I read somewhere about this pedal. "This pedals worth getting, but it's also worth fixing, too. Joyo based it on the Fulltone Ultimate Octave but they used a faulty schematic they found online. So they ended up getting two caps in the opposite locations (C2 and C14 on the board). They also wired most of these with two directional caps facing the wrong way (C9 and C15 on the board). Once you swap C2 and C14 and reverse the polarities of C9 and C15, this pedals sounds fantastic. What you're hearing in this vid is utter shite compared to what it's supposed to sound like."
Kkkkkk...i don't know where you read it, but do you think that joyo don't have money to buy the original fulltone pedal to manufacturers make a copy, if it is the case?...kkkkk... These chinese guys are engineers and they know exactly what they are doing whem projecting a pedal!
@@douglasbarroso5296 Kkkkkkkkkkkk... maybe since they'd gotten the schematics online and they were faulty, they just thought that was the nature of beast? Kkkkkkkkkkkkk.... look at me. I'm retarded.. kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.
I don't like the sound of this guitar. I guess it's the pedal. I'm biased... I can't stand those 80s flashy demos. But may it's not the playing that doesn't do it justice. Glad I'm not the only one who thinks this sounds crappy.
@@douglasbarroso5296 that happened before with the Ultimate Drive by Joyo. There were some pedals which were sold with a diode inverted. I did fix my pedal and it sounds better now.
To be clear, Octave Fuzzes are supposed to sound nasty, raspy, splatty, and aggressive on the top end. Although I'd recommend save a bit more $ and find a used EHX Octavix or similar unit before buying the Joyo version, which is not bad for what it is.
I own this. And while it doesn't live on my board, with the right settings it sounds awesome for certain applications. It is not an "everyday" pedal. But when used properly (lighter on the gain) it can sound amazing
I own this pedal. I would love to see a demo of it's actually usable range of tones. It sounds good with the fuzz just barely up at all and the tone maybe a quarter up. Roll back the tone on the guitar as well and you get creamy super sustained leads. The octave effect is really only good for high notes and with the treble boosted/overdriven (but still with the fuzz barely on) this demo really does nothing for the pedal. There's a big difference between adding a slight effect (desirable) and totally destroying your tone by oversaturating it. Just because a pedal goes up that high doesn't mean that it will sound good.
I agree, I use mine with the tone down and fuzz at around 9:00 and it loves to be there. The octave is only engaged for solos. Keep it there and it can actually replace a muffin and fuzz face fairly well. I think people are just so in to cranking fuzz, but that’s not this pedal.
LOL- What a load of rubbish- ppl like you are all the same, convinced you have it all figured out, but in reality- dumb as a rock. There's nothing subtle about fuzz moron.
I've got one and love the sound. You can get some glitchy sounding stuff, which I personally enjoy. What I don't enjoy is the large amount of feedback this pedal kicks out when cranked up. So I rock it into a simple noise gate pedal. Tuned in, it sounds awesome.
The thing about analog octave fuzzes is the make the octave up sound best with the neck pickup, and playing around the 12th fret. you never got that far up the neck, so this really didn't show what the pedal can do.
yeah, the octave up thing is NOT for chord work, but mainly single-note lines in and around the 12th fret area... and this particular fuzz needs the tone knob down some from the 12 o'clock position, depending on the inherent tone of your guitar/amp, of course. Octave fuzz can be tricky - it's an easy way to complete whack your tone in a not-so-good way.
I have this pedal and you can get rad sounds out of it but it is probably the most difficult pedal I've played to get a good sound out of. don't write it off as bad until you've given it a go
Shane - cool demo, but I don't feel like you were exploiting the octave effect enough. With these Octafuzz-type pedals, try playing single notes up beyond the 12th fret with the guitar tone pot rolled-off a bit and you should get more of the nice frequency-doubling effect. Just a suggestion - cheers
I've got one of these on my board, and love it. Works great with a strat on the neck or neck/middle, with the fuzz and level not too high. adjust tone to taste. Run it through an overdrive pedal (Boss SD-1 for me) with the gain on the low side - to my ear it smooths out the spikiness of the fuzz and retains the sustain, add a bunch of delay and reverb, maybe some chorus or tremolo as well. Makes a GLORIOUS wall of sound thing...
Man you did the Octave stuff all wrong.... Neck pickup, 12th fret & above lead guitar, THAT is where the magic happens. Listen to Hendrix's solo on Purple Haze to hear what I'm talking about. Oh and WAAAAY less fuzz maybe like around 9 o'clock.
