Joyo JF-01 Vintage Overdrive Guitar Effect Pedal True Bypass

Sounds great, does what it’s supposed to do: be a no-frills TubeScreamer clone. My signal chain: Strobostomp HD with buffer > Crybaby > Joyo Vintage OD > a Saturnworks A/B effects loop switcher (A)> Joyo American Sound [fender amp] (B)> Tech21 Sansamp British [marshall amp] > both get sent into a Nux Atlantic Reverb/Delay before going to FOH. The extra tones I can achieve with a little extra gain are amazing. Turns a pristine clean into a blues beast, and turns a jcm800 style drive tone into a glorious lead tone. Works equally well with my Strat, Tele, and Dean from Hell. Only cons I can think of: feels cheap(ish) with a light plastic case, and I’m not a fan of the painfully loud True Bypass switches. Color is goofy too, but it does read as an OD. For sub-$40 these are nitpicky minor complaints and I am very impressed with this pedal. Would buy again in a heartbeat. Joyo is KILLING it with their pedals.

I love the tones I get out this pedal, couldn’t afford a tube screamer and did some research on this, best choice I could have made

Throw your Telecaster on the neck pickup, turn up the tone, and you've got some wonderfully glassy overdrive. It might actually be my favorite new pedal. Throw some reverb on it, and you've got some luscious tones a la Gary Moore. Okay, maybe not that velvetty, but close!

Ok just got this Joyo vintage overdrive and A-B'd it to a Boss SD-1 that I just got this week too. I was trying to see if I liked the sound of a tube screamer clone without having to dish out twice as much as the Boss SD-1. I'm strictly using this for bedroom volume through a Bugera 5w tube amp. (which is sweet by the way). And Telecasters. Right away I noticed a difference in tone. Same settings, the Joyo was more muffled sounding, not as much presence. I had to crank the tone knob to full on the Joyo to get it to match just over half on the Boss. The Joyo is quiet, the Boss a little more hiss but that's because its just more "alive". The Joyo is built good. Good for the money. But for $15 more the tone of the Boss is noticeably better. More presence in tone and more sweep in the use of the knobs. Just my opinion.

Great budget tubescreamer copy. I set the gain to zero, and use it as a boost. It does an excellent job. Works as well as any tubescreamer. I got it to replace my Behringer overdrive. The housing on this is all metal which is a big step up from the plastic housing on the Behringer. Sounds alot better too. It pushes my Wampler Dracarys great, as well as my Xotic SL Drive. My only gripe is the hideous yellow knobs, that look trashy on my board, but I didnt buy it to be a pretty pedal, I bought it to be a workhorse and it really is! If it ever breaks I will just buy another.