Diego
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Today I went for the bargains of the century:
Joyo Us Dream (yup, it's not US, it's Us. No idea what it means) and the Joyo Sweet Baby pedals.
As you may know, these are Chinese copies of much more expensive dirt pedals: The Suhr Riot and the Mad Professor Sweet Honey.
I've never played the originals. I don't know if they're close to the real thing or not.
But I can say these are the two best sounding dirt boxes I've ever played, in any price bracket.
The Us Dream is the Riot clone.
The mids are big, punchy and proud and the tone is very real and harmonic. The bass sits just right and the highs are very controllable with the tone knob.
It lacks some clarity maybe, but it has tons of gain onboard so you can't really ask that much.
The tones are spectacular with it. Heavy and sort of on the modern Marshall side of things.
Much better than my old Marshall Jackhammer, or my Metal Muff + Top Boost. AMAZING crunch.
I really like it. But it's nothing compared to what the Sweet Baby does for me.
The dynamics on this thing are HUGE. Properly huge.
The only time I've had such a picking-strength sensitive sound is with my Tweaker cooking it's power tubes.
Play soft and it's perfectly clean. Strum hard and the Sweet Baby delivers some round, warm and extremely musical overdrive with lots of character.
It absolutely destroys my Keeley Blues Driver. The mids are much wider, the bass is bigger and rounder, and the highs are much more harmonic.
I can see why bungalowbill loves it.
These two respond incredibly well to the use of your guitar's volume pots, just like my Tweaker does when near cranked.
The Dream clears up very well and the Sweet Baby is just ridiculous on that aspect.
I literally cannot believe how good these two sound, and the price is just stupid.
Joyo Us Dream (yup, it's not US, it's Us. No idea what it means) and the Joyo Sweet Baby pedals.
As you may know, these are Chinese copies of much more expensive dirt pedals: The Suhr Riot and the Mad Professor Sweet Honey.
I've never played the originals. I don't know if they're close to the real thing or not.
But I can say these are the two best sounding dirt boxes I've ever played, in any price bracket.
The Us Dream is the Riot clone.
The mids are big, punchy and proud and the tone is very real and harmonic. The bass sits just right and the highs are very controllable with the tone knob.
It lacks some clarity maybe, but it has tons of gain onboard so you can't really ask that much.
The tones are spectacular with it. Heavy and sort of on the modern Marshall side of things.
Much better than my old Marshall Jackhammer, or my Metal Muff + Top Boost. AMAZING crunch.
I really like it. But it's nothing compared to what the Sweet Baby does for me.
The dynamics on this thing are HUGE. Properly huge.
The only time I've had such a picking-strength sensitive sound is with my Tweaker cooking it's power tubes.
Play soft and it's perfectly clean. Strum hard and the Sweet Baby delivers some round, warm and extremely musical overdrive with lots of character.
It absolutely destroys my Keeley Blues Driver. The mids are much wider, the bass is bigger and rounder, and the highs are much more harmonic.
I can see why bungalowbill loves it.
These two respond incredibly well to the use of your guitar's volume pots, just like my Tweaker does when near cranked.
The Dream clears up very well and the Sweet Baby is just ridiculous on that aspect.
I literally cannot believe how good these two sound, and the price is just stupid.
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