TC-Helicon VOICELIVE 3 EXTREME, Reference Manual

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VoiceLive 3 overview
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The concept of “HIT on” and “HIT off” can be a
little confusing at first – but you will soon get the
hang of things. A user suggested this analogy:
“It can be useful to think of HIT on as “throw-
ing a bunch of effects onto a table” and HIT off
as “knocking or wiping a bunch of effects off of
the table”. Effects that are on simply can’t be
knocked off the table – and effects that are off
can’t be put onto it using HIT.
Back to editing…
– Turn off ALL effect blocks but one. It doesn’t
matter which effect you leave on, so long as
you can clearly hear the effect. For this ex-
ample, we assume that you are using the Har-
mony effect in the Vocal layer.
– Press the Vocal button.
– Navigate to the Harmony tab.
Switching off all effect blocks except for Har-
mony
– Change the Style parameter using the Mix
Knob directly below “Style” on the screen.
Notice how the sound of the effect changes. It
can be a subtle change or a drastic one, de-
pending on the Style.
Changing the Harmony Style parameter
Once you have chosen a Style that you like,
you are 90% of the way there. We will skip
over to the Level parameter now.
– Using the Mix Knob directly below the “Level”
parameter, change the level (volume) of the ef-
fect. Find a setting that sounds good to you.
– Now, turn on another effect. It still doesn’t
matter which one. Notice how the two effects
interact with each other.
Navigating to the Delay tab
– Use the < or > Arrow buttons to navigate to
the effect you just activated. In the image
above, that’s Delay.
– Try changing the Style of the newly activated
effect. Find a style that sounds good with the
other effect you had turned on.
– Adjust the Level control of the new effect to
blend it with the first.
From here on in, EVERYTHING is advanced,
specific editing. Try manipulating the other pa-
rameter on the screen, be it decay time, lead
level, speed or whatever is shown there. Notice
how it changes the sound of the effect.
Use the Control Knob to scroll down. You will see
many, many different controls and parameters
on each effect tab.
DON’T PANIC!
Typically, advanced parameters are defined and
loaded with the Style you choose and should
sound pretty darned good as they are. If you
have got some audio engineering experience or
own one of our other products, like VoiceLive 2,