TC Electronic The Dreamscape

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140 Guitarist June 2012

PHOTOGRAPHY BY J OBY SE SSIONS

TC ELECTRONIC THE DREAMSCAPE £209

EFFECTS

TC Electronic

The Dreamscape

£209

Dream Theater man John Petrucci puts his signature

to a new modulation pedal by Trevor Curwen

hen TC Electronic

introduced its

TonePrint pedals

the idea was that well-known

guitarists could create their

own signature sounds that you

could load into the pedal and

use. John Petrucci was one of

the first to get involved with

this and created TonePrints for

the Corona Chorus, Shaker

Vibrato and the Vortex Flanger.

Now, while the TonePrints are

freely available for anyone who

owns the pedals, it’s clear that

any John Petrucci fan wanting

access to them all would have

had to buy three separate

pedals (£109 each). To ease the

burden, TC has brought out The

Dreamscape – a John Petrucci

signature pedal that offers a

range of Petrucci-designed

chorus, vibrato and flanger

sounds in a single stompbox.

Finished in a fetching

metallic turquoise with

chromed knobs, The

Dreamscape features battery or

9V DC adapter operation,

stereo connectivity should you

want it and knobs to control the

speed and depth of the effect

and its level – from a completely

dry sound to fully-effected. The

exception is the vibrato, which

a totally wet effect, so the knob

instead goes from zero volume

to full. The actual effect is

selected from a rotary knob

with seven positions – two

choruses, two f langers and two

vibratos plus a TonePrint

setting that allows you to load

in any of the TonePrints that

are available for the Corona

Chorus. An additional

three-way switch sets the

nature of the effect from a

choice of bright (in your face),

or normal and dark (more

subtle). Like other TonePrint

pedals there are two internal

dipswitches – one for setting

buffered bypass instead of the

default true bypass mode,

the other to remove the dry

signal from the pedal’s output

when it is used in a parallel

effects loop.

Sounds

The sounds are split into two

groups: chorus one, flanger one

and vibrato one are optimised

for use with clean sounds; and

chorus two, flanger two and

vibrato two are intended for use

with crunch sounds. Chorus

A rotary knob is used to select choruses, flangers, vibratos and other effects

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PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOBY SESSIONS TC ELECTRONIC THE DREAMSCAPE £209 EFFECTS TC Electronic The Dreamscape £209 Dream Theater man John Petrucci puts his signature to a new modulation pedal by Trevor Curwen or normal and dark (more subtle). Like other TonePrint pedals there are two internal dipswitches – one for setting buffered bypass instead of the default true bypass mode, the other to remove the dry signal from the pedal’s output when it is used in a parallel effects loop.
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TC ELECTRONIC THE DREAMSCAPE £209 EFFECTS http://vault.guitarist.co.uk The Rivals There are two pedals that take up a fair amount of pedalboard space but give you a choice of several modulation types. If you can afford it, Eventide’s ModFactor (£409) offers all the modulation options you may ever need while Line 6’s MM-4 modulation modeller (£229) has been around for ages but is still a potent source of several modulation sounds.