+Vern Roberts Octave fuzz is a very niche effect. It sounds best on high treble strings, and higher frets. You must lower your volume (distortion/fuzz) to get the best effect.
That's true for Octavia clones, but Foxx Tone Machine clones ( Fulltone Ultimate Octave, Joyo Voodoo Octave, Danelectro French Toast, MXR La Machine, etc) are more consistent over the whole neck. That said, chords sound awful on pretty much any octave fuzz.
***** the only things I don't like, is how it sounds muffled, but I use a shaky jimi vibe with the controls turned off and it sounds like a fuzz face, the octave up is too trebly but I just turn the toen all the way on neck pickup and turn the volume down and its fine
Joey Comstock if you get another pedal that is trebly like a chorus or vibrato it takes the muff out. my hsky jmi vibe on the vibrato side with the controls turned to 0 make sit sound like a fuzz face seriously, I use this pedal on every single on of my vids and it sounds great
The sound is right but the EQ is off. And like others said, the higher notes is where the octave really comes out. I'd have more high end EQ'd in though... also boost some of the mid/low to give it real raunch. These scrambler type effects aren't for everyone and most don't get how they're used.
Shane, apparently there are two directional caps that Joyo installs backwards which causes the Octave and Fuzz to sound so lack luster. I would love to see you mod one and do a follow up. intheblues I know modding Joyo pedals seems like lipstick on a pig, but it might be another avenue for more vids. Love what you do, keep it up.
Toni Iomi said he just used cranked Laney's with a treble boost for his sound and that everyone wanted to know what "fuzz" he used, but he said he didn't use a fuzz pedal at all.
Just bought it but terrible background noise and it doesn't sound like in this video atm. I'll try sorting out amp settings and have a play with it. The video does make it sound great though.
There are about four good setting for this pedal... you did not find any. Cut the fuzz lvl to 10:00 or less and take the tone down to about the same. Level needs to be above noon. You cut the noise and have a sustainable fuzz with a precise octave that tracks well.
I would really like to see this thing ran more like Hendrix ran his octave fuzz pedals. Fuzz down, like off, pedal tone at 12?, and guitar tone at 0. Turn on the octave, adjust pedal and guitar tones to liking. Stack with a tube screamer as a boost or another fuzz? I think I might just have to get one...
ebail8359 I use a JD9 jet driver with just a touch of dirt into a clean tube and then roll the tone down on my neck pickup. Fuzz just barely open at all, tone on the pedal about ehhh quarter way up. It gets a really creamy sustained smooth sound. Pretty nice. Everything in this video was just unusable harsh noise.
bought one and found joyo screwed up and had a couple electrolytic caps installed backwards then i changed c13 100mf cap to .22mf. now works right and sound good. i only use it where the fuzz is just coming on for my taste
Octave pedals. Should be played above the 12 the fret Not In the area of the neck where you were playing. You should try it let me know if you do and what you thought
"Let's go crazy for one moment". I thought we were going crazy the whole time. But seriously...just got this, Not a bad pedal for the price but i was a little disappointed you can't engage the octave without having fuzz : (
I own this pedal and find it rather useful as it offers lots of different tones from the same place. Shane doesn't play the pedal to its strengths in this but still plays well. I like using the midcut and lots of tone for my solos but use an alternative pedal for playing chords. Never play chords with the octave function on!
By spending a little more time than this guy did, also, it much prefers a neck humbucker, to the point where I'm sure it is voiced specifically for that.
I got this and when I plug my guitar through this into the amp it the guitar and amp work fine without it on. Then I press the on button and no lights come on and no sound at all. Help!
I bought this economical pedal betting that I could use it with harmonica to get closer to the "chicago blues" sound, since the pedals made for harmonica itself are very expensive and the name seemed very suggestive for the Blues and the truth is that I aimed half to half, I also combine it with an analogue phaser for guitar too, and it's like being in glory, directly transported to the bars of the city of the winds in the 50s. I recommend this pedal to all harmonica players looking to sound electrified, economical and great blues, the ideal is to use both pedals with a 9V battery, so there is no annoying hum, just learn to handle a bit the amount of fuzz and feedback from the phaser. maximum fuzz until 10, tone at 3 and volume 9-10 thinking about the time of a clock. Voodoo, I've also used it with guitar, but I prefer Germanium, the truth is that this pedal was born for the Harp.
