Product: TC Electronic M350
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted
04/15/2009
at
06:30pm
by
painfully_honest
Ease of Use
:
8
I'm writing this review and starting this category because I don't want anyone else to get burned by buying this unit.
Ease of use - great, that's because they use panel knobs and have zero presets....who would bother? !!
Sound Quality
:
2
I'm gonna keep it short this time....I just started this thread because there was none for the M350, see my review in the M300 thread.
Reverb- This is the best aspect of the unit, and it is not good. There are only 3 useable settings, the others all sound extremely "digital" and manufactured, not at all subtle, way over the top. Of course you can change the wet/dry to 90% dry signal, but then, why buy a reverb unit? Other settings have no effect on the "cheesiness".
Delay- Very poor, only one setting is tolerable "triplet". Strangely enough, and luckily, you cannot hear the 3 echoes in this setting, but they come quickly after the signal and fade quickly, resulting in an OK sounding delay which is not too cheesy. The others are all annoying echo-type delays, which have no useful function unless you want to annoy people, or you have a psychedelic song that you want to freak-out for a few measures....here you would need some sort of midi footpedal.
Phaser- You gotta be kidding, just an annoying high-pitched sound wave superimposed over your dry signal, which is unaltered other than the gain has been reduced drastically causing it to sound like mush.
Flanger- ?.....NOT. Should be called "feedbacker". No similarity to any effect anyone would call flange...should not be heard by innocent pure eardrums.
Chorus....you guessed it, see above for "flanger"
I'll give it a 2 because who knows what weird electronic music can be done by people with strange tastes..with random attacks on a line-level signal
Reliability
:
No Opinion
Who cares, its going back to the retailer immediately.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Hope to never deal with them.
Overall Rating
:
2
ummmm, Here's one thing I'll share, save 130 bucks at least and buy a Behringer V-Verb, or a used Alesis Quadroverb....the newer Midiverbs are not great.
Only advantage? It didnt have a wal-wart.