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TC-Helicon Play Electric - Reference Manual User Manual

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Play Electric – Reference manual (2014-07-16) a

Important safety instructions

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Before you begin

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About this manual

5

Getting support

5

VoiceSupport

5

Please register your Play Electric

5

Introduction

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Diagram legend

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Diagrams

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Basics

9

Inputs and outputs

10

Gain settings

12

Switches and operation

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Control knob and arrow buttons

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Soft buttons

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Connection diagrams

20

Mixer setup

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Play Electric back panel inputs
and outputs

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Stereo (or mono) vocals and guitar

22

Mono vocals and guitar amp

23

Mono vocal and guitar with a TC-Helicon
FX150

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Mono vocals via FX150 and a guitar amp

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Guitar and vocals via FX150 and stereo out
to a PA

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Stereo PA and TC-Helicon
Guitar & Headphone cable

27

Setup button/section

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Input page (1/8)

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Output page (2/8)

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Guitar page (3/8)

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System page (4/8)

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System page 2 (5/8)

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Loop page (6/8)

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Switch-3 page (7/8)

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Product Info page (8/8)

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Vocal FX button/section

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Harmony page (1/7)

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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)

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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

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Guitar amp page (1/5)

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Advanced Amp page

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Guitar compressor page (2/5)

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Guitar µMod page (3/5)

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Guitar Delay page (4/5)

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Delay Advanced page

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Guitar Reverb page (5/5)

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Mix button/section

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Mix page (1/2)

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Mix page (2/2)

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The Looper

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What is looping?

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Using the Play Electric looper

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Looping tips

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Using a Switch-3 for looping

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Troubleshooting

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General troubleshooting

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Appendix

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TC-Helicon scales reference chart

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Links

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Technical specifications

72

Product

Play Electric

Product (firmware) version

1.0

Document

Reference manual

Document version / date

2014-07-16