I once had an octaver pedal that I used for just the last 5 seconds or so of a song... how many other pedals do people buy for similar situations. Just get this, flick to what you want for your less common needs. Buy the pedals you really want, that you'll use a lot. This then mops up everything else. really impressive.
@@myeyesarewaiting yeah i see the point. dunno whats impressive. did that with a line6m5. it 30 bucks used. phish stil plays it live for autowah. this is just lame. ancient good algos, a bit of interface tweak… lame. better then the hx one. you could get a hx stomp for that price. i use mine mostly as various pedalsimulations. it so easy to set up. why do guitarists celebrate these overpriced one trick pony pedals? to dumb to program a stomp? i dhave to try the new fx but bang for the buck tonex one beats this. ok no pitch.
At the end of the day this is still a multi-effects unit in a single pedal form factor. Yes the downloadable tone prints are nice, but practically you will use this pedal for that special effect that you occasionally use. If form factor is what bugs you, you can go a long way with the ZOOM MultiStomp.
The TC Plethora range is amazing overall and the X1 absolutely makes sense. And I don't even care too much about TC adding more artist toneprints. What I care about is updates and improvements of both the app itself and its functionality as well as the products' firmware. As for the app - it could do with some UI upgrades - for example editing a custom tremolo toneprint in the app doesn't show a precise note length so you're mostly flying blind. Also years after the release we still can't export and share custom toneprints or pedalboards. Some of the improvements to the Plethora range have been cool (like adding new pedals and a looper, improving MIDI etc.) but it's been a little too quiet for a while... also the (much requested and even formerly teased) addition of the Infinite Sample Sustainer to the Plethora effect library doesn't seem to be on the horizon - but I'd love to be proven wrong on that.
This is a solid product. It reminds me of digitech distortion factory, except it’s different style of effects rather than 7 different distortions. If boss released a single pedal that had 7 of their pedals in one, people would be lining up around the block for one. And if you want more of one particular effect then pickup the dedicated pedal to that (hof or flashback for example) Put the shoe on the other foot, if boss released a pedal that could be a ds-1, sd-1, ce-2, rv-6, dd8, and maybe an re-2 I guarantee it would sell like hot cakes. And if you use the rv-6 as an always on pedal, then you get that and this does all the other situational things. I bet this pedal sells extremely well
Considering that some of the upper end pedals like Profiler, Nano, Tonex one, Line six hx one etc...have no screen as they should this product is actually quite useful. Yes, the screen is small but it's there. Very positive feature...at least to me. The mash button is great and the onboard adjustments are useful on the fly as well. I like it.
The best TC algorithms you won’t find here, but in their famous studio rack units. These are the 2290 digital delay, the 1210 chorus, and DVR 250 reverb and the VSS4 stereo reverb. Only the 2290 exists in guitar pedal form (and we are lucky to have it). 250 and 1210 are in desktop controlled plugin ie dongle form. VSS4 only plugin. Unfortunately TC refuses for god knows what reason to sell most of their premium stuff in a modern fx unit, like Eventide has basically done with the H90. If they did, it would be amazing.
Most likely going to pick this up to put on my board for those one-song weird effects (Unchained, etc) and to use the Mimiq. I like that this has analog dry-through versus the X3/5 which convert the signal.
Btw the questionable character provides parts to less questionable chacters. And only he does because the less questionable characters can‘t purchase them for their honorable products elsewhere:) Information is from Josh/JHS btw. He sounds quite relaxed about Behringer as far as I know. Just saying.
So I think this has taken the place of the HX One on my gigging board. I find the UI a bit nicer, and because it doesn't have all of the algorithms of the HX, I can get to what I need quicker. Currently, for all of my drive sounds, I'm using dedicated analog pedals. So I've got the UA DelVerb handling most of my ambient effects. The Walrus M1 doing the bulk of my Modulations. And the PX1 filling in the gaps (flanger, Octave, pitch shifting, and alternative verbs and delays not covered by the DelVerb) HX One will go and live on my studio board as that's where I think that's best suited. It's crazy good and inspiring. But damnit if it's not a lot to try and fuss with in the heat of battle.
