TC Helicon Perform VG Demo and Review 

Good to hear! Yeah unfortunately you might be in for a bit of a wait. Anything from Behringer (the parent company) is taking a bit to get over here. :/

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Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

Nice! I hope you dig it!

It’s a pretty powerful tool. Still use mine every week.

Totally agree. I'm definitely interested in trying out other gear, but this will always have a place in my arsenal.

3 should be sufficient. I speak between songs, so I needed the 6 in order to toggle off vocals Reverb and delay between songs as well as use tap tempo and control harmonies. So if you knew the functions before hand, you could make that happen.

Thanks so much for getting back to me!

Any time!

Hey Jordan! I ran it that way for a couple years. The only thing to keep in mind is that the “thru” output for the guitar won’t have any effects (it’s a dry signal). BUT. The signals will both be separated, and you will get effects on your voice.

@@BlaisenGuitars great! Thankyou

I haven’t tried to use it in this way personally but I do think it is definitely possible. If you were never planning on singing, I would probably consider a different scenario for a dedicated guitar effects processor. And yes, you would be able to adjust the gain through the mix and then turn the gain up or down of the overall unit.

Hey Ian! The connections for plugging in your guitar and mic are on the back of the unit. You have an XLR in for your vocals and a quarter inch in for the guitar. From there, you have two options. You can either run both effects mixed together through the XLR out, OR you can run the vocals through the (same) XLR out and a dry out signal to an amplifier. For a couple years, I used this with my electric guitar plugged in and running out to my rig, but the only real benefit of using it this way is to use the harmony feature for the voice. There is no effected (wet) signal out for just the guitar.

@@BlaisenGuitars Thanks so much for the prompt response. 🙏 I'm new to this and been using loopers like the RC 30 but this makes sense now. One last thing, when you say out to your rig, what do you mean?

Hey @@ianchongoti4715. I was using an Avid Eleven Rack at the time. So my signal path was guitar -> TC Helicon (dry out) -> 11 Rack -> Mixer

@@BlaisenGuitars thanks a lot! 😊

@@ianchongoti4715 Any time!

Hey @Roland Z! I was playing a Dean Exotica QSE SP AM plugged straight into the TC Helicon.

Hey Jose. I'm not sure what you mean by connecting them 'in chain'. Can you elaborate?

@@BlaisenGuitars yes, like the stombox pedal ( guitar ) you can make a pedal board , it can be connected with each other, use them individually or at the same time. I nderstand that with the mic mechanic and the only series', you can only use one ,

@@josemanuel2244 If you're talking about creating an effects change with vocal effects, you should be able to do it with small XLRs. I'm not familiar with the Mic Mechanic, but I can't imagine why you wouldn't be able to add something after it using a small XLR patch cable.

@@BlaisenGuitars great I'll look that out. Thank you for the information. Think the VG could a good option for simplicity . Very helpful review. Thank you

@@josemanuel2244 No problem!

I haven’t tried the Voicelive personally but I have thought about trying it due to the ability to have a separate Wet Guitar out signal. And some of those vocal effects do sound pretty sweet. 👍 The VG is only $50 cheaper, so I think the VL probably has more bang for the buck. But my understanding is that the harmonies on the VG would be more spot on because it uses the guitar notes to find optional harmonies...

@@BlaisenGuitars As far as i know there are four ways Play Acoustic can generate a harmony line to vocals. Guitar in, Key setting, Outboard mics hearing the ambient sounds in the room and Aux in In

@@PaulvanHuet interesting. Didn’t realize that. 🤔 Thanks for the info!

I think the closest you can get is a really tight slap back delay but I don’t believe that there’s a true doubling effect.

It’s an old Dean Exotica.

You would have to plug the receiver into the unit on your mic stand. So it depends on what kind of wireless mic you have and how willing you are to play with different positions for the VG.

@@BlaisenGuitars thx for the quick response. What do you mean with different positions? I don't play guitar and move around, so I don't need it to be on the stand. But good to know I can use it for the wireless microphone.

@babydollrock in other words, your receiver may be too big to have it on your mic stand.

@@BlaisenGuitars well there is not an option to put it on the mic stand, but this is not the point. It can be anywhere. I would like to have a wireless mic that has the possibility for turning on/off effects, double voice and harmony. I hope you can imagine what I mean 🙏

@babydollrock Makes sense. FYI, the VG doesn’t have voice doubling, but other units do.

Hey Cam Cook! Thanks for dropping by, and I appreciate your take. I (in general) have preferred the effects over anything that I've been able to produce out of the Boss AD-10. I think that may largely be based on ease of use over the AD-10... I agree that there are other effects that are definitely more robust, and higher quality, but for me the form factor and ease of use are definite pluses. At some point I may look into upgrading my rig over the VG, but I'll probably always keep it around for the odd "acoustic-set-in-un-ideal-circumstances" here or there. I didn't know they were making a VG2... looking forward to what that has in store.