TC-Helicon VOICETONE R1

VoiceTone R1 puts three of TC-Helicon’s most-loved reverbs under one footswitch so your live vocal stops sounding dry the second you step on it. Smooth, Club and Hall — each one tuned for singers rather than synths or guitar amps — give you a believable space to sit in, without smearing the lyrics across the bar.

Plug your microphone straight in and patch the unit before the PA. XLR in, XLR out, phantom power for condensers — no aux send, no soundcheck negotiation with the engineer about how much reverb you want in your monitor. Tone is voiced for vocals, the controls are three big knobs you can read from a metre away in stage light, and the build is the road-ready chassis you’d expect from a working stage pedal.