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Tone Overview
The Tone button activates what we call the “Live
Engineer Effects”. These are different from stan-
dard vocal processing effects in that they adjust
their settings to your particular voice and the way
you sing at different times of your performance
just like a professional audio engineer will. All EQ
and compression enhancements applied here will
affect the overall sound of VoiceLive Rack includ-
ing Harmony, Doubling, Reverb etc.
The suite of effects that make up Tone are:
• Adaptive Shape EQ
• Adaptive Compression
• De-Ess
• Adaptive Gate
The TONE Tab
Press and hold the Tone button to enter this
screen and make adjustments or view settings.
This will present the TONE tab allowing conve-
nient control of these four processors in one
screen. At any time you can exit the tab menus by
pressing the Home button.
The factory settings for the Tone button are:
• SHAPE
ADAPTIVE=X(On), SHAPE=50%
• COMPRESS
ADAPTIVE=X(On), COMPRESS=50%
• DE-ESS
DE-ESS=50%
• GATE
ADAPTIVE
These settings are intended to apply to a broad
range of singers’ tastes and PA equipment. Mak-
ing adjustments consists of turning the Mix/Edit
knobs below the LCD and listening to the results.
You can also cycle the Tone button on and off
while editing to hear the difference between your
effected and non-effected voice.
Note that there is a slight lag between adjusting
the Adaptive effects and hearing the effect as the
algorithm re-assesses your voice input.
f The ADAPTIVE Check Boxes
These show whether the automatically-adjusting
Adaptive feature is enabled for the SHAPE or
COMPRESS controls.
NOTE: If either or both ADAPTIVE check boxes
is unchecked, the associated control is set to
MANUAL. Manual adjustment is possible by using
the Navigate buttons to go to the edit tab associ-
ated with it and changing the controls on that tab.
f SHAPE
“Shape” is the name given to the automatically
adjusting EQ that is activated by the ADAPTIVE
check box. When the Adaptive feature is acti-
vated, Shape processing offers an EQ curve that
adds an airy brightness, or “sizzle” to your voice
while reducing “mud” due to the proximity effect
from singing closely into a cardioid microphone.
Adjusting the control from 0% to 50% reduces
mud while increasing brightness to a useful range
for your voice. Turning from 50% up to 100%
adds more brightness.
Reducing Mud:
For singers who have a voice with less bass
frequencies, the “mud” reduction may be less
and perhaps not noticeable at all. This is a good
thing - your voice is nicely balanced regarding
bass frequencies. For the average male singer or
women who sing closely on their mic, the re-
duction in bass will be noticeable and beneficial.
When voices have too much bass, they tend to
become lost in the other instruments that occupy
The Tone Button