TC Electronic PLETHORA X5 Multi-Effects Pedalboard with 5 MASH Switches, TonePrint FX & Bluetooth Guitar Effects Processor for Studio & Live

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