Thanks, Tom. I appreciate your help!

Great video! I just got my VoiceLive 3 last week and I'm loving it so far. Haven't yet gotten into re-programming, but the effects and looper are awesome. I also love the headphone/guitar jack that it comes with. Makes practicing at night way more enjoyable!

Thank You Tom for the info You share You and Yours be more blessed.

Bought this on the back of this review and the Artist preset vids. Just great!!! Thank You !!

Excellent video, well explained. Thank you

I don't know how everyone else feels. But I love this guy! I also love my VoiceLive3! Highly Highly recommend

Great demo. This guy is a solid player who has a firm grasp on the equipment. I really want one. The price is another big selling point. All these effects for 800.00. I think all you would need is a good clean amp and a Sure SM 58. That is right the good old $100.00 standard.

did yall use different gain stage circuit types to make the different amps or is it just the same distortion block with EQs variations in front of it? because fenders would have less gain stages than a recto or newer marshal, the more high gain amps would have cascading gain stages.

Hi TC, was wondering what setting id use to get a really niceclean fender reverb amp or a ROland JC clean??

Can the VL3 be used as an audio interface for recording directly to your computer via USB ? And what about the Extreme version?

Hi Baz, Sorry I can't reply to linked comments if you have it turned off on your end. You can go straight out of VL3 into the PA/Powered-Speakers. Some folks get stuck on the fact that there's no Vocal level. We think of the vocal level as the main output level of the box. Everything else is mixed relative to that signal. So, when you're mixing in VL3, start by getting your vocal signal to the FOH to the level you want it, then play guitar and adjust the Main Mix guitar level to blend with vocal, then do the same with Aux and so on. Keep in mind that the headphone mix isn't a mirror of the Main Mix, so you can have different levels coming to your headphones if you like. Hope that helps!

Hi TC, I'd like to set up a basic guitar rig on my Voicelive 3. Amp is clean, then some crunch on the drive pedal, reverb, delay, chorus to their respective switches and I've mapped a tremolo to the Hit switch. How can I get a distorted effect mapped to the comp switch when I'm already using the drive block though the drive switch? Hope that makes sense ;-)

I think it's awesome, I only have a question. In a live performance could you be able to use the vocal effects and the guitar effects?

Hi TC Helicon, I'm thinking of purchasing the VL3 but would like to ask a few questions. Does the VL3 have a built in mixer? As a solo musician I play electric guitar and sing to backing tracks from my iPad so I'm wondering if I could plug in all 3 and mix them to go out to 2 active PA monitors (ie) could I do without a separate mixer? Cheers guys for any feedback on this.

Excellent unit. One question, though: does the Voicelive 3 include the acoustic resonator that the Voicelive Play Acoustic uses for those of us who may wish to use this with an acoustic guitar?

Thank You Tom and this is the best amp speaker cab yet in the voice live EXTREEM 3 multi peddel it's the best .I have Boss Karina 100 2x12 amp and peavey classic 30 with white tolex covering that was made for guitar center and I have Roland AC 60 chorus amp that's got built in mixer into it But the The Voice live EXTREEM 3 peddel I don't need only my guitars two or five and mp75 mic. and my Sure sm58 mic I use two carrying cases and one fory TC Helicon playAcustic with these I don't lift heavy amps no more plus it's not adding on STAGE amp sounds the two peddel You sold Me are the best.ThankYou.

I'm trying to figure out how to assign a distortion guitar preset to a step within on an existing clean guitar preset. My reason for doing this is when you get your clean guitar settings (i.e, pre\post gain, frequencies, etc) to form really nice bright, fully bodied clean sound simply hitting the step to enable distortion doesn't work because it's using the sound settings for your clean amp and won't produce the required amp\crunch, gain etc you need for your distorted patch. I just can't figure out how to do this.

I bought the voicelive 3 extreme, I'm still waiting to get it in my hands.

Is there any way to route the guitar sound to the headphones output? I mean without using the special cable

Has anyone used this with a bass guitar, im curious to see if the effects etc would work well.i use a voice live 1 at the moment and various seperate effect pedals for my bass guitar, it would be great to have it all in 1 pedal

Hey Tom, I just tried preset # 229 (AC Crunch) with my VL3 and it sounds nothing like yours....hardly no crunch. Now I'm using an acoustic guitar but still I should hear some type of crunch I would think. Also, I bought this unit used, so could it be that the previous owner modified this preset? Thanks.

