JOYO Vintage Overdrive Pedal Classic Tone for Electric Guitar Effect - True Bypass (JF-01)

2nd Update 6-17-25.Got a refund on the defective pedal and the first one is still going strong. For $40 this is an awesome sounding pedal so I am giving it back it's 5 Stars. One thing I noticed is that these new pedals, most if not all of them Do Not like the older vintage pedals in front of them. I had an EHX distortion in front of it (15 years old) and the LED would go wonky on the AC Tone. Same thing with my NUX Tape Core. Weird. That EHX pedal was too big for my board so I pulled it out. Plus it didn't sound that great. No problems since. I am definitely going to order another one, and most likely retire all my vintage pedals anyway.UPDATE: 4/7/25 I liked this pedal so much I ordered a 2nd one. It arrived on time today. I placed it at the end of my pedal chain behind a NUX chorus and a Salem Boost, hit the effects button and it came on, hit the button again to adjust the volumes, hit the pedal again and it made a high pitch beep sound and nothing else. Turned the distortion down and the beep went away but nothing came out, clean or bypass. Maybe this pedal was just defective, but in almost 60 years of playing guitar, I have never had an effects pedal just die like that. I am going to contact customer service and and return this pedal for an exchange. Hopefully this was just a fluke as I really love this pedal, but now I am leery. I am also scared to use my first one now, but being last in the pedal chain should NOT have caused it to die. Since it has a built in cabinet simulator, it should be last in the chain. As soon as I receive a new one I will update my review.Awesome pedal! Combined with the Digitech Red Special pedal and a Nux Tape Core, I was able to get 100% into the classic Queen guitar sound. Note, there was LOTS of noise and feedback but it was controllable - if your good. Creamy velvety endless sustain. Almost didn't need the delay in the chain. But I can see this NOT working with a lot of amps, especially Fenders. I am using it with a cheap Kustom 10-watt practice amp with an 8" speaker, no reverb. Turn everything off and the amp sounds pretty crappy. This actually sounds Better than the VOX 30 patch on my high end processor. It has a cab simulator built in , which probably isn't going to agree with a lot of amps, especially live, but I bought this for use in my studio only. And I saw Queen in 1975 and Brian May sounded NOTHING like he did on the records. Kansas opened and blew them away. I have been playing pro for 60 years. Live the band, Queen, absolutely sucked. The Queen sound was a Studio Only sound. Brian was using 2 Hi-Watt stacks and sounded like every other guitar player. With this pedal alone I got the full Vox AC-30 grit and glimmer, but it needed a Boost Pedal for that extra shove off the cliff. The Deacy patch #7 on the Red Special is absolutely the best boost out there, but sadly out of production and an expensive collectors item now. I am going to try this Ac Tone with the Gokko Salem Boost pedal which I just received next. But I am for sure going to order another AC TONE as a back up if this one gets lost or stolen. It is that good. I had it at the middle of the chain going into the delay, behind the boost. I tried it at the end of the chain as an amp simulator and that did not not sound as good, but it was good. As usual, fast delivery and excellent customer service, the power supply I ordered was left out of the shipment. Issue resolved and Amazon is sending me a replacement.

I wanted a 'Fuzz-Box" When i was young I bought a Univox "Super Fuzz" not knowing it was the preferred EFX pedal to most major Rock guitarists. I've watch videos of The Who on stage and I can see Townshend has the pedal no ton the floor,but up high and easy to adjust. I bought it because I could get the sounds of Black Sabbath with it and it worked great on my Bass. It could growl or it could buzz and do anything inbetween. I sold my pedal two years ago and got $550.00 for it. I think I paid $45 back in 1976So there I was regretting not having that pedal and finding out that nothing else sounded like it no matter how much the listing said it did. I bought an expensive unit to a friend as a gift and it claimed to be identical to the Super Fuzz and to even have more tonel adjustments. It didn't sound anything like the Univox. Now keep in mind I am talking about a "Fuzz" and not distortion or overdrive. Those EFX sound different than a Fuzz Box. Two weeks ago I cam across this on Amazon and after thinking about it bought something else that was actually a little bit more money. I never buy the cheapest product even when broke. Somehow it never arrived and Amazon sent me a refund very promptly. Then I went back to this one. I switched over to "Dogpile" my search engine and read about the pedal and listened to several videos of people demonstrating it. So I went back to Amazon and bought it for a very low price. - Thank you Amazon. It arrived the next day - thank you Amazon Prime - and after popping in a battery I tried it out. I have a new Les Paul copy I am about to upgrade so I plugged it in and played. I messed with the settings a lot and it sounded like crap. Then I turned the last knob almost all the way to the left and it sounded great! From there I tuned the over knobs to get a sound I loved. I ran it through a compressor and delay and this thing blew my freakin' mind. It was every adjective I can think of in a superlative vein. It was fantastic, magnificent, awesome, incredible and on and on. I couldn't put the guitar down. I was amazed to know that what I was hearing from my amp/cabinet was me. I sounded as if I could play. I was playing runs from Deep Purple and I sounded like the records. I was playing Who and Zeppelin, I suck at Page so i went back to Deep Purple and even played some Humble Pie. The sounds were all there! All of my favorite British guitarists were inside my amplifier. Then I began to play "Good bye to Jane" and discovered how much fun it is to blaze through my favorite Slade songs. I can't remember having so much fun. It sounds sweet when playing light solos or leads without changing settings, I simply changed how i played the notes and the box did the rest. Some boxes have one sound and you get it louder or softer but you still get the same sound. Not with this little purple wonder. The variations in tone are never ending between changing the pedal settings and changing the pick up positions and tone knobs on the guitar. In fact I think they ought to sell this pedal with every LP copy and they'd never have a complaint. It is nice that this pedal is so inexpensive. It appears to me made well. The off gives a completely quiet pedal by-pass. I believe it could take some rough handling at practice or packing up after a gig. The tag on it says "British" and it certainly earns the right to than name. It enabled me to sound just like all my favorite 60-s to 70's British rock guitarists.I can't recommend this pedal enough if that is the sound you want. maybe in 40 years people will be paying absurd amounts to buy one of these original pedals. You never can tell.