TC-Helicon Play Acoustic - Reference Manual User Manual

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Important safety instructions

1

Before you begin

4

About this manual

5

Getting support

5

VoiceSupport

5

Please register your Play Acoustic

5

Introduction

6

Diagram legend

7

Diagrams

8

Basics

9

Inputs and outputs

10

Gain settings

12

Switches and operation

14

Control knob and arrow buttons

16

Soft buttons

18

Connection diagrams

20

Mixer setup

21

Play Acoustic back panel inputs
and outputs

21

Stereo (or mono) vocals and guitar

22

Mono vocals and guitar amp

23

Mono vocal and guitar with a
TC-Helicon FX150

24

Mono vocals via FX150 and a guitar amp

25

Guitar and vocals via FX150 and stereo out
to a PA

26

Stereo PA and TC-Helicon
Guitar & Headphone cable

27

Setup button/section

28

Input page (1/7)

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Output page (2/7)

31

System page (3/7)

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System page 2 (4/7)

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Loop page (5/7)

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Switch-3 page (6/7)

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Product Info page (7/7)

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Vocal FX button/section

37

Harmony page (1/7)

39

Harmony Advanced page

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Double page (2/7)

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Delay page (3/7)

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Delay Advanced page

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Reverb page (4/7)

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HardTune page (5/7)

45

Transducer page (6/7)

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Transducer Advanced page

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µMod page (7/7)

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Guitar FX button/section

49

Guitar Reverb page (1/7)

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Guitar µMod page (2/7)

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BodyRez EQ page (3/7)

53

BodyRez Shelf EQ page (4/7)

54

BodyRez Parametric EQ page (5/7)

54

BodyRez Compressor page (6/7)

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Guitar Anti-Feedback page (7/7)

56

Notch Filter section

56

Simple steps for feedback reduction

56

Mix button/section

57

Mix page (1/2)

58

Mix page (2/2)

59

The Looper

60

What is looping?

61

Using the Play Acoustic looper

61

Looping tips

62

Using a Switch-3 for looping

63

Troubleshooting

64

General troubleshooting

65

Appendix

66

TC-Helicon scales reference chart

67

Links

68

Technical specifications

70

Product

Play Acoustic

Product (firmware) version

1.0

Document

Reference manual

Document version / date

2014-07-16

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