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JOYO JF-01 Vintage Overdrive Guitar Effect Pedal

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After doing [url="http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/sevenstring-org-workbench/103276-tech-pimp-your-ibanez-ts5-tubescreamer.html"]this[/url] mod to my Ibanez TS-5 'soundtank' overdrive, and loving it so much on bass, I thought I'd try the same sort of thing on my Joyo JF-01. They use transistors and filtering to emulate the sound of a guitar amp when its volume is cranked up, distorting the signal and adding pleasing musical harmonics.

It is designed to give you a transparent overdrive tone, which means it basically is supposed to keep the sound of your initial guitar tone clear in the mix. So I replaced R19 with a 10k ohm resistor, R18 with a 3.3k ohm, C10 with an 820nF ( or 0.82μF ) mylar cap, and D2 and D3 with a 3mm red LED and a 1N4002 (observing the polarities).Overdrives usually use softer clipping and sometimes only add harmonics without actually clipping the signal, while distortion pedals use much more aggressive hard clipping. I found this scematic for the TS-5 online, and and then worked out which componants were mapped to which by following the traces on the JF-01:

Another classic overdrive pedal, the bright yellow boss SD-1 has a similar tone to a tube screamer but also can be considered to fall into a category all of its own. The Dumbleweed is a very cool mini pedal that aims to emulate the tone of a Dumble Overdrive Special amplifier, which are known as the most expensive boutique tube amps ever. Here’s what it’s listed for on Reverb (brace yourself.)

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Outlaw effects is a relatively new pedal maker that makes all miniature pedals that also happen to be affordable. I removed the equivalent diodes D2 and D3, the resistors R18 and R19, and the capacitor C10 from the Joyo circuit board. Having individual EQs for bass and treble means you can fine-tune your overdrive tone, and makes this pedal popular with bassists because they can overdrive their tone and still retain the deep bass tone they want. Overdrive pedals are one of the simplest of all guitar effects that most everyone uses or has used at some point in time. I had to solder in the capacitor on the underneath of the board due to size - but there's plenty of space to do that.

The JOYO Audio company is well known for their quality music instruments. These include effect pedals, guitar amplifiers, controllers, audio cables, etc. While a lot of the effects listed here have been emulations of “classic” overdrives that cost a lot more money, the Ibanez TubeScreamer mini is exactly what it says it is. The legendary and classic TubeScreamer in a mini enclosure. After testing it out in our lab, we found it to be a nice overall pedal. While it is not perfectly overdrive or distortion, it is a pretty good general gain pedal for those who need “one that does it all.” The JF-02 Ultimate Drive is actually JOYO’s best-selling pedal as far as we know. As for the tone, it’s a TubeScreamer. Listen to it and get the tone of literally thousands of great guitarists. Does it sound exactly as good as an original TS808 from the 80s? Probably not. But it won’t eat up much space on your board and is sturdy enough for gig use.

I’ve used one of these pedals, and I loved it, and I’ve hated every other tube screamer pedal I’ve ever plugged into.

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