I know what I wish TC would make : a 2 or 3 or 4 unit rack with the legacy of G series guitar and bass multieffects updated with toneprint midi and amps from TC Ampworkx, all in one
Even Sweetwater BS'd me about this pedal. Sweetwater said it was in stock, TC video said it was available. After ordering and paying, Sweetwater said it wasn't in stock. After 3 emails, they said they have never had it in stock, and it won't be in stock until January. The Toneprint app still has no X1. Pure shenanigans, and total dishonesty. I'll wait to the end of this video before I decide to cancel the order.
Thanks for video. To be honest, to some extent I watched it to see the Fury. I wish there was more Rock/Metal in here but of course I understand that the pedal just does something else. I am really looking forward to the review video of the guitar. I'm planning to buy a Fury at the end of January as birthday present. Just one thing, the Fury is 899€, not 700€ at the moment.
@@EytschPi42 That's why I love my Wampler Terraform; the stereo ins/outs can be switched to two mono loops, one for pre-drive and one for post-drive. Each effect can then be assigned to either pre or post.
I cant see to use that a long time ago i went as a baby sitter with a group called phcycic tv a woman was running a bunch of tape decks with samples years later i mused about having my girlfri we nd run my board as part of the act never did it though
What on Earth are you talking about from 3:42?!? People want to see the pedal, hear what it sounds like, and then hear your thoughts on what it's like as an effect. Were you talking about some sort of paper insert in the box? Why are you talking about Behringer and biases you have about their pedals? (I know the companies are linked but that's not directly related to sound or product quality for this specific item). Focus! I really liked a lot of your previous videos, and enjoy your quirky sense of humour, but you have really lost the plot on this one. EDIT - and by the end of the video you're praising TC and saying its a must buy? Weirdly inconsistent. This video is a mess! A 36+ minute video is really self-indulgent, try editing out the rambling next time.
I can like the product but disagree with the business practices of their CEO, can't I? If you can make better videos, please do so and share them with the class!
@EytschPi42 you can definitely like one or dislike the other, but you're going about things the wrong way. I don't know why you mentioned that issue at the beginning. You didn't give enough context to be persuasive and to inform viewers what you're talking about. Maybe I would agree with you but you were so vague about it I still don't know what you were talking about. The pretext of the entire video was a pedal review, and it took a long time for you to actually get to that. These issues could have been split into two different videos. An Op Ed discussing business ethics could be an interesting video. But that's not what I signed up for when I watch a pedal review. This weird digression makes you look really unprofessional. Even framing it better would have been helpful. If you started out saying "I'm going to discuss this on two levels" - that comes across as something more thoughtful. Address the contradiction directly. Like I said, as is, it comes across as a complete mess. If you watched a pedal review, and the person contradicted themselves every two mins, wouldn't you get frustrated with that too? I'm not trying to criticize either perspective, I'm just saying that a lack of organization really undermined any substance in this video.
I just got one. The software is buggy as hell, the support is really dismissive and useless. I'm sending it back. It was an impulse buy that I immediately regretted.
For me just the next digital plastic toy tone box. As dispensable, as every single TC Electronic pedal. They made a few good things decades ago, admitted, but the budget level products, they produce today, do not convince me much. I can well live without them. But I anyway am no fan of pedals in general, I prefer the pure guitar - amp sound. So I most probably anyway am not a member of the target group.
TC is dead in the water since they were bought. Flashback II was peak technology. beaming in presets over pickup?...since ulli came in, tore left... only BORING good sounding SIMPLE cheap pedals. Now this, remix reshuffle, some interface tweaks....as Eventide did with h90. LAME. ullis new clone attack? basically they are following warmn AUDIO. maybe even order at the same factor
@ yes. but im tired to clap for another cheap china clone of a box that has been cloned many times before. i guess inside its the same as warm audios. maybe same factory. the klon as well. the cheap bezos drive mosky horseman is just fine. you get them for 10-20 bucks used. really? a behringer klon? lame. about tc: you miss the point: i didnt say it sounds bad. those fx algorithms are ancient! look when the flashback came out. plethora was not developed under behringer. they inherited it. eventide did the same thing: slicing out their great algos one overpriced pedal at a time. stuffing 2 h9 into a box with some new shenannigans… but no real progress. nothing innovative. lame guitarists just bying. thinking expensive better. sound dogs chasing the tone tail of yesteryear. its lame. new tc also behaves like ass. have it first hand from a insustry guy how they said theyd love to wirk with him… but not pay any money… ask the synth guys. hp42 can no morally hype a couple of chinese crap pedals imho for softly calling ulli out. they own a city. playing the nice boutique guys.
