TC Electronic HYPERGRAVITY User manual - 1.  About This Manual

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HYPERGRAVITY MINI COMPRESSOR User Manual

1.  About this Manual

Use this manual to learn how to set up and operate your TC product.

To get the most from this manual, please read it from start to finish, or you may 

miss important information.

This manual is only available as a PDF download from the TC Electronic website.

Of course, you can print this manual, but we encourage you to use the PDF 

version, which has both internal and external hyperlinks. For example, clicking 

the logo in the upper left corner of each page will take you back to the table  

of contents.

To download the most current version of this manual, visit

tcelectronic.com/support/manuals/

Getting support

If you still have questions about the product after reading this manual,  

please get in touch with TC Support:

tcelectronic.com/support/

Enjoy your TC product!

2.  About this pedal

Thank you for spending your hard-earned money on this TC Electronic product! 

We have done our best to ensure that it will serve you for many years to come, 

and we hope that you will enjoy using it.

HyperGravity Mini Compressor

HyperGravity Mini Compressor is the missing link that will take your tone  

from good to great.

HyperGravity Mini Compressor’s advanced multiband dynamics algorithm is the 

same MD3 compression algorithm that can be found in our studio production 

masterpiece, System 6000, which has been the preferred dynamics tool for 

top producers for over ten years. This technologically superior engine applies 

perfectly tailored compression for your highs, mids and lows. This is a more 

transparent and musical compression than what can be achieved with standard 

singleband compressors.

True Bypass

Here at TC, we have a simple philosophy: When you are using one of our products, 

you should hear something great – and if you don’t, you shouldn’t hear it at all. 

This is why this pedal sports True Bypass. When it is bypassed, it is really off and 

has zero influence on your tone, resulting in optimum clarity and  

zero loss of highend.

3.  TonePrint

This TC Electronic product supports TonePrints. 

To learn more about TonePrints, go to

tcelectronic.com/toneprint/Operation 

What are TonePrints?

When you look at your TC Electronic effect pedal, you’ll only see a few knobs. 

Actually, for some pedals, it’s just one knob. So – one knob, one function, right?

Actually, there’s a lot more to it than meets the eye.

Star-tweaked signature sounds

When TC Electronic builds an effect pedal, the relationship between its controls 

and many parameters “under the hood” are defined by developers, musicians 

and product specialists who live and breathe sound. This gives you an excellent 

starting point: a great-sounding pedal with well-balanced controls.

But wouldn’t it be cool to have world-famous guitar players – guys like Paul 

Gilbert, Guthrie Govan, John Petrucci or Steve Vai – virtually rewire your reverb 

pedal, defining what should happen “behind the scenes”?

And how about doing this yourself?

This is exactly what TonePrint allows you to do.

TC Electronic is working with top guitar players who explore a pedal’s hidden 

tonal potential, redefining the controls and creating their personal TonePrints. 

And we are making these custom TonePrints available to you. Uploading them to 

your pedal is really easy (see “Transferring Tone- Prints to your pedal using the 

TonePrint app”) – and with the amazing TonePrint Editor, you can even create 

your own signature pedal, tweaked specifically to your liking.

You can change the TonePrint in your pedal as often as you like, and the best part:

It’s totally free.

Transferring TonePrints to your pedal  

using the TonePrint app

Being able to virtually rewire your TC Electronic effect pedal wouldn’t be much 

use if you needed a lot of extra equipment to do it. This is why we created the 

TonePrint app. The TonePrint app is free software for popular smartphones that 

allows you to “beam” new TonePrints right into your effect pedal whenever and 

wherever you feel like it.

Obtaining the TonePrint app

If you own an iPhone, you can download the TonePrint app from  

Apple’s App Store.

If you own an Android phone, you will find the TonePrint app on Google Play.

Once you have the app, no additional downloads or in-app purchases are 

required. You can access all available TonePrints from within the app, and all 

TonePrints are free.