TC Electronic

Explore TC Electronic vintage synthesizer equipment in the Vintage Technology Archive.

Delay Unit

• TC-2290 — TC Electronic TC-2290 (1986) — professional digital delay rated 20 Hz–20 kHz ±0.5 dB, 1 MHz sampling, >100 dB dynamic range. A studio standard.

Digital Reverb

• Reverb 4000 — TC Electronic Reverb 4000: a single-rack stereo reverb built from System 6000 algorithms, $2,999 in 2003. Real high-end 'verb, one real quirk.

Effects And Signal Processors

• System 6000 — TC Electronic System 6000 (2000) — the multichannel reverb and mastering platform studios treated as infrastructure. VSS3, Reverb 6000, Mastering 6000.

Effects Mainframe

• M5000 — TC Electronic M5000 — the early-'90s software-based digital audio mainframe, parent of the M2000 and Finalizer. Reverb, compression, and clean digital I/O in one rack unit.

Processors

• H-3000 — TC Electronic H-3000 is undocumented — no specs, dates, or history exist; the H3000-inch name belongs to Eventide, not TC Electronic.

Rack Effects

• M2000 — TC Electronic M2000 digital multi-effects processor — two DARC-chip engines, Wizard preset function, split from the M5000 lineage.

Other Models

• Finalizer 96K — TC Electronic Finalizer 96K mastering processor — 24-bit/96kHz converters with stereo, mono, and inverse dithering. A fixture in working mastering rooms.
• PowerCore 6000 — TC Electronic PowerCore 6000 — eight Freescale DSPs and System 6000 reverb algorithms (VSS3, DVR 2) in a $3,495 DAW card.