TC HeliconPLAY ACOUSTIC 3-Button Vocal and Acoustic Guitar Effects Stompbox with BodyRez and Looping

Great addition to my pedals. Still learning the looping! Sounds great for what I do. I've seen plenty of guitar players using this unit, so I thought I'd give it a try. I'm glad I did!

This is an outstanding piece of gear.. what it does it does extremely well.1. Acoustic guitar tone.TC have mimic'd the resonance of the body of an acoustic guitar in some way.. there are 5 basic acoustic "models" to start with, and each has quite some degree of flexibility in tone. bottom line is a MAJOR improvement in acoustic tone from a piezo based guitar.2. Mic toneWith doing nothing at all, there is an adaptive tone, de-esser and compressor added to your vocals. instant improvement.3. transparent pitch correct based upon key detection from guitar (or aux) input.. Not saying you cannot sing, but having 50% level is transparent and very effective.4. programmable harmonies based upon key & chord detection.5. tuner and looper...15 sec with undo/redothats kinda it... there are a bunch of presets that you can change store recall for song sepcific setups.. but not these are predominantly dor the vocal tone/harmony/effect.. you effectively have ONE acoustic guitar tone... but then again.. thats all most needThis is a great deal, offers a lot, and finally you can play your acoustic amplified without cringing over the tone.

This thing is built like a tank. It looks sharp and works great. I'm very impressed with the features and performance. I've been playing/experimenting a lot with it and it just keeps surprising me. This is quite deep in features with performance to match. I'mvery happy with this purchase.

Great product! Easy to install on an acoustic pedalboard. There’s a plethora of different options which takes some getting used to but that’s why They ALL say practice, practice, practice. Can never go wrong with TC Helicons.

Love this product! This my second one! The harmonies are so manageable!

This is an initial review. I'll be updating it as milestones in usage and experience warrant. First thoughts: I was apprehensive about purchasing a new vocal/ guitar effects unit. My experience was that they invariably were difficult to use in a live performance capacity. This one so far seems to belie that. I will say that I have read the downloadable pdf complete manual and I recommend doing that. However the presets of the unit are well programmed so you don't HAVE to be a programming whiz. I do recommend getting at the very least the optional "Switch 3" sold seperately. I got one on sale for about 35 bucks. You'll see why when you get one. I do recommend the unit. It has great harmony capabilities and the guitar "body rez" setting is astounding. Getting an acoustic guitarvto sound miked without a mic is a feature well worth the price. Next step: Using it for live gigs. Will let you know.

It should have come with an instruction manual. Something to reference to all the controls and settings. That would have been helpful. Other than that the unit works fine and I’m very happy with it. Thank you, Peter.

I am a pro player and I had a TC Play GTX, which was an older similar model, and very good, but started acting up after 3 years and a couple hundred gigs. I didn't feel like messing with it and trying to fix it, it was well used so I just wanted to replace it, but it's no longer a current model. I assumed most of the features would be the same on the Play Acoustic once the firmware was updated, but you only have access to reverb and delay as far as effects go. I like to add a little boost and overdrive for rock solos, a little tremolo for ambient and surf music, etc., yes, on my acoustic guitar (I play a Godin Multiac nylon which has a thin body like an electric, doesn't feed back, so I have a lot of freedom to use effects) and this device doesn't allow that. It does have "body modeling" which I was excited to try, but does away with most other effect modules. This does make some nice acoustic tones, I suppose if I dug around enough I could have found a way to have a clean boost, but still just not enough versatility for what I do. If you don't upgrade the firmware you only have one global guitar tone, so changing patches only changes vocal effect/harmony. Almost the exact opposite of what I want, I only use one or 2 vocal effects with light harmony for choruses, but like to vary my guitar tone and volume more actively. Even with the firmware update it's far from what I was used to with the GTX. I used it on one gig and found the harmony tracking not to be as good as the GTX either, I hope that's not the case with the Play Electric, which I just ordered to replace this Play Acoustic, which I returned after 1 gig. I really hope the harmonizer quality hasn't gone down on these new models, the harmony quality was my original reason to go with TC. If you want a VERY acoustic tone, this device will probably do the trick for you, if not, look elsewhere. Discussions on the TC forums show that several acoustic players like the Play Electric so hopefully that will replace the GTX more ably.