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Anyone using "JOYO" Brand Pedals with Their Bass?

#41
I've tried out the joyo analog chorus and the future chorus. both great sounding choruses on bass. the analog I would compare it to that of a boss ce-2 and an Ibanez cs-9. simple yet versatile, the joyo analog chorus has a nice bright chorus sound and doesn't seem to reduce low-end what so ever. a good chorus pedal to buy if you're on a tight budget.

As for the joyo future chorus, this too is a nice sounding chorus pedal for bass. the sound quality reminds me of the danelectro chorus pedals, only it has a darker sound. along with the usual speed and depth control, it also has a mix control so you can mix the dry signal with the effected signal. it has a latch so you can close the pedal settings. and this pedal has a thick metal casing. so it's built like a tank. and it's pedalboard friendly. small, sturdy, affordable, and gig-worthy, the joyo future chorus is a good budget chorus for bass.
 
#42
From the reviews I read and the demos I heard of Joyo's pedals they are of an amazing quality considering their fairly low price, also most of their dirt pedals designed with guitar in mind, which usually spell low end loss has very little, if any of that.

Ironically their one dirt pedal Moon Base specifically designed for use on bass, have tons of low end loss and sounds fizzy and straight out bad.

Personally I got 2 of their Orange Juice pedals, which are supposed to be an Orange amp emulator and a bit simplified clone of Tech 21's Oxford, with less tonal controls and a slightly different tonal character.

At the moment I run one of them set on low drive in front of the tube head part of my bi-amping rig as an always on pedal, and another one after my Tube Zipper (which is used soly as fuzz since the envelope filter circuit is faulty), to add a bit of extra spliff and smoothen out and soften up the Tube Zipper fuzz's very raspy velcro and slightly synthy character.

Alone the Orange Juice has a very grindy and griddy raw drive character.

I also have their California Sound, which is also a Tech 21 character pedal clone, simply called California, but on Joyo's Sound series pedals, unlike the Ironman series which the Orange Juice belong to, all the original controls are keeped intact offering a wide range of tonal control.

It's a Mesa Boogie amp emulator, and personally I used it as my heavy distortion with the drive knob maxed, in that setting with some tone tweeking made with the knobs it comes with, I am capable of getting a really heavy hard punching and full kind of distortion, and even without clean blend and with the drive knob all the way up it retains a surprisingly amount of lows.

Finally I plan to invest their American Sound pedal, which is a clone of Tech 21's Blonde, and designed as a Fender amp emulator.

It has become a quite popular pedal among bass players, for it's ability to fairly authentically emulating the sound of an overdriven tube amp, and does everything from just acting as preamp, light overdrive at breakup point to medium dirt really well.

Personally I will use it as my go to medium overdrive unit.

Of other interesting Joyo pedals for bass is the Golden Face, which is a Marshall amp emulator in the Ironman series, the British Sound pedal, which is also a Marshall emulator but with more tonal controls, and a clone of the Tech 21 Bristish, as well as their Ultimate Drive, which is a clone of the Fulltone OCD drive unit.

All the mentioned pedals, even if they are designed with guitar in mind maintain low end really well, which as mentioned is a bit unusual for dirt units designed for use on guitar.

All Joyo's pedals seems to be of a remarkable quality compared to the price though, just that there's nothing that unusual in other effect types designed with guitar in mind, than specifically dirt units, working as well on bass.
 
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#43
So I'm relatively new to pedals, and I'd spent quite a bit for a Old Blood Noise Procession Reverb pedal which I recently took off my board.
What I now have are the Joyo Dyna compressor, the Phase and the analog chorus.
Pretty new to compressors, but I found I was able to dial in the sort of dark sound I want from my Fender Rumble and my 5 string. To avoid clipping, I just put the pedals in front instead of through the effects loop.
I'll be trying the compressor at rehearsal this Sunday but I've got hopes for it.
My boutique pedal was always persnickety and these just go. Also loving the true bypass, no noise when not engaged. I've heard of compressor hiss before, I don't get compressor hiss. Just the hiss I kind of expect from the chorus and phaser pedals, especially if both are on at the same time.
I haven't decided yet if I will need a reverb / delay pedal or not. They have a space verb and the digital delay.
For all my pedals, using D'Addario Chrome flats, I have not had any bottom end loss - even on my low B string.
So far, so good. And the knobs are easy to tell where they're at / adjust, something I relish as a blind bassist. Pull the board out of the bag at rehearsal and simply dial the settings to where I know they need to be and go.
 
#44
I have had several over the years that were sold off to guitar players but did keep the California Sound that I use for bass, guitar and Tweety bass. Great for getting everything from spanky clean Fenderish tones, clean warm jazz, singing saturated (Santana/Carlton/Ritenour) sustain tones all the way to full on heavy metal saturated tones.
 
#45
OP, I think the reason some believe you are "shilling" is that the tone of your post makes it sound like Joyo is some great new brand that few people may be aware of. But if you type "joyo" in to the search bar you will get 680 pages of results! Not saying you are in the wrong at all, just that a quick search would have shown that Joyo is a very popular option for cheap effects among TB users, especially the American Sound and California Sound pedals.
 
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gjbassist said:
OP, I think the reason some believe you are "shilling" is that the tone of your post makes it sound like Joyo is some great new brand that few people may be aware of. But if you type "joyo" in to the search bar you will get 680 pages of results! Not saying you are in the wrong at all, just that a quick search would have shown that Joyo is a very popular option for cheap effects among TB users, especially the American Sound and California Sound pedals.
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I agree... but this IS a zombie thread... raised from is tomb from 5 years ago. ;)
 
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#49
I wanted to get into Delay but being I was looking at 300+ delays with no experience I decided to get this little blue digital delay by joyo too learn delay possibilities. When I got it I laughed how small it was. But the idea of a cap to hide the knobs after you finish your settings along with the sound, it was a great 50 dollar investment. I realize I am not in need of a very expensive delay as I don't think I will ever play out with one, (just me not trashing those who do) but it is well worth the money in design and sound.
 
#50
I've been using the Ultimate Drive for a couple years now. It's become my main go-to general distortion. I've also been using a PXL-Live for about a year or two, and it makes having a big pedalboard a lot easier to control.
 

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