TC Helicon VoiceTone Create Vocal Processor

TC Helicon VoiceTone Create Vocal Processor

If you're tired of the dull, dry vocal coming back at you onstage, you're ready for the VoiceTone Create pedal. Now you can have the same pro quality ambience and ear-catching effect types that producers use in the studio to make vocals sound sweet. At its simplest, Create is a high quality voice effects unit that you bring to performances to feel confident that your style of effects, whether it's country, rock, metal, blues or jazz, is under your control. Create features 99 patch combinations of reverb, delay, thickening/microtuning, distortion and telephone/megaphone effects that can inspire creativity and bring the sound of the CD to the stage.

Take Control of Your Sound
Feel like you're wrestling with others over your sound? From the moment you plug your mic into VoiceTone Create, you're in control of the tone and effects on your voice. The straightforward controls, A/B effects switching and simple radio button preset selection give singers easy access to a rich palette of effects.

Enjoy Complete Quality
Quality can be witnessed in every aspect of VoiceTone design. Studio caliber audio algorithms, transparent converters and fastidious analog audio design lead to a smooth sound that makes you want to sing your best while your fans get, well, fanatic. It just wouldn't be enough to make products that sound this good without making sure they stand up to the rough treatment they're going to get onstage or kicking around a rehearsal room floor.

Tweak Your Own Sounds
Where out-of-the-box sounds aren't enough, Create provides powerfully simple tweak controls, intelligently designed to give you exactly what you need to find the sound you want.

• Reverb: halls, rooms, plates, spring, ambience
• Delay: tap tempo, ping pong, slaps, taps
• µMod: microshift, thicken, chorus, flange, phaser
• Transducer: distortion, telephone, megaphone, filters
• 99 music-style-based effect patches
• 5 "favorite" user performances each including flexible A/B effect switching
• Quick and easy tweaking of patches
• XLR mic level I/O in stereo or mono
• Clean, studio quality mic preamp with phantom power

Specifications:

Analog Inputs

• Connectors Balanced XLR, Input Impedance 1kOhm
• Mic Input Sensitivity @ 0dBFS -44dBu to +2dBu
• Mic Input Sensitivity @ 12dB headroom -56dBu to -10dBu
• EIN -128dBu @ max. mic amp gain, Rg = 150 Ohm

Analog Outputs

• Connectors Balanced XLR
• Output Impedance 40 Ohm
• Output Level @ 0dBFS +2dBu

Input to Output Analog Audio Performance

• Dynamic Range, Mic.@ Min gain >108dB, 20 Hz - 20kHz *A-weighted
• Dynamic Range, Mic. @ -18dBu sensitivity > 104dB, 20hz - 20kHz*
• THD+ Noise, Mic. @ Min gain <-90dB
• Frequency Response, max gain -1.5dB @ 40 Hz, +0/-0.3 dB (200Hz to 20 kHz)

Conversion Characteristics

• Sample Rate 48 kHz, Converter AKM AK4620B
• AD / DA Conversion 24 bit, 128x oversampling bitstream

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

Environment

• Operating Temperature 32° F to 122° F (0° C to 50° C)
• Storage Temperature -22° F to 167° F (-30° C to 70° C)
• Humidity Max. 90 % non-condensing

Supplementary

• Dimensions 130mm x 132mm x 41mm (5" x 5.25" x 1.5")
• Weight 1.5 lb. (0.72 kg)
• Warranty Parts and labor 1 year