TC Electronic PLETHORA X5 TonePrint Pedal Board Loaded with all Your Favorite FX and 5 MASH Footswitches, White

I absolutely love the Plethora X5 so far! It has all the features that I wanted & more than I could ask for. It's also very user friendly which is a plus & it acts more like using several stompboxes instead of a multi effect processor to me which I am a big fan of. I am a fan of TC Electronics to begin with & believe that they've created the perfect pedal. The X5 has allowed me to downsize my pedalboard, eliminating several pedals & I've actually moved back to an old, smaller board because I don't use as many pedals as I used to. I won't write a lengthy review describing what all it does. Instead, I would recommend that you go to YouTube & type in "Plethora X5 review by Anderton's" if you're wanting to see what features this machine has. If you've never watched their videos, they are educational, thorough, informative, & entertaining.

This was truly a great purchase. It's my goto pedal board for all things modular.

THIS DEVICE HAS BEEN THE BEST MULTI-EFFECTS MODULATION I HAVE EVER HAD

The glass that covers the LCD screens is not set in the frame? Yet glued to the body anyway? Lol I didn't even take the power cable out of the box... Just packed it back up for return unfortunately... I didn't really want a return, I want an exchange. That wasn't an option. Any idea when x5 will be available again? Thanks ...

I really do love my plethora. Saves a lot of room on my pedalboard and adds some great functionality with it's built in effects loop and stereo in/out. The latest firmware update addressed most of my complaints. The only major complaint I have now is with the Android app. It literally just doesn't work on my OnePlus 8 or my Samsung tablet. I can get the Bluetooth to connect, but as soon as you click the boards tab it crashes. They did release an app update that supposedly addressed this issue, but I haven't been able to try it out yet. Once I confirm it's fixed I'll edit my review accordingly. I know TC blamed a lot of their software development issues on Covid, but in my opinion they should have waited to release the plethora until it was a little more polished. That being said, it truly is a fantastic unit and it has basically replaced all my digital pedals on my pedalboard. Construction seems pretty robust so we'll see how long it holds up or of it will be repairable if it does break. I know TC doesn't exactly have the best track record in this area, but I was impressed enough with the unit that I went ahead and pulled the trigger. So far I'm not regretting that decision and it seems well worth the money now that the software issues are a little more polished.

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.

I’ve used rack effects for many years. I switched to pedals but wasn’t happy with them. This pedal works for me because I get digital effects with a small footprint. Easy to use and can be programmed from my iPhone-

I don't know what the deal was with the unit I received but when I opened the box, the display screen was popped up in the middle and one of the displays wasn't seated correctly, keeping the screen from sitting flush. I also found some scratching just below the play edit switch and another couple of scratches in other areas of the screen that at least to me indicated that this pedal had been used before. I did test the pedal and it seemed to work as it should but I ended up returning it as I didn't appreciate paying full price if I was to receive something that was used / had minor damage. I don't know if this was Amazon's fault for sending me a previously returned pedal or if there are some quality issues on TC Electronics end.

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

Effet STÉRÉO de très bon niveau , super facile à prendre en main , top pour la scène

入っておりませんでした これは日本語マニュアルとか ユーザー登録とか ないのでしょうか

Das Gehäuse ist sehr robust. Die Drehregler und Schalter wirken stabil. Die Effekte selber sind klanglich mittelfeld bis gut. Bei der Effektstärke heißt es meist, weniger ist mehr. Meine lieblinge sind Hall of Fame, Compressor und Octaver. In die Bedienung und die Möglichkeiten muß man sich leider mühevoll einarbeiten. Da muß man sich leider aus diversen Youtube-Videos wichtige Infos zur Benienung raus ziehn. Meist sind diese in englischer Sprache. Eine Vernünftige Anleitung fehlt leider. Die ersten Schritte sind jedoch recht einfach zu verstehen.

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!