Delicious Audio: TC Electronic TonePrint Pedals — Epic Things Come In Tiny Packages
Our friends at Delicious Audio have reviewed TC Electronics’ new TonePrint line of guitar pedals. Read on and click for Benjamin Wigler’s entire review…
Today’s pedal market is flooded with limited-run pedals in handmade art-covered boxes. The majority are barely-modified clones of vintage circuitry pretty boxes prizing visual panache above sonic potential. While many mainstream effects-companies scramble to ’boutique-ify’ their lines, industry-stalwart TC Electronic has dived headfirst into deep-end of the pool, reinventing guitar accessories for a new century of live performance.
A Total Tone Transfusion!
The TC Electronic TonePrint pedal line provides revolutionary features and a huge spectrum of gorgeous tones whose beauty is more than skin-deep.
There are five pedals in the line: the Corona Chorus, Flashback Delay & Looper, Vortex Flanger, Shaker Vibrato and Hall of Fame Reverb. The names are as straight-forward and sensible as the pedal casing.
Each unit neatly packs top-of-the-line components into an extremely small case that features effortless battery access (no daisy-chained cable-clutter!) and a simple array of knobs for tone-tweaking. The tech-sexy feature of the line is the TonePrint feature using a USB cable, the user can connect to the TC Electronic website and download free custom “TonePrints.”
A TonePrint is a preset created by a celebrity-guitarist which can be downloaded into the specific pedal as quickly as the user’s internet connection allows. Each preset completely recalibrates the core sound of the pedal and even mutates the reactivity for every knob on the pedal. This feature is activated by rotating a mode-knob (replaced by a toggle switch on certain models) and imbues the pedals with an unprecedented range of flexibility that truly cannot be matched by any other pedal on the market, save those which feature complex and often cumbersome MIDI-recall.
Continue reading for Wigler’s impressions of the pedals in action… at Delicious Audio!
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