TC Helicon VoiceTone Mic Mechanic - Exclusive First Look!

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👆 The TC-Helicon Mic Mechanic Pedal is £119 (July 2012)

TC Helicon asked us to do an straight out of the box video to show how easy it is to use the new VoiceTone Mic Mechanic Pedal. We asked Lisa Avon from the band Orestea to come into store and have a quick look at the pedal.

Introducing the essential effects unit for all vocalists. The Mic Mechanic from TC Helicon is designed for plug and play vocal professionalism! Featuring reverb, delay, pitch correction, and tone shaping, vocalists can now take control of their sound and relax into the gig, safe in the knowledge that out front, they are going to sound great!

TC Helicon asked us to do an straight out of the box video to show how easy it is to use the new VoiceTone Mic Mechanic Pedal.

The best thing about the Mic Mechanic is that it is so easy for anyone to use. You don't have to be into your outboard and your gadgets in order to use it - any singer will be able to pick it up and sound great very quickly, without relying on the sound engineer!

[MrTroy]

I love Ms Lisa Avon's brilliant personality, colorful hair and lovely talking & singing voice. The pedal is not too bad either.

[drumstudu]

what a terrific voice, this girl has a gift!

[tchelicon]

A quick comment about the correction shown here: You're hearing both the corrected signal and the room-mic/PA, so it's "phasing" between her uncorrected (natural) and processed voice. The phasing sound generally isn't heard by the crowd, since they don't hear your un-amplified stage voice. Same goes for recording. Thanks for the review!

[kevinpeat]

With or without.... what a GREAT singer !

[destinygross]

shes an incredible singer. this was really helpful.

[darryls]

Very impressed with the mic mechanic and the performers. Thanks to the pretty and talented vocalist I'm sold on this product and I'm going to purchase it.

[ajh]

orestea are such an unbelievable and underrated band :)

[neiloler]

This felt more useful, and enjoyable, that the video made by TC themselves. Thanks!

[neuvy]

very nice video guys, Lisa is a very talented singer, not to mention lloyds badass guitar skills, Cannot wait for your new record. hopefully will catch you guys in cambridge soon if your touring there!

[JasonSmithSlayboneGardener]

this pedals and mic are sick really practical

[STeebs]

No it's because of the camera mic in the room at the same time. You are hearing her through both the tuned version (via desk) and the untuned version too (via camera mic).
In a live situation with a PA, the corrected voice is the one only heard. One person who does hear it though, is the singer. Because they hear themselves via conductive hearing, they get that sense of chorusing which can be strange.
With other products in their range then you can output wet/dry, but not through the MM.

[marvinrivera]

They tested it.
They did what I have done, even I had no clue
Thank you

[MaxSalada]

I just bought one of these and i love it. Great unit

[moonkef]

Pitch correct wont work if you're too far off the target note else it will 'tune' you to the nearest semi tone so you have to be reasonably in tune to begin with. The pedal just helps make precise tuning of already/almost perfect singing.

[lestattt]

You sound great Lisa, nice crisp guitar playing brother. Thank you for the demo on the pedal, I'm looking for some th ing like this for my wife as we travel and she sings while I play at churches but a lot of the time these churches have an old PA and no vocal effects at all. Reverb... compression... it's just like adding the cream to the coffee.
Michigan USA loves you andertons crew!

[evelasq]

Lisa is one lovely lady.  She sure know how to sing.  I really enjoyed it and I also think this is a great product.  Usually, when you think of pedals; it would be for the bass and guitar player.  Now they have one for the singers and maybe the singers should start thinking about building their own pedal collection and buy a pedal board.  Peace, Flood!

[TuesdayBeats]

in my band is a female singer who "fights" with intonation in the highest and the deepest tones, but sings beautifully in the mid range. For her it is "the" tool.

[jimmy]

There are moderate ways to use this pedal that will add a lot to the average song and the average singer.
This was a mostly pop and extreme sampling.
I like the delay and a little moderate reverb for helping smooth out vocals and take away the dry sound.

[dudzdsgn]

She sounds really good with a lower Pitch Correction thing. I, myself, would burst that knob up to 100 because I need it. Love the tone feature and those amazing reverbs. The delay sounds, I would say, weird.

[VictorMCam]

Circa Survive!!!! And she sings it pretty well. Oh yeah pedal is cool too