JOYOVintage Phase Effect Pedal Beautifully Re-Creates Classic Phaser Sounds of 70's for Electric Guitar Effect - True Bypass (JF-06)

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 have been gigging with a Strymon Iridium for 3 years. Of course, it is awesome and can toggle between 3 amps and 9 cabs. It occurred to me recently that if it failed at a gig, I would have no choice but to go directly to the board and have a degraded tone. So, I started looking for an inexpensive back-up to put in my gig bag. My thought was to buy this, test at home, and return if I didn't like it. The tone is incredible. Takes pedals just as well as the Iridium. Build quality is solid; pots feel great; no added noise that I can detect.Who is this for? It certainly makes a great back-up in the way I am using it. At 1/10th the price of an Iridium or UA amp simulator, it could be for the budget conscious. Or it could be for someone who is incredulous and doesn't want to give up their tube amp until they are convinced.I think that this pedal gets me at least 90% of the tone of my actual Fender Deluxe Reverb. But bear in mind when you compare something like the Joyo to an actual amp, ask yourself, "what kind of speaker am I routing this to?" People often forget that the actual speaker you are listening to is a large portion of the sound you are perceiving.One other note. While I rate the Joyo at ~90% of actual tube tone, that's based on listening to my guitar solo. No other instruments. Not mixed -- just guitar. If you actually gig or play along with tracks, the differences will be even less. Add drive, modulated effects, delay and reverb and you will have a very hard time nitpicking this pedal.

I am an amatuer player who is a prominent luthier with a background in music, now semi-retired at 73.I went on a kind of pedal spending spree, and bought all four of these, American, California, ACtone, and British.At first, I thought I would get a substantial difference in these distortion pedals, but only so-so.Here is my test:Pedalboard is my own design, built by me. I am a prominent luthier in SE Tennessee, have built over 100 guitars, and although not a premium player, I have been in woodworking for over 5 decades, been in guitars since 2008, and also worked for Time Warner Music for eleven years. I also am the go-to luthier in a major independent music store in SE Tennessee for ten years now, doing everything from setups to disastrous neck repairs and soundboard cracks. I use almost all Stewart Macdonald equipment. I hear a LOT of players.I have heard about every sound you can imagine. So when I bought these, I knew I might be shorting myself, and that is somewhat the case.My pedalboard has a totally isolated power supply, and one 10 band equalizer in front of these, nothing else. With the true bypass on each, I can tell you that with all off, my guitar sounds great.A far as the guitar, it is a no-name strat copy that I modded with three Fluor humbucker stacked coils, all wired in series, no coil taps, no series/parallel, just the normal ceramic caps and a five way switch. All tests were performed in position 2, Neck and Middle active. The guitar is overwound, hot, and plays with a full sound clean that no Fender can match. (You don't need to spend a lot of money on pickups for the name, trust me.)I have a couple tube amps, and chose my Peavey Classic 50 for this test, since it is a bit brighter than my Fender Blues Deluxe with Eminence Hemp speaker. The Peavey was on normal, no reverb, no extended effects. Plugged into Nomal.For the record, all of the four pedals have all the exact same controls, and I set each and every dial to total Mid, in otherwise, 12: o'clock.My song of choice was Cat Scratch Fever, since it has that opening that calls for simple chords that use distortion...So, how did these four pedals perform?American: Bright, distortion clear and clean, a bit brittle, but not a bad sound. I probably would use this, but it can get a bit ear-splitting at times, especially on the higher chords. Not much in the lower end.California: Slightly darker, more fuller, I liked the sound, it was not offensive but still had that determined distortion. Probably would sound great with a Les Paul.ACTone: Brittle, bright, not my favorite, as some You-Tubers have said. I agree. Bit too bright for my tastes. Not much sustain. Basically, my least favorite.British: Your typical "I can't get no satisfaction" type of distortion. Right down the middle in dark and bright, which is good, but also bad, since it sounds like most other distortion pedals I have tried. A good way to begin in distortion, but not testing any boundaries.You can make your own decision, and this is all IMHO. I highly recommend looking at a few Youtube videos before buying any of these.Do they all have a place in my playing style? Yes. The ACTone probably not much. I'll be pulling it off my board. I really like the California, and much to my surprise, the British for its total recreation of the 60's/70's British sound..Thanks for reading.