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Official Joyo Club Part 2: Beyond Thunderclone

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Full of budget goodness. I really like the copper styled UD. Did you meticulously cover bits with tape, sand the rest, and spray copper?
 
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OK, I gigged with the Ultimate drive behind the Dyna Compressor Sunday. With the gain cranked down, it was not as noticeable as I thought, so I am going to keep the BBE Sonic Stomp in the chain.
There have been criticisms of the JT-305 Tuner here, and after using it live, I have to agree that it is not what it could be. The pianist was late Sunday, and I had tuned up to the JT-305. The two guitars and the violin tuned up to me. When the pianist arrived and we started to rehearse before church, we found that everyone was sharp to the piano which had been recently tuned to concert pitch. I figured it out , and we all retuned. When I got home to run a calibration on the JT-305 against a tuning fork, I was only able to adjust it so that I had a match to the G-string's A (as well as any other note ON THAT STRING)! When I tuned the other strings relative to the G-string, they read low on the JT-305, even when I went back to the G-string which still reads right on pitch for any note on that string, any other note on any other string reads low. So to use the tuner, I can only use it to tune the one string silently, then I have to tune the others live relative to that string. Not sure that it is worth it. At least I know how to get a correct reading out of it.
 
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Recieved my UD yesterday. pretty cool. when dialling in a similar amount of grit it certainly has more crunch than the American, obviously turning the tone down dulls it off.

I was going to transplant the American into a 1/2 rack case to put into my rack. I'm actually tempted to transplant both the American and UD into a 1RU case to rack up with my Eden to use the American as a 2nd channel/grit option and the UD as a straight up OD. If I use a pedal set up I use a Zoom B3 or my already existing pedal board which I am stoked with. My interest in Joyo pedals so far has been about finding an option I like to use as described above. I am using a Tech 21 RPM currently as a 2nd channel option currently, but I want to free that up to use in either my IEM rig, or racked with a power amp. Feeling like this is going to work out really well at a fraction of the cost I was looking at using standard pedal options such as Tech 21.
 
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For those having issues with the Joyo tuner:

Rob22315 said:
So I have a bunch of tuners - some clip-ons, some built into amps, some plug into the jack or signal chain. I was doing a comparison to see if they were all reasonably consistent. They were, except my nice Joyo PB clone - I was bummed.

I checked the calibration settings, turns out the Joyo pedal tuner came set sharp from the factory (I never touched the calibration button until now, I swear). It was set on #2 which is 442hz. When I set it to #0 (440hz) it agreed with my other tuners.

If you have doubts about the accuracy of the Joyo tuner, check the calibration settings before tossing the pedal.

Otherwise, this is a great tuner pedal - locks faster than the PB and seems to skip around less.
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yaksonator said:
So anyone try the classic flanger yet? Can you get a nice 46 and 2 tone??
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I have the classic flanger. I really like it. Sounds HUGE and has quite a bit of adjustment to tweak the sound. One think I like about it is the very subtle modulated sound it provides. It's hard to describe, but on the recording for 46&2 it's very apparent that the tone is being modulated, whereas when I use the flanger it has a much more "organic" feel to it if that makes sense.

No reason why you couldn't use it for 46&2 but it won't have quite the same ethereal feel to it as the recording.
 
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SunnBass said:
For those having issues with the Joyo tuner:
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No, that's not it.
It is just not very accurate (it displays that it's found the pitch, but it may actually be a little high or a little low...). Maybe some people can't hear it and don't have better tuners to compare, and I'm a bit of a "tuning nazi" :-P I can't stand out of tuneness and I might be more pitch sensitive than most.

It finds the pitch fast, but I suspect it's because it zeroes once it gets "close enough". But Joyo's definition of close enough does not cut it for me.

Not a dig at Joyo, just this pedal. I owned other pedals that I did not like enough, however two of the range are really nice: Ultimate Overdrive (on bass and guitar), and Vintage Overdrive (on guitar only, too much bottom end loss to be good for bass, but sounds fantastic with a Stratocaster)
 

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