability 3Sound 5

Mr. Mike Anderson27th Mar 2021

Great product - with good instructions (video and booklet) Just what I was looking for!

Value 5Looks 5Sound 5

Stuart Ball24th Mar 2021

What a fantastic piece of gear. I replaced a TC Helicon Harmonizer with this and the functionality is amazing. Too many voice and guitar effects to describe!

Value 3Looks 4Durability 4Sound 5

Mr Aaron Wilson23rd Feb 2021

Great machine. Highly recommended

Value 5Looks 5Durability 5Sound 5

Mr Steven Grange16th Dec 2020

Value 5Looks 5Durability 5Sound 5

Trusted Customer6th Oct 2020

Value 4Looks 5Durability 4Sound 5

Trusted Customer24th Aug 2020

First harmony pedal I’ve ever owned. Tried it out last night. Can already tell it’s going to be really useful.

Value 5Looks 5Durability 5Sound 5

Mr Richard O'Hara20th Apr 2020

Brilliant pedal with fantastic vocal and guitar effects. Loop function is a fun addition.

Value 4Looks 5Durability 5Sound 5

Mr. George Morton10th Jan 2020

Brilliant bit of kit, ideal for solo acoustic musician or duo band

Value 5Looks 5Durability 5Sound 5

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