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The point though is that it was all worth it. Granted, I spent a few hours getting the tones for both vocals and guitar dialed-in, but I would’ve done that with any unit. That’s a serious reduction in lug weight and bulk.Īs far as the unit’s performance is concerned, I couldn’t be happier with the tone from both the vocals and guitar.

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Now, all I bring along is a bag of cords that I also can use for the Play Electric, and another bag to carry a couple of songbooks and my iPad, plus my SoloAmp if needed.

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The Play Electric’s effects models completely solve that issue, and along with the acoustic amp simulator that I’m using, there is just no need to lug my pedal board to a solo gig. It takes away some of the natural tone of the sound, but it sounds a hell of a lot better than my guitar being directly plugged right into a board.īut until recently, I could only achieve that by lugging around my own modulation effect pedals. I’ve found that the way to avoid this is to use effects like chorus, reverb and a bit of delay to make the tone more rich and do some tone shaping. You see, the most important thing for me when playing live acoustic through a board is to not get that flat, mid-rangy, and dead plugged-in acoustic guitar sound that seems to be so prevalent with plugged in acoustics. With the TonePrint models for chorus, reverb and delay built into the unit, I’ve had no need to lug my pedal board. But all that changed when I started using the Play Electric. Enter the TC Helicon Play Electric.īefore I moved to the excellent TC Helicon Harmony G XT, for years I played with the VoiceLive Play GTX, and though the GTX had on-board effects, I just didn’t like how they sounded, so I still ran the guitar signal into a few effects boxes. Now I could do everything in a single trip! But being all about efficiency, I was still looking for ways to trim the weight from my rig. Then a few years ago, I discovered the Fishman SA220 SoloAmp PA that combined mixer and a 6-speaker array into a single unit that weighs only 25 pounds. I played with this set up for several years. Combined with my pedals, guitar, mic and music stand, that was a couple of hundred pounds of gear that took up to a few trips to lug in, depending upon where I was playing. I first started out with a Soundcraft GigRac 300 powered mixer that drove two passive Yamaha monitors. But then I started getting gigs in other venues where I had to provide my own sound. Prior to that, I only played gigs where I could plug into a board, or more accurately, all the gigs I played just happened to have a board. I should clarify that I’ve actually been gigging for twice as long, but it was 15 years ago that I started playing venues where I had to bring my own equipment.

For the past 15 years, I’ve gigged between 150 to 200 times a year.