Although it is possible to get some great tones out of this pedal unfortunately that is not what happend in this demo. Fuzz in general works best for single note lines and the octave effect really responds best to the neck pickup with some of the treble rolled off. Then try running this pedal into a Wah Wah with some delay or reverb and you will get some outstanding sounds.
I didn't hear any remotely usable sound out of that, I wouldn't run any of that through front of house speakers ,while I understand you're demonstrating the pedal - it would have been a better demonstration had you did it without all the fuzz . Is it possible to get just the OCTAVE effect without all the fuzz? see how it actually sounded clean?
It might be cheap but its on Alan Holdsworth`s board. Turn down the fuzz and use the octave. Controls all up sounded much better, trumpet howling ala Shin-ei.
Good video..just didn't have the settings dialed in..the beauty of this pedal is it can get some really raunchy tones if you set it right with your amp & guitar pickups.theres really no such thing as a bad peddlels it's all in how you use them...there for spicing up leads and decorating the song..some people are just peddle scnobs...I use to be one of them!!!
MINIMAL time spent on the "Octave Up" setting sadly. Can't tell what comes from it WITHOUT the fuzz. Great pedal, but would maybe want to hear JUST the "octave up" setting all the way up before a purchase.
I bought one of these. It seems weak on the fuzz and octave. Maybe I got a bad one, and from reading the mods, it seems maybe Joyo cloned a bad schematic and wired the polarity wrong on a couple of caps. The particular mod seems to give more of the octave effect by switching those caps to "correct" polarity. Otherwise, it seems to be a distortion that can get sort of fuzzy-like or sound worse with the mid-switch. You can play chords with it. My Behringer superfuzz is more fuzz, though I have them opposite. Like the Behringer sounds better with less mids.. You can get the Iggy Pop "Search and Destroy" type sound out of the Joyo. Neck pickup, maybe you can get sort of "Purple Haze" sound with the octave. Over all, I'd say it's not great, but it's cheap, so it's just another flavor that may work here or not there.
Dude what happens if you set the fuzz knob down to zero? Do you get just the clean octave sound? I watched some demos with this pedal on bass and no one seems to cover that part but the fuzz effect goes great with a bass. Also I don't need the fuzz part because my Boss Bass overdrive can do the job with some knob tweaking. I was considering the pedal for my bass rig and I'm looking for a cheap octave pedal. I'm kind of on a budget and can't afford the Boss or MXR ones (one of which I would by in a heart beat if I had the money).
don't buy this for the octave feature, if you aren't going to use it as a fuzz don't waste your money, the octave is basically a tone knob maxed out on this.
After seeing your video and seeing how you can do well ,. I think this pedal can be very attractive, reliable and most importantly it has a great sound. . I think all fuzz is unique, hard and sharp, it takes creative thinking to get the right riff, especially using a fairly complicated chord, it will not be easy to get it when using fuzz, in guitar playing when using fuzz requires a strong feeling and inner ear flairfill in an important part so that it sounds in accordance with the wishes of the guitar player himself. .
I was about to buy one, but it sounds so noisy, artificial, and different from the originals, that I really doubt it even has transistors inside. Thank you for showing it.
man have you heard mudhoney fuzz for grunge for sure but i get the simple distortion nirvana stuff too but the wild side needs octave sub and high like the SUB machine from mxr
Yes and no. Depends on your guitar, amp, playing style, mic'ing techniques and etc. Will it magically sound like Mudhoney's "Superfuzz Big Muff" album? No. Could you get it to sound that way? Maybe or probably not unless you work hard at it. To put it one way, I don't deeply regret purchasing it, but I can't give it an applaud for being in my stomp arsenal either, which basically says, I could have lived a long, fine life, without it and put that money into something better.
Kinda both, kinda not. A shoddy power supply with bad filtering will do a bad job of keeping the noise down from the noisy wall power. A pedal with shoddy filtering will do the same, but a Fuzz uses so much gain that the signal to noise ratio reduces and so you hear more buzz with more gain (distortion). Shane is also using single-coil pickups which pick up EMI (not good) very well.
Como usuario de octavasen el fuzz, danelectro french toast, este pedal suena muy bien, pero para mejor aprpvechamiento se suele usar el mic del mastil, el grave , para apreciar bien el efecto octavia
I LOVE this beautifully unpopular pedal. Its an octave-harmonic, similar to what the e-bow pro does in the 2nd setting. Dude should use warmer pickup sound in the first place to get anything out of this... like, hum bucker neck, rather than coil bridge. But still...
