CHORUS- TC ELECTRONIC 3rd Dimension ...it shouldn't sound this good?

 TC ELECTRONIC 3rd DIMENSION 

A LITTLE HISTORY

$45.00 USD

The company was bought out by Behringer a few years ago. The down side is the company no longer seems to aim at innovation. TC has brought out things like their Polytune that brought the quality and price of easy to use and great tuners to the market. They also made the Ditto Looper that was useful and created whole new thing of allowing recording to be used innovatively live with the player creating live but using recording as a performance tool. They also made a lot of flawed pedals or things that were too far from intuitive to be creative with. It of course lead to to their near demise. The company was easily bought out by Behringer.

Behringer have been all about making proven things cheap. They have also been fairly accused of marketing things with deception. I have no doubt they bought the company for its 'brand'. 

On the positive side they are such a huge corporation that they have many independent branches. The Synth guys have also taken classic designs to clone and sell cheap but have done so by creative, innovative design to maintain quality to manufacture a  a robust and reliable product. By not nickel and diming for just a little more money their Synths are still cheap but on no level disappointing. The CEO's keep out of their way because the Synth division is profitable and totally hassle free and with excellent reputation. 

The 'steel box' line of TC Electronic product were the very first Behringer product from the new owners. It has been the real money maker for the company. It too is based on the Synth marketing strategy. Make a pedal, built like a tank, highly functional, cheap but from totally tried and proven ideas for sounds.

Recently the newest units are come in a smaller pedalboard friendly small box but based on the great layout and build of the old enclosure. 

A CHORUS ?

A Chorus pedal is not new. Boss says isn't a Chorus.

It sounds like one. Dah!

CONCLUSION

Well the Boss was discontinued in 1985 but brought back as a waza craft recently. It sounds smoother but a Metal OD sounds smoother but is not unlike a some Fuzz pedals and many of us can justify booth. It is like saying MXR Phase 90 sounds better than a Electro Harmonix Small Stone. If I had both phasers I would use both. They both have a good but slightly different vibe. All I'm saying really is they both sound pro. On the right tune either could be on some big Stars next big hit and we would not know or care which was used. In short it could be a useful color to paint our tunes. The waza craft is the alternative at

$265.00 USD so at $45.00 USD the word 'alternative'

perhaps is in this case is ...perhaps ...F.ing Stupid!!!

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