TC Electronics Flashback Mini Toneprint Demos
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This is a demo of some of my favorite toneprints for the TC Electronics Flashback Mini delay pedal.
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I like the small form factor and the flexibility of the FB mini. They sound great and do many things really well, saving you money in the long run as it can act like many different pedals in one.
I play toneprints demos of:
Reverse Delay - 1:06
EP-3 Delay - 3:12
Ghostly Delay - 5:08
Tape Delay - 6:31
Space Echo - 7:24
Modulated Delay - 9:07
DM-3 Plus - 10:46
I'm playing my PRS David Grissom and Custom 22 soapbar (with a DGT maple neck) into the Flashback Mini to the FYD Amps Big Verb (five watt Super Reverb) into a Two Notes Torpedo Live running the "Silver 10" impulse response. Then running into a MOTU 896mk3 into ProTools 11.
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Josh smith's double slap toneprint will blow your mind
I have the Alter Ego x4 and just love it. I had an RE-201 & an EP-3 back in the day. I hated how fast the tape got crappy sounding. There was a trick of stretching out a section of the drive belt to provide modulation on the EP-3s. The bone stock TC EP-3 toneprint nails that sound. Great videos! So glad to find your channel!
Hey, having only recently discovered your channel and thoroughly enjoying your short history series, might I take this opportunity to say what a treat it is to hear the nuances of your playing? I understand the host of guest stars you've brought on board, who are wildly talented in their own right, but I also appreciate the seemingly instinctive feel you have for bringing out the subtleties of the gear you're playing with.
really appreciate this video Keith! I've been a fan of the channel for just over a year and recently picked up this pedal, loving it so far and this video made me appreciate all the toneprints available to choose from.
Perfect choice of chord progressions to demo the pedal(I have had one for a few years but never explored the tone print possibilities) and well played. And yup, those DGT’s are gorgeous and sound great!
How much I use an effect is very proportional to how much space I’ll allot on a pedalboard. I need very little delay, and a delay functions almost as a reverb, but without reverb’s usual pulling the signal out of the mix. With delay, I can still keep presence and with luck, I can also keep everything from sounding very rhythmic like The Edge from U2 on every song. That said, the mini pedal footprint correlated to the very small amount of delay I need (or want) in my signal. Anything bigger than the Flashback Mini has size, features, adjustability that I’ve never needed and don’t expect I’d ever use. Good review here.
Glad to help Brad. Thanks for watching.
Hands down the best video on the toneprint. Thank you thank you !
I agree that the PSG EP3 toneprint is the coolest tape delay preset! Enjoy your channel and content-great job!👍
one thing to keep in mind....the artist toneprints for the Mini 2 are not available for the regular mini....each box has its own set of artist tone prints available...but you can still pretty much get any of the same sounds by spending some time tweaking....I just purchased the regular mini $(99 bucks)......one tone print....you can mess with the knobs to alter the tone print.....to change tone prints...hook it back up to the PC or go the I phone route.....this demo is the for the 2......
Thanks, Keith. More pedal options... all I need! Seriously, I’m expanding to some electric guitar in my acoustic trio. Except for a Digitech Drop and a Blues Driver, my pedalboard is becoming a TC Electronic promotion, mostly because of TonePrint technology. I’m still thinking about running 2 delays like some guys run (Matt Schofield, in particular) with a tight slap back on all the time for fattening a single coil tone and the other for whatever delay I’m needing for the song. Regardless, the pedalboard is filling up fast, so I have to make decisions on which pedals I won’t need more control of. This is one.
Hey Ken,
Yeah, I've been trimming down myself, fewer and better is the mantra in my head. I have two Catalinbread Belle Epoch pedals. They are supposed to be the best possible repro of an Echoplex out there. Eric Johnson uses them now! And you know what, most of the time I have this mini running the EP3 toneprint on the demo board.
