TC Helicon Play Acoustic Vocal Effects Processor

Analyzed on

186Total Reviews

Musical Instruments

B

Company Review Grade:

TC-Helicon

41 Total Products

TC Helicon Play Acoustic Vocal Effects Processor

Analyzed on

Sold by TC-Helicon

A

Fakespot review grade

A

This analysis is outdated. Please reanalyze.

Ask Fakespot Chat questions about this productAlpha

Initializing Fakespot Chat

System error,

Loading suggested questions

Suggested Questions

No suggested questions were found

Please note: The content is generated by an AI language model based on reviews. We are constantly improving the accuracy, however, its outputs may contain errors or offensive content from certain reviews. Please report any errors or offensive content to us. Also, please note that we will not collect your questions unless you click the thumbs up/down button to provide feedback. The answers displayed will be stored by us so if another Fakespotter asks a similar question we can provide them an answer faster. Your feedback will only help us make Fakespot Chat better! By using Fakespot Chat, you agree to Fakespot's terms of use and privacy notice.

Pros & Cons

The AI used to provide these results are constantly improving. These results might change.

Pros

The guitar effects is basically chorus, delay (echo), reverb, and body rez (compressor) all of the parameters on the vocal and guitar effects can be tweaked with the intuitive controls.

This model is much more user friendly, and has tons of presets to download and use. I would recommend planning on an extended learning curve in terms of invoking this effect or that at any given time.

Tuner and built in looper is present as well. Only question is why the output for the guitar is via mic jack instead of a normal rca plug. The looper does the basics well, but i haven't used it much.

Tc helicon's unit does things that the fractal could not. It manages to pack lots of features into an easy to use unit. This unit lives up to the hype for a remarkably affordable price.

Tc helicon's play-acoustic midi-pedal is a great alternative to a headrush pedal. The pedal is great for playing acoustic music.

Cons

The control knob is loose and doesn't work. Bad wire, bad lcd inverter, or loose connections. Lcd display is prone to contrast, brightness and distortion. Lack of guitar out and guitar thru renders the play acoustic useless for anything but amateur pe... Read More

Was this feature helpful?

Highlights

The AI used to provide these results are constantly improving. These results might change.

Quality

Original reviewoverall am super happy with the quality of the guitar and vocal effects and level of customization that is possi... Read More

I play a taylor 410ce shure beta 58 and ev speakers for my pa and im very happy with the outcome

Have no doubt about the quality or the results this is the real deal

Then i used my good quality beyerdynamic closed headphones to monitor everything

Packaging/appearance

Harmonies sound rich and cleans up my guitar over the pa too

I have only begun to explore all of the possibilities but i was able to get a great sound very quickly right out of the box

It sounds great right out of the box

Competitiveness

One of the better units to come out of tc at a reasonable price

I am rescinding my previous threestar review and replacing it with a fivestar review in praise of a company that actually liste... Read More

Yes but so is a sm58 so is a telecastaer so is a steinway

Overview

How are reviewers describing this item?
acoustic, vocal, great, good and pedal.

Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.

Our engine has determined that the review content quality is high and informative.

Our engine has detected that Amazon has altered, modified or removed reviews from this listing. We approximate total reviews altered up to 17.

Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.

This product had a total of 186 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 3 2022.