TC Electronic PLETHORA X5 Multi Effect TonePrint Pedal Board

Might make a good addition to an already existing pedal board lacking in modulation effects.Honest opinion you could probably get a budget reverb, phase, delay and chorus that would perform similarly for less.Would not consider this a replacement to a pedal board for the fact that there are no Drive pedals.Line 6 HX effects is slightly more expensive, just as easy to use with a large selection of effects including all the classic Fuzz/OD/Distortion.I recently returned the Plethora X5 for the Line 6 HX effects.

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Sold a lot of singles pedals and got this. Well worth the money. Just got mine and it came with an older firmware 1.2.18 and can’t download the very latest firmware from the tc electronic site 😢

Basically in love with this. I already had five TC stereo through/Tone Print Pedals (HOF, Vortex, MIMIQ, Helix, and Gravy), so I knew I wanted it as soon as I saw it. (NB, though it has I think all of the top-end TC pedals, it does NOT include the Helix, although this is allegedly coming "real soon"). If you like the TC pedals - obviously, all digital to start with - you will love this. It makes all of the Tone Prints available at flick of wrist (easily add new ones). The documentation is minimal to say the least, but there are a couple of good videos easily searchable. Plus, it is really simple! My only knocks are: you lose one of the four knobs as on the pedals; this is basically offset however by the fact that the Tone Prints are available and provide alternate shaping potential; and the the otherwise very well thought out and flexible insert path is mono, and when used, flattens any stereo signal present downstream (this makes sense in a way, but would have been awesome if insert path was also stereo. The compactness and flexibility plus the availability of delay and tremolo are leaning me towards dropping my existing tremolo and delay pedals for both the cleaness and compactness of the single unit and also the mind space of having essentially one interface for all of my modulation-type effects. I have not used the Tone Print editor but great to know it is there. Because I was already pretty hard core with TC I didn't really compare with the other products in this range, but meanwhile, I am pretty pleased.

Ho acquistato questa Pedaliera in quanto mi sembrava una pensata geniale accorpare in un unico chassis compatto 5 pedali liberamente configurabili e via software, fidandomi della qualità che ho sempre riscontrato nei prodotti TC Electronic e della semplicità di manovra che avevo potuto vedere all'opera in alcuni video. Alla prova pratica sono rimasto molto contento sia del suono che della configurabilità, anche se non ho ancora utilizzato il software TonePrint. Hi aggiornato il firmware con grande semplicità e ora ho alcuni effetti in più e un semplice looper. Utile anche il send/return per effetti esterni, anch'esso inseribile in qualsiasi punto della catena effetti attraverso il loop forward. In fondo manca solo la sezione overdrive/distortion ma basta inserire un pedale in ingresso o nel loop effetti e il gioco è fatto. È anche possibile un program change via midi. Alcune mancanze mi sono sembrate l'assenza di un'uscita cuffie, la latenza nei cambi fra le configurazioni di Pedaliera (se ne possono memorizzare fino a 127!) r magari un'uscita xlr, che sarebbe stata a me utile. Per il resto è un ottimo prodotto, adatto sia a chitarre elettriche che acustiche "preamplificate". Last but not least: il prezzo su Amazon era imbattibile!