You sound very troubled. You called people who buy or want to support this product “dumb and poor guitarist”. Really?? You then added another rant talking about “lame guitarist just bying” (you even misspelled BUYING). You mentioned “sound dogs chasing the tone tail of yesteryear”(with no cap to start a sentence). No one comes here to be insulted by you so just stop. Happy Holidays!
The edit before "Questionable Character" lol, I love you Henning.
@@alexwood8555 thats card blanche from me for shilling a couple of chinese cheapos to pay the bills… calling the b out. nice.
I once had an octaver pedal that I used for just the last 5 seconds or so of a song... how many other pedals do people buy for similar situations. Just get this, flick to what you want for your less common needs. Buy the pedals you really want, that you'll use a lot. This then mops up everything else. really impressive.
That's exactly why I purchased one.
@@myeyesarewaiting yeah i see the point. dunno whats impressive. did that with a line6m5. it 30 bucks used. phish stil plays it live for autowah. this is just lame. ancient good algos, a bit of interface tweak… lame. better then the hx one. you could get a hx stomp for that price. i use mine mostly as various pedalsimulations. it so easy to set up. why do guitarists celebrate these overpriced one trick pony pedals? to dumb to program a stomp?
i dhave to try the new fx but bang for the buck tonex one beats this. ok no pitch.
"Chunk!!! Do the truffle shuffle if you wanna come in!!"
As always, your honesty is much appreciated
At the end of the day this is still a multi-effects unit in a single pedal form factor. Yes the downloadable tone prints are nice, but practically you will use this pedal for that special effect that you occasionally use. If form factor is what bugs you, you can go a long way with the ZOOM MultiStomp.
This is a really fun video for me as I've already received mine 🥳
Best wishes and Happy Holidays🎄❄️☃️
The TC Plethora range is amazing overall and the X1 absolutely makes sense. And I don't even care too much about TC adding more artist toneprints. What I care about is updates and improvements of both the app itself and its functionality as well as the products' firmware. As for the app - it could do with some UI upgrades - for example editing a custom tremolo toneprint in the app doesn't show a precise note length so you're mostly flying blind. Also years after the release we still can't export and share custom toneprints or pedalboards. Some of the improvements to the Plethora range have been cool (like adding new pedals and a looper, improving MIDI etc.) but it's been a little too quiet for a while... also the (much requested and even formerly teased) addition of the Infinite Sample Sustainer to the Plethora effect library doesn't seem to be on the horizon - but I'd love to be proven wrong on that.
This is a solid product. It reminds me of digitech distortion factory, except it’s different style of effects rather than 7 different distortions. If boss released a single pedal that had 7 of their pedals in one, people would be lining up around the block for one. And if you want more of one particular effect then pickup the dedicated pedal to that (hof or flashback for example)
Put the shoe on the other foot, if boss released a pedal that could be a ds-1, sd-1, ce-2, rv-6, dd8, and maybe an re-2 I guarantee it would sell like hot cakes. And if you use the rv-6 as an always on pedal, then you get that and this does all the other situational things.
I bet this pedal sells extremely well
Considering that some of the upper end pedals like Profiler, Nano, Tonex one, Line six hx one etc...have no screen as they should this product is actually quite useful. Yes, the screen is small but it's there. Very positive feature...at least to me. The mash button is great and the onboard adjustments are useful on the fly as well. I like it.
It may be good for those effects you don’t use often and TC effects sound always good
5:22 kitty!!!!
14:55 yeeeeesssssz
Very fun lil one.