My guess is--- in octave-up mode.. its for higher register lead work. Not chords. If I owned this pedal, it would be used for that purpose, only. One-trick pony. For regular fuzz, I enjoy the small red Fuzz Face with the germanium transistors. And it sounds fantastic. But, it is a jealous pedal. Cannot run Fuzz Face and Fulltone Plim Soul simultaneously. Not that I 'need' to do that but, was trying it out.. as I know some distortion type pedals can be ran together.
It's the perfect pedal for when you want to sound bad on purpose! dialed in correctly as a boost the thing sounds like a freakin diesel engine LOL. why would you want to sound bad on purpose? because everyone is bored with the same chugga high-gain sound you know? sprinkle in some variety!
![[Eng Sub] JOYO JF-12-Voodoo-Octave fuzz](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/P2BN6fb3104/mqdefault.jpg)
I read somewhere about this pedal.
"This pedals worth getting, but it's also worth fixing, too. Joyo based it on the Fulltone Ultimate Octave but they used a faulty schematic they found online. So they ended up getting two caps in the opposite locations (C2 and C14 on the board). They also wired most of these with two directional caps facing the wrong way (C9 and C15 on the board). Once you swap C2 and C14 and reverse the polarities of C9 and C15, this pedals sounds fantastic. What you're hearing in this vid is utter shite compared to what it's supposed to sound like."
Interesting, wonder if its the same with Amoon voo doo octave (copy)
Kkkkkk...i don't know where you read it, but do you think that joyo don't have money to buy the original fulltone pedal to manufacturers make a copy, if it is the case?...kkkkk... These chinese guys are engineers and they know exactly what they are doing whem projecting a pedal!
@@douglasbarroso5296 Kkkkkkkkkkkk... maybe since they'd gotten the schematics online and they were faulty, they just thought that was the nature of beast? Kkkkkkkkkkkkk.... look at me. I'm retarded.. kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.
I don't like the sound of this guitar. I guess it's the pedal. I'm biased... I can't stand those 80s flashy demos. But may it's not the playing that doesn't do it justice. Glad I'm not the only one who thinks this sounds crappy.
@@douglasbarroso5296 that happened before with the Ultimate Drive by Joyo. There were some pedals which were sold with a diode inverted. I did fix my pedal and it sounds better now.
To be clear, Octave Fuzzes are supposed to sound nasty, raspy, splatty, and aggressive on the top end. Although I'd recommend save a bit more $ and find a used EHX Octavix or similar unit before buying the Joyo version, which is not bad for what it is.
what pedal should i buy to play stuff like rage against the machine?
@@Haha-Jim just changing tones will get me the sound I want? sorry not really familiar with electric guitars so im struggling
I own this. And while it doesn't live on my board, with the right settings it sounds awesome for certain applications. It is not an "everyday" pedal. But when used properly (lighter on the gain) it can sound amazing
Works best above the 12th fret. As others have stated- Mid cut in, fuzz LOW, octave on, and play UP HIGH!!!! It's awesome.
I own this pedal. I would love to see a demo of it's actually usable range of tones. It sounds good with the fuzz just barely up at all and the tone maybe a quarter up. Roll back the tone on the guitar as well and you get creamy super sustained leads. The octave effect is really only good for high notes and with the treble boosted/overdriven (but still with the fuzz barely on) this demo really does nothing for the pedal. There's a big difference between adding a slight effect (desirable) and totally destroying your tone by oversaturating it. Just because a pedal goes up that high doesn't mean that it will sound good.
Perfectly said.
Sounds like you need to upload your own vid
I agree, I use mine with the tone down and fuzz at around 9:00 and it loves to be there. The octave is only engaged for solos. Keep it there and it can actually replace a muffin and fuzz face fairly well. I think people are just so in to cranking fuzz, but that’s not this pedal.
LOL- What a load of rubbish- ppl like you are all the same, convinced you have it all figured out, but in reality- dumb as a rock. There's nothing subtle about fuzz moron.
Yep to my ears it sounded best when he first turned it on with the lower settings. I don't like the mid cut that much.
you're a life saver, shane, i thought i was gonna have to spend 200$ on a dunlop
I've got one and love the sound. You can get some glitchy sounding stuff, which I personally enjoy.
