JOYO Pure Analog Overdrive & Distortion Multi Effect Pedal R Series 8 Classic OD/DS Sounds for Electric Guitar (Baatsin R-11)

I've tried several "Klon" clone pedals that were more expensive and some that were less expensive. IMO the JOYO Tauren hits that "sweet spot" I was looking for that brings you to the "edge" of overdrive I was looking for at a great price. I've found JOYO products to be very good as well as well-made and sturdy. You can easily spend two, three, four or more for a "Klon" clone. Straight-forward and instinctive functionality, the signal is (to my ears) great and it earned a place on my smaller pedal board using 9V power supply daisy chain. The most important thing is that it sounds great and "pushes air" as needed and the output volume, like the tone and gain, is simple to adjust to your liking.

In the mid-2010's, I purchased a bunch of cheap Joyo drive pedals - sort of a gateway drug into later buying more expensive and higher-quality gear. I sold most of them later on, but the Baatsin is a uniquely high-value opportunity to get 8 of those circuits in a single pedal for around $50. And it sounds really good...for the most part. To me, the Joyo "clones" were never really that close to the original source material, other than maybe the Tubescreamer. What I appreciated about the Joyo pedals is that a lot of them did EXTREME things that the name-brand version would do. So it's best to think of the Baatsin as a collection of 8 different soft- and hard-clipping drive circuits that are actually quite different from one another and cover a ton of sonic territory. For reference, I'll give a very brief impression of the different mods (from actual use, not comparison to what they claim to be "cloning"): T. OD - If it's a "Timmy", the EQ is kind of broken. It's a very warm, rounded, soft-clipping low/medium gain overdrive with good output, but it's tough to open up the high end. SWEETY - I believe this was the Joyo Sweet Baby. Much brighter, and not very compressed. More gain/saturation on tap than I remembered. B. BOOST - A lot of people assumed this was an Xotic BB Preamp clone, but it's actually a very thick clean boost. Excellent with single coils. T.808 - A Tubescreamer circuit, similar to the Vintage Overdrive. Smooth upper end with a mid-range focus, used best to boost your signal while adding a little bit of gain/sustain. OVERDRIVE - I believe this was supposed to be a BOSS OD-1 or SD-1. I'm not fan of this one, as it has low output and absolutely no low end, but I could see it being okay with a darker setup. CRUNCHY - Based off a MI Audio Crunch Box, but tons of output. It's like British/Marshall type of distortion with medium gain and it cuts through nicely. RIOTER - Based off the Suhr Riot (I had the U.S. Dream briefly, but hated the enclosure of that run of Joyo pedals). Compared to the CRUNCHY setting, it has more gain and low-end presence. O.C. DRIVE - Joyo basically comes out and says this is the Ultimate Drive, which was their Fulltone OCD clone that sort of put Joyo on the map a decade ago. It does sound bad, but it has so much low end you can't dial out that its tough to use effectively. But it makes cheap/weak amps sound big, which I think was a lot of the original appeal. In terms of the pedal itself, it looks huge in pictures, but it's actually only slightly bigger than a BOSS compact pedal oriented sideways. The knobs actually had firm resistance to them, though some of the text on the selector knob did not line up exactly with the settings. The foot switch is the hard click kind - it's just okay, but probably isn't made to last 20 years. In addition to the indicator light, there is a dim LED orange glow around the frame of the pedal. It's kind of cool, but also largely pointless. There's a switch on the back to link that to the bypass switch or have it on all the time, I think. Even though it's a cheap, there's a ton of value here, and it's worth a look - especially if it goes on sale. I might even throw the Baatsin on my board for a bit, just because it can cover so many different tasks, and I only have room for one drive pedal.

Alright got my Joyo preamp house R-15 series and it makes great sounds. However I have three different amps and one combo amp which is what I used to make the video today. I will start by mentioning that the pedal doesn’t work well with all amplifers guessing that you have to try yours out to get the idea of wether you like it or not. So anyway any brand names mentioned in my video post is not for any commissions nor advertising purposes. Now the pedal has nice quality knobs and buttons as well as plugins seems nice and sturdy not a cheaply made product. It’s easy to use and setup your programmed settings for each model on the pedal not difficult to use at all . I’ve not used the pedal connected to any computer but only to amplifier and the guitar. Left side button controls clean channels right side button controls the distortion channels -Programming- example: switch on your amp model on distortion side model 2 -Then set your tone knobs and volume level when you’re done and happy with the settings sounds -press down the distortion channel button and hold down until the led lights blink,when light stops blinking its saved for that model -now here’s where I think people are getting confused, if you turn on your pedal switch it the model that has been set from last time it will continue to play those same settings you did -but if you turn any of the knobs it loses the saved settings so remember this and you will need to start over again and set once more All models clean and distortion channels are done the same way as I mentioned above So far every amplifier model on the pedal sounds great but I think some of them are just a little plucky like bassy and too much treble no matter what your set at on the pedal You also have to make adjustments on your amplifier tones as well so don’t forget that part And that’s the part that I don’t like about it I’m guessing all pedals do that but to me it’s annoying and makes things way off one way or another. Back to the sounds from the pedal, like I said it creates awesome tone and sounds alot like what they’ve simulated here on the pedal. So if you want that big MB its here If you want that nasty Marsh it’s here And thats all I can say. Now in my video I mention its getting very warm to hot in around 5-10 minutes after play and I don’t know why either because it’s connected just as instructed by the manual So I’ve contacted the seller at Joyo and they’re working with me to help out. My guess is this one is defective because there’s nothing wrong with any of my equipment as far as that goes. I will update more on how things turn out later on Get one of these you will be amazed by the simulation of amps on here

