TC Electronic M-One XL

Pretty easy, the D2 has the most used parameters controllable with a knob on the front panel which is easier than the M-one, but the M-one is still just a few buttons away from anything you'll ever need to tweak.

Sounds great, the reverbs are very clean and the delays sound great as well.

It works, and just like any other piece of TC gear I've never had an issue with it.

Can't comment, never had to contact TC support.

Honestly this is a great little unit. Especially for what it costs. The verbs sound great and the delay is very user friendly and you get 2 separate FX in one box.

I feel the need to address the review by Rick thats 2 or 3 below this one.

Total BS, sorry but anybody claiming that a piece of Behringer gear works and sounds better than a TC M-One clearly doesn't know what they are talking about.

"Once I raise the mix of the verb (or slapback as I was using it for), the mixed signal just ruins the sound of the voice. It's like once you cant hear the verb in the mix at all and then one tiny increment more and its washed out the original."

USER ERROR: There is absolutely no reason for that to be the case, with any reverb unit. He is either using the wrong reverb for vocal application and/or has the decay times way too long or way too much pre-delay or something I don't know. Maybe his gain structure is wacky on his fx return channel and small adjustments on the aux send make for huge amounts of reverb. I don't know what was going on there but this unit sounds great in the mix and the sound quality is comparable to units that cost much more. If you don't know how to dial in a proper reverb on a vocal, don't blame the piece of gear.

"I thought maybe it was just me until I heard it used at a big club in town. The vocals were indestinguishable becuase of this piece of crap. I am now using my cheap old Berhringer virtualizer and getting a much better result."

That is nothing short of ridiculous. Again, USER ERROR. He hears some soundguy in town using too much reverb and he tries to blame the piece of gear. Then claims that Behringer makes a suitable replacement for a unit of actual quality. Absurd.

Try the plate reverb with a decay of 1.7 to 2.5 seconds and that'll work just dandy on a vocal right out of the box. If you prefer the sound of Lexicon over TC verbs then that's fair enough but to claim that this unit is "unmusical" and a "piece of crap" is just plain ignorant.

The M-One XL is a great value and definitely worth buying, and an even better deal used on ebay.

Wish I knew...could never get it to work - the nob wouldn't select anything - even after exiting, recalling nothing seemed to work - turning it off and then on again - it would scroll a few but then nothing. I got it to work for like 5 sec and then it cut out and I can't get it to work. This is the second unit i had right out of the box and i'm having to return it again.

Wish I knew...could never get it to work - the nob wouldn't select anything - even after exiting, recalling nothing seemed to work - turning it off and then on again - it would scroll a few but then nothing. I got it to work for like 5 sec and then it cut out and I can't get it to work. This is the second unit i had right out of the box and i'm having to return it again.

Wish I knew...could never get it to work - the nob wouldn't select anything - even after exiting, recalling nothing seemed to work - turning it off and then on again - it would scroll a few but then nothing. I got it to work for like 5 sec and then it cut out and I can't get it to work. This is the second unit i had right out of the box and i'm having to return it again.

I'm just returning it - i've read enough to konw that some people have had issues with this unit right out of the box. This is a concern as i go on the road and i'm halling it around in a rack unit. I"m afraid it's not that durable if they can't get a good quality control to have it shipped and have it work out of the box. One i could undersstand but 2. Even the folks at guitar center agreed that both units were defective out of the box. So it's not just user error

The manual is not that telling. You basically just have to play around with it until you get it to work

Sounds great!

Mine had problems right out of the box. It would just stop working intermittently.

TERRIBLE!!!!! I don't know why the other reviews talk about a customer service phone number. The only way to contact TC is via e-mail, and it takes 2-5 days for anyone to get back to you. I sent my mone-xl in for repair under warranty (seeing as how it NEVER worked), and it has been three weeks, and I have not heard from anyone saying that they received it, and I have no idea when it might come back. TC's customer support is awful in my opinion!!!!

Its somewhat easy to use, now that we've all become accustomed to the crappy digital interface of locate menu > locate sub menu > adjust parameter nonsense. It makes sense. its just a cumbersome as any other digital rack effect. The manual is really good.

Here is the issue. I read all of the reviews and based on them I chose this over one of the comparable lexicon units. What a mistake. I cant beleive all of the glowing reviews this thing gets. It is the most unmusical reverb unit I have ever used. The patches sound great by themselves but in the mix it seems to be all or nothing. Once I raise the mix of the verb (or slapback as I was using it for), the mixed signal just ruins the sound of the voice. It's like once you cant hear the verb in the mix at all and then one tiny increment more and its washed out the original. I thought maybe it was just me until I heard it used at a big club in town. The vocals were indestinguishable becuase of this piece of crap. I am now using my cheap old Berhringer virtualizer and getting a much better result. Once I see this thing I am gonna get a Lexicon like is should have in the first place. Its verb and delay are very harsh unatural and not at all warm and smooth. Until I dug out the Virtualizer I ran completely reverb free rather than using this.

No issues

Never need it

I use this for live sound. Very straight forward unit. Easy to use. I never had to read the manual once. If you want to edit something, there's and 'algo edit' button for each engine, press it, scroll through the parameters, and you're off. Routing is also very easy, the interface is very user friendly with clear displays.

