Olivier Jarda at The Carlton
(Updated July 6th) Taking a flyer on new artists is great way to expand musical horizons.
Faced with a 8 pm dinner, I was looking for a restaurant with live music.
The Coast rated Olivier Jarda at The Carlton 9 PM as a Sure Bet.’
Singer-songwriter Olivier Jarda and Willie Stratton his opening act, an alt-folk-country artist, made a great evening of local entertainment. Continue reading
VoiceLive Play - harmony and vocal effects at 1/3rd the price
TC Helicon has just announced at NAMM 2012 the latest version of the VoiceLive family – VoiceLive Play and VoiceLive Play GTX.
Both give vocalists harmony and vocal effects from the top-drawer VoiceLive family. The GTX model also has guitar effects and amp emulations so you don’t need a Marshall to get that sound. Continue reading
VoiceLive Touch
The folks out in Victoria BC at TC Helicon have done it again – the VoiceLive Touch was announced this week. Essentially what they have done is put the best features of the VoiceLive 2 in a smaller form factor, added vocal looping and a touch screen.
This is going to be a must try if not must buy toy for the singer/songwriter. VoiceLive Touch is expected to ship August 2010 and has a MRSP of US $695 or €470.
The best part of the VoiceLive Touch is it mounts on a microphone stand or sits on your desktop. Second best feature is touch control. Third is voice looping.
I love the VoiceLive 2. What I don’t like is bending over to tweak the settings. The VoiceLive Touch is right where you need it – at your fingertips. Awesome.
The Touch feature will interesting – to adjust effects by touch. We are all getting used to touch with the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. It will be cool to see how Kevin Alexander and his creative team are in the implementing of touch for singers and singer/musicians.
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