Mayer's experience with the Trio influenced his production style on "Continuum", and he and Jordan produced the album. He remarked "The artist gets almost trained to believe it takes 60 people and 12 months to make a record. It takes four people. You get it on tape, you listen back and ask, 'Does it make you feel something, yes or no?' When you got it, you move on." On September 12, 2006, the day of Mayer's solo release "Continuum" (which contains songs from the Trio album "Try!"), he announced on his blog that the group would reunite and produce a studio album.