Joyo pedals.

[Simon_F]

Re: Joyo pedals.

I was gonna pickup the phaser..as Im a stickler for TB,.and the script tone (used a original for years) But I read too many complaints of DOA pedals.

Prolly gonna just grab a Rochester Orange Box. MIA, TB, LED, 9v adapter, and designed by the guy who designed the original MXR script BITD.

Where did you see the DOA complaints Jeff? I haven't seen any...

I was playing my Joyo phaser last night and it nails the classic 70s phase tones I love - Wagner & Hunter, Johnny Winter, Scott Gorham, Jimmy Page, Stones...

That Rochester Orange Box looks great but in the UK it's five times the price of the Joyo. If I stomp on the Joyo one day and smash it to bits the Orange Box is on my list!

 

[JeffB]

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Simon, I did a google search and found various threads on several guitar forums. One was a strat forum, another on a John Petrucci fan site, and a few others sites I don't recall. It was in regards to various DOA Joyo peds, not just the Phase.

Here in the states the orange box is only a few bucks more than the MXR 74 reissue. Roughly 3 times the cost of the Joyo.

Good to hear the Joyo is good to hear you and I are on the same phase wavelength tonally.

 

[AudioWonderland]

Re: Joyo pedals.

They're pretty good clones if you're on a budget but if you do have the cash why not support the original builders

Agreed. Not all of the pedals are that great either. The octavia pedal does not not sound very good to my ears. The vintage phaser sounds kind of thin and metallic to me. The ultimate over drive is decent enough though for $40 but the OCD it is replicating would as well. I like cheap stuff as well but I don't want support a company ripping off other peoples work. Love or hate Fulltone in this case but they did the work and made the investment to create the market for the OCD. They should reap the benefits of it

 

[AudioWonderland]

Re: Joyo pedals.

I was gonna pickup the phaser..as Im a stickler for TB,.and the script tone (used a original for years) But I read too many complaints of DOA pedals.

Prolly gonna just grab a Rochester Orange Box. MIA, TB, LED, 9v adapter, and designed by the guy who designed the original MXR script BITD.

I have been looking into the Orange box. It sounds perfect on paper. the couple of sound samples I have found were poorly recorded and didn't sound very good as a result. It will be in a true bypass loop on my board anyway so that's not necessarily a must have but I would prefer it as you never know what the next incarnation will look like

 

[Aceman]

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Well, hopefully the booteek tone police will be here soon to set us straight!

All of this "based on how it sounds" stuff is BS. If it isn't custom and expensive it is no good.

I realize my "if it sounds good it is good" attitude is just insane. That's just me.

I was playing a Boss HM-2 and DD-3 through my Pro Jr. the other day, and I actually thought it sounded good. Can you believe that?

 

[James Rock]

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I agree ace, for example my new favourite drive pedal is my DS-1, granted I did mod it but now it goes from cleanish to rocking marshall and sounds pretty nice. I believe all pedals have potential to be useful even if it takes modding or the right scenario (either equipment or sound your going for). Tone is relative for example DIed guitars sound awful right withouth any amp sims or anything... well you but I reckon the beginning of Katy Perry's Teenage Dream fits perfectly. No it isn't an example of "good" tone its an example of something that fits the song. I am kinda getting off topic, but to sum it up I generally give cheap gear a chance plus if it isn't for you $40-$60 is no loss you probably would have spent it on beer or fast food.

 

[Gearjoneser]

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And that's sorta the point of my thread. I'm not a big fan of touting Chinese knockoff gear. I really want to resent them for making good stuff for $50 but I also have a realistic lifestyle. I can't always buy Gibson, Bogner, Fulltone......sure I'd love to though.

The point here is that I love cool new gear, and I prefer to talk up good name brands.
Normally, that's how I think. I'm not a fan of Chinese copy cat gear. But, I'm also keen to the idea that good deals are out there, and finding them is part of the game.

Putting your ear to the ground for killer deals is how classics are found. Someday, a few guys on the internet will bring up the fact that 4 Joyo pedals were killer deals.
Threads like this may bring those few to the table.

 

[Gunner]

Re: Joyo pedals.