I'm a big fan of Joyo pedals and this one does not disappoint, I got it on sale and I'm delighted about the price. What is Preamp House? It's a two channel programmable preamp with one channel voiced clean and one voiced dirty. The instructions are not good but after reading them and a bit of experimenting the Preamp House delivered the goods for me. You use the controls to set up and create your clean sound, then press and hold the clean channel selector footswitch to store the sound in the clean channel position. Then repeat the process for the distortion channel, press and hold to store the sound. You're now ready to play. A three position toggle switch controls where the single cab IR is implemented, it can be off or on and the switch allows you to put it on the 1/4" output, the XLR output or both outputs. The single IR is a 4x12 loaded with Celestion speakers, fortunately for me that is my favorite cab configuration. The IR adds a lot of low-end fullness and reduces high frequency fizz on distorted tones. A single mono effect send and return loop is located prior to the main output. I'm currently running a Joyo "Atmosphere" reverb effects pedal in the loop and it sounds great. The "Clean" channel sounds really great, the Fender models are my favorite but there are many great tones available. The "Dirty" channel can really crunch and sing, the EVH voice is outstanding, I like all the dirty sounds and have had a lot of fun experimenting with them. A favorite feature is how the Dirty channel gets cleaner as you turn down the guitar driving the Preamp House. I've done most of my playing and testing of the Preamp House pedal using a Gibson SG and a Line6 Variax Standard guitar. Clean acoustic guitar sounds are full and rich, crunchy sounds easily go from Clapton to AC-DC to Stones and even Black Sabbath. One caution, the Joyo Preamp House requires more current than a 9-volt battery can provide. I tried a brand new Duracell 9-volt and it would make the lights light up but the pedal produced no audio. When I powered the pedal with a 500ma power supply output I was rewarded with big rich sound. (Hint: the Joyo Atmosphere pedal also likes more current than a 9-volt battery can deliver). I personally like this Joyo Preamp House pedal much better than the more expensive SansAmp or Strymon Iridium. While the Iridium allows more IR capability it does not have an effects loop nor channel switching nor the ability to store your settings. The overall build quality on the Joyo Preamp House is excellent. The metal work is heavy duty and all the controls feel good and solid, the pots are smooth without any scratchiness. The paintwork, nomenclature and silk screening are all very high quality as well. The Joyo Preamp House turns my little battery powered Bose S1 FRFR speaker into a fire breathing Marshall or a Fender Deluxe Reverb or something in-between, I could easily gig with this combination and be happy with the dynamics and tone. The Joyo Preamp House WAY exceeded my expectations and fulfills a need. It allows me to play rock guitar without dragging along a dedicated guitar amp. The XLR output can drive a PA system direct while the 1/4" output can drive a stage monitor amp like my Bose S1 or I can turn off the IR on the 1/4" output and plug into one of my Marshall combo amps. Preamp House is a great pedal, great tones, great features and a great price. Good luck and good music to all!

First off, I was very skeptical of buying pedals off amazon as one should be. That being said, holy crap, does this thing knock it out of the park! The galaxy setting alone makes this thing worth the buy. I can't get enough about how sweet it makes everything sound (and not just "cool," but like literally sweetened) . Every setting on this thing is a slam dunk, and the ability to turn trails on and off is a huge plus. I was worried about shelling out eighty dollars for a no name brand, which I hope makes its way in to being a name brand sooner than later. I bought this and also their aquarius delay, and they have quickly become my two favorite clean channel pedals. Not only do they sound great, but they're also incredibly well built, and should stand up to whatever gigging you have to do. I cannot recommend these pedals enough.

