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Overcome Your Stylistic Fear

Lisa Popeil

Lisa Popeil urges singers to play with their voice – and their gear. As I work with singers all over the world, one of the fears that comes up is ‘stylistic fear’: “I’m a rock singer who wants to sound more soulful,” or “I’m a pop singer who wants to sound more country”. Or, simply, [...]


Juliet Rusell – Make Your Voice Stand Out

Juliet Russell nature

She’s coached Grammy award winners, Brit nominees and X-Factor finalists and is a vocal coach on BBC1’s The Voice. Since Juliet Russell has listened to, literally, tens of thousands of vocalists, we asked her to tell us what really makes a voice stand out: There are a few things – I think a lovely, “listenable-to” [...]


Jeannie Deva’s Mic Shoot-Out

Jeannie with Line of Mics

This vocal coach to the stars urges all singers to be quick on the draw. Jeannie Deva’s career is impressive: she’s active as an international celebrity voice and performance coach, published author, clinician, recording studio vocal producer, and teacher of teachers. She’s also incredibly tech savvy. Recently Jeannie entered into an intensive stage of microphone [...]


The Perfect Status Update?

FB Male with Mic

Cliff Schwartz gives you his top tips for social media success. Wouldn’t it be incredible if you could get a huge crowd to notice your music by using just the right update on Facebook or Twitter? Actually, Cliff Schwartz thinks there’s a better way. He’s the President of NuMuBu.com and we’ve asked him to give [...]

  • September 27, 2012 at 3:43 am by
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Like A Little Controversy?

Juliet For TCH

VoiceCouncil Magazine raises pointed questions for singers. We’ve had some great questions lately – and we wonder what you think of the answers… • Should You Auto-Tune Your Vocals? – Check out Wes Maebe’s Answer • Where Do Most Singers Mess Up With Vocal Health? –Juliet Russell’s response to this question is short & sweet… [...]

  • July 10, 2012 at 5:58 am by
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Teaching the Voice – with Gear.

Jeannie Deva with TC-Helicon MP-75

Renowned coach Jeannie Deva uses TC-Helicon technology when she teaches. Jeannie Deva has long explored the singer’s voice. Her years of research into the voice and the challenges of singing contemporary genres resulted in her voice training method known as The Deva Method®, Complete Voice Training for Stage and Studio™. But Jeannie has been equally [...]


It’s Time to Simplify Things

1 on 1

VoiceCouncil Magazine can give you the essentials. Life can get so complicated – especially for the vocalist. There’s an information explosion in the area of singing – a wealth of information emerging from vocal health to technology. The good news is that it only takes a few minutes each week to stay on top of [...]

  • April 25, 2012 at 1:15 am by
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VoiceLive Touch Artist is Guitar Center Finalist

VoiceLive Touch

Looping Vid catches the eye of Grammy award winning producer John Shanks Congratulations to Jocelyn Scofield – one of 10 finalists (chosen from 17,000) in Guitar Center’s massive singer-songwriter competition. Jocelyn is looping with TC Helicon’s VoiceLive Touch –see the video that caught their interest VoiceCouncil blogger Sarah Bella is another top ten finalist! Sarah [...]


Tired of Waiting for That Big Break?

Ashley Weir - vocalist

From the editor of VoiceCouncil magazine: Sometimes a comment gets left at the end of a VoiceCouncil post that leaves me feeling courage to face the day. That was the case when Ashley Weir said: After years of waiting for my big “shot” I decided to put my ego to the side and never say [...]

  • November 8, 2011 at 9:13 am by
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A New Boost for Singers

VoiceCouncil Magazine

VoiceCouncil Magazine cranks up the volume on its content. We want to let our readers from TC-Helicon be among the first to hear about important changes coming at VoiceCouncil Magazine. Over the past few months we’ve been studying the preferences and needs of singers and so we’re introducing several new blogs and initiatives. Here is [...]