Does this have to be used through a monitor speaker or flat response, pa ? Can it be used through a guitar amp

Hello Tom In the guitar module, is it possible to set the reverb so that we only have the sound of the reverb and not the direct sound of the guitar ? Just the wet sound without the dry one if you will. .In the voice module, it is easy to do that, but for the guitar it doesn't look like we can do it. Thank you !

Can I go out from midi on this to kaoss pad and it would become the slave to the kp3? Also, can I add an external tap to this so I can tap the tempo of the song in and then that bpm gets sent to voicelive and kaoss pad?

Hello, I have bought this great unit a week ago. It's really awesome. But I have a question. I have the Hot Rod Deluxe Bluesman tube amp so I don't need any amp modeling in my basic setup (preset) for my guitar, but i found that when I switch the amp modeling off I loose EQ possibilty too. On the other side I'd like to eliminate my amp footswitch to turn drive on/off and I'd like to use Drive button of the VL3, but it seems that when I switch the button on it activates such as driven amp model which is set in amp tab. It changes the sound character. So my question is: Is the any mode that eliminates amp modeling but keeps EQ alive and is there let's say drive function such a stompbox which just dirts the sound but does not change the character of the sound? Thanx.

Hi surgeyX, you must have replies turned off on your G+ account, so I can't reply directly to your comment. You might want to check out the forums for VoiceLive 3. There's a lot of guitar talk there and people who've spent a lot of time tweaking their VL3's for guitar sounds. They might be able to give you some tips to get closer to the sound you want. Keep in mind that "good" guitar sounds are about the most subjective and internet war creating things in the universe. One of the things people find about VL3 is that we give a lot more depth of controls than many of the systems out there, which means you can get where you want to go eventually, but we agree that the top level controls and basic fine-tuning of the styles isn't as easy. support.tc-helicon.com/categories/20073491-User-Forum

Hi When it comes to using the acoustic amp or BodyRez function, how do the pre and post effects relate to this if it is 'pre/post' distortion?

I have a question, i own the voicelive 3, wonderful piece of audio engeneering. Is there some way to set the expression pedal in volume mode at the beggining of the effects chain? I want to do some guitar swell but when i push the pedal to the bottom , the effects fade too.

Hi! Is it possible to use this product for guitar effects processing, and connecting it to a keyboard via MDID for chord tracking at the same time, or would one mute the other?

Hello, THere is something I still cannot understand which is the Hit + and Hit - settings, .... can someone please explain it?

Hi Tom-I thought that once I selected the Guitar mode the name portion of the display screen would change to show the guitar presets. The manual actually says that it does, but it doesn't. Once I watched your demo closely I realized that your name display wasn't changing either. Then I realized I just needed to scroll forward to the upper numbers to find the guitar preset names. In Voicelive Touch 1 there was a chart that said what all the presets were from 1 to 199 or however many there were, but I didn't yet locate a chart like that for the Voicelive 3. Is there one?

I have to get a VoiceLive 3. I already have the 2 and the VoiceLive2 Touch which I will probably be selling

Very interested in the VL3. I wanted to know what options you have in terms of effects order / routing for both guitar and vocal. Is the order hardwired or can you swap things around? Thanks!

Can you control the guitar drive on and off while in the vocal layer?

Hi! I own a VL3 and it´s amazing in sound quality... But i have a question: I have a Tube Amp and (TSA15h) a want to connect my VL3 in the Loop Effect, but a also use a Plexitube (which has a 12ax7)... If my guitar goes into the Head´s Input and then, from the "Send", I put the Plexitube and then into the VL3 Guitar input, Will I damage the unit???? (the VL3 guitar output will go into the Amp "Return" to my Cabinet 4x12) In other words, which current level the VL3 can receive? Thanks you in advance for your Tips!