Funny, I've been rewatching the two pedal show videos about Schofield this last week. I'm working on my jazz blues playing right now. I'll give you a quick reco, for that short single delay check out the Robben Ford toneprint. He uses it the same way as Matt does (well, Matt likely got it from Ford as he's one of his heroes.) . Then for the longer delay choose something with that nice modulation, like the EP3 or an Echorec style toneprint. Can you tell I've been leaning this direction myself?
Thanks for writing. I'd be interested in knowing what makes the cut for your pedalboard in the end.
Keith
The pedalboard is growing faster than I thought (I bought a used pedal train mini from eBay). That would fit the bill perfectly, or so I thought. I have a a Boss Blues Driver, a TC Mojomojo, a Digitech Drop that I think I’ll use a LOT, and a Mooer Trelicopter. The “Add List” is a TC Hall of Fame 2 Because I want the MASH capability, a Flashback Mini and Flashback, a TC Spark for totally clean boost, but it can overdrive my amp (a Fender Champ tweed clone that a friend and guitar tech built for me with a Weber Vintage Series 8F125 that crunches nicely!). That may render the BD redundant. I’m looking at a EHX Soul Food that may give me enough dirt to remove the Mojomojo... just a cleaner heavy option. Too many options. And I may replace the Trelicopter with a TC Pipeline (again, the TonePrint makes more sonic options). A Helix (because I love the sound of a phaser) and a Dreamscape are possibilities down the road (the Dreamscape does flanger/vibe/chorus AND TonePrint, so that’s one pedal for 3 modulations). I’m using an off brand Telecaster (I bought it from the same guitar tech), but I’m leaning towards an Epiphone Sheraton II Pro (humbuckers with coil split controls). I’m liking The fact that it’s a semi hollow body... Otherwise I’ve already looked at the PRS SE line with that same option. My acoustic will go through a Zoom A3 preamp and it’s got a whole array of effects that I can use in one pedal, so that will sit next to the pedalboard (into a Fishman Loudbox Mini, then directly out into the board). I’ll need a Shure SM57 for the Tweed and I’ll be set. All for an acoustic trio (we all sing and harmonize - our group’s strength)... and the CONSTANT SEARCH for tone! Oh, and I’m a bassist at heart (since I was 15). Always played with excellent guitarists, so I never knew the struggle was so real! Now I get it. Maybe.
Ahh, you're making feel a little better about my little board here, but I'm not currently out gigging. I used to play in a jazz quintet, and over the years doing that my rig got more and more stripped down, but we also had a trio that would split out of that band (upright, vibes and guitar) and for that I'd carry EVERYTHING. I just felt like I needed more voices for variety in that context. I was sort of responsible for all the "atmosphere" if you will.
Keep the tele or if you like the form factor look at thinline teles. I've had some over the years that I miss. I love my PRS's but I don't find the SE's sound "hollow" enough to suit me which is why I have the ES 390.
And finally, I switched from the SM57 to a Sennheiser e906. I like how they sound and the form factor lets you hang them over the amp and negate the need to put the mic on a stand.
I'm supposed to be working on this week's vid so I'd better get back to work. Thanks for sharing. One last thing, I agree that you've got lots of dirt pedals given that great little tweed amp. Check out Grissom boost and overdrive setups. Or one of the videos, like the one he made at Wildwood, where he describes how he uses the boost and dirt. Maybe you can make enough room for all those modulation pedals.;).
Oh and no less than Josh Smith uses an FB mini for the slapback on his board. Very good company.
Thanks for the response, Keith. Yes... “atmosphere”. It’s actually very much what we do as performers. We play music, but we create atmosphere. I definitely want to have as many textures on hand as possible without needing 5 guitars or 30 pedals. I’m watching more “ambient guitar” videos (Chords of Orion), but am a very big fan of “That Pedal Show”. I enjoy Dan’s technical prowess of the inner workings of the pedals themselves, but tone is the necessity. I forgot to mention (because I’m not a technically gifted soloist) I’ll be investing in lessons soon with a friend of mine who is likewise searching for tone. I need to become more proficient for the benefit of the group. I use my ear a TON, but my fingers are not very fast... musical, yes, but never gonna shred. That’s why tone is so important.
