TC Electronic

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TC Electronic is a Danish audio equipment manufacturer, founded by two brothers, Kim and John Rishøj, in 1976. It's product range includes guitar effects, audio interfaces, audio software, equalisers, studio processors and computer hardware.

TC Electronic created the TC Group in the year 2002 after acquiring TGI plc. TGI was consisting of Tannoy, GLL Goodman, Lab.Gruppen and Martin Audio. Martin Audio was sold again and Goodman was closed. TC Works (software development) used to be part of the TC Group but was reintegrated with TC Electronic in the year 2005. The TC Group is currently consisting of Tannoy (speakers and studio monitors), Lab.Gruppen (amplifiers), TC Electronic, TC-Helicon (harmonisers and vocal processors) and TC Applied Technologies (digital-audio semiconductor development). Furthermore TC Electronic co-develop products with Dynaudio Acoustics (speakers and studio monitors).

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[edit] Products

[edit] System 6000

System 6000 is an audio mastering system, built around the Mainframe 6000, which houses the DSP chips needed to perform the processing, and which also houses all the audio inputs and outputs. The Mainframe 6000 is connected via Ethernet to either the Remote CPU 6000 and the TC ICON hardware controller or to a computer running TC ICON emulation software.
The System 6000 comes in two versions: Reverb 6000 and Mastering 6000. The difference between them lies in the included processing algorithms:
Reverb 6000 comes with reverb and delay effects for stereo and multi-channel purposes, while Mastering 6000 comes with algorithms suited for stereo and multi-channel audio mastering purposes, and includes pitch-shifting tools. Several other optional algorithms are not included with any of the two variants and need to be acquired separately.

[edit] Finalizer

The Finalizer is a audio mastering tool, which comes in two versions: Finalizer 96K and Finalizer Express. Both of the Finalizers have a compressor, limiter, equaliser and a "Gain Maximiser". The Finalizer Express is a less-functional version of the Finalizer 96K, and it is unable to perform 96 kHz processing.

[edit] Guitar products

The guitar effects TC Electronic manufactures are split into several categories: Vintage, Classic (reissues of the effects pedals TC Electronic produced in the 70s^[1]), Nova (digital delays and reverbs) and the G-Series (guitar multi-effect processors).

[edit] PowerCore

PowerCore is a series of computer hardware and software, somewhat similar in concept to the DSP card in Digidesign's Pro Tools. At the base is a PowerCore unit, which allows the PowerCore VST or AU plug-ins to run, and performs all the processing, thus allowing lower latency and higher audio quality to be achieved.

PowerCore hardware is available in these versions:

PowerCore Firewire - a 1U rack unit which connects to the computer via FireWire
PowerCore Compact - a smaller-sized unit which connects to the computer via FireWire
PowerCore PCI mkII - a PCI card
PowerCore Express - a PCI Express card, otherwise similar to PowerCore PCI mkII
PowerCore Unplugged - a PCI card, with no plug-ins included and a lower price. It can be used with specific optional plug-ins and as an addition to an existing PowerCore system.

[edit] Studio equipment

Studio equipment manufactured by TC Electronic includes equalizers, microphone preamplifiers, compressors, level maximizers and multi-effect units (such as FireworX).

[edit] PA, installation and broadcasting products

TC Electronic also produces equalizers for live use, gain maximizers,Loudness Controller and several products which allow to reduce the number of loudness variations during broadcasting.

[edit] Software

TC Electronic develops a range of plug-ins for its PowerCore system. They are all in the VST or AU formats, but cannot run without the PowerCore hardware. Some of these plug-ins are included with all of the PowerCore systems, except PowerCore Unplugged.
The plugins include equalizers, noise removal plugins, reverbs, analog filter banks emulators, compressors and psychoacoustic effects.
TC Electronic also manufactures plug-ins for the HD version of Digidesign's Pro Tools software. These plug-ins are also available in a PowerCore version (some of them are ported from the System 6000). They include vocal harmonisers, mastering plugins, reverbs and compressors.