TC Electronic PLETHORA X5

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 😢

I considered it too expensive, but a Black Friday deal, £90 off and a “Take our credit card and we’ll give you £40” brought it down to half price. (Credit card balance transferred and card chopped up!)It’s a digital device and almost all the TC electronic modulation device Toneprints can be downloaded to it. Exceptions are the Dreamscape and the SpectraComp bass compressor. What’s on the Dreamscape is here already in other guises and there is the Hyper Gravity compressor. I’m not sure how different the Bass compressor is?A criticism I’ve read, “There’s no distortion”, TC electronic distortion pedals are analogue and to include one of these would require circuitry rather that software so that ain’t gonna happen any time soon! However, there is an FX insert capability where ANY pedal can be included in the chain.A new 5 pedal board can be constructed electronically in minutes rather than physically in hours and you can try things out without wasting too much time. You can tinker with stuff you wouldn’t consider buying as a standalone pedal. Already I’ve found vibrato chained with phaser sounds quite good, two pedals I didn’t like too much and sent back. I also like the Brainwaves effects, although I’m not sure of what, or how, it’s doing it.In Edit mode the three knobs across the top of the Plethora allow adjustment of individual effect parameters. Very familiar if you have any of the TC Mini range pedals. Once they are set turn to Play mode and the knobs do nothing, so there’s no accidental knob knocking problems.Most Toneprints, are easily set up, a few are not! I bought a Quintessence to try and get to grips with Modes, it’s a complicated pedal and you need all 4 knobs and two toggles switches. The presentation of this on the Plethora would have been incomprehensible without the original. So the Quintessence pedal is staying.At the moment I have the Plethora on a small board with a Spark pedal in series. I don’t use the Spark as a booster, but as an overdrive and EQ, it has active tone controls! This allows me to use all 5 slots on the Plethora as modulation effects. Another “taking up space effect” is the Sentry Noise gate. I’ve already got an Iron Curtain that sits with my amp, so the Sentry is, well, pointless.The way I’m using the plethora is as a table top tinkering device, I had thought It would enable me sell on some of my pedals, some will go, but some will stay, the Plethora is NOT going on the floor.Doug

It is an amazing bit of kit for sure... well built and for someone who prefers switches to menus I managed to sort things out fairly quickly with little frustration... I gave it four stars because I thought for the price there was something lacking...it needed a little more... though I am appreciating it more each day. Would I have purchased it knowing what I now know. Yes.

This is the best multi effect pedal that you can find.Easy to use, almost all TC Electronics pedals included.Sound quality is superb, overall quality is excellent.Highly recommended 👌

This unit has transformed my sound and given me so much inspiration to create amazing music... I highly recommend it

Excellent tones and simple to use. The toneprints for Plethora are not as extensive as the actual stand alone pedals. But it's excellent considering the number of boards you can set up.

Super verstile pedal, amazing!The only thing I would improve are the loop pedals, they dont sync if you have multiple, a drum machine/drummer to loop to and gain/distortion pedal.

Great piece of kit works well and has a lot onboard for the price - I use amp’s valves for overdriven sound so lack of distortion is a non issue. Loop works great with the Various distortion pedals I have if required too

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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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!

Dedalera recién adquirida, ya la verdad que de momento muy contento.Se pueden organizar repertorios, preset..etcMuy muy aconsejable por este precioCalidad TC Electronic como siempre