I bought the Vintage Phaser at the end of last year to replace the EVH Phase 90 that got fried. Although the knob has a weird taper I'll keep it on my pedalboard. After paying roughly $200NZD for the MXR only to have it blow up made me reluctant to spend a lot to replace it. I might regret it later, who knows?

My fiancee bought me their Ultimate Octave last christmas. I've read about rotating the polarity of the two caps to improve the octave function but it does what I need it to. I'm not a fuzz kind of guy but it is fun and that's worth whatever was paid for it IMO. The normal/mid cut switch can be touchy, just like the tone knob sweep isn't smooth but I just set it by ear then leave it. No big deal.

I'd like to pick up their Crunch Box copy as well. I think the kids at school would find it fun to fart around. Wish they had cheap stompboxes like this when I started...

 

[Matt42]

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Apparently these guys are making amps now, too.

 

[Rafito]

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Here is a demo I did of the Vintage Overdrive :

 

[Little Pigbacon]

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Well, hopefully the booteek tone police will be here soon to set us straight!

All of this "based on how it sounds" stuff is BS. If it isn't custom and expensive it is no good.

I realize my "if it sounds good it is good" attitude is just insane. That's just me.

I was playing a Boss HM-2 and DD-3 through my Pro Jr. the other day, and I actually thought it sounded good. Can you believe that?

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[Funkfingers]

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That is taking incontinence wear toooooooo far.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

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It's more intended to keep something out.

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Joyo pedals.

Must be what Ace/Bob wears in the shower whenever there is a squirrel right outside the bathroom window.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

Re: Joyo pedals.

Actually, it's what I like to wear when the preemptive anti-corksniffer rhetoric gets too deep. Or the retroactive regular corksniffer rhetoric, for that matter. It's all just jackassery to me.

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Joyo pedals.

Righto. Let's all get back to discussing pedals.

 

[Little Pigbacon]

Re: Joyo pedals.

Yes, please. Zheesh. The only problem I've ever had with the knockoff pedals is that they sometimes seem to be capitalizing on design and marketing that someone else did. That bugs me on an existential level. Whether I let my buying choices be influenced by that is another question. Being inexpensive, or using inexpensive *whatever* to hit a price point, or being built *wherever* -- that does not bother me. It is what it is, and it's fair game to me. If you make a pedal that's a fraction of the cost and is the same thing but with a different name on the outside, or that uses cheaper something or other, or is a different circuit design but sounds pretty much the same, I can evaluate those things on their own merits. I like being able to decide for myself what things are worth paying my own money for. I'm not telling other people what to buy, I don't judge their personality or character based on what they buy, and I'd appreciate being treated the same way. If I want to buy a clone for half price, or a near-clone for a tenth of the price, or something that's a sideways move but costs $50 more and comes with puppy stickers in the box, I'll do it and not lend a lot of credence to judgements of my character based on it.

 

[Funkfingers]

Re: Joyo pedals.

Usually, the only questions that I ask are,
1) Does any particular pedal make interesting sounds that I can use?
2) Are the control functions intelligible?
3) Will the case refrain from disintegrating when I overzealously land my size 11 on it?

 

[Little Pigbacon]

Re: Joyo pedals.

I wonder about how footswitches, knobs, and jacks will hold up under normal use. With any pedal, really. I've seen footswitch failures in $80 and $129 pedals.

I think bout the design. Ergonomics, and also, does it look cool? (I have a broad definition of the latter. Cosmetic novelty can be nice. It can also be jarring and, if it comes in the area of form factor, it might be hard to work the pedal into a board or gig bag.)

I don't know. I've never tried Joyo pedals. I get jaded by the ceaseless onslaught of new models and brands of pedals. Sometimes I feel like all the pedals I'll ever need have already been designed, built, sold, and resold, and are just waiting somewhere for second-hand sale. I just don't get excited when something else comes out that's supposed to do what something else already does. I know there's often a price difference, but if I'm not in the market for it, I don't care about the money. I'm not opposed to them, but I still have some pedals from the last time I stocked up.

 

[IM4Tone]

Re: Joyo pedals.

I have a number of JOYO pedals.....
Great:
Sweet Baby
Deluxe Crunch
OK (Super tone, but 'hissy'):
American Sound
British Sound
Mediocre (but useable):
Tremolo
Worthless:
Noisegate

Only one I'm sorry I bought was the Noisegate.