vocal harmonizer

[weeo]

Hi Guys
I've been offered a TC Helicon G ,which is a vocal harmonizer which you plug your guitar into and it recognises the guitar chords and adds harmonies.
As far as i know it won't work unless you have the guitar in.
I think there's one that works with voice only, which i would prefer. Does anyone have any experience with this model.?
Any help appreciated
Ta
Eddie

[Tommydee]

Hi Eddie i have a Digitech Vocalist Performer you set the key you are singing in then you set a program you want high low double etc the problem some songs changes key it has a foot pedal but you forget to hit it dont use at all now just lies in a cuboard Tommy

[weeo]

Thanks Tommy.
I'm sure there is one out there that changes as your voice changes. You just set it to 3rd or 5th high low etc. and it does the rest.

Eddie

[frankie]

I have the TC Helicon Voiceworks and find it better used in note mode via the midi file.Easy to do and fool proof.
Try singing the tra la la bit in Brown Eyed Girl and lead in I'll Cry Instead in chord mode as an example and you will hear what I mean.
Unless you can master suspended and 13th chords etc you will also hear the difference.

[weeo]

Thanks Frank,i'll have a look at the voiceworks.

Eddie

[frankie]

Dec 13, 2011 20:43:43 GMT weeo said:

Thanks Frank,i'll have a look at the voiceworks.

Eddie

Will take a while to master but at the end of the day well worth the effort.There is a demo on the TC Helicon website and software updates,faq's and on line tech assistance.As per most instruction manuals it is written by a Tech not a musco so just work from the midi implementation chart at the back.
Should be a few available on Ebay.

[geordiebennett]

I've used a Digitech Vocalist for the last eighteen years,you just play the chords or notes on to a track and save.It's midied into the midi player and you can turn it off or on with a footswitch.There's every kind of harmony you could ever want.The TC Helicon voiceworks sounds interesting.When I got mine it was the best there was around and cost a thousand pounds.I was living near Skegness at the time and I drove up to Grimsby,a two hundred miles round trip,when I got home I found out I needed a footswitch for it,I drove back up and he charged me another seventy pounds for it,I could have killed him LOL.
Geordie

[weeo]

Great story Geordie, think they're a bit cheaper now.

Eddie

[frankie]

There ia a free studio software available for Voiceworks allows you to programme via a PC instead of using the dials and buttons on the unit.
I'm gonna download it and have a go.

[weeo]

let us know how it goes,Frank
Eddie

[Jacqui]

I'm pretty sure Gerry(Sweeny had one of those)

[Tubbs]

Can't stand the things and would never use one....God be with the days when a bit of echo on the mic sufficed..

[freeway]

Ya me neither .. had 3 of them over the years each time with the best of intentions had no probs setting them up and using them but never felt comfortable with them ....a lot of the one man bands are using them down here but def not for me anyway

Barry

[frankie]

Dec 14, 2011 10:19:02 GMT weeo said:

let us know how it goes,Frank
Eddie

I dont think I have the right cable for it.Will hunt one out over Xmas.

[frankie]

Dec 14, 2011 21:39:09 GMT freeway said:

Ya me neither .. had 3 of them over the years each time with the best of intentions had no probs setting them up and using them but never felt comfortable with them ....a lot of the one man bands are using them down here but def not for me anyway

Barry

I was the same using midi files,but ya gotta,"go with the flow to get the dough"
I do a lot of Bobby Vee.Neil Sedaka,Gene Pitney,Big O.Most of their material was double tracked.
How bland is Pretty Woman without the harmony in the bridge !!
I dont want to go singing cowboy songs lol.
You could also use a cardboard cut out to stand next to you.
My 2c worth now I will sit and wait for the flaming lol.