TC-Helicon VoiceLive 3 Extreme

I have been using VL3X for 1.5 years. I've played around 300 short (30 minutes) repetitions, about 75 long (3 hours) concerts with the VL3X and am satisfied. In my opinion, this is a unique and very useful device, that has no analogues in the world. I am an underground garage rock artist, vocalist and guitarist. The drummer plays with me. Most of our concerts are in small pubs, where 50 viewers are big deal.
And we use the VL3X backing track player to play bass guitar track. Very good internal memory - fits a lot of backing track's. I don't know, how much will fit backing track in this device, but I've already uploaded around 100 wav files. This is important, because I use backing track a lot - different in different concerts.
I write a review after reading the negative reviews. Some say, that VL3X are bad guitar amps. But this is not true. A clean brit, 4/12 crunch, scooped amp and tc dark matter overdrive - sounds good to me. There are many parameters that can all be fine-tuned, adjust as needed.
Automation is a great thing. I use it for guitar effects. When you switch from guitar rhythm to solo during a song, I write down the effect change in backing track automation. Very comfortable. No need to bother with effect alternation. You can focus on performance and communication with viewers.
In "do it yourself" underground rock festivals with minimal hardware, we use VL3X to process the lead vocals. Great for all punk rock and modern metal bands.
Some people complained about the VL3X failing fast. But it works for me, despite the fact that one night after the concert with the VL3X I fell on the asphalt. :) And nothing happened.
If there is any doubt about the operation of the device - then I just reboot the device.
Commentators curse VL3X factory presets. I don't use them, it's just a demo. But overall I use a lot of the vocal effects in VL3X, they are all useful. They need to be fine-tuned. Work with the VL3X will be a good task for the advanced audio engineer as well. And for us - rock'n'roll losers - it will take a long time. Combining effects, the VL3X is best for listening with headphones!
It should be understood, that once you buy a VL3X, you will not run with it on stage or repetition the same day - it will take at least a month to study, tune, adjust to your needs and your productions.

Such a brilliant piece of equipment, I have no words. It seems as though the days of blunt, lifeless live vocal sound are gone. This thing is an all in one package, the possibilities of working with it are imense, and it can be used in really a lot of scenarios, but the Extreme version of the voicelive 3 comes with a great priviledge of making it easy along with making it sound great.

First of all the tone function is so great; the compression, de-essing, eq, and other things that they won't even reveal what they put in this thing, it ''produces'' your vocals in a way that for me was never attainable live. And it kills feedback really effectively, but you'll have to learn how to setup this thing as it's a really complex system, it works great out of the box though, so don't fear. ;) I'm just saying that you can really get even a lot more out of it if you spend time studying it, as for me, I have it for a couple of months, and I'm still finding out new stuff that constantly amazes me.

I completely love the backing track & effects automation possibility, I've actually setup a preset for every song, with the song name in the title, I've assigned one button (in the button mapping section) to ''Play track'' and after that I don't have to worry about anything, the mixing levels, adding of harmonies, megaphone effects, doubles, delays, anything, after I programmed it, it just turns on on it's own, and I'm left in peace to completely devote myself to the performance. This thing actually feels so seamless to integrate into the band, and gives you great artistic freedom, while not affecting or burdening your performance. And the quality and what it adds to your sound live is unprecedented! :)

The best ''music gadgets'' I ever bought!! :D

P.S. I don't even need to speak about how good and correct it makes the harmonies, but be sure to tinker with it, and learn how it works, as you can really get brilliant results with some ''playing with the buttons'' ;)

I've had this up and running for a while now and don't feel like I've even started to scratch the surface of the features available.

The guitar effects are great, and if it was your only pedal you would still have a pretty comprehensive range of sound available to you - they all seem good quality and great sounding with a huge range of presets.

The voice effects are also great, and range from subtle vocal enhancements to ridiculously fun stuff that I hope you would never use in a performance ;)

In combination is where this pedal really shines though, the impressive looper, the guitar sound analysis to create in tune vocal harmonies is just amazing!

Be prepared to invest some time in this though, lots of youtube tutorials are available, and loads of online resources... ultimately your just going to sit there for hours playing with the presets and making some strange sounds and not get anything done! Such fun though!

Im crazy about the easy handling of this, is.. I was afraid that I had to go through a million tutorials on YouTube, and stille don't get it. But a friend from one of the bands I play in, showed me how and what to do...IT'S SO FREAKING EASY ... I love it, and I would recommend anyone to get it.. My vocal got soooo much clearer and brighter and more dynamic.
My guitar got a magical BOOST... the different setting you can get and do to your voice, is soooo cool.
And the pre amps on the guitar is cool to.

Easy to handle when you wanna make changes and you can spend hours and hours, just having fun trying different settings out or maybe changing the pre settings...

My total full star review from here. And Ive been looking for years toor not to bye this, and I did it, and I love it.

Its easy to handle. Voice parts, press Voice and the 2

I have had the TC Helicon VoiceLive3 Extreme for a few months now and wow! This is a very special piece of kit. I have taken the time to get to know the unit before writing this review, for the simple fact that I didn't simply want to be impressed with its immediate quality of build and said features.

I am glad I took the time. Both to get to know the unit and to use it. The TC Helicon VL3X is a must for any professional singer/singer-songwriter who performs live. It will virtually give you any sound you want (but you must work with the unit as an instrument) and make difficult venues more of a joy to play in. It is like having 'A profession vocal sound pack in your pocket.' Which of course, it is!

I love it and I am glad I've found it. And more over, in the few months since I've had it, it has paid for itself!
Truly fantastic!