The TC Helicon VoiceLive Touch 2 is a vocal looping tool with a built-in FX engine, designed to work equally well mounted on a mic stand or sitting on a desktop. Behind its LCD display it combines a high-quality signal path, an FX engine running up to nine simultaneous effects, and a looping tool set, making it a self-contained vocal processing and looping rig in one unit1.
What it does
The Touch 2 is built around singers rather than guitarists. MusicRadar's reviewer highlighted the vocal features: harmonisation, a choir backing effect, auto-tune, and a sweepable filter controlled via the ribbon. Those run alongside the looping tool set, so a vocalist can build up processed vocal loops live without a separate looper pedal1.
Connectivity is unusually deep for a unit of this kind. MusicRadar described it as "backed with exhaustive I/O (MIDI, USB, stereo aux input, guitar in/thru and more)"1. The guitar in/thru means a guitarist's signal can pass through the unit, and MIDI and USB open it to integration with other gear.
What reviewers said
MusicRadar's verdict, in a 2017 group test of looping tools, was short and to the point1:
"The Rolls-Royce of vocal looping."
Where it sits
Among looping tools, most pedals such as the TC Electronic Ditto Looper or the TC Helicon Ditto Mic Looper are guitar- or mic-first stompboxes with looping as the core function. The VoiceLive Touch 2 takes a different approach: it is a full vocal effects processor that also loops, aimed at singers who want harmonies, tuning and filtering on their voice alongside their loops. See more options in Looping Pedals and Vocal Pedals1.
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Sources (1)
- Review round-up: hardware loopers, MusicRadar, 2017-05-16