Hey guys, I love my VoiceLive 3 so far. For the electric guitar patches and amp models I need help on what kind of speaker/amp I should look at for club gigs. I understand some players go straight to the PA but I would like to have a wedge for my on stage volume. Can I use a passive speaker or should it be powered? Atomic makes an awesome FRFR wedge but I'd rather not spend $1000 if I don't have to. I was hoping more like $200 - $300 but I don't know what kind of amp/speaker I should be looking at for. Thanks for the help

Hi Tom! How do you access the guitar preset that you loaded at the beginning? Where is preset located? Is there a screen display of the presets that are available in the unit? I notice that when you switch between the Mic and the Guitar layer, the display still shows the Guitar presets. How do you get it to display the Mic presets and vice versa?

Hi TC-Helicon. I've taken the plunge and purchased the VL3. I'm having a few problems getting to grips with the mixer settings to balance The vocals, guitar and backing tracks via the Aux In. I got the VL3 to minimise carrying too much gear to gigs as a solo guitarist/singer, I would like to leave my mixer at home and plug the VL3 direct to my powered speakers. It would be great to see Tom & Craig do a video on this as I presume lots of solo performers would benefit from it. At the moment I can't use it confidently on the fly which is why my request is important. Thanks 8-)

i just made at reset to factory and have to start all over i have set guitar and vocal to stereo but i cant find stereo chorus ?? Please help med

Dear Tom, I run a stereo memory man (i need my reverse echo) before vl3, splitting the signals into wet and dry before connecting it to vl3. i tried looping and it didn't register into the track

How go I send my live guitar signal to the “Guitar Output” jacks?

hi does this pedal have a vibrato fx patch for guitar like the Tc electronic shaker?

Is there a way to change the titles of Presets or to copy presets from one to another? i.e. I have corona drive on preset 209 and want it to be on preset 1. The idea is to eventually have my whole set list for each song 1-48, listed chronologically, so all I have to do to get through the night is to click once to forward to the next song...

Hi. How do I set Delay on vocal and guitar automatically will change the tempo to the song I am playing

How can I completely bypass the guitar module? I have my own pedalboard and don’t want my VL3 affect the chain. Any hint? Thanks.

Hi, can I use expression pedal to control the octaver like a whammy ?

Hey how do you access the screen listed in the manual for the headphones (ie. in ear monitors)? I can find it in the set up mode?

hi tom, i bought the TC Helicon voicelive 3 i was wondering how i can get the acoustic amp to work i must be doing something wrong. i put it on acoustic and try to get the amp but it does not work?? any info would help thank you and thanks for a great product Ted

Can I use this with Acoustic? :) I play at church regularly, I play mostly acoustic and sing. I sometimes play Electric.

How is TC Helicon and MUSIC Tribe Global Brands Ltd plan to address the widespread display issues of the VL3 and VL3X where the display goes blank under non- abusive circumstances? This problem is so widespread that it can only be product design flaw... and you guys need to do something about it!

Hi Guys.. Is it possible to change the order of the effects in line ? Cheers,

Can I assign guitar and vocal patches to certain presets/steps on the VL3? For example: Verse one of a song I want just a basic vocal with reverb and clean guitar, but on the chorus I want some dirt on my guitar and vocal harmonies. Can I do both with a single tap of my foot using the "step" pedal? I love my VL2, but if this can replace my floor guitar FX and make my life easier I'm upgrading!

This and My TC Helecom Play Acustic multi peddels is all Ill need for The Field as far as peddels go I have real nice sounding peddel boards and Amps to and mixers and lots of speakers but these two peddels is real great beat all the rest .

does it work with an acoustic guitar? like, distortion, wah wah etc...?

How about the effects with a tube amp? What's the best setup then ?

Could you recommend settings for us WEIRDOS that use Taylor T5z guitars and need to have both electric with cab simulation sounds and direct clean acoustic sounds under one roof? If this is possible I will buy one of these as soon as you reply… I have a VL Play GTX but the guitar sounds are limited and not 100% of my liking. Would love to have everything under one unit and get a smaller pedalboard instead of one box for vocals then another box for guitar… PS: I use a Bose L1 Model 2 with a Tonematch T1 little console, if that help you out to your recommendations, thanks….!

Can anyone help me to find out how to get gain on guitars G B E strings when it's set on crunch amp? Normally power chord sounds r great but when I play solo on 1 2 n 3 strings I don't find any gain on them... please tell me how to solve this problem!!!!!!!!