What I don't enjoy is the large amount of feedback this pedal kicks out when cranked up.
So I rock it into a simple noise gate pedal. Tuned in, it sounds awesome.
The thing about analog octave fuzzes is the make the octave up sound best with the neck pickup, and playing around the 12th fret. you never got that far up the neck, so this really didn't show what the pedal can do.
yeah, the octave up thing is NOT for chord work, but mainly single-note lines in and around the 12th fret area... and this particular fuzz needs the tone knob down some from the 12 o'clock position, depending on the inherent tone of your guitar/amp, of course.
Octave fuzz can be tricky - it's an easy way to complete whack your tone in a not-so-good way.
I have this pedal and you can get rad sounds out of it but it is probably the most difficult pedal I've played to get a good sound out of. don't write it off as bad until you've given it a go
Shane - cool demo, but I don't feel like you were exploiting the octave effect enough. With these Octafuzz-type pedals, try playing single notes up beyond the 12th fret with the guitar tone pot rolled-off a bit and you should get more of the nice frequency-doubling effect. Just a suggestion - cheers
Tone: 9 o' clock
Fuzz: max
no mid cut
Volume: your choice.
You're welcome
+Rans thanks, u r welcome amigo.
And dial up the overdrive on the amp to where it is barely breaking up. Using a tube screamer or similar overdrive with it works well too.
Rans, exactly
Marathon!
I've got one of these on my board, and love it. Works great with a strat on the neck or neck/middle, with the fuzz and level not too high. adjust tone to taste. Run it through an overdrive pedal (Boss SD-1 for me) with the gain on the low side - to my ear it smooths out the spikiness of the fuzz and retains the sustain, add a bunch of delay and reverb, maybe some chorus or tremolo as well. Makes a GLORIOUS wall of sound thing...
This is really great pedal. But you really need to learn to use it
Yes! Thanx. I thought I was all alone...
It didn't sound like an octave fuzz to me.
Man you did the Octave stuff all wrong.... Neck pickup, 12th fret & above lead guitar, THAT is where the magic happens. Listen to Hendrix's solo on Purple Haze to hear what I'm talking about. Oh and WAAAAY less fuzz maybe like around 9 o'clock.
we've all heard the solo on purple haze, bro
RhythmGrizz...funny, but yeah...I fully u/stand what Vern stated
yep...total waste of time this review.
+Vern Roberts Octave fuzz is a very niche effect. It sounds best on high treble strings, and higher frets. You must lower your volume (distortion/fuzz) to get the best effect.
That's true for Octavia clones, but Foxx Tone Machine clones ( Fulltone Ultimate Octave, Joyo Voodoo Octave, Danelectro French Toast, MXR La Machine, etc) are more consistent over the whole neck. That said, chords sound awful on pretty much any octave fuzz.
By the way this pedal is a direct clone of the Foxx Tone Machine / Fulltone Ultimate Octave.
Sounded horrible . Thanks for the warning.
Alex Shefflette I personally find the tone at about 4 and the fuzz at 7 sounds decent with the mid cut
thats the point of fuzz
fumjan dumjan I’m buying this
best comment of 2017
@@thebongwizard. what, that is not what voodoo child sounds like, or purple haze, or foxy lady
Amazing Pedal! Cheap and sound like old acid blues.
i'm loving it, i found my tone, thanks joyo.
was gonna buy this but glad I saw this review. Not wasting money now.
I have one and I love it
***** the only things I don't like, is how it sounds muffled, but I use a shaky jimi vibe with the controls turned off and it sounds like a fuzz face, the octave up is too trebly but I just turn the toen all the way on neck pickup and turn the volume down and its fine
Same here. Saw one on Facebook for 20 bucks. Now I know why it was so cheap. Sounds like shiz.
Joey Comstock if you get another pedal that is trebly like a chorus or vibrato it takes the muff out. my hsky jmi vibe on the vibrato side with the controls turned to 0 make sit sound like a fuzz face seriously, I use this pedal on every single on of my vids and it sounds great
haha ditto
Ya know there are more frets past the 9th fret right? Gotta get the octave up sound past 12!
The sound is right but the EQ is off. And like others said, the higher notes is where the octave really comes out. I'd have more high end EQ'd in though... also boost some of the mid/low to give it real raunch. These scrambler type effects aren't for everyone and most don't get how they're used.
Perfectly put. Well said.