This thing is absolutely excellent. So first, what does this thing do or at least what can it do: 1. Instead of relying on the sound engineer to properly mic your guitar amp up (and you know he is just gonna slop a 57 over the front and mic the floor) you can plug into this instead and feed him a high quality cab and mic emulation of your chosing. 2. Instead of relying on the poorly emulated cabinets in older modeling units such as the 11 rack or the older pod pedals, you can bypass those cabinets and use this pedal in it's place to instantly upgrade the sound. 3. You can ditch your amp! Yes you can actually just feed pedals into this thing! Josh Scott of JHS pedals did a review of the Revolution series on youtube and his whole demo was done this way! That means you only need to drag along your pedals and have this thing on your board! Here is what you get with the cab box: 1. 20 factory included guitar and bass cabinets. These are hard set within the unit so no need to worry about accidentally deleting them or something. You can see the photo I uploaded for the list of included cabinets. 2. 10 emulated microphone models. Again you can see the list in the photo I included. They are all excellent and the microphones I would want included if I had to chose. 3. 4 emulated valve/tube preamps. You can select between EL34, EL84, 6L6, and 6V6. You can also bypass this if you are using this pedal with amp sim hardware where you would be feeding this through the loop. 4. 10 user slots that you can upload your own 3rd party or self made impulse responses. What is an impulse response? It's a capture of the sonic characteristics of a power amp, guitar cabinet, and microphone. There are many excellent companies that sell them such as Lancaster, Ownhammer, or redwirez. 5. 3 different eqs all of them with dedicated low pass and high pass filters. They are: 5 band graphic eq for guitar, 5 band graphic eq for bass, and 4 band parametric. These can also of course be bypassed as you like. 6. You get 128 user presets. Presets are where you can store a cab, mic, power amp, and eq set however you like or use a 3rd party impulse and load it there. The pedal is incredibly intuitive and the software that comes with it is easy to use. Now there has to be something I find at fault with it right? Well I don't really consider it a fault so much as an inconvenience. In order to load your own impulse responses you need a micro USB cable so you can plug this into your PC. This is not included. It's not really a big deal though as most people will have at least one of these hanging around. There is also no power supply (like most pedals) included and no way to run this off a battery so it's on you to supply a power adapter, however this thing runs on a standard center negative 9v DC power adapter. Finally I'll provide this for informative purposes only but this pedal draws 235 mA of current (read via a trutone 1 spot mA meter). This means that a cheap 200mA adapter is probably not going to work out. You are going to want to supply this with a 500mA or more DC power adapter or use a higher current rated tap on your power supply. My trutone cs-6 and cs-12 had no issues power it. Pros -easy to use, operate and understand -provides great sounds in a small package -looks great with it's LED trim around the frame -XLR and midi jacks are NOT board mounted -solid construction cons -no power adpater (which is normal and expected) and no included usb cable for connecting to a PC or MAC.

Not an awful pedal, but certainly not a great one, other than the general value proposition. The big problems, IMO, are that 1. NONE of the pedal emulations have enough low end. I have an original Paul Cochrane Timmy an older TS808 and a Treble Booster and I've owned a Crunchbox. They all were capable of producing notably more bottom end than the Baatsin. 2. The emulations are not distinctly different enough. The first three are quite similar, the last 3 are quite similar. But mostly the lack of low end...bummer. The quality of the overdrive in most of the settings is quite good, IMO; they don't sound cheesy or overly fuzzy. It's a good value at near 50 bucks...but I've had enough experience with really good overdrive pedals to know that this one, as is won't work for me.

I play guitar in a church that has a "NO-AMP" run on stage. Fine, I can work with that. I got a few other pedals and my chain went from my guitar to a tuner pedal to a couple of Amp-in-a-box pedals to my chorus pedal to my reverb pedal to this Joyo Cab Box. From there the cab box was plugged into the sound system. Easy cheesy. From the beginning the XLR out always seemed a bit iffy. Sometimes it was noisy and other times it wasn't We would swap back and forth between the XLR and the 1/4" to get the noise to go away. Intermittent problems are a pain. We couldn't take the time to isolate the issue to the board or to the Cab box. We just found the "no noise" jack and used it. About 3 weeks ago, on a night I was running the sound board and not playing, I noticed that my guitar channel was hot. That made no sense. My rig was supposed to be OFF, but someone probably plugged it in by accident when they were done cleaning the sanctuary. I unplugged the pedal rig after the service was over. A couple of days later the channel was creating a ton of noise in the sound system. The sound engineer tried a few things, and finally pulled the Cab box out of the mix. Noise went away. Weird. Looked over the pedal, and everything was fine. We verified that we were not putting phantom power on that channel the Cab box doesn't like that. We did what we could to eliminate the sound system as the problem. We then put the cab box back into the mix and noise comes back we tried the Lift on and off with it plugged into an XLR connection. No change. We plugged a 1/4" jack it into the output port. Still noisy. The Master knob has not been turned to more than 12 o'clock, basically half way. I took the pedal home and figured it might need a firmware update. That was a little interesting to perform, but I got it done. Everything seemed OK. I took the unit back to church a week later and at practice, we tried again. It's like the output channel through either the XLR or the 1/4" had picked up a noise problem. It's not usable. I look around for anybody having the issue and I didn't see one. Without the Cab Box the sound engineer has had a harder time getting me into the mix. I didn't help things by switching from a humbucker equipped guitar to a fender strat with single coils. I really need the Cab box that I bought here on Amazon to work. It really makes the guitar come alive in the system. It sounded great when it worked. Now, it doesn't work. The only Joyo support I have found is the UK Joyo site. That's cool, except I live in the US. This thing wasn't cheap, but I expected it to last longer than it did. I don't know how to go about getting this fixed, if it even can be fixed or replaced. I certainly don't want to buy another one of these. I would hope Joyo could make it right, but I have no idea if they will even see this review. It's a great product idea, and I love it, but mine broke. Thus the low marks.