TC Electronic Helicon Play Acoustic 3-Button Vocal & Guitar Effects Stompbox

The Natural Companion
Play Acoustic combines all the things you need to make a live acoustic performance shine: lavish vocal sounds, perfect backing harmonies, best-selling guitar effects and unique processing that makes your six-string sing - in perfect harmony with your voice.

What Every Singer Wants
Keep your vocals clean with a tight reverb or simple harmony - or go all out with tasty delays, thick doubling, edgy hardtuning, cool modulations and raw distortions. The choice is yours with hundreds of presets from the most popular styles.

Acoustic Alchemy
Play Acoustic treats your guitar with the respect it deserves. Tailor-made guitar FX from TC Electronic add a sweet touch of magic and our new BodyRez gives you a fuller, acoustic tone when you're playing through a PA.

Vocal FX + Guitar FX in One Pedal
Access your effects directly, choose the presets you want and find the styles you like
Easily browse hundreds of preset sounds
Add dazzling effects for the chorus or strip it down for the verse, you decide!
Dedicated inputs and outputs for your voice and guitar - plus inputs for headphones, auxiliary devices, an expansion pedal and USB for recording, updates and new presets

The Vocal Sounds You Love
Play Acoustic is loaded with vocal effects from our best-selling VoiceLive series: reverb, doubling, HardTune, MuMod, tap delay and transducer. Get inspired with incredible, natural sounding harmonies guided automatically by your guitar. There's also Adaptive Tone for an optimally produced sound every time you sing.

Vocal FX
100s of presets from the most popular styles
Adaptive Tone - your personal sound engineer
Easier than ever to create and personalize your sound
Practice favorite tracks with Vocal Cancel
Even more control with our Mics and Footswitches

Harmony
Likely the most popular and impressive of our effects suite, Harmony creates up to 8 voices of harmony (varies by product), based on your vocal input and surrounds you with professional sounding backup singers. Once you've added harmony to your performance, we think you'll never want to sing without it.

Double
Doubling creates an effect that makes your voice sound "larger" in the mix. It's an extremely popular effect in a wide variety of musical styles from Pop to Hip-Hop and everything in between.

Delay
Also known as Echo, delay repeats the input sound in various ways, from single "taps" to multiple panned asynchronous repeats. Often, delay is mistaken for reverb in a song. It's typical in a recording to use a small amount of both delay and reverb to create the desired spatial effect.

Reverb
Short for Reverberation, reverb simulates an acoustic space like a concert hall or a bathroom. Typically, slower songs use longer reverb and faster songs use shorter reverb.

HardTune
Some people know it as the Cher or T-Pain effect. We call it HardTune. It's a very aggressive form of pitch correction that forces the voice to "jump" from one note to the next in an almost robotic way. The effect works the best when confined to a set scale, where the intervals between notes are more noticeable. To get the most out of the effect, you'll need to adapt your singing style to help accentuate the way that your voice shifts from note to note. Try sliding between notes.

Transducer
Any effect that provides overdrive, distortion or filter falls under Transducer effects. You'll find effects like Megaphone, Radio, Amplifier Emulation and more here. Always take care when using transducer effects in a live situation. Due to the extreme gains and eq's imparted on the signal, these effects are very prone to feedback.

MuMod