You can get that "Spirit in the Sky" tone bassing it up.
I fucking love the sound of this
What was the stuff you where playing on the guitar
Shane, apparently there are two directional caps that Joyo installs backwards which causes the Octave and Fuzz to sound so lack luster. I would love to see you mod one and do a follow up. intheblues I know modding Joyo pedals seems like lipstick on a pig, but it might be another avenue for more vids.
Love what you do, keep it up.
I do t think alot of people here have herd blue cheer,the stooges,black sabbath,mc5,mudhoney,soundgarden,green river and melvins
Toni Iomi said he just used cranked Laney's with a treble boost for his sound and that everyone wanted to know what "fuzz" he used, but he said he didn't use a fuzz pedal at all.
If you listen to music, you're aware of at least half those bands
@@doomsdaydanceparty7646 oh man this was when I had the pedal, sold it years ago.
Just bought it but terrible background noise and it doesn't sound like in this video atm. I'll try sorting out amp settings and have a play with it. The video does make it sound great though.
Note: Most octave pedals don't really give up the goods until you start playing around the 12th fret. Otherwise, good demo, Shane. :-)
There are about four good setting for this pedal... you did not find any. Cut the fuzz lvl to 10:00 or less and take the tone down to about the same. Level needs to be above noon. You cut the noise and have a sustainable fuzz with a precise octave that tracks well.
I bought this because I liked the green and it was $55, and for that price this thing riiiiiips
The Octave switch seems to act more to thin the tone out.
No he just turned the tone all the way up
Its a harmonic octave step-up. Like the e-bow pro. Once I got to grips with this pedal.... Its never coming off the board now
can it smashing pumpkins?
I would really like to see this thing ran more like Hendrix ran his octave fuzz pedals. Fuzz down, like off, pedal tone at 12?, and guitar tone at 0. Turn on the octave, adjust pedal and guitar tones to liking. Stack with a tube screamer as a boost or another fuzz? I think I might just have to get one...
ebail8359 that's exactly how I use this pedal and it does a nice job.
ebail8359 I use a JD9 jet driver with just a touch of dirt into a clean tube and then roll the tone down on my neck pickup. Fuzz just barely open at all, tone on the pedal about ehhh quarter way up. It gets a really creamy sustained smooth sound. Pretty nice. Everything in this video was just unusable harsh noise.
Isn't it better to put a few more bucks and get a fuzz pedal that you don't need to mod and with additional sustain control ?
Sounds great! Thanks
Cool demo, thank you!
If your into 50s 60s rock n roll. This pedal might be the one for you.
bought one and found joyo screwed up and had a couple electrolytic caps installed backwards then i changed c13 100mf cap to .22mf. now works right and sound good. i only use it where the fuzz is just coming on for my taste
Octave pedals. Should be played above the 12 the fret Not In the area of the neck where you were playing. You should try it let me know if you do and what you thought
You need to show it cleaning up when you roll off the guitar's volume knob. That's how fuzz works.
I have this pedal. The Octavia effect really shines when hitting some really high notes , which you failed to do. High notes with some nice vibrato,
I actually wasn't going to get this but you may have convinced me
I think it sounds awesome!!
"Let's go crazy for one moment". I thought we were going crazy the whole time. But seriously...just got this, Not a bad pedal for the price but i was a little disappointed you can't engage the octave without having fuzz : (
Was waiting for the NECK PICKUP 12th FRET ROLL TONE BACK thing so I can hear the upper octave.... ah well :p Nasty pedal for sure... Love it
with any upper octave fuzz pedal the octaves sound best with the neck pickup and above the 12th fret
i love it its so dirty and over fluxed
Octave up seemed more like a boost. Yet interest at ??? $ holy schmokes. It says it is $29.10 from Amazon with free shipping?
I own this pedal and find it rather useful as it offers lots of different tones from the same place. Shane doesn't play the pedal to its strengths in this but still plays well. I like using the midcut and lots of tone for my solos but use an alternative pedal for playing chords. Never play chords with the octave function on!
You want the tone knob well below 12 o'clock on fender-style amps. Otherwise, the high end is going to be too harsh.
Can't seem to hear a usable sound from this, it's neat and different, but I don't know how I'd use it.
By spending a little more time than this guy did, also, it much prefers a neck humbucker, to the point where I'm sure it is voiced specifically for that.
I got this and when I plug my guitar through this into the amp it the guitar and amp work fine without it on. Then I press the on button and no lights come on and no sound at all. Help!
