Yup .. and if you notice in the professional demo of the 900 vocal section, they skim over it with a few quick syllables so we can't make a good judgement on the tone. They clearly led us to believe that TC means great harmony, as it is in the 3x ... and then they put in a lesser unit to save money. I'm on my way to try out a different mic preamp before tonight's job. My search continues - I SO want to make this work because I love the way it plays, looks, feels and packs up. Worse case scenario is that I add the VLT2 to my rig, and sit it under the kb in that box I built.