TC-Helicon VoiceLive 3

Application Notes for the TC-Helicon VoiceLive 3

Guitar Amp Simulations

Question Can you tell me - what are the real life amps that the amp styles are based on?

• Acoustic
• Clean Brit
• Cali Clean
• UK Clean
• Deep Clean
• Bright Switch
• Warm
• Little Thing
• Chicken Picker
• Brit OD
• AC Crunch
• Chunky Brit
• Lil Champion
• Chime Drive
• 2 x 12 Combo
• 4 x 12 Crunch
• Swamptone
• Nasaltone
• Brown
• Scooped
• Metallic
• TC Dark Matter
• OD Pedal
• Dark OD Pedal
• Distortion Pedal

Tom used my Marshall JCM 2000 DSL and my Les Paul Standard to make the Deep Clean, Brit OD, Chunky Brit (and maybe some others) Amp styles. They're done both by ear and by watching frequency response, but they're subjective like any other audio.

The good thing is that all the parameters that Tom used to make every amp style are visible in the editing section. There's nothing hidden or called from a non-editable menu, so in theory, any user should be able to sit with the unit and get a pretty good approximation of whatever amp they want to model.

— Craig (TC Helicon)

Source: TC-Helicon Support forum

See also: VoiceLive3 - Closer Look Guitar

Mapping to VoiceLive Play GTX

How do the VoiceLive 3 Amp simulations map to the VoiceLive Play GTX

• Acoustic – direct and clean to be sent to the PA
• Clean – Fender Twin
• Comp – Fender Twin with compression
• Comp Atk – Fender Twin with Bright switch on and compression
• BF Combo – Overdriven Fender ‘65 Deluxe
• Bright – Overdriven Modern Fender
• Crunch 1 – Marshall Plexi
• Crunch 2 – Hiwatt®
• Crunch 3 – Marshall Plexi
• BF Combo – Overdriven Fender ‘65 Deluxe
• Honk – Vintage combo
• Insane – Mesa Rectifier

The styles in GTX (and the underlying processing/algorithms themselves) are completely different from VL3.

— Craig (TC Helicon)

— TC-Helicon Support forum

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