Joyo Dark Flame vs Uzi shootout: which is the best cheap high gain overdrive pedal for you?

Today we’re comparing two of the best cheap high gain overdrive/distortion pedals money can buy – it’s the Joyo Dark Flame and the Joyo Uzi!

Get the Dark Flame here: https://thmn.to/thoprod/532055?offid=...
Get the Uzi here: https://thmn.to/thoprod/453169?offid=...

Now, I’ve made videos on each of these pedals separately before, but the questions kept coming in about how they compared directly to one another – so here’s your answer!

The Dark Flame is Joyo’s take on the Revv G3 pedal (and maybe with a bit of the Revv G4 in it too!). It’s a super modern drive pedal, capable of massive amounts of gain while staying crisp and defined throughout. In short, it’s a pedal that’s simply ideal for 21st century genres like progressive metal, djent, and so on, although it’s also great for stadium-filling rock sounds of all styles.

The Uzi is a slightly more classically voiced pedal. Based on the iconic Friedman BE-OD overdrive, it’s more like a heavily modded Marshall amp of yore – and it reflects that in its thick and rich overdrive tones that are simply perfect for hard rock, classic metal and more.

So both these pedals – like the Revv and the Friedman stompboxes they’re based on –ultimately have their roots in the Marshall school of tone… but different classes in that school.

The question is: which of these pedals is best for you? Well, hopefully I can answer that question for you here! All you need to do is listen in and see which one sounds best to your ears. In the video, I run the pedals through a couple of hard rock loops played on the bridge humbucker of my Epiphone Les Paul. The pedals are running into my Hughes & Kettner AmpMan Classic on the clean channel, with no reverb.

Which one do you think sounds best?

Here are some links to the various parts of the video:

00:00 Introduction and what we’re doing today
01:25 Today’s rig and plan
01:56 Joyo Uzi info
02:11 Joyo Dark Flame info

02:46 Modern hard rock/metal loop (Drop D tuning)
11:19 Classic 80s hard rock loop

My setup was as follows: I ran the two pedals into the front end of my Hughes & Kettner AmpMan Classic pedal amp, then went from the Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That’s it. No post-processing on the sounds was done. Oh, and I used my Boss RC-10R to record and play the loops. Here’s some links to those bits of gear:

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Hughes & Kettner AmpMan Classic: https://thmn.to/thoprod/512777?offid=...
Boss RC-10R: https://thmn.to/thoprod/470055?offid=...
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Enjoy!



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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – Track Tribe.

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