Say Keith.....new sub here today. I got my hands on the flashback X4. Large in size for a mini guy but so useful. I had to construct a hole new board to get enough real estate but like you, this TC thing is very incredible. Play on & I'll keep watchin on.....
Welcome to five watt world Mark! Thanks for watching!
Was about to sell my Flashback mini until I watched this video. Delay is an effect which really takes time to develop and understand. Thanks for demonstrating several of these great effects.
Great video Keith! I am so glad you demoed these toneprints.
It was fun making them Fletch. Thanks for watching.
The funny thing is that on the small manual you get with the pedal it clearly indicates the tap tempo function.
Congrats!
13' of review and no one demonstration with distortion and overdrive!!
Yeah, well I'm more from a jazz, americana kind of vein. I play with overdrive and certainly can obsess about those tone too, I just thought played what moved me about each toneprint.
Hope you liked it and if you did consider subscribing. I'm building a community of folks interested in small rigs and small gear.
@@fivewattworld Yeah, I´m interested cause I´m building a small pedalboard and I had interesting about the "mini flashback", but I can´t find a video of it working with distortion or overdrive!
Can you help me about this?
@@diegoboari1 Yeah man, got it. If you check out my video on the Nobel ODR- mini I'm using the Flashback mini with a tape toneprint on all the overdriven and distortion sounds there. Not much single line stuff but you can get a sense of it. The main thing that is so cool about these (in my opinion) is that they are analog dry through and crazy flexible with the toneprints.
Nice demo with Léo Brower's chords :)
Cheers!!!
Your only the second guy that caught my classical stuff slipping in there. I’ve always loved that piece and used to play that piece as a boss nova with my jazz quartet. :)
Wow this is great. I use my mini all the time. Thanks for letting me know about the tap tempo. I had no idea. Keep up the great work and you have a new subscriber here.
Welcome to five watt world Darren.
I have owned an Echoplex and still have a Copycat. I've used the 'Cat less recently 'cause the mini delay pedal I have is just so darned convenient, and makes way less noise. The 'Cat can still do stuff that would not be pos with a digital ped though.
Thanks Keith, very informative as usual.
Thanks Ian!
Love the cover of Shenandoah! Man that PRS looks delicious.
I have one of these pedals. I have not explored all of the tone prints...I need to do that!
Very nice, enjoy the playing. Thanks Keith.
Great site and a great display of Tone Print . . . . . but the video flunked in my humble opinion due to the fact that I don't remember you explaining how to program these settings and how to store them. What was the reason for listening to this ? ? C'mon man . . .. towards the end of the video, I was thinking "he's going to then explain how to access these settings as well as how to store them in to the pedal. I like your site, but this one video got a thumbs down and no scribe. Now, I have to go to another video to find how.
Good demo for those "clean chords" delays. If I may criticize one point: You should have played a short stopped chord at the beginning of each tone print to show how many repeats, etc. are on the preset. But then I guess you're demoing it just the way you use it.
Good point
I’m disappointed there’s no slap back demonstrated (did I miss something?)
very good job .useful for me. thanks.
Another great video so informative. TC should paying laughing out loud. Thank you
Hey Keith, thanks for this demo. Very helpful. I’m looking for a small delay pedal to fit my board, for 1 use only. I liked your unity village improv. Cheers Nick,
You caught me Nick. Josh Smith uses one of these little guys for his slap back, on pretty much all the time.
Thanks for watching. Hope you and yours are safe down there.
five watt world that’s exactly the use I’m thinking of, just a small slap back type sound leave on all the time. Hope you’re well too. Cheers NG
very helpful, thank you!
