Guitar Gear

I was looking for user reviews of the DigiTech Trio+ so I could get a feel for what I’ll need to adjust in my rig to accommodate this pedal once I get it. To me, as a songwriter, playing a riff then “teaching” a pedal the riff, then having both drums and bass “automagically” layered on top of it is awesome! For me, once I come up with a riff, I want to create a rhythmic context so I can continue with a song. The way I would do this is search through loops to find the right “feel” for my song, then place it on a track, then record my riff over it. But oftentimes, I’d get so frustrated just trying to find a damn drum loop that I lose the inspiration to go further than just recording the riff. But based on the all I’ve read and the demos I’ve watched the last couple of days, I think the Trio+ will be an invaluable tool for my songwriting, and even using it in a live performance.

But in the interest of being thorough, I wanted to see user reviews on the Trio+ because professional reviews, while incredibly useful are created by people whose jobs are to do great demos, and oftentimes they tend to gloss over idiosyncracies of the gear they review. So I did a search and ran across this thread on the GearSlutz forum. The guy who started the thread griped about his perceived shortcomings of the unit. I suppose they could be valid from his perspective. But others chimed in and talked about how to address those issues. Others piled on with some negativity; you know, the typical, “hate that crap” and they’ve never even used the gear. But despite others offering solutions, the guy doubled down on his complaints thinking that there should be more features added to the unit to make it easier. When I read his suggestions, I thought that those made a bit of sense, but it’s unclear to me if they would fix his issues, especially if the problems were because of his playing.

And that formed the gist of this particular entry. Over the years, with all gear that I’ve evaluated and played, there’s one constant I’ve come to find about gear: Nothing is perfect. Nothing falls neatly into what we perceive to be how gear should operate.

And I suppose that this could be applied to life in general. I think we all fall into the trap of struggling between our perception and reality. To overcome that struggle, I truly believe that if we open up our minds and hearts and take the time see something for what it truly represents as opposed to how we think it “should” be, we’ll be a lot happier.

Food for thought…