Pedal having a hissy fit. Advice please...

Guitarse

So, I've got this Joyo AC tone that's quite hissy. Using GigRig generator and distributors, everything else is fine. How to stop the hiss, please folks? Noise gate? 

57Deluxe

Put a PROEL DS10 after it... 

or

change cables

or

play louder

Guitarse

Cables are all good, it's just the one pedal. I haven't gigged it yet, so not sure if it's going to be a problem at volume. 

Voxman

If it was a delay pedal having a hissy fit, I'd say just give it a slap-back - that would teach it! 

But for the Joyo, I think your choices are limited - either add a noise-gate, or swap it for a quieter pedal.  You could experiment with pedal order of course, to see if that might help, or look to see if another pedal is aggravating the problem eg a compressor or other distortion. 

Branshen

My joyo American sound developed a hiss after keeping it in storage for some months when I wasn't using it. I don't recommend this series of pedals. They are cheap and good when they work, but unfortunately are also unreliable. 

juansolo

It's just the same as buying anything else that cheap and Chinese. You just have to factor in that at some point it's likely to fail on you and at that point you throw it away and buy another.

Richardj

I had an American Sound and found the inherent noise just too irritating. They are cheap for a reason (although in fairness I've had noisy 'boutique' pedals too). Try it against the pedal it is a blatant copy of.

Guitarse

Thanks for the responses peeps. So apparently, it's cloned from the Tech 21 SansAmp Liverpool Pedal - 'Vox in a box' but I'm playing through an AC 30 CC2x anyway. I got the AC Tone originally, as a spare 'amp' in case the Vox lets me down, and I could go DI via the AC Tone to save carrying a spare amp, but it's proved useful on my board to give me more EQ options.