Goonies fan checking in or should I say shuffling in. ;)
The best TC algorithms you won’t find here, but in their famous studio rack units. These are the 2290 digital delay, the 1210 chorus, and DVR 250 reverb and the VSS4 stereo reverb. Only the 2290 exists in guitar pedal form (and we are lucky to have it). 250 and 1210 are in desktop controlled plugin ie dongle form. VSS4 only plugin. Unfortunately TC refuses for god knows what reason to sell most of their premium stuff in a modern fx unit, like Eventide has basically done with the H90. If they did, it would be amazing.
Most likely going to pick this up to put on my board for those one-song weird effects (Unchained, etc) and to use the Mimiq. I like that this has analog dry-through versus the X3/5 which convert the signal.
Btw the questionable character provides parts to less questionable chacters. And only he does because the less questionable characters can‘t purchase them for their honorable products elsewhere:) Information is from Josh/JHS btw. He sounds quite relaxed about Behringer as far as I know. Just saying.
So I think this has taken the place of the HX One on my gigging board. I find the UI a bit nicer, and because it doesn't have all of the algorithms of the HX, I can get to what I need quicker. Currently, for all of my drive sounds, I'm using dedicated analog pedals. So I've got the UA DelVerb handling most of my ambient effects. The Walrus M1 doing the bulk of my Modulations. And the PX1 filling in the gaps (flanger, Octave, pitch shifting, and alternative verbs and delays not covered by the DelVerb)
HX One will go and live on my studio board as that's where I think that's best suited. It's crazy good and inspiring. But damnit if it's not a lot to try and fuss with in the heat of battle.
A musician’s final thoughts should be of Ohio
I know what I wish TC would make : a 2 or 3 or 4 unit rack with the legacy of G series guitar and bass multieffects updated with toneprint midi and amps from TC Ampworkx, all in one
Even Sweetwater BS'd me about this pedal. Sweetwater said it was in stock, TC video said it was available. After ordering and paying, Sweetwater said it wasn't in stock. After 3 emails, they said they have never had it in stock, and it won't be in stock until January. The Toneprint app still has no X1. Pure shenanigans, and total dishonesty. I'll wait to the end of this video before I decide to cancel the order.
I want one. I would get HX One long time ago if it had A/Bo function. Now my board will be tuner, Spark, Plethora X1. That's enough :)
Hope it’s not your last Tc video because they are pretty good ✊🏼
Thanks for video. To be honest, to some extent I watched it to see the Fury. I wish there was more Rock/Metal in here but of course I understand that the pedal just does something else. I am really looking forward to the review video of the guitar. I'm planning to buy a Fury at the end of January as birthday present. Just one thing, the Fury is 899€, not 700€ at the moment.
It may well be but Thomann have a 5-7 week wait for stock. That is years away.
Can I plug my iron into it in case I have to get rid of some wrinkles?.
yes
Where would you put that pedal in your signal chain since it can do everything?
difficult... I would go post fx, but that doesn't work for some of them.
@@EytschPi42 That's why I love my Wampler Terraform; the stereo ins/outs can be switched to two mono loops, one for pre-drive and one for post-drive. Each effect can then be assigned to either pre or post.
Plethora X5 would work better in those scenarios where you want pre-post drive effects, it has a loop so you can 4 cable and arrange them accordingly
13:29 demo begin
there are chapter marks... and THAT is not the demo... the whole video isn't a demo... it is a review.
What exactly is the problem with Behringer as a person? The pedal though sounds very interesting.
With my experience with tc, its gonna be awesome for 6 months, until something breaks...
Chester Copperpot!
I find the Zoom "MS70-CDR Plus" better...
I cant see to use that a long time ago i went as a baby sitter with a group called phcycic tv a woman was running a bunch of tape decks with samples years later i mused about having my girlfri we nd run my board as part of the act never did it though
I’ll wait X5 with Bluetooth and usb c
That was my thought too. The improvements made to the X1 have to be backported to the X3 and X5 before too long.
There is no "hype" around this pedal. I am very much into guitar gear and I've never heard of this pedal.
so because YOU haven't heard of it, nobody else has?
@EytschPi42 so because YOU have heard of this pedal, there is a hype? I just googled the pedal. There is no hype. No one seems to care.
@@Sagerydian or… I mean… hear me out here… or one could get all upset about a YT thumbnail because otherwise life has no meaning anymore.