Holy crap! It took me over two years to find this video. Like you, I had no idea there is a tap tempo feature. These tone prints are a big help because I felt overwhelmed with the amount of preset options. Thanks for helping me narrow down my options. On a different subject, you should do a new Short History on the Fender Lap Steel. What do a think?
Hmmm, lap is really not in my wheel house, but do you play?
@@fivewattworld No but it's such integral part of rock n roll history (remembering that rock n roll started as country) and because it's Leo Fender, it would be a interesting episode that I'm sure you'll do justice to.Go for it! I'll wait.
This taught me so much
After big elaborate pedal boards I've settled on 5 blue pedals with this being my only digital effect sitting last in my chain. I just use the straight 2290 digital delay but it's nice to know I have options if I become bored
The tape delays are really nice too.
r bright size life renditions, great demo
Love Dan Huff Tape Delay on my FB mini, it stays always on.
Me too actually. That's where I settled for tape delay toneprints.
@@fivewattworld Good to know thanks guys, getting one soon for a portable rig and I only need a good tape delay slapback!
@@yourguitarpal I have also always really like a simple Carbon Copy and they just released one in a mini. I'm interested to see if its as good as the full size because as an analog pedal it uses a tiny amount of power compared to a digital pedal.
I'm buying one of these.
Glad you liked it. I have two and have them programmed for different delays on my mini board. Very cool little delay.
If you haven't yet, think about subscribing. More mini pedal demos to come.
Thanks, Keith
I own one of these and keep it on my main pedal board. There it only gets used live for a basic single repeat trying to emulate Edge. Great little pedal that you can somehow hold up to your phone for downloads of Toneprints that sound like they're coming via 1985 fax.
I1985 fax .. I'll try the Tap mode or the one you can set by rhythmic playing. I do need to trade up to three big brother full size pedal to store different setting.
Why do so many people think it's TC Electronics?
Great Vid!! Once you have a toneprint installed, how do you go back to the factory setting? Thanks..
Great question. All of the factory TonePrints are also in the Toneprint Editor. The factory installed print is the TC 2290, their classic rack unit from the 80’s. I find most people find their favorite delay, save it as a “favorite” in the editor app and go back to that one. Lots of people, including Robben Ford have used the toneprint if the 2290 as their main delay sound on the Flashback.
Glad you liked the vid. Consider subscribing if you haven’t already. Thanks for watching.
Keith
I'm a total newb so please forgive a seemingly dumb question.
With the tone prints available would I be able to get delay with chorus since I have no chorus pedal?.........Never mind your video answers my question, should have waited until I watched the whole thing.
Subscribed👍
Welcome to five watt world!
I need basic understanding if you can help me. So does this come with different type of delays already built in it or just 1 basic type ?
Second question :..Say I toneprint. Does it store each type in individual patches in the pedal ? How many can you store in the pedal itself and how do you pull each one up ? If I can get a better understanding. I may go this rout. At the moment I am generally confused.
The last thing I want to do, is to be playing around on my phone etc..
Any help would be appreciated..This also would answer my questions on any of the other toneprints...like HOA mini etc..
I’d recently lost my Boss DD-3 to old age (it was nearly 30) and had one of these kicking around which I’d never really gelled with but hadn’t got around to selling. Tweaked it using the editor software and now it does “that thing” that the DD-3 does with the repeats (there’s an unusually saturated feel and a low cut with the DD-3 that I love). The TC is now on the board to stay.
Absolutely did not know about the tap tempo thing though! Keith weighing in with knowledge from the past!
Check out the Dan Hugg tape toneprint. One of my favorites for that thing you're talking about in the repeats.
five watt world I certainly will!
Thanks for replying to someone on a bit of a deep dive through your videos (they're incredibly soothing) and starting out on his journey towards a minimalist set up!
...must get one!
