This is the Joyo Uzi pedal - an extremely affordable take on the high gain Marshall-esque tones of the Friedman BE-OD pedal!
Get the Uzi here: thmn.to/thoprod/453169?offid=...
The Uzi might have been around for a while, but I had slept on it until now. Then I got the Joyo Dark Flame for a video and realized how good these budget pedals could really be! So, when I spotted the Uzi for sale near me for the super cheap price of €30, I went for it - and this is what it can do!
But for under $50 or €50 brand new, the Uzi is a bit of a steal. It’s based on - some may even say it’s a clone of - the iconic Friedman BE-OD pedal, which is based on the Friedman BE-100 amplifier, which is based on a few different high gains Marshalls like the JCM 800. And that all means we can expect the Uzi to turn our clean amps into snarling, rock and roll monsters!
The Uzi has six main controls to sculpt your tones: big Volume and Gain knobs at the top, and then four mini EQ controls - Low, Mid, High, and Bias. The Bias control is similar to the BE-OD’s Tight control, and lets you filter out unwanted low end to tighten up your signal and get more clarity in your guitar tone, especially at higher gain levels. In short, it’s almost like a Chug knob! The Uzi is housed in a solid metal chassis, with extra red mood lighting if you want it, and you power it via a standard 9 volt power supply.
But for $50, how good can it sound? That’s what we’re about to find out! In the video, I put the Uzi through its paces in as many different musical genres as I can, from pop and blues to indie, classic rock, punk, alternative rock, metal, and more.
Using my Fender Telecaster for single coil tones, and my humbucker-equipped Epiphone Les Paul, I also try the pedal into a dirty amp, and at the end I do a couple of loops to test the extremes with the settings.
Here are some links to the various playing samples and info bits:
00:00 Hello!
00:13 Introduction to the Joyo Uzi and the Friedman BE-OD
01:31 Pedal controls and features
02:56 Today’s rig and plan
Pushed Clean Sounds
04:05 Clean reference tones and turning on the Uzi
04:42 Southern rock picked arpeggios
05:01 Blues progression
05:23 Ascending droning indie riff
05:36 Surf pop chords
Indie Rock Sounds
05:53 Indie octave chords
06:21 Droning open string riff
06:33 Indie rock barre chords
06:56 Garage rock riff
07:11 Edgy indie barre chords
07:25 Indie rock octaves
07:51 Kings Of Leon inspired indie riff
Rock Sounds
08:06 Airbourne inspired rock riff
08:28 Quacky Hendrix inspired riff
08:37 Driving rock riff
08:51 Groovy classic rock riff
09:17 Hendrix inspired classic rock riff
09:33 AC/DC inspired classic rock riff
Higher Gain Overdrive Sounds
09:50 Classic hard rock riff
10:07 Hard rock riff
10:23 Hard rock melodic lead
10:45 80s rock riff
11:04 Glam rock riff
11:19 Glam metal rhythm riff
11:39 Foo Fighters inspired modern rock riff
11:56 Alternative rock riff
12:19 Pop punk riff
12:44 Punk rock power chords
13:23 Progressive rock riff (Drop D tuning)
13:38 Palm-muted power chords (Drop D)
14:03 Rage Against The Machine inspired groovy riff (Drop D)
Metal Sounds (all in Drop D)
14:20 Metal chugging riff
14:53 Heavy metal lead
15:09 Mastodon inspired metal riff with country twang
15:32 Hardcore punk riff
15:55 Thrash metal riff
16:07 Classic metal/sludge riff
16:44 Uzi as boost into an overdriven amp
17:32 Epiphone Les Paul metal loop
20:47 Fender Telecaster classic rock loop
24:18 My thoughts
24:47 What I like: sounds and versatility
26:37 Price, build quality, lights
27:16 What I don’t like
28:00 What other cheap pedals like this are out there?
29:40 My conclusions on the Uzi and why you should buy it
My setup was as follows: I ran the Uzi straight into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head. That went from the amp’s Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done. Oh, and I used my Boss RC-10R to play the loops.
Here’s some links to those bits of gear:
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H&K Black Spirit 200 head: thmn.to/thoprod/447827?offid=...
Boss RC-10R Rhythm Loop Station: thmn.to/thoprod/470055?offid=...
Focusrite 4i4 (the new 2i4): thmn.to/thoprod/467952?offid=...
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Enjoy!
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Backing music from the RU-vid Audio Library: Duck In The Alley - Track Tribe.
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6 авг 2024