@EytschPi42 In no way I am upset. I only stated that there is no hype around this pedal. Very rarely this day there is a hype around a new pedal.
Interesting product.
Don't like Uli.
The end :)
What on Earth are you talking about from 3:42?!? People want to see the pedal, hear what it sounds like, and then hear your thoughts on what it's like as an effect. Were you talking about some sort of paper insert in the box? Why are you talking about Behringer and biases you have about their pedals? (I know the companies are linked but that's not directly related to sound or product quality for this specific item). Focus!
I really liked a lot of your previous videos, and enjoy your quirky sense of humour, but you have really lost the plot on this one.
EDIT - and by the end of the video you're praising TC and saying its a must buy? Weirdly inconsistent. This video is a mess! A 36+ minute video is really self-indulgent, try editing out the rambling next time.
I can like the product but disagree with the business practices of their CEO, can't I?
If you can make better videos, please do so and share them with the class!
@EytschPi42 you can definitely like one or dislike the other, but you're going about things the wrong way. I don't know why you mentioned that issue at the beginning. You didn't give enough context to be persuasive and to inform viewers what you're talking about. Maybe I would agree with you but you were so vague about it I still don't know what you were talking about.
The pretext of the entire video was a pedal review, and it took a long time for you to actually get to that. These issues could have been split into two different videos. An Op Ed discussing business ethics could be an interesting video. But that's not what I signed up for when I watch a pedal review. This weird digression makes you look really unprofessional.
Even framing it better would have been helpful. If you started out saying "I'm going to discuss this on two levels" - that comes across as something more thoughtful. Address the contradiction directly. Like I said, as is, it comes across as a complete mess.
If you watched a pedal review, and the person contradicted themselves every two mins, wouldn't you get frustrated with that too? I'm not trying to criticize either perspective, I'm just saying that a lack of organization really undermined any substance in this video.
I just got one. The software is buggy as hell, the support is really dismissive and useless. I'm sending it back. It was an impulse buy that I immediately regretted.
1 out of 1 doomscrolling guitar dorks found this review helpful.
For me just the next digital plastic toy tone box. As dispensable, as every single TC Electronic pedal. They made a few good things decades ago, admitted, but the budget level products, they produce today, do not convince me much. I can well live without them.
But I anyway am no fan of pedals in general, I prefer the pure guitar - amp sound. So I most probably anyway am not a member of the target group.
TC is dead in the water since they were bought. Flashback II was peak technology. beaming in presets over pickup?...since ulli came in, tore left... only BORING good sounding SIMPLE cheap pedals. Now this, remix reshuffle, some interface tweaks....as Eventide did with h90. LAME. ullis new clone attack? basically they are following warmn AUDIO. maybe even order at the same factor
Ok
How about the new fuzz bender. I have one... marvelous for the money. The plethora looks and sounds fabulous
@ yes. but im tired to clap for another cheap china clone of a box that has been cloned many times before. i guess inside its the same as warm audios. maybe same factory. the klon as well. the cheap bezos drive mosky horseman is just fine. you get them for 10-20 bucks used. really? a behringer klon? lame. about tc: you miss the point: i didnt say it sounds bad. those fx algorithms are ancient! look when the flashback came out.
plethora was not developed under behringer. they inherited it. eventide did the same thing: slicing out their great algos one overpriced pedal at a time. stuffing 2 h9 into a box with some new shenannigans… but no real progress. nothing innovative. lame guitarists just bying. thinking expensive better. sound dogs chasing the tone tail of yesteryear. its lame.
new tc also behaves like ass. have it first hand from a insustry guy how they said theyd love to wirk with him… but not pay any money… ask the synth guys. hp42 can no morally hype a couple of chinese crap pedals imho for softly calling ulli out. they own a city. playing the nice boutique guys.
You sound very troubled. You called people who buy or want to support this product “dumb and poor guitarist”. Really?? You then added another rant talking about “lame guitarist just bying” (you even misspelled BUYING). You mentioned “sound dogs chasing the tone tail of yesteryear”(with no cap to start a sentence). No one comes here to be insulted by you so just stop. Happy Holidays!
Total and complete dislike from me. You playing is great, but the pedal. Nope! TC undermined their own brand.