JOYO American Tube Amp Simulator & Preamp Guitar Pedal, 6-Knob Control with Built-in Cab Sim for Electric Guitar, Bypass (JF-14)

Of all of the pedals listed in the Amazon sale, I bought 3 within a short period: Flanger, Digital Delay, & American Sound. I used to have a collection of 70 pedals (mostly Boss, as well as pedals from Keeley, DOD, EHx, Digitech, Whirlwind, Ibanez, Voodoo Lab, Rocktron, etc.) The trio I purchased makes an incredible effect chain: American in front of the amp with the Flanger & Delay in the loop. I tested switching the order of the flanger & the delay, & I found I like the sounds of flanger before delay. If I can get my flanger to sound like a chorus & my delay to sound like a timed reverb, then I'm in tone Heaven! I get that from these Joyo boxes! Considering their cost, I can't believe how sturdy and heavy they feel. All of the reviews you hear/read of these pedals are accurate. The American Sound is based on Fender amps and gets an amazing Seattle tone. It is meant to be used as an amp sim, plugged into a mixer or a flat amp or a pro-audio rig. I have it plugged into the front of an Orange bass amp; the 6 knobs on the pedal and the 7 knobs on my amp give me a huge amount of control over my tone. The Digital Delay is called "digital", but it has a simulated analog tone. I.e., the repeats are programmed to decay. I prefer digital delays with no decay, but this still sounds great! The Flanger tones can be really stretched from subtle chorus and vibrato to airplane flanger and crazy robot sounds. It's a really good quality tone from something so inexpensive. I switched from all the great classic pedals in the past to no pedals and onto these inexpensive pedals. It is great to have this versatile effect chain for barely over $100 - my deliberate protest of the $300+ pedals out there these days.

Bang for your buck for sure. Just an overall amazing sounding pedal. I'm even beginning to appreciate the ugliest of all designs. You may have to fiddle with the knobs a little to find your sweet spot, but a huge variety of organic, tube-like sounds that you can get out of this thing. Also a surprising amount of gain. Lots of character. Takes other pedals very well. I played it live with a boss oc5, blackstar lt dual overdrive, ehx freeze, and keeley caverns delay/reverb > straight into the mixer/PA and it was a killer sound. Highly recommended

What a Great Pedal at a Great Price. Fellow guitar players, I use this pedal to simulate an electric guitar amp by running it into my Fishman Loudbox Micro acoustic amp. It’s a practice amp that I use at home with my acoustic guitars with pickups. But the thing sounds flat and boring with my electrics ( just could not come up with an EQ setting that worked on the Fishman so thought I’d give this pedal a try).. I’m delighted with the tone I’ve achieved thru the Fishman amp with this pedal. It sounds like an electric guitar. I play clean so have not tried to drive it to breakup. JOYO really does build quality stuff that sounds good. I’m happy that this pedal solved my problem.

The Joyo American Sound JF-14 is an amp simulator / pre-amp modeled after a Fender '57 Deluxe amplifier. It is intended to be used for direct recording or used to plug directly into your soundboard for live performances. It work great on a pedalboard into either the front of your amp or thru the effects loop. It also a nice way to spice up your headphone amp for quiet practice sessions. It has 6 controls. 3 for your EQ (Low, Medium and High). You then have a Level for output, Voice and Drive. The drive controls your overall gain for overdrive. The Voice control is unique. It helps define the character of the "amp". The manual says the voice "adjusts the frequency response and distortion, together with the adjustment of the drive it can simulate many kinds of amplifiers". So basically using the voice and drive together you emulate anything from a Fender Twin to a Deluxe Tweed. Fender Amps were "The" sound of the 50's and 60's. The sound and tone of this pedal is incredible. I play a mix of 50's, 60's, Surf, Classic Rock and Country. Using this pedal I can go from Buddy Holly to Dick Dale to Steppenwolf without too much effort. It can be used to give you a clean boost, get a mild breakup, a low gain overdrive all the way to a nice creamy overdriven tube amp sound. This pedal is quite versatile. It plays well with other pedals. My chain looks like this...Tuner > Distortion > Joyo Taichi > Joyo American Sound > Chorus > Delay > Reverb > Tremolo. I absolutely love this pedal. Like most guitar players, I have been looking for the "tone". With the Joyo American Sound I have found my "tone". Buy this pedal now! You will not be disappointed.