Seriously for the price, there isn't anything that comes close to the sound quality and features of this unit. Someone below compared this to a lexicon mpx1, something I recently did as well. For almost twice the price, the mpx1 does sound good. Better than the m-one-xl? I wouldn't say so. Some people have a preference to TC verbs to lexicon or vice versa. Well besides the TC unit being far more user friendly, I also liked the sound of the TC better. Both units have great verbs, although the TC has less tweaking parameters, I thought the reverbs were more usable right off the bat. Especially for drum verbs. The verbs on this unit are very clear,and crisp. The delays work great as well and the dual engine factor is yet one more reason I would take this over the lexicon mpx1 which is almost twice as much. If you do have more to spend I would try the TC M2000 which is the next step up from this unit. Costs the same as the lexicon mpx1 and I imagine it sounds better given how comparable the m-one xl is.

I've yet to have a problem with it, TC is a solid company. Very dependable item and well built.

Never had to, though I've heard great things about tc customer support and the one time I emailed them a question about the C 300 compressor I received a very prompt and helpful response.

This thing is great. For the price its an exceptional value and the fact that it has dual independent fx processing so you can run two separate fx returning on two different channels makes it even more of a good buy. Overall, it sounds great. Very easy to use and a valuable asset to my work in live sound. As far as comparing TC to lexicon, I think for the mid range priced fx units TC is the way to go for sure, you definitely will get more for your money. I think lexicon really shines for with their very high end studio verbs, which even then the high end tc stuff will be right there with it. I think anyone spending under a grand on fx would be considerably better off with a TC unit over lexicon.

Yes, the fact that you have to turn the knob is a little slow - especially when you use presets that are really far apart. I could just save the ones I use into the user patches...

Otherwise, the thing is easy. Intuitive, obvious. There's no way that anyone with a minimal amount of technical skill could think this thing is hard to use.

Used as a guitar reverb.

PRS (and homemade custom instruments) -> Mesa Formula Pre -> 2120 -> TC M-OneXL -> Mesa Poweramp -> H&K 4x12.

The M-One is NEVER noisy. Whatever would make a peice of gear with XLR inputs noisy is beyond me.

I usually program the hell out of my tools - but I have never once needed to do a thing to program my TC M-one. There are presets for nearly anything I could think of myself, and they sound great without modification.

There are some chorus effects that are wonderful, and the reverbs are good too. The delays are okay - but I would suggest getting a D-Two Rhythm Tap delay if you want full-out delays.

I have never thought I would need a backup of this peice. I bought it new and don't throw it down stairs or spill coffee onto it. Sure, I use it to gig.

TC is pretty damn cool. I had to call them once and they were helpful.

Never needed a repair - wouldn't do an upgrade (especially since "upgrade" isn't necessarily an upgrade!!)

I play in every style imaginable - but I do exclusivelly original stuff so I never needed to copy someone elses signature sound.

I've been playing for 16 years - and would love to deck out my entire studio with TC gear.

As far as I know, there is nothing else in its price range that compares. Stay away from cheapo stuff like Digitech. A digi processor may sound good - but they will break on you until you give up and buy a tc.

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The unit is very easy to work with. It may not be as easily laid out as the lexicon pcm 60, but it does have an interface and all the i/o's that you will ever need. It comes with a manuel, but you probably won't need it.

Okay, my first reaction to the sound that I got from the unit was a "Oh my God!" I can't believe how good this product is for the price! The reverb has a smooth tail and isn't metallic. I've used the "guitar hero" and played "Magdalena" from A Perfect Circle's Mer de Noms album. It sounded as good or at least close enough. If you are thinking about buying a Lexicon PCM reverb, you may want to try the MOne XL. It's a lot closer to that level of quality then you might expect from a much more expensive unit. Of course the MOne isn't the best of the best, but for the money its not bad at all.

I haven't had any problems. I had it for more then a year.

Great technical support staff at tc electronic. You can leave a message for a call back and they will call you back.

The best reverb for under $500.

I have read reviews where people have found this processor difficult to use but I personally thought it was fairly simple. The only gripe I have is that in order to change values you must turn the Control wheel. Do you know how many times you need to turn the knob to adjust from lets say 500ms to 20ms? It should have had Up/Down buttons as with other gear I own. My concern is how long will the wheel hold up? For this I give it a 5 rating.

Awesome reverb and delay!

With exception of the Control Wheel scenario mentioned previously, I really like this processor. The sound quality is excellent!

The interface is ok once you use it for a while. I prefer the editing on a Yamaha Spx to this. This has 200 presets and 100 user slots so there are plenty to chooose from. The manual is ok and does the job.

The sound quaility is very very good on the reverbs. I would descibe them as clean and like cream. If you are looking for the vintage (distortion) sound for your digital recording this is not it. The unit is very quite also.

So far so good.

I did have some questions and there support through there web site was great and very helpful. A lot companies could benefit by checking TC's website out for service.

Right now I'm using this for live sound. I like the idea that I can split it into two seperate units in one rack space. I use it on drums and vocals mostly. I use the tap feature to change delay times for different songs. For the price it is a pretty nice unit. I would prefer a little differnt arangement for editing and LED displays as opposed to the meters contained in the LCD. This is great unit for live and probably even better for recording. Seems like it would work great for guitar players because of the tap feature.

This unit is fairly easy to work with. Since it is my first rack gear piece, it took a little getting used to. But with a quick glance at the manual, I was on my way to quality effects heaven!

Even though this processor is meant for vocalists, it is AWESOME for guitarists. There are great effects and you get to choose what kind of each one you want. For example, if you want to use a chorus, you get to choose either classic chorus,4-voice or slow. It's awesome. This ting is NOISELESS by the way. My only beefe with it is that if you have just alittle too much volume, it totally uts it down and kinda kills things a tad. Other than that, it kicks ass.

Fuckin great. I can always count on this.

Nothin has happened but I'm sure they are good!

Overall, it kicks ass. Whether youre a drummer,guitarist,vocalist or studio enginneer, this thing is for you.