Hi Baz Axe, yep there's two mixes, one for main outputs and one for headphones. You can independently control the levels of Guitar, Looper, Aux, Metronome etc. Lots of folks go direct into powered speakers with a VL3.

hi, where is connected the guitar? into an amp, in a PA or direct to an interface?

Tom, can you do guitar harmonies with any of your products?

I thought I saw in a video that their is an acoustic guitar simulator. Is there one? Is there a video that shows about this? Thank you!

I have been a professional musician for over 30 years. The idea of this particular pedal is great. I thought it was going to be the best thing since it was going to fulfil all my requirements in one neat package, no more pedals covering my floor area during live performances. But, alas, it was not to be. The vocals did the job, but too many whiz bangs in there, just give me a few good quality delays and reverbs without the robots and monsters. I found it was going weird on me during big notes and breaking up a bit. I spent nearly a whole month trying to get a guitar sound that I thought was good quality. The guitar sounds are lacking, badly lacking. I never used the looper, tho I guess some find it useful. I even sent it to a qualified TC Helicon repairer to get the hardware mod to stop the buzz and pop. I sold it on ebay for half of what I paid for it because of the known problems. I sold my Zoom pedal because I thought the voicelive 3 was all I needed. I was naïve to think this small light weight unit was going to replace my 3 other units, zoom pedal, harmonizer, and reverb/delay units. In short, I was very disappointed. I’ve bought back all my old equipment. Like I said, the idea is excellent. I hope there is a manufacturer out there who will do this concept right. I would pay 3 times the money TC Helicon is asking for the unit if only it was truly a pro level unit. I have bought other TC Helicon stuff in the past and found it to be very good. I was let down by this unit. I think they were trying too hard to keep the cost down. Give me quality and charge if you have to, but don’t waste my time with gimmicky toys. I use a zoom g7.1ut midi’d up to a voice Digitech Vocalist Live Pro Vocal Harmony Processor. I get pro guitar sounds, with studio quality vocals and harmonies, with the click of a user program from the zoom. Sorry TC Helicon, I’ll wait when you get it right, or until someone builds something better. Nice idea tho. Michael Gant.

I unplugged my setup and now the guitar isnt coming out of the speaker. Any advice

what effects does this have for an acoustic guitar.

Greetings from Lars-Germany! Tom did a verry good job! Very well done! A Good musician and he can explain the item verry well! He is worth all the money he get or got! ...or ist it for free? Greetings to you! Bad english i know!

how could it be :D

can it be used for bass guitars? I asume you can

how to hear the metrodome out of giutar amp without headphones .

Is it my imagination, or does the Voicelive 3 seem to sound a bit thinner, and seem to have less sonic depth than the Voicetone Harmony G-XT. Almost as if the G-XT is a bit more "analog"?

Can this beat TC NOVA System + Harmony GXT? (my setup)

An exemple, instrumental piece on backing track played with the PRS SE Custom 24 and Voicelive 3 : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qbVpZ9aY3NPJYHU.html

I noticed that some of the vocals of the VL3 sound a bit Alvin and the Chipmunkish. I guess some tweaking should take care of it??? Just sayin'.

My issue is I can’t find a list of what modeling amps come on board with this system.

at last my vl3x came to my hands, i´m going to make some videos in spanish, explaining the vl3x

Is it possible to use MIDI?

A lot of clipping in my ear buds with proper levels set.

Hey TC helicon include freaking set up video for the back of the units!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi -- I purchased the VL3 mainly for vocal effects, but I also play guitar, and unfortunately I had to get rid of my main amp, which was a Mesa Boogie Mark V. I am a big John Petrucci / Dream Theater fan, hence the Mark V -- anyway, I have been fooling around with the guitar presets for the VL3 and I don't mean to criticize, but the ones that it comes with absolutely suck compared to software models like Guitar Rig and Amplitube. With those software packages I can at least get something that is *comparable* to my old Mark V -- modern metal distortion and lead crunch tones...but when I use the VL3 and I try to put something together it just ends up sounding awful. The "metal" presets it comes with are a joke -- the Metallica one (puppet master or something like that?) sounds absolutely ridiculous...So I have tried to just make my own and I end up making it sound even worse...which is unfortunate :| I get that most people who use the VL3 aren't going to use it to play metal or hard rock guitar -- I understand that, and like I said that's not even the reason I bought it; but I have to at least try to get something going here before I give up and spend thousands on an AxeFX from Fractal...so am I screwed here? Does anyone have a decent modern metal or rock preset that they can share with me? When I say modern metal / rock -- I don't mean like nu-metal from 2000's or hair bands from the 80s -- I mean something close to a Peavy 5150, Mesa Boogie Rectifier or Mark V. Please respond or contact me if you can help...Thanks in advance!

