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Official Joyo Club Part 2: Beyond Thunderclone

I saw go for the Voodoo Octave. Was my first Joyo pedal I bought and till this day still my favorite of theirs although I havent bought the American every raves about yet. Would want more people to give it a chance and get more feedback from fellow bass players since we all use effects in different applications.
I saw a YouTube review of the Voodoo, fella was super creepy about running through the pedal but showed a lot of the different sounds you can get, I'll try to find a link to it. It seems like a pretty versatile little guy, and with a $40 price tag you really can't go wrong.
 
I saw a YouTube review of the Voodoo, fella was super creepy about running through the pedal but showed a lot of the different sounds you can get, I'll try to find a link to it. It seems like a pretty versatile little guy, and with a $40 price tag you really can't go wrong.
I posted a few sound samples looping a line and trying out different settings way back when in this club. might have been during part 1. Wasnt a youtube clip though just a quick soundcloud clip
 
I have the joyo vintage phase, though it sits on the guitarist's board at the moment, since I didn't particularly like it. It's been described as more like the script phase 90 than the regular, as it is quite subtle if you have any dirt after it. The guitarist doesn't particularly like the subtlety of it, but he recently found himself without a phaser, and it's better than none.

I myself am not sure i like a phaser effect for my own playing at all, as it seems to make me drop in and out of the mix. I don't think that's really the Joyo's fault, though.
 
I have not AB-tested much, and I don't have the original MXR, but I have Muskding DIY clone, a Mooer Orange Ninety, an EHX Small Stone and the Joyo Vintage Phase. For my preferences, I range them:

  • Muskding The Phaser, DIY clone
  • Mooer Orange Ninety
  • Joyo Vintage Phase
  • EHX Small Stone
Behringer makes a small stone clone that I've been using for a couple years now.
 
Considering the MXR can be picked up used for like $40 why not buy the original?
Agreed. Own both and don't dig the Joyo at all. Kept it to possibly use on a guitar board but even then might not be worth it. Atleast in my area an original MXR phase 90 can be found cheap used so if I need another one I'd go that route. Joyo is too subtle and I don't like the intensity tied into the rate knob all in one.
 
Do you know if this is the same pedal as the Joyo American Invalid Link Removed

I've been using my NM2 as an always on pedal, with the channel 1 for fretted and channel 2 for fretless. Love the sound I get, and it makes changing basses easier cause I get unity gain after the NM2 from two really different basses, but now I dont have a mild distortion anymore. I need something between my mild overdrive and wild fuzz.