For all the complaints about too much talking, I actually enjoyed listening to you talk about this pedal. Great voice and great enthusiasm for a great $40 dollar pedal.
I have tried several of the higher end modelers and I found them too involved for playing live. I wound up using two American Sound pedals. One as a clean channel and the other stacked into it as a crunch sound. I added distortion before them for when I would need a higher gain sound. It works amazingly well.
Some purists would say, because the AS has a cab SIM in it, then there should only be one at the end of the chain and then direct in... But I think if it sounds good it sounds good. And the AS sounds excellent even if I run a cab SIM pedal after it.
The Voice control is a mid boost before the clipping circuit. In other words, it’s a Drive control for the mids. The other tone controls are after clipping. Once I realized this it was easier to dial it in.
Excellent review. Most reviews focus on the more pushed sound. I really wanted to hear the clean sound, and you sold me. Thanks man, I subbed, keep up the great work.
Thanks so much for the comment and I'm glad it was helpful! I was actually just helping someone today to dial in a clean on their joyo. Good luck and thanks for the sub!
This pedal must be at least 10 years since it was reviewed on youtube. I've read the recent posts and can someone tell if this pedal after almost a decade is still a viable pedal to add to your pedal board?
Personally I think it's still extremely useful on a pedalboard. In most of my videos the guitar "amp" is the Joyo. However, with new players like the Line 6 Express that has effects built in it definitely has some stiff competition.
So to clarify, because I'm pretty new at this, I can plug my guitar into this pedal, run a cable to an unpowered cab, and it will run the whol thing? Meaning is this a true amp in a box or just a simulator?
I use mine with plugins (bogey, convolve) to simulate cabs only or plugged into 20 watts Ibanez Troubadour (acoustic amp). I'm a drummer, I don't really care but it's still better than the majority of amp simulators.
Nice! I actually just saw an Ibanez Troubadour on cragslist the other day for the first time! Yeah, I have used it with the Two Notes cab sims and a nice pedal cab sim called the "Cab Zeus" and it can definitely enhance it and round out the sound. I just keep coming back to how amazing it is as that swiss army knife tone shaper platform for any tone. Pretty sweet!
I put a Joyo classic flanger at the end of my board and now there is no chorus or phase. It goes a long way. Ballpark settings are a great start and as long as you show what the knobs do, you can get a lot out of a pedal. You just have to tweak at it
It's a rare industry bargain, far better than the price it sells for. I use one for all the guitar parts on my channel backing tracks. Honestly, it works really well for a range of tones. 🙌
I've never tried the Oxford but feedback doesn't seem to be an issue with the American. I do have to make sure that the volume isn't pushed too high on the pedal but even at pretty loud volumes it's pretty feedback free. Good luck!
Maybe it is faulty. The cheaper Chinese pedals sometimes have bad soldering. Joyo seems to be better for it than some, e.g. Caline. I've bought a couple of Caline pedals that needed minor repairs, from new. One needed the soldering touching up and another one had the leg of an LED bent so it was touching another component... I also have one I bought with a known fault where the foot switch doesn't do anything useful. The first transistor preamp I ever tried making had two ceramic disk capacitors - one on the input and one on the output. It fed back constantly, unless I twisted one of them so it was at 90 degrees to the other one.
I agree, the Joyo American Sound is fab. For a starter amp, I recommend a secondhand Boss MicroCube. I still use mine. Loud enough, loads of FX, with a great choice of sounds. (Not a Dual Cube, they're different.)
Suggest you put your amp sounds played at the end - at the start - this way people will be more willing to listen to your in depth discussions that are very interesting
@@mrnathanmusic8224 - Hi! Keep this video - do an 2nd video : different sounds (energy) at start for under 1 min - then conversation - more sounds - more conversation (added insights - Joyo vs Neural amp Modeler and / or Joyo after Nobels OD1) - call it The BEST amp in a pedal???? - Joyo American Sound DEMO - UPDATE
I just put one of these in the effects loop of my Sunn Alpha 112r and it sounds amazing. Compressor -> Crunch -> Tube Screamer -> Noise Gate -> Amp input -> fx loop send -> Joyo American Sound -> Chorus -> Delay -> fx loop return
@@mrnathanmusic8224 No, but feel free to try it and see what you think. I recently restored that Sunn amplifier, which I've had since 1993 but hadn't been able to use the past 15 years or so. I bought a bunch of cheap pedals off Temu, so the Joyos (my delay is also Joyo) are actually my high-dollar pedals...ha! Mostly wanted a good clean sound, just got the American Sound yesterday, and I think it's fantastic so far. Looking into the others in that series.
I'm thinking about getting the Joyo R14 reverb pedal. I really confused on which power supply to get. The cheaper ones they say aren't isolated. As a beginner I need some good advice.
Gotta be the best value pedal ever. I love mine, intend to gig with it straight to FOH at local open mics (I've played loads of open mics and other types of gigs all the way up to a major festival before... but on acoustic guitar. I'm working on a set of singer-songwriter material written on my telecaster and I need to be portable and unfussy about it). When it comes to effectiveness/versatility vs cost, it seems like something every guitarist should own even if only as an emergency backup solution.
No comparison , even though the Joyo is a awesome budget alternative, I know as I have a lot of Joyo stuff . For the money the best bang for your dollars. The Dream is at a completely different level in terms of sound and options in it !👍😎
@@jdwild1698 Thanks for the input! I still haven't tried out the Dream but I would expect something from the Universal Audio team to be light years ahead. Hopefully I can try one soon and compare.
So, at the moment, amp wise, I only have a Hartke bass amp. I play my guitar thru it. It works, definitely, however it is just a super boring clean tone. I'm wondering if this pedal, and/or the others (ACtone specifically) will deliver the same sound that you get, with my bass amp. Any info would be dank. Thanks a bunch bro
Great question Nick! Hard to say definitively without hearing your rig but I'd say that if your Hartke is currently giving you a pretty flat clean tone for your guitar this should work great! Essentially you'd treat your amp like a PA speaker and all of the guitar tone that you'd want from an amp would come from the Joyo. I'd grab one, set your amp pretty flat/neutral and then start tweaking with the Joyo settings to get the right tone for your guitar that you're looking for. Hope that help and good luck! You should post a video after you get it set. I'd love to hear what you come up with! Cheers!
@@mrnathanmusic8224 Thanks for the response, man. Much appreciated! After some thought, I think I will actually go with the American, over the ACtone. Reason being, I am most likely going to get myself an AC10, or AC15 in the not-so-distsnt future. Plus, the American seems like a much more all-purpose pedal, putting out beautiful clean tones and then they're able to be dialed into dirty. So, for my current amp situation, it will be much more useful. Anywho, thanks again. And I will probably make a vid about the bass amp > Joyo sim > guitar. Mostly because I couldn't really find any concrete info about it working, or not working , or anything that would bring comfort to someone with less knowledge than me. So I kind of feel like I should fill that little gap of knowledge for any new players with that question, in the future. Sounds stupid lol, but I'll contribute when I can
