Joyo / Harley Benton American True Tone

carlos

Great pedal. Mine arrived today from Thomann. Cost £24 new which is ridiculously low. For the quality and variety of the sounds it's a bargain. Running it into a little non-guitar mixer / amp to boost the signal (M-Track) and it sounds beautiful. Fender in a box indeed. The Voice knob is especially interesting as it a huge range of tones available.

Makes me want to try out the other True Tone boxes, at this price it's definitely not unfeasible to collect them all.

Dodge

I'm pondering spending my €50 Thomann voucher on a couple of these.  The U2 boys rave about the Vox one...

carlos

Pity the manual is pretty much non-existent, but there's always this - http://www.tech21nyc.com/support/manuals/sansamp/CharacSeries-OM.pdf

Paulo

The Ac tone is excellent. The British sound is ok but imo the Ac tone covers most of it's territory. The American sound is a great pedal too. All three sound great in front of an amp too and would serve as crunch/boost pedals in their own right. The higher gain settings are a bit noisy and some say you should expect this, but it's a tad too much. but I generally use them somewhere around the middle and noise isn't too much of a problem.

Paulo

I have some tunes on Soundcloud recorded direct to pc of the Ac tone and the American Sound if anyone's interested.

Dodge

Paulo said:

I have some tunes on Soundcloud recorded direct to pc of the Ac tone and the American Sound if anyone's interested.

Yes please.

smudge_lad

The AC Tone is brilliant! Only recently knocked off my board when I spent far too much on a Wampler Ace Thirty!

Truly brilliant pedals, regardless of the low price tag!

dilbert

IIRC, there's a vid on YT somewhere, where a guy puts the AC tone after an o'd box and uses it a kind of pseudo amp sim for recording. Sounds pretty good too. I'll see if I can find it somewhere. BTW, I agree on the American Tone, some really nice sounds there and exceptional VFM in my book. dilbert..

dilbert

dilbert said:

IIRC, there's a vid on YT somewhere, where a guy puts the AC tone after an o'd box and uses it a kind of pseudo amp sim for recording. Sounds pretty good too. I'll see if I can find it somewhere. BTW, I agree on the American Tone, some really nice sounds there and exceptional VFM in my book. dilbert..

Sorry chaps, I'm talking bollocks, it's the American he uses for an amp sim.

Dodge

They do sound good - I just wish you could defeat the speaker sim (like the V2 Tech 21 versions) and use impulse responses.

I didn't bother in the end, spent my vouchers on strings and cables (yawn) but I might still pick one of these up at some point.

Paulo

Various tracks recoded with ac tone or American sound

 http://soundcloud.com/pauljazzguitar2/country-stratojam  http://soundcloud.com/pauljazzguitar2/petty-pedal

  http://soundcloud.com/pauljazzguitar2/tweed-tune

  http://soundcloud.com/pauljazzguitar2/fender-pretender

hotpickups

I've got one too. Great pedal but I only got it as an emergency if my amp blew up and I can go through the PA to get me through the gig

dilbert

@Paulo. Were those tracks recorded straight from the pedal into your' DAW ?.  Damn cool samples either way

dilbert

Paulo

Yes iirc. I added rev/delay later. It was via my line 6 tone port but all sims/fx were off so it was pretty much direct. No other pedals into the Joyo either.
The Ac tone in particular is a wonderful pedal and prob the best of the bunch (I own about 8 joyo pedals).
Thanks for the comment btw. P

ElectroDan

For the money these sound awesome. If you gooped the PCB and hand painted the enclosure, you could sell these for hundreds.

Blueingreen

Those tracks sound great.  If I thought they'd work as well for live use I'd snap one of these up.

p90fool

Blueingreen said:

Those tracks sound great.  If I thought they'd work as well for live use I'd snap one of these up.

They do, that's exactly what they sound like. The other guitar player in my band uses an AC-Tone direct into the desk instead of his Vox amp. It's the sound he's been looking for for ages and which the Vox only gave him when it was in the mood. I keep one in my bag as backup too, the trick is to pretend it's an amp and boost it with pedals rather than try to run it flat out like a cheap fuzzbox.

carlos

I've got mine after OD, compressor, tuner, but before delay/reverb. Seems to work better that way.

GuyBoden

I have the £20 Joyo American, it's a good sounding pedal for the price, but I prefer my Zendrive clone.

Paulo

GuyBoden said:

I have the £20 Joyo American, it's a good sounding pedal for the price, but I prefer my Zendrive clone.

Are you the Guy Boden I used to Jam with in Warrington?

Paul

GuyBoden

Paulo said:

GuyBoden said:

I have the £20 Joyo American, it's a good sounding pedal for the price, but I prefer my Zendrive clone.

Are you the Guy Boden I used to Jam with in Warrington?

Are you the Paul who played in a U2 band?