Overdrive & Distortion

Great sounding pedal. Nice transparent overdrives, blues driver kinda styles and more standard overdrives all in one. Robust design, easy to use. Lights up on side. Great pedal well worth the money.

It is early days and so I can't vouch for it's long term endurance, however, this is incredible value with lots of usable options. I have quite a few pedals, mostly more expensive and it doesn't feel out of place. It doesn't add unwanted noise at sensible levels and blends well with other pedals.

Great pedal, 8 different distortion pedals in one at a great price. You can try the different sounds and if one suits you buy the real pedal. At this low price its a great way to try the sounds out. Well done Joyo.

Seven highly usable drive options plus a very good boost setting. Pretty decent value for money too. Highly recommended.

Great product

Bought this on a whim... Extremely glad i did. So many great tones all in one box. Youll spend alot of time finding great tones and the tone pot is incredibly diverse! Well done Joyo.

In the mid-2010's, I purchased a bunch of cheap Joyo drive pedals - sort of a gateway drug into later buying more expensive and higher-quality gear. I sold most of them later on, but the Baatsin is a uniquely high-value opportunity to get 8 of those circuits in a single pedal for around $50. And it sounds really good...for the most part. To me, the Joyo "clones" were never really that close to the original source material, other than maybe the Tubescreamer. What I appreciated about the Joyo pedals is that a lot of them did EXTREME things that the name-brand version would do. So it's best to think of the Baatsin as a collection of 8 different soft- and hard-clipping drive circuits that are actually quite different from one another and cover a ton of sonic territory. For reference, I'll give a very brief impression of the different mods (from actual use, not comparison to what they claim to be "cloning"): T. OD - If it's a "Timmy", the EQ is kind of broken. It's a very warm, rounded, soft-clipping low/medium gain overdrive with good output, but it's tough to open up the high end. SWEETY - I believe this was the Joyo Sweet Baby. Much brighter, and not very compressed. More gain/saturation on tap than I remembered. B. BOOST - A lot of people assumed this was an Xotic BB Preamp clone, but it's actually a very thick clean boost. Excellent with single coils. T.808 - A Tubescreamer circuit, similar to the Vintage Overdrive. Smooth upper end with a mid-range focus, used best to boost your signal while adding a little bit of gain/sustain. OVERDRIVE - I believe this was supposed to be a BOSS OD-1 or SD-1. I'm not fan of this one, as it has low output and absolutely no low end, but I could see it being okay with a darker setup. CRUNCHY - Based off a MI Audio Crunch Box, but tons of output. It's like British/Marshall type of distortion with medium gain and it cuts through nicely. RIOTER - Based off the Suhr Riot (I had the U.S. Dream briefly, but hated the enclosure of that run of Joyo pedals). Compared to the CRUNCHY setting, it has more gain and low-end presence. O.C. DRIVE - Joyo basically comes out and says this is the Ultimate Drive, which was their Fulltone OCD clone that sort of put Joyo on the map a decade ago. It does sound bad, but it has so much low end you can't dial out that its tough to use effectively. But it makes cheap/weak amps sound big, which I think was a lot of the original appeal. In terms of the pedal itself, it looks huge in pictures, but it's actually only slightly bigger than a BOSS compact pedal oriented sideways. The knobs actually had firm resistance to them, though some of the text on the selector knob did not line up exactly with the settings. The foot switch is the hard click kind - it's just okay, but probably isn't made to last 20 years. In addition to the indicator light, there is a dim LED orange glow around the frame of the pedal. It's kind of cool, but also largely pointless. There's a switch on the back to link that to the bypass switch or have it on all the time, I think. Even though it's a cheap, there's a ton of value here, and it's worth a look - especially if it goes on sale. I might even throw the Baatsin on my board for a bit, just because it can cover so many different tasks, and I only have room for one drive pedal.

The only thing about this pedal that might be a put off is the lack of battery compartment. Oh well. Anyone playing live is going to use an adapter, anyway. I needed an all around overdrive pedal to go out and do some shows with a country band I'm planning to sub as lead in. But I also knew I'd use it in my studio, so for the price, even if I use it only on occasion it's well worth the purchase. It's got 8 types and you can tweak each one pretty nicely, in terms of shaping the tone and drive. Nothing too fancy here. Volume for each setting varies, so keep that in mind. The sound of the distortion I've used so far have been nice and tight without too much noise, aside from the slight buzz, mostly caused by the computer and other electronics around me. That's easy enough to deal with. I would say for the price, you can't lose. Up until now I've used one type of distortion from a processor for over 200 releases, mostly just tweaking the sound in pre and post to get whatever desired sound I needed. This pedal opens up a whole new word of options as I've now freed up my processor for effects, which brings me to the video here. This is the crunchy setting on the rhythm coupled with a ultra chorus and b.boost setting on lead and bass, coupled with vintage chorus. In saying all that, I'd say I'm happy with this pedal and I look forward to using it in many more songs.

Tiene una variedad de sonidos muy rica y del estilo de los overdrive de los 80 lo que buscaba por un precio increíble

No me gustó el sonido, solamente el boost funciona muy bien los demás over se oyen muy mal, recomiendo comprarlo como pedal booster

Adorei minha compra, equipamento perfeito. Chegou no prazo e direitinho 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🇧🇷