БЕРУ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi TC Helicon, I was wanting to buy a Voicelive 3, but I read somewhere that you are close to releasing a Voicelive 4, is there an ETA? Then I also started looking for reviews of the VL3 and stumbled on negative feedback such as in this vid: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rcVylrhp27DdqoU.html first thought this to be a loner, but the comments below showed some evidence that you really have reliability issues. Did you manage to figure them out as what the root cause is (like for example bad power supply of any of the likes?) is this something that can be prevented, or is there something that people have to take care of? Hmm further reading taught me that extensive use may need some cleaning now and then: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pLp3nJud0dK0caM.html So I guess I should not worry all that much?

Everything sounded pretty killer except for that wah kinda sucked. Oh well, if I need an outboard expression pedal anyway, might as well just put a crybaby in front of the VL3. Anybody using this in lieu of an amp with a full band? Does the guitar side need a DI box?

Tell ya what The t.c auto tune into the t.c tone pedal into the harmony pedal is the bomb drop the boogie man. If you can half way even sing those three pedals make u sound Amazing. Sometimes I switch putting the tone pedal b4 the auto tune pedal but man it opens up to where I cannot imagine playing guitar and not singing as well. And its a different brain wrinkle to learn to play and sing at the same time. Ive got a few vids up just recorded with a cell phone if your just a bedroom artist like me. Haha best 300 i ever spent. I really wanna get the reverb t.c. heliconn and have 4 pedals in my Mic chain. Just thru a 70 dollar powered speaker. Tc heliconn made my music so much more dear to me since now I sing and play I stead of just play. Thx t.c. if u send me a free reverb pedal i will def add it and review the Shi## out of it. All of them I been meaning to review cuz their so dang versatile but its hard with just my cell phone.I can barely get it to stand without falling when I try to make a video.music is the frequency for peace. Keep the vibes t.c. thx 4 a new 🌎.

I think TCH would be better served demonstrating how a solo player can use your tools to ENHANCE a performance. The way you typically demo your stuff is like a toy. If I walked in to some joint and a guy was using it like your demo, I would walk right back out. I understand you want to show what it can do, but it is so way over the top.

KZfaq is excellent its put me off buying this product Thanks KZfaq

Guitar sound is too loud.

One short video for acoustic guitars??? people that use VL3 use to sing with acoustic guitars most of them.. But is not true that TC care on that item or is important for them, not true because "TC" don't set by start in VL3 a bunch of good acoustic guitar factory presets... And only electric guitar videos are shown, few too, but only one or two about acoustics guitars in all internet, WHY we have to starve to voicesupport to get bodyrez, very difficult office work!! sometimes change files adjustments to fit back in vl3.. please colleges take care of this vl3, is a good sound stuff, lots of facilities for performance artists, yes, but nothing so good for acoustic guitar, at least yet, and why they don't give a bunch of acoustic guitar sounds on factory presets? why? even though this guys know that people that sing most of them use acoustic guitars ... but they concentrate on electric guitar and they know that singers of vl3 use more the acoustic guitars than electrics, that's why don't trust so much TC now, they make few videos with superficial scope, we would think, like with no heart like robots, indeed they play this very nice covers like robots on a late show, like without heart, smiling like sellers, giving poor information, they want to show off, so silly, they remember me the medical doctors who work on big pharmaceutical laboratories, they are not part of you musician!! they are musicians of the market, not with you, the information they give is not enough, petty, people is starving to know more of Vl3, LOOK INTERNET BLOGS. On TC they even don't tell us that few weeks more they have a new VL3 release on market, so to wait few days more because they are going to have release of the newe extreme vl3 on market,, announcement zero. Is not fair.