TC electronic Plethora X5 guitar multi-effects processor

TC electronic Plethora X5

As soon as you unbox Plethora you’ve got a whole bunch of tasty premade boards ready to go. No fuss. If you have a specific idea about what you need, take it one step further and choose which pedals go where on your board.

Or go all-in and get your hands dirty with TC proprietary TonePrint technology, letting you customize each pedal in-depth for a truly unique setup! You decide how far you want to go.

Always Be Prepared

Setting up a nice pedalboard takes time. Planning, measuring, figuring out combined current draw, and cutting Velcro, all before organizing cables and power cords in a way that doesn’t look like the aftermath of a minor apocalyptic event.
With the ability to create and store up to 127 custom boards, tailored to your needs, you’ll never run out of tones.

Any Color You Like

Populate each of the boards with any TonePrint pedal combo. Plethora X5 lets you combine up to 5 TonePrint pedals of your choice and arrange them in any order you need on each of the boards.
This is your chance to make the Flash of Fame combined delay/reverb pedal you’ve been craving, with an extra side of modulation and pitch shifting for a truly massive tone!
It’s all of your favorite TC stomps in one unit that will satisfy all of your needs for pitch tracking, studio-grade compression, sultry modulation, unobtrusive noise gating, toneful reverb, epic delay and more.

TonePrint Treasure Chest

Each pedal in Plethora X5 has 75 TonePrint slots available for quick recall of your favorite settings, letting you collate and store a list of your favorite sounds for safe keeping.
Dial in and store a cornucopia of unique TonePrints tailor-made to your personal gear setup and have a whole host of iconic tones ready for your next jam session made by the greatest musicians in the world!

Drive pedals are at the heart of building your own tone.

More so than any other type of pedal, they are integral to which kind of guitarist you see yourself as. They become part of your identity. An extension of yourself blasted through your amp!
As such, you should have the choice to integrate your own favorite stompboxes into the signal chain.
Plethora’s FX insert loop lets you add your preferred flavor of gain anywhere on the board you like.
You can also use the insert for 4-cable method setup with your amplifier, letting you choose which effects go in front of your amp’s input and which effects live in your amp’s effects loop.

MASH To Perfection

Outfitted with 5 of groundbreaking MASH footswitches, Plethora provides expression in a degree that was hitherto unknown.

Volume swells, modulation ramping, fluid mix control and so much more.

Each MASH footswitch lets you control your effects in real-time by simply mashing down on the footswitch. With each MASH switch controlling up to 3 effect parameters simultaneously through completely customizable action curves, your “always-on” effects suddenly grew a whole new dimension.

Expression On The Side

Do you have a special place in your heart for expression pedals? Sometimes a certain song might call for separate parameter control outside of what the MASH switches provide.
That’s cool., Plethora X5 features an EXP input to hook up your favorite expression pedal for controlling any effect you like or adding an extremely useful volume pedal, anywhere in the boards signal chain.

Stay Connected

Plethora X5 is the first TC pedal to feature Bluetooth, letting you connect to the TonePrint App to load Using the free TonePrint app you can connect your phone to Plethora and arrange your boards to get everything just the way you like it!

Keeping An Ear Out

With a product as wide-ranging and versatile as Plethora X5 there’s a huge potential for further development and TC is dedicated to release regular updates with new features, new pedals, new TonePrints and some next-level top secret stuff.

Mix It Up!

What would it sound like if you turned the usual order of delay into reverb upside down? Or if you insert your favorite, sputtery octave fuzz at the end of your chain after the time based effects? Great question! With Plethora’s Quick Swap feature, it’s a breeze to experiment with pedal routing.
Just hold down the footswitches of two pedals that you’d like to swap around and it’s done. Easy peas. Cool beans.

Cab Service When You Need It

When you’re in the mood for going somewhere in a hurry, it’s nice to have dependable cab service! You may not have time or space to grab your amp and cabinet before rushing to the gig. As an added bonus TC have included an optional global cab simulation made in-house, with British-style voicing.

Specifications:

• Highly-flexible TonePrint pedal board with simple, intuitive controls
• Create and customize up to 127 custom boards with any combination of TonePrint pedals
• Populate each BOARD with up to 5 pedals including all TonePrint FX
• Store up to 75 TonePrints per FX for fast and easy recall
• FX include Hall Of Fame 2 Reverb, Flashback 2 Delay, Sub n Up Octaver, Brainwaves Pitch Shifter, Corona Chorus, Hypergravity Compressor, Mimiq Doubler, Vortex Flanger, Pipeline Tap Tremolo, Quintessence Harmony, Sentry Noise Gate, Shaker Vibrato
• Customizable FX signal chain on each board
• MASH technology turns all 5 footswitches into expression controllers with customizable mapping
• Added MASH functionality to all legacy Toneprint Pedals
• FX loop insert with customizable routing to integrate external pedals or connect to your amp using 4-cable method
• Includes built-in UniTune chromatic tuner
• Global speaker cab-sim for direct play with audio interface and PA systems
• Bluetooth connection to the free TonePrint App to import tones from our vast library of TonePrints
• Use the free TonePrint App editor to access hundreds of effects parameters and design custom TonePrints
• Organize boards quickly using the free TonePrint App
• EXP input assign an external expression pedal to control FX parameters or use as a volume pedal anywhere in the signal chain
• Optional Tap Tempo for tim1X
• Simple 3 knob control over each pedal for fast FX tweaking
• 'Quick Swap' feature to instantly reorganize your signal chain
• Automatically saves your settings as you go
• MIDI IN for selecting boards from external devices
• Full stereo I/O with low noise and high levels of headroom
• Regular firmware updates to include new boards, new pedals, new TonePrints and some top secret exclusive stuff
• Bypass mode: True Bypass
• Input connectors: 2 x 1/4" TS, unbalanced
• Output connectors: 2 x 1/4" TS, unbalanced
• Insert connectors: 2 x 1/4" TS, unbalanced
• Expression pedal: 1 x 1/4" TRS
• MIDI in / thru: 5-pin DIN
• Power input: Standard 5.5 / 2.1 mm 9 VDC, centre negative; > 600 mA (included)
• EFFECT knob, TONEPRINT knob, parameter knobs (assignable), effect slot / MASH footswitches (assignable), PLAY / EDIT selector switch, BOARDS selector switch
• Latency: 0.8 2.4 ms
• USB port: Mini-B USB connector
• Bluetooth Version: Version 4.2 Low Energy
• Operating frequency 2.402 to 2.48 GHz
• Channel Number: 40
• RF output power: 8 dBm
• Working distance: Up to 10 m measured in open space (wall and structures may affect range of device)
• Dimensions (H x W x D): 298.5 x 116 x 53 mm (11.8 x 4.6 x 2.1")
• Weight: 1.4 kg (3.08lbs)