TC-Helicon VoiceTone H1

These pedals do what they say but unless you’re playing a guitar for the pedal to identify your key do not expect to just leave them on the floor and be able to press the switch on and off because they do need a key change in between every song so it kind of defeats the purpose having to keep going back to it with your hands. You can set the pedal on its chromatic setting to identify every note but then you won’t get the hard tune effect.

The pedal also has a gain dial on the side which is hand if you’ve got really gain hungry mics but turn the gain on the pedal up even halfway and your mic has waaaay too much gain. Much more than your mixing console would provide which is completely un-necessary and if you set the gain too low on the pedal you get weird distortion, noise and loss of quality.

Great vocal; harmonizer ..simple to use and has a good range of harmonies/effects.
I only received it today & have already revamped one of my songs using this pedal via my DAW on PC.
Couldn't be happier as product exceeded my expectations.
You might want to google Youtube for a short demo of how the pedal works as it doesn't come with an instruction manual.
I was using mine effectively within 5 minutes so don't let that put you off. Well worth the money *****
Big thanks to Thomann for such a quick delivery to the UK. and for including power supply & Euro to UK adaptor.

A magnificent little pedal, perfect for me.
I've tried many harmony gadgets, Most of them just an echoey mush of irritating noise, with unusable added effects,
Then the H1 from year 2011, simply, nicely, just a harmony voice or 2 with an on/off foot switch, plus a couple of easy controlls.
No need to select a key for my harmonys, the guitar plugged "through" the H1 pedal controlls the harmony key in an automatically and perfectly easy usable way..
No weaknesses, no problems at all for me.
I have problems with human harmony singers, they tend to harmonise when not needed, or not sing when needed, but the H1 only sings when the foot switch button is pressed, when I press it.
There is a mic volume control which must be adjusted to light the green signal Led for the harmonys to operate correctly, but very simple to understand.
I'd like the phantom power to be 48/52 volts, as condenser Mics sound way better at 48/52 volts, Tha H1's phantom voltage is 24, works OK, but..
The latest TC helicon version of this pedal has a strange problem and is full of fx that my mixer already is gifted with.
Over all, a superb machine, perfect for me in every way, works perfect with my older sound equip.
A very good alternative to this H1 pedal is the Boss acoustic singer pro/live, from 2022, with very good harmonies built into them.
Thomann gives us performers all this equip at very good prices. Nice 👍

I have owned a few TC-Helicon Harmony-G units in the past and thought I would try the H1. Its really simple to hook up and use and has acceptable harmony tones. You do have to choose your harmonies before you perform a song and cannot change them on the fly (as you can with the Harmony-G). The harmonies tend to waver at times or are perhaps too sensitive but I cannot tell yet if this is due to guitar chord sensing or ambient noise at gigs. What I do know is that the Harmony-G unit did not have this problem, but then it was a more expensive unit. To sum up, I would not buy this unit as my main vocal harmonizer, and only use mine as a back up to my Harmony-G.