Another good demo. I'm interested in getting this pedal eventually. I liked the PRS tone. I have to say, I'm not a fan of cutting to the off-axis shot from the 2 camera setup (assuming it was a 2-camera setup, not covering a mistake). I feel like that's very much a vlogger/reality TV and modern TV/Web approach, and I don't think that matches your approach which is quality of content, over quantity. Question: with the tap tempo feature you discussed, can you create a dotted 8th tone print in order to do dotted 8th if you are not good at just setting the timing manually, to get dotted 8th?
Hi Aaron,
Thanks for the input on my early experiment with the two camera set up. I'd bought the second camera to use to film the pedals while I was demo'ing them and, well, this was my fourth ever video and yeah, I went a little too "60 minutes", :). It hasn't happened again.
I've never tried to set up a dotted eighth using the tap temp. To be honest I don't often use the tap feature. As you say you might be able to to do so with pristine timing but I agree that delay pedals that have the quarter note, eighth note, dotted eighth are the only ones I could use to do this dependably for me at least.
Thanks for writing and thanks for the input. Glad we agree.
Keith
@@fivewattworld Ordered today. Mini board is now up to: TC White Mini Tuner, Xotic SP Comp, Nobels ODR-1 mini, Mini TS9 (Currently benched, not that into it), and will now add the delay.
@@aaronblack425 Nice mini board. I'm going to do a series this next year of nano boards using one company at a time. I'll play the board for a month then make a video on it. What do you think of the title "Four Pedals and the Truth"? :)
@@fivewattworld Four boards and the truth sounds better, but isn't exactly what you describe, if I understand right. Would it be one board company at a time (Temple, Pedaltrain, Holy Boards)? Or like all the TC pedals on a board, all the Xotic on a different board? The pedal makers are not very even right now about what they offer in a mini footprint. Example: Wampler has no distortion in a mini size currently (Tumnus, and a boost, no mini Pinnacle or Dracarys). Ibanez, no distortion/Marshall type pedal, only a metal pedal, TS9, or fuzz. Xotic has boosts, ODs, and Marshall tones (SL drive), but no mod, delay, verb, etc. Way Huge are making their Smalls series now, which are a different shape, but still tiny, AND all have top jacks, (Supa Lead, Supa Puss, Conspiracy Theory (Klone), Russian Pickle, and they have a chorus)--but it would mess up my concept of only the mini (1090NS) enclosure sized pedals.
@@aaronblack425 Hi Aaron, I guess I didn't do a good job of explaining the project. One Nano (not even Nano+), either a Volto or Truetone CS6 power supply, and four full size pedals. The idea is to show how many sounds/colors you can get from four pedals. Each board would be just one company. So I'm putting the MXR board together now, then either JHS or Way Huge (Smalls). I'll do one a month for a year all using the same amp and guitars.
excellent review....
very helpful, thanks
Thanks for the comment. There are so many toneprints. In the end I realized I just made a video about some of my favorites, the most analog sounding ones. I might do a follow up. Let me know if there are any you'd want to see demo'd.
Thanks again, Keith
@@fivewattworld i ve been struggling to find my own delay sound. Thanks to Your vidro I finally found one! Dann Huff tone print is the one i like the most
That's funny, I've switched from the EP-3 I'd been using (too much modulation when you turned it up) over to using Huff's myself just last week! To me it sounds a little like tape, a little analogy and a little like my old Deluxe Memory Man (never should have sold that original, oh well.)
Tone print 's , chorus pedal 's to update 's towards pro design version of chorus plays....other features of , can too.( chorus pedals, tone to others, like ......brainwave 's? Shake's ? And more ... ?
One pedals , with free sounds pedals version 's ?????
Beautiful PRS guitars. Why have you got three that look to be identical?
They were three different DGT’s, made from different wood and w (slightly) different pickups. All 4 have since been sold, with some others. I’m playing Strandberg guitars now and loving them.
five watt world Quite a change in direction, the DGT is quite traditional and kind of vintage in sound? The Strandberg guitars look very different? Odd shapes certainly and the lack of a headstock would take a little time to get used to? They appear to be more modern prog/fusion instruments?