Quickly exchange your pedal with new one, it might be a defective piece.
Maybe the batteries or adapter cord are loose or in wrong.
Yogen Grg yeah did that. Got working one now
I think I may need to pick this up. It's still fairly comfortably in the budget pedal range.
shane, you should know that octave fuzz pedals are designed to work best at the 12-15th fret area on the fret board...I suggest you redo the demo
I bought this economical pedal betting that I could use it with harmonica to get closer to the "chicago blues" sound, since the pedals made for harmonica itself are very expensive and the name seemed very suggestive for the Blues and the truth is that I aimed half to half, I also combine it with an analogue phaser for guitar too, and it's like being in glory, directly transported to the bars of the city of the winds in the 50s.
I recommend this pedal to all harmonica players looking to sound electrified, economical and great blues, the ideal is to use both pedals with a 9V battery, so there is no annoying hum, just learn to handle a bit the amount of fuzz and feedback from the phaser.
maximum fuzz until 10, tone at 3 and volume 9-10 thinking about the time of a clock.
Voodoo, I've also used it with guitar, but I prefer Germanium, the truth is that this pedal was born for the Harp.
Man SWAMP is an awesome outlet
Although it is possible to get some great tones out of this pedal unfortunately that is not what happend in this demo. Fuzz in general works best for single note lines and the octave effect really responds best to the neck pickup with some of the treble rolled off. Then try running this pedal into a Wah Wah with some delay or reverb and you will get some outstanding sounds.
I completely agree
Why is it octave?
I didn't hear any remotely usable sound out of that, I wouldn't run any of that through front of house speakers ,while I understand you're demonstrating the pedal - it would have been a better demonstration had you did it without all the fuzz . Is it possible to get just the OCTAVE effect without all the fuzz? see how it actually sounded clean?
From Hendrix to blue cheer summertime blues to princes more subtle stuff in purple rain this pedal gets it done.
It might be cheap but its on Alan Holdsworth`s board. Turn down the fuzz and use the octave. Controls all up sounded much better, trumpet howling ala Shin-ei.
It's probably been modified or at least fixed.
how does it sound if u turn the fuzz all the way down ?
Great demo as always
Does it doom?
I absolutely love fuzz. I have many fuzz pedals. I have this, and I don't care for it.
J Cohen know any good cheap fuzz pedals?
Good video..just didn't have the settings dialed in..the beauty of this pedal is it can get some really raunchy tones if you set it right with your amp & guitar pickups.theres really no such thing as a bad peddlels it's all in how you use them...there for spicing up leads and decorating the song..some people are just peddle scnobs...I use to be one of them!!!
Can't find a review for the Demonfx Golden Rat. Could you please try
buy this
MINIMAL time spent on the "Octave Up" setting sadly. Can't tell what comes from it WITHOUT the fuzz. Great pedal, but would maybe want to hear JUST the "octave up" setting all the way up before a purchase.
It doesn't really do much clean. Its a harmonic effect, rather than a full pitch-shift
The secret to using this pedal is to not set the fuzz and tone knobs above 11:00. Sadly, you don't have them below 12:00 in the video.
was that sunglasses after dark?
I bought one of these. It seems weak on the fuzz and octave. Maybe I got a bad one, and from reading the mods, it seems maybe Joyo cloned a bad schematic and wired the polarity wrong on a couple of caps. The particular mod seems to give more of the octave effect by switching those caps to "correct" polarity. Otherwise, it seems to be a distortion that can get sort of fuzzy-like or sound worse with the mid-switch. You can play chords with it. My Behringer superfuzz is more fuzz, though I have them opposite. Like the Behringer sounds better with less mids.. You can get the Iggy Pop "Search and Destroy" type sound out of the Joyo. Neck pickup, maybe you can get sort of "Purple Haze" sound with the octave. Over all, I'd say it's not great, but it's cheap, so it's just another flavor that may work here or not there.
what type of transister of that effect
Dude what happens if you set the fuzz knob down to zero? Do you get just the clean octave sound? I watched some demos with this pedal on bass and no one seems to cover that part but the fuzz effect goes great with a bass. Also I don't need the fuzz part because my Boss Bass overdrive can do the job with some knob tweaking. I was considering the pedal for my bass rig and I'm looking for a cheap octave pedal. I'm kind of on a budget and can't afford the Boss or MXR ones (one of which I would by in a heart beat if I had the money).
don't buy this for the octave feature, if you aren't going to use it as a fuzz don't waste your money, the octave is basically a tone knob maxed out on this.
