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Digitech Holy Trinity?
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Hi guys! This is my first post in this forum! I also haven't checked it out too much, so i don't know what to expect :P btw english is not my mother language sooo you get it
Recently, I discovered some pedals that follow an aesthetical pattern and I got one of those pedals before knowing it. I'm talking about the Digitech Dirty Robot, a discontinued synth pedal which was intended to be the spiritual follow up to the legendary Bass Synth Wah (also I'm a bass player, forgot to mention it) created around 2017. It literally blew my mind. I hadn't had any pedal like it, it cannot be compared to the likes of the MXR M82 or the Bassballs, it is another kind of beast. Not that it is better or sth, it always depends on your personal preferences, but still.
Sooo I figured that this pedal was unique because i couldn't find it on sale on Reverb, must be some kind of niche cult, I'm so glad i got it because it was a bargain on a local website. But then, i found out about this Digitech Holy Trinity guy in YouTube: https://youtu.be/auzYdDR87MI?is=-GZ3ue6bgItFuJW6
I noticed that this three pedals share the pots position and have a similar art style. They belong to the Digitech era when they changed owners or sth, didn't really do the proper research XD i was wondering, how good are these three pedals? Does anybody own them or tried them out in a gig or anything? Hoping to read yall soon, thx for reading me!! See u round 🎸🎛️
First of all, thank u for your reply!! Well.. lets say that this pedal is really something, u can get lots of different textures out of it, it has two modes, the first being an envelope adjacent and the second emulates a talkbox. It has a dry signal separated from the effect, that's why some bass players find this pedal so appealing. If u keep the button pressed u will get a tremolo effect. I also find the octave/sub/square blend very interesting, it goes 360 degrees, might get messy but one of the strong points of this pedal is that it takes some time to fully master it (unless you're a full blown sound engineer which unfortunately isn't my case) so u will never get bored. Works great before drive, some even use it without one, i got it first in my main board... tbf i'm a huge fan of this pedal, i cannot recommend it enough.
I'd like to try them out with those other three pedals, the Digitech Polara - Obscura - Ventura. It is easier to find those than the Dirty Robot anyway 😅 there are some reviews of the DR on yt which are worth the watch, still it seems to be pretty much unknown if you're not a "synth" fan. The DR is a real swiss army knife for those who want to get funky and/or straight up weird & experimental.
I don't know man I really think that there is something interesting about them, again i haven't tried them but as you say i can always trust old school to do the job 😁
ngl I had to find what YMMV stands for 😌 you are absolutely right to the t. i have little room to experiment bc i own no place to practice freely, i wish i knew more about effects and stuff, i'm relatively new to this and it just keeps getting better and better, it's hard for me to think of any effect as dull or unnecesary. I already got to know some of the classics, for example i got myself a RAT for 20€ and it is as good as i heard!! and now that we talk about classics, i also found this Boss HF2 made in taiwan year90, not the japanese one, but it is an absolute gem and it's older than me!!!