Really killer pedal. I haven't used it as a recording amp or anything but just as a "flavor" to my tube amp's tone. I have a Blackstar HT5R, which is a great home tube amp as it has the headphone output and the low watt setting, but I have always wanted a Fender Blues Jr. style tone, I just knew it would be too loud and impractical to buy for my house. Enter this great little pedal. I find the Blackstar has a very neutral tone to it, pretty much a blank slate, but when I turn this on, it just adds a nice spark of richness. It adds a subtle reverb, some more clarity and body to the sound, and generally does add a Fender blues style flavor. It's also great to play with the knobs and use it as a volume boost or crunchy drive pedal. It really feels like it offers tons of tonal options and you can definitely spend a ton of time experimenting with the different "amp sounds" and levels. In the end, it's definitely become one of my "always on" pedals. Build quality is also great, and it looks pretty cool on my pedalboard. Has a subtle shine to it which I dig. Great value as well. Edit: After some more time with it, I lowered the rating to 4 stars. I still really enjoy the tone and have it on most of the time, but one thing I noticed is it is generally a bit noisy. I got a new power supply and set every pedal on its 9v and it’s the only one in my circuit that makes has a mild hiss whenever it’s on. Even with the gain lowered it’s still there a bit. Also I noticed the switch is a little clunky and can be tricky to turn on/off at times. Both things aren’t a huge deal, but just some things to note before making the purchase. Overall still a pretty decent value.

I usually do some sluething to figure out what Joyo is knocking off as a test bed for the real thing. But, I end up just using the Joyo stuff. Nothing that worked out of the box has broken since. This pedal is a fun little guy. Good usable tone with plenty of variety with a little knob tiwddling. You could run two and have a couple of good tonal options. Ran seemlessy to the PA and through an acoustic amp it mimics the control and feel of a good solid state amp. Can just be a boost or drive pedal as well. Not a tube amp by any means, but fits in a gig bag and does a good job. Haven't gigged it yet, but at this price you can keep a backup with ease. I've used it at practice 4 times and it sure bests lugging an amp down to a basement. Bandmates like it run through the PA. Makes mixing a breeze in a room that we tend to keep the volume down. Just an A+ item to keep handy.

I wrote a review, but I was inadvertently unfair to the product so I've upgraded the review to 5 stars and I want to explain why. What I said was true, to the best of my knowledge when I wrote it. There was hiss and there was noise. I did troubleshoot it, connecting things in various ways. And, there was still noise. The manufacturer then contacted me and offered a full refund even though the return window was over. Which was pretty nice. Then, I noticed that the noise went away (except for a little bit of hiss, which was about the same as my Boss ME70 and not concerning). I could not reproduce the clicking and popping noises. I've now used the device for hours with no noise problem. I haven't been able to figure out what was causing the noise I noticed earlier. It's gone. The Joyo American warms up my sound so my powered speaker (which I'm using as a guitar amp) doesn't sound icy. That's exactly what I was hoping for. So, I appreciate the manufacturer reaching out and I apologize for the earlier review, since that may well have been my error.

I loved the item for 2 months and then it quit working. I thought maybe it was the cord connection as it didn't work when 5tried another cord. I then tried a battery and still nothing. I contacted the company and never heard a word back from the m. I can't, in good conscience, recommend this pedal to anyone and that's a real shame.

You can get pretty good sounds out of this pedal from Fender blackface to tweed. It punches way above its price.

Ottimo per l'armonica a bocca. L'ho usato anche con la chitarra e simula bene il suono "Americano" di quella nota marca con la F maiuscola.

The Joyo American sound is an excellent Fenderish pedal. It appears to be a copy of the Tech 21 NYC Blonde, but as someone who has also owned that pedal, it's a little bit different. The voice control sweeps mid frequencies in conjunction with the gain control to allow a range of Fender Twin, Fender Deluxe, Fender Bassman, Fender Tweed tones, but it takes some time to work out how all the knobs interact to fine tune the sound. I use the pedal with an additional external IR into a PA, but it works well without an IR and sounds good enough for going direct. Much harder to run into a conventional guitar amp unless you can bypass the preamp, but still works that way as an overdrive pedal. It's not exactly the same as the superficially similar Caline American pedal and the Joyo has a battery compartment which can be useful. A remarkable pedal for the money and well built. Perhaps the best cheap guitar pedal on the market?

Good enough as a backup amp on its own for the odd times I play out, and worth the entry fee for that alone Other than that it's also yet another OD but it also works at home as a fun amp to experiment with quietley. My expectations were ballpark good enough versus high end and it's certainly that. I am not a tone chaser or pro recorder feeling I need some for some last nuance, nor do I have ambitions of gigging for a living. I also can't be bothered with sub menus or computer interfaces to get lost in. It's not that I could not I just don't want to fiddle with the current tech as a casual hobbyist. My review is with all that in mind.

Das teil ist super,funktioniert alles wie beschrieben und dann noch für den preis.