After seeing your video and seeing how you can do well ,. I think this pedal can be very attractive, reliable and most importantly it has a great sound. .
I think all fuzz is unique, hard and sharp, it takes creative thinking to get the right riff, especially using a fairly complicated chord, it will not be easy to get it when using fuzz, in guitar playing when using fuzz requires a strong feeling and inner ear flairfill in an important part so that it sounds in accordance with the wishes of the guitar player himself. .
love this sound !
I have one. I find it's good for single notes, but sorta looses it for chords. Good pedal though.
true, the octave feature is a dud, but you CAN get some really sick Rams Head, Smashing Pumpkins-y tones out of this thing for pennies on the dollar.
Seems more like a big muff which SP use and not so much for hardcore fuzz.
I was about to buy one, but it sounds so noisy, artificial, and different from the originals, that I really doubt it even has transistors inside. Thank you for showing it.
i think fuzz pedals are just for rthym stuffs, not for soloing stufss
is this pedal compatible for grunge music?
JTA111096 well yea lol
man have you heard mudhoney fuzz for grunge for sure but i get the simple distortion nirvana stuff too but the wild side needs octave sub and high like the SUB machine from mxr
Yes and no. Depends on your guitar, amp, playing style, mic'ing techniques and etc. Will it magically sound like Mudhoney's "Superfuzz Big Muff" album? No. Could you get it to sound that way? Maybe or probably not unless you work hard at it. To put it one way, I don't deeply regret purchasing it, but I can't give it an applaud for being in my stomp arsenal either, which basically says, I could have lived a long, fine life, without it and put that money into something better.
Did you remove comments from the other octave pedal video because everyone told you how bad it sounded?
That Noise comes from the Poder Supply or from the Pedal?
Kinda both, kinda not. A shoddy power supply with bad filtering will do a bad job of keeping the noise down from the noisy wall power. A pedal with shoddy filtering will do the same, but a Fuzz uses so much gain that the signal to noise ratio reduces and so you hear more buzz with more gain (distortion). Shane is also using single-coil pickups which pick up EMI (not good) very well.
How is this vs the Fulltone Octafuzz or Voodoo Lab Proctavia?
Como usuario de octavasen el fuzz, danelectro french toast, este pedal suena muy bien, pero para mejor aprpvechamiento se suele usar el mic del mastil, el grave , para apreciar bien el efecto octavia
are u left handed or is the video mirrored?
sleepwalking he's a leftyboi
Octave-Up is for single note work. Not chords.
I LOVE this beautifully unpopular pedal. Its an octave-harmonic, similar to what the e-bow pro does in the 2nd setting. Dude should use warmer pickup sound in the first place to get anything out of this... like, hum bucker neck, rather than coil bridge. But still...
i wanted to like mine but it was noisy, i couldn't use it. it hummed like crazy.
Loved it ... Till I heard the octave. Thanks for the warning.
My guess is--- in octave-up mode.. its for higher register lead work. Not chords. If I owned this pedal, it would be used for that purpose, only. One-trick pony. For regular fuzz, I enjoy the small red Fuzz Face with the germanium transistors. And it sounds fantastic. But, it is a jealous pedal. Cannot run Fuzz Face and Fulltone Plim Soul simultaneously. Not that I 'need' to do that but, was trying it out.. as I know some distortion type pedals can be ran together.
octave wasn't mixed high enough for me, is there an internal switch for that possibly?
Does it do octave down?
No. actually it doesn't do any pitch shifting, but it's the best white noise out there :)
It's the perfect pedal for when you want to sound bad on purpose! dialed in correctly as a boost the thing sounds like a freakin diesel engine LOL. why would you want to sound bad on purpose? because everyone is bored with the same chugga high-gain sound you know? sprinkle in some variety!
agree
can you switch just the octave up switch ? or do you have to switch the fuzz first ?
4:07 you can see it only works with the fuzz.
This Pedal ist not for transistored amps.
The main flaw is the tone, if only there was a way to disable it so the fuzz doesn't add it take away from the guitar tone besides fuzz and sustain
+Huston we have a problem Band A lot of people mod their Voodoo Octaves, might be worth looking into them.
nice axe and cool pedal
Bought it. Argh Sent it baaaackkkk