JOYOJF-306 Rushing Train Amp Sim - Guitar Effects Pedal Ironman

I say that I like it but this was not always the case. Initially I was a bit disappointed with it. Whilst it has all the EQ similarities of a Marshall it was no way as accurate as the American Pedal which is a remarkable simulation of a Fender Deluxe. Does it sound Marshall like well yes it does rather like a Plexi circa 68. However it lacked the bite. The drive did not drive it enough for my taste it was just too polite and nice. However what I have discovered about these JOYO pedals is that they take other pedals placed in front of them very well. The American will take the Vintage Overdive and sound almost like SRV's set up. If you place the JOYO Sweet Baby in front of this British you will get more drive and that's the sound I was after like an AC/DC type of sound. So now in combination with the JOYO Sweet Baby I love this pedal ! By the way if you place the Sweet Baby in front of the JOYO American you get a BB King Style Sound overdrive very Blues.By the way I don't work for JOYO and I am not linked to them. I am a customer but I do endorse the four JOYO Products I have mentioned here. There is something very analague about this signal chain that works very well. The sound is very musical and when I have compared this to digital modelling units that I also use the difference is noticeable especially in the treble range. It has a much sweeter and more authentic sound than the digital modelling. So Hey Ho JOYO !

I had to perform, plugging straight into the board via DI box. I knew that was going to sound pretty bad, so bought this. Wow - I was amazed at the quality of the sound. My plan was just to treat is as a normal amp - get it to the edge of breakup, plug some overdrive into. In this case, I was after a bit of country twang, and it did that supremely well. In fact, I didn't even use overdrive - just stuck a boost in front of it, which overdrove (?) the pedal perfectly, and gave a great overdriven deluxe tone. PLaying with the voice, the mids can really be boosted, which can give you more overdrive if you wish - or just a less brittle sound - but that is not the Deluxe sound. Did what I needed prefectly, but also there are other options available that I need to play around with a bit - certainly took pedals superbly.

I have been looking for a Good simulation of a 57 Tweed Deluxe for ages every since Line 6 failed to include it in the Pod HD. I have used many sims such as Vox (too Trebly) and Korg and Podfarm 2 (over-processed and too digital sounding) but this is hands down THE BEST I have ever heard. The sound of a barking, driven 57 Fender 'Tweed' Deluxe is a hard thing to really nail in any simulation because EQ is not straightforward because as I hear it the EQ changes more the Amp is being driven, but this little unit does it pretty well.!. When you think that a Real Deal sells at £1500 + ( & currently not in production) and a build your own costs near as £800 - £1200 then at £30 something this is a real bargain and no real risk anyway. Plug into recording device and no one will know your only playing through a Sim.Another good thing about these pedals (sans Amp pedals-meaning no amp) which can even make them more versatile than a real amp is when you put an EQ pedal behind it. Unless your Tube amp has a fx loop this will provide you with a good method to achieve more realistic eq than that which comes as standard in the pedal. This increased versatility is something you cannot do easily with a real amp unless the amp has a fx loop. Putting a EQ pedal between an amp and a guitar simply does not achieve the same effect at all. Doing it that way simply alters the eq of the guitar output. By using an EQ pedal after the AMP SIM you can alter the eq to make the sound as you want it or improve on the sound from the unit standard. This pedal sounds quite good alone but there are things you can do to make it sound even better. Being able to alter eq so dramatically in this way makes these pedals so versatile and you can get to almost any sound you want. Personally I think the pedal has slightly too much mids which tend to make it a bit muddy so I remove or cut these frequencies. You have no way to achieve this on a real amp because altering eq before the amp is not so effective as this. I own this American and the ACtone pedal by JOYO and both respond well to this treatment. THE JOYO ACTONE in my opinion lacks a really good BASS and again has too much mids. Put in the EQ pedal behind and boost the low frequencies whilst subtracting some mids and you will get a much better and more authentic response. I prefer the AMERICAN and think it's a better conceived pedal but that's just my personal choice. You can also input these pedals into a real amp but make sure you put them into a clean amp or clean channel. They will work well under those circumstances but they are really designed to work alone by just outputting to a PA or through monitors of some kind. If you input into a valve /tube amp you will get some of the tube sound added to your signal, which could be nice but the EQ of the AMP itself will start to colour the tone so you may not get such a pure tone that you would get simply sending to a PA or Monitor. Perhaps the best way to send these into an amp would be via a line input / AUX Input if your amp has one. Doing it this way you will more than likely need to add a volume pedal to the rig.One thing I have noticed is that Eq can become a little bit muddy because there is just way too much mid frequency which gets too much especially when cranking up the Voice control. To make this pedal work for you, you will really need to get to grips with the mid control. Pretty much anything past noon is too much. Backing off on the mids to approx 9 or 10 o clock really brings pedal to life.

I'll start off by saying I've used a few of These Joyo amp sim pedals - namely the original American Sound (fender amps) , the British Sound (Marshall amps), AC Tone (Box amps) and this Oxford Sound (orange amps) and this is without question the best of the bunch.I think the others are all a little too subtle - I found the American sound in particular didn't really offer much for me and wasn't much more than a clean boost. So if you're a fan of that classic 60s-esque or blues sound then you'll find this can give a subtle version going right up to a very exaggerated trebly twangy version. And the integrated cab sim does a great job of conveying epic volume even at low levels.They could be smaller on your pedalboard but that's a minor gripe. Especially when they can form the backbone of your overall sound like this one (unlike the others except maybe the AC Tone which is next best on the list).

i had this in a synth set up, an its to busy static noisy in the back grown,,, im sure theres a word for that but as of this moment.... i bet on a guitar its much better but it didnt really work for my use but its build an all that is tidy its metal knobs are good, i just found i had to much noise with it