As always, an excellent video Dave. I wanted to underscore a key point you made - when teaching the trio, keep it ultra simple. You just about get the best result using single notes. Add the extras later. Also, the simple set up you showed early on, of guitar straight in and using headphones as your output, has many advantages, especially when you're playing late at night in a family home with other people asleep! In fact, I got so used to doing that, I now do just that 99% of the time and really enjoy playing like that. This leads me to the next point, for me, the number one key feature of this pedal is to be able to quickly create a backing track for a whole song, and I mean ultra quick, like a whole song in 30 minutes - dump into your DAW, and you now have a pretty good foundation for completing your song. Once it's in your DAW, you can do whatever you want. You can even record your own bass lines, add extra drum parts, etc etc Cheers, Joey
This has been my favourite practice tool since it was released. I also enjoy the SDRUM. I’m looking forward to see what new pedals Digitech come up with, now that they are in full operation again.
I really like these kinds of vids Dave!❤ it really stirs things up and it makes the audience guess what the content will be next for me. As long as your happy with making content, you will be succesful. Appreciate you Dave😊
Very simple AND CLEAR instructions, review, etc. Very refreshing! Thank you! Keep it up! (I haven't purchased one yet, but... as soon as I can...I will!) 😮 😂
Dave I love your work thanks to you I have been continuing by guitar journey and hope after may be a year or two i can play the guitar half as good as you.
Always Nails everything, songs and Tech what a legend. Well I'm gonna have a crack at this with the Kemper, if anyone has suggestions, this is the best info I could find, Thanks for the great Demo Davo. For those wanting to try and hook this up to a Kemper - Guitar >> Trio + Input >> Trio Plus send >> Kemper Input >> Kemper Monitor Out >> Trio+ Return >> Trio Output >> Cab.
Great video, very well organized with clear explanation of the important features of the Trio+ pedal. I'll be reviewing this with the pedal in hand (or underfoot) many times methinks! 👍👍 Subbed!
Thank you for your directness. Your explanation and examples were perfectly blended without unneeded flash. Your pros and cons stayed generic, as to quell most FAQs. Very well done.
Can you use this as a standalone looper without all the band stuff? If so what are some pros and cons of using this as a looper as opposed to a regular looper pedal?
I've seen on online message forums that you can run the output into the amp FX return and the FX send of the pedal into the front of the amp, with all additional pedals intact. Are you able to vouch for a setup like that insofar as preserving tone/sound quality goes?
As tech progresses, I look forward to other gear which devs may make which would have more cool features and maybe more realistic drums; nothing against electronic-sounding drums, I like them. But having the option of accessing a “real drumkit” would be really interesting. And maybe something like this which has a more complex response…I’ll try to sound a little vaguer…lol..I guess the one reading this follows what I mean. Maybe further, more advanced versions of Digitech Trios?
The Digitech Strummable Drums is quite cool, too. You can do lots with it, when you know how to operate the pedal well... Just spend some time with it there is so much to get out of this pedal. It is quite cool for live playing, a lot better than the BeatBuddy in my opinion. Even more so, when you have the footswitch thingy for the Digitech... (3 different modes available, etc.)
Everyone keeps saying it saves everything automatically, but it doesn't seem like you can change the volume mix between the parts after the initial recording. Do you know how to do that and resave at a new volume level? No one seems to know how to do this
Volume levels are not saved... you dial them in with the knobs and that's what it is... However, you can change the intensity of the drums by pressing the part led (changes from green to red) or the "busy-ness" of the bass by pressing the button... When I want to have different volume levels in my parts, I turn the volume up/ down on the guitar or on the pedals I use (this approach works quite well with the Digitech Trio+).
Yes, the old Trio pedal. Depends on what you're looking for. There are products overlapping what the Trio+ does like SDRUM or Beatbuddy. There's the Boss DR-880. It lets you programm bass guitar, too. Much better drum machine, but no pedal other than the Trio+ does the teaching/learning thing and present you a beat and a bass line you don't have to programm and lets you start jamming away in seconds.
The RC5 is just a simple looper with basic drum machine capabilities. Great pedal no doubt. But it doesn’t allow you to cycle through multiple progressions and doesn’t create a drum/bass groove based off what you’re playing like the Trio+. So you can’t really compare them as their feature set is entirely different. If you need a simple to use looper, RC5 is easier to get your head around as a beginner, but if want something that has a better ability to get creative with and build out a full band, then Trio+ is better
LOL! It'll give you slightly different results each time if starting from scratch, so if you're just jamming live in a more improv sort of way, absolutely. But you could also save the song structures and parts you have created into the 12 song slots. So short answer is yes, but I would be doing a lot of prep before the gig to have everything in place. If you want to recreate specific grooves or beats, it's a little trickier since you are only given a set of options to choose from created from how you taught the band
@@GuitarZero2Hero Thanks. It seems more suited to home jamming. I already have, band in a box for that. I get nervous enough without worrying about extra pedals to press. 😂
@@GuitarZero2Hero How do you get those "slightly different" results each time? Mine is just doing the same thing over and over when I put in a certain chord sequenz with the same rhythm each time... Would love to get an answer. Thanks in advance. All the best to you guys!
It’ll work with any guitar amp. As I mentioned in the video you’ll just need to keep the tone on your amp as dry/clean as possible so that the drum and bass and not coloured or distorted by your amp. So you would need to use external pedals or the inbuilt FX on the Trio+ if you want distorted, or driven tones. I prefer the former as the inbuilt fx on this pedal are limited. So you’d be essentially be using your spark as a speaker only and letting other gear handle to tone.
@@GuitarZero2Hero Thanks for clarifying. When I said no, I should have been more clear that all the different tones of the Spark would not work with it effectively
Please can you give us some cover song you play freely without teaching us you jamming for fun I been practicing with you for long time since 2011 now Hopefully you know what I’m trying to say 😅 So in one of the videos come you play something cool for fun joy you feel thanks
@@lanceholland Was it? Would love to know when or in what situation you had this problem. Mine works just fine. Would love to find out where its limitations are. I'm looking forward to hearing from you, answer is much appreciated. Thank you in advance. Keep rocking!!
@@apriltoronto5254 Hi - I'd strum a basic chord progression using simple chords. What the unit produced was completely out of whack drums and bass lines that didn't even follow the chords. It wasn't like I was even using complicated chords....even a basic blue progression seemed to confuse it. Maybe mine was a dud? It's like it wasn't actually listening when I would do the record/learn.
@@Jack-zc1qp What made me think that?! The title of your video is literally "Stuck in a guitar rut? This pedal will change everything!" If you're doing a pedal review that's fine but it's irresponsible to imply that this pedal will get a player out of a "rut".
