TC Electronic M-One Dual Effects Processor

The M*One is a new addition to TC Electronic's product line which combines state‑of‑the‑art reverbs and essential modulation effects in a very affordable 1U rackmounting package. The M*One is aimed principally at the budget‑conscious studio or live‑sound rig, and so foregoes some of the professional interfacing facilities that might be found on a more upmarket unit like TC's M2000, for example. Nevertheless, the machine still boasts balanced analogue inputs and outputs and 24‑bit S/PDIF digital I/O.

The machine has a dual‑engine topology with considerable flexibility in the way the two processors can be configured. For example, as well as operating as a true‑stereo unit with the engines performing identical tasks on the left and right channels, there is also a dual‑mono mode, a dual‑mono send mode with common stereo return, a separate parallel‑processing mode with commoned stereo I/O, and a separate series processing mode, also with a stereo I/O (see the Configurations box).

Although the M*One is geared mainly towards providing reverberation effects, a number of alternative processing algorithms are also available. These include the usual delay‑related effects such as delays, chorus, phasing, flanging, tremolo, pitch‑shifting and de‑tuning, as well as parametric equalisation and a range of dynamics tools. The machine is supplied with 100 factory presets and has memory for a further 100 user settings.