May i used one of these toneprints in the flashback x4?
Great video man!!
+Salvador Ramos yes, I think so. I believe that anybthst workbonnyhe minis can be losddd in the larger ones. The opposite isn’t tru but if you load one that doesn’t work you can just load a different one over the top.
Glad you liked the video!
Keith
five watt world thanks for the quick and accurate answer.
New subscriber here!
Not knowing a ton about reverb or delay, I wish I’d bought the full version of the HOF and this delay so I could switch between the common delays and hear what makes them different.
Toneprints are easy, just try s bunch,
I think it’s great if you know what you’re looking for. But for a beginner I think it would be better to either get the full version so you can compare multiple tone prints and the default settings, or pick a regular delay pedal that you like and learn how it works. This is sort of halfway and it’s hard to learn on. It seems to make more sense to me for experienced people who know what they want in a small package. Just my opinion.
Good Bill Frisell and Pat Metheny quotes here.
Well I try. Definitely big influences and these are likely more like “mis-quotes” But I try.
Wait was that a" bucket knob", oh my I could have been wrong , oh maybe not theres only one nob on here and its not the knob !!
and what are you playing first at minute 1:30...sounds kind of like Ireland and Pat Methany
I'm playing a version of the old traditional song "Shenandoah". My version is pretty heavily influenced by a great version that Bill Frisell did on a record where he dedicated it to the jazz guitarist Johnny Smith. I've added things to it like the intro and outro and hey, I can't play it like Bill so I just played it like...me. It does sound very traditional and Metheny recorded it with Charlie Haden once upon a time as well. So good ears, as always.
Question about this pedal wich I cant seem to find a clear answer for. Can time division like a dotted 8th be programmed onto the minis?
MJ Swanepoel - you can download the dotted 8th shared module from the TonePrint site. But you can’t set it on the unit in anyway without downloading the toneprint. Hope this helps
Do you still use the peddle board "as normal" was internal programming is changed?
The toneprint changes the sound of the delay. The app on your phone lets you save your favorites so you can change it out easily. I most often use the EP-3 tape delay sound as my basic delay tone.
Thanks for asking.
Free sound in tone ?over , and over .....no limit 's ?
The song on the ghostly delay demo sounded a lot like Diary of a Madman
It’s a Leo Brower classical etude that Randy Rhodes played on that Ozzy tune. Sadly Ozzy took credit for writing the tune when it was Randy’s classical guitar background that put those chords there. Good ears.
@@fivewattworld I'm a huge Randy fan and I never knew that about Diary. That's cool! Thanks for sharing that, I'm going to look into Leo Brower's works
@@fivewattworld Leo Brower, so good at guitar that he faked a hand injury so that people would stop pestering him as he focused on his composing. Always knew you had good taste!
God, I miss Tore from TC Electronic.
does it go back to the default setting everytime u turn it off?
Fliper Jelen nope. Basically it’s whatever TonePrint you pick until you change it.
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0:59 who are you talking to?
Just an experiment with two camera cut edits, since abandoned.
LEO BROWER
! Yeah right!? I used to play the Etude #6 chords as a jam with my jazz quintet. Nothing like that voice leading of his.
What the heck, you start with a beautiful tobacco/cherry burst, Gibsonesque, PRS...And in no time, I blink and it's red!
So , you've got the same expensive guitar in two different colours...that's excessive! And frivolous.
I thought five watt world was all for the opposite not such excess...having less guitars and what not... Right??
Hi Luey, It's worse than you thought, I had four DGT style guitars at that point in my life...and now they are all gone. In my defense, they were all different. The burst was a maple top where the red guitar was all mahogany, very different tone. I've since trimmed the numbers back only to see them grow again and now I'm in the process of trying to get back to essentials. Wish me luck as I do all of you folks out there as well.
Keith