back to some guitar gear

[mnhermit]

We may have already talked about this little gimmick - Digitech Trio pedal. But Sweetwater has it discounted to 50 bucks and seems like it might be fun to play with, especially for those of us who don't regularly play with real people, or those of us that have a tendency to change tempo arbitrarily.

Anybody have any experience with this doohickey, or opinions of Digitech products?

TIA

[Doug]

That looks neat.  I think I'd get one if I was still acquiring gear. 

[Russell Letson]

I don't have any gimmicks or doohickies--just a couple of whatzits, and from other companies. Oh, and an old thingamabob that makes a buzzing noise and that you can't get parts for any more.

[Marty]

That looks like fun. Doug should buy one, then when he is tired of it or it stops working I get it. 

[Dub]

I don't have any experience with this pedal or with Digitech products but I have some experience with Sweetwater. They will assign you a personal sales consultant and, in my experience, those people are both knowledgeable and helpful. I think if you call them to ask about the device, they will be honest about its capabilities and help you determine whether it's right for what you want. I don't know of any other suppliers that give me that level of confidence.

[amanajoe]

Here is the video about it:

[amanajoe]

Dec 18, 2017 17:17:00 GMT -5 Russell Letson said:

I don't have any gimmicks or doohickies--just a couple of whatzits, and from other companies. Oh, and an old thingamabob that makes a buzzing noise and that you can't get parts for any more.

Made me think of this tune I used to do:

[RickW]

I've heard lots of best things about it. Obviously, it has its limitations, but within that seems pretty cool.

[lar]

I bought one a couple of weeks ago because of the discount. There is a newer model out. I don't know exactly what the difference is.

I didn't buy one when they first came out because after looking at it and seeing the video I wondered how useful it might be for the money. For $50 I was willing to take a chance. Unlike a lot of the Boss products the Trio Band Creator comes with the power supply. Considering most power supplies cost around $20 or so, you're really only paying about $30 for the unit. As far as I'm concerned it's a huge bargain even if you never do anything with it but have the experience of playing with a bass player and a drummer who always show up on time and are never too drunk or stoned to play. You can't buy that kind of reliability on the street.

The Trio Band Creator is a very interesting concept. I'm still not sure what I might do with it long term but I do think it deserves a bit more of my time. Although the genres and their variations don't cover everything there is enough interesting stuff there to justify trying them all out. I would have liked to see a Latin genre, though.

I've not had time to really experiment a lot with it but I did lay down a couple of tracks and then I played along with the loop. That's kind of fun. It actually sounds pretty good. One of the things I noticed was that sometimes the bass puts in a note or two that don't sound right to me. I may have been due to a sloppy chord change on my part so I'm not going to blame the unit yet.

There are some cool features too. First, there are independent bass and drum volume controls so you can set your mix to your liking. You can also record 3 different parts to a song and then play them back in whatever order you want. I've not done that yet but I'm looking forward to trying it out. The unit also has two outputs; one for an amp and one for a mixer.

This unit is probably great for practice but I can't see it being useful at a gig. It's difficult to imagine an audience with enough patience to let you record two or three parts to each song before you play them. There might be some recording applications, though. I'll have to give some thought to that and maybe give it a try one of these days.

In my opinion this is worth the $50 investment even if you never do anything more than fool around with it.

[mnhermit]

thanks all for your input, hope to get it by Saturday.

[Shannon]

Dec 18, 2017 21:54:47 GMT -5 lar said:

This unit is probably great for practice but I can't see it being useful at a gig. It's difficult to imagine an audience with enough patience to let you record two or three parts to each song before you play them.

I looked hard at the Trio, but decided against it for exactly that reason. If I could have saved pre-arranged songs for later use, I might have gotten one.

In general, the Digitech equipment I've seen has been good quality.

[lar]

Last night I looked at the new one just to see what was different. Actually, a lot is different. 5 more genres, 5 song parts, a looper, and a micro SD port so you can save "songs". Of course it's also $300.

The new version sounds as if it might be more useful if one is doing a solo show. But for $300 I don't need it.

[PaulKay]

Dec 18, 2017 21:54:47 GMT -5 lar said:

I bought one a couple of weeks ago because of the discount. There is a newer model out. I don't know exactly what the difference is.

I didn't buy one when they first came out because after looking at it and seeing the video I wondered how useful it might be for the money. For $50 I was willing to take a chance. Unlike a lot of the Boss products the Trio Band Creator comes with the power supply. Considering most power supplies cost around $20 or so, you're really only paying about $30 for the unit. As far as I'm concerned it's a huge bargain even if you never do anything with it but have the experience of playing with a bass player and a drummer who always show up on time and are never too drunk or stoned to play. You can't buy that kind of reliability on the street.

The Trio Band Creator is a very interesting concept. I'm still not sure what I might do with it long term but I do think it deserves a bit more of my time. Although the genres and their variations don't cover everything there is enough interesting stuff there to justify trying them all out. I would have liked to see a Latin genre, though.

I've not had time to really experiment a lot with it but I did lay down a couple of tracks and then I played along with the loop. That's kind of fun. It actually sounds pretty good. One of the things I noticed was that sometimes the bass puts in a note or two that don't sound right to me. I may have been due to a sloppy chord change on my part so I'm not going to blame the unit yet.

There are some cool features too. First, there are independent bass and drum volume controls so you can set your mix to your liking. You can also record 3 different parts to a song and then play them back in whatever order you want. I've not done that yet but I'm looking forward to trying it out. The unit also has two outputs; one for an amp and one for a mixer.

This unit is probably great for practice but I can't see it being useful at a gig. It's difficult to imagine an audience with enough patience to let you record two or three parts to each song before you play them. There might be some recording applications, though. I'll have to give some thought to that and maybe give it a try one of these days.

In my opinion this is worth the $50 investment even if you never do anything more than fool around with it.

I also got one last week. I saw a video that there was a FW update available that modified the algorithms for the bass creation to play less bass notes.

When you do the update and cycle power, there is a button sequence added that will switch back and forth between the old and new algorithms.  Apparently some early complaints of two many bass notes in the generated backing tracks.