@2112 just uploaded a great review of the Trident. Man, NUX stuff sounds pretty damn good to my ears.
I may grab one just to try it out though. I love the layout, options, and footprint.
I've tried the MG300 into the FX loop of a POD Go and the latency was pretty bad. Would be interested to hear your feedback on how it was with the Stomp.I'll check that out later today. I have been using a MG300 for the past few years, and always been a fan. I even have their Klon copy pedal.
I just got a Stomp XL a few weeks ago, so it hasn't seen much love lately, but as I'm getting up to speed on the XL, I've made up my mind to try a few different setups to add them together. The MG300 has a pretty good Marshall sound and I know there is a way to use the MG300 as a wah and volume pedal. Maybe setup a snapshot with no amp and just effects and use the Marshall sound from the MG300. Lots of options and limited time issues again
I'll try it this weekend and let you know. From what I am reading so far, and very little out there, it may be better to run it direct into the input instead of the fancier options, but I'll let you know.I've tried the MG300 into the FX loop of a POD Go and the latency was pretty bad. Would be interested to hear your feedback on how it was with the Stomp.
@kartikg3 I finally got around to using the MG 300 as a wah and volume pedal with the Stomp XL and did not experience any latency that I could detect. It may be there, but if it was, it was so small I could not tell on either clean or dirty tones. Obviously YMMV, but so far it works great set up like this - Guitar>MG300>Stomp XL>Cat 200 Effects Loop Return on Power amp setting.I've tried the MG300 into the FX loop of a POD Go and the latency was pretty bad. Would be interested to hear your feedback on how it was with the Stomp.
Thanks! Maybe the firmware has improved things.@kartikg3 I finally got around to using the MG 300 as a wah and volume pedal with the Stomp XL and did not experience any latency that I could detect. It may be there, but if it was, it was so small I could not tell on either clean or dirty tones. Obviously YMMV, but so far it works great set up like this - Guitar>MG300>Stomp XL>Cat 200 Effects Loop Return on Power amp setting.
Let me know if you have any specific questions. Sorry it took a while, we were away at the beach last week.
Some initial observations of my first few hours with the Trident:
-You can't turn the gain on the amps up. It gets too noisy even with NR on and hum buckers.
THIS IS THE WORST-When you hold down the boost button for the tuner, the boost momentarily clicks on! WHY?
THIS IS ALSO VERY BAD-When you hold down the reverb button for freeze effect, it turns the reverb off! WHY?
-The speaker high and low cuts aren't easy to get to on the main unit and they don't equal real life (ie: 800 and 8k etc..)
-The screen is very small and hard to read. Some of the fonts are microscopic.
-When switching patches, you can hear the effects popping on or off with a loud thud, repeat, repeat, repeat....
-Switching from factory presets to your own presets is WEIRD (and too easy to mess up) and it's true, you can't get rid of the factory stuff
-The Boost effects are bad. I mean think worst distortion box you can imagine bad.
-Tuner is slow to react and the display lines on the left and right for tuning are thin and hard to see
-It's strange to only be able to access certain items from switches and then the overflow items through the screen
-Overall amp modeling is sub-par compared to what I am used to (QC, Fractal, GT-1000, HX)
-Amp sims sound much alike, not much difference in any of them. Most of them are a buzzy mess.
-The layout of the effects order is backwards compared to every other modeler I've used
-There is a gap when switching between presets.
-The delays and reverbs do not carry over when switching presets.
Some good:
-When using the expression pedal as volume, the delay and reverb trails do continue.
-Princeton Reverb cleans sound awesome
-Amp EQ controls (under the screen) work well
They don't seem to be very responsive to tech support e-mails either.Scared that these guys can never seem to keep their website running...though hopefully its from a flood of success
Heck same can hold true for expensive thingsLOL. Cheap stuff Is always gonna be full of compromises.