Joyo British Sound Pedal JF 16 - "Marshall In A Box" - Direct Into DAW - Pedal Demo and Review

A quick listen and review of the Joyo British Pedal (JF16)
0:00 Start
1:42 Guitar sound without pedal (Guitar into Pedal (disengaged) into USB Pre Into DAW)
1:50 Pedal engaged (Guitar into Pedal (engaged) into USB Pre into DAW)
5:12 Wrap Up discussion

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Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 USB Preamp as used in video:
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Joyo Website:
https://www.joyoaudio.co.uk/JOYO-JF-1...

The Joyo British Sound JF16 is an amp simulation pedal. An amp simulation pedal allows you to connect it to a PA, or DAW, as your guitar rig. It can also be used with a guitar amp as a normal boost and tone-shaping pedal.

There are a lot of reasons to use an outboard solution like this with your DAW versus an amp sim plugin. Especially in some situations. One, it's highly portable, and once you own it you should be familiar with it and have some favorite settings. You can take it to any recording session, anywhere, and have familiar, baseline tones to work with.
Meanwhile, the DAW computer isn't doing any heavy lifting creating the sound. The pedal creates the sound, the DAW just records it. The pedal connects to the preamp, and the sound goes into the computer.

Depending on your setup, it's an easy way to record with multiple musicians, each with different mixes, and no concerns about latency and how to route an amp sim plugin to everyone. It would be the same as recording with a mic'ed amp, except since the amp is a pedal, there's no amp spill in the room. The sound is in the headphones and there is no live guitar amp. This makes it particularly good if you know the part you are tracking is a scratch guitar track. Not only are your tracks clean of any guitar bleed in the room, but they are clean of guitar bleed from a guitar part that's not necessarily going to be in the final mix. And of course, you can keep the track if you want.

I didn't mention it in the video, but with a splitter, you could also record to two tracks- One is the guitar through the JF16 and the other is the guitar direct. This would give you the option to re-amp the guitar part later in the session.

Although I didn't use it in the video, I've added a Donner micro-digital reverb pedal to the chain just for a little more variety. Maybe I should do a review of it as well. You can always add reverb/FX in post, or even live if you're using something like an X32, XR18, Presonus digital mixer, etc. as your interface.

Here are a few words from the Joyo website:

"With the gain knob and voice knob hovering around the 9 'o' clock point you can happily conjure Claptonesque tones from your guitar, winding them both up to about 12 'o' clock will get you a 'Woodstock' sound reminiscent of a certain Mr Hendrix. As you go on from there you'll get more and more drive as you turn up the gain knob and voice knob to taste. Led Zeppelin, Gary Moore, Slash, Pete Townshend, Zakk Wylde, Yngwie Malmsteen & many more artists chose to use Marshall and you can replicate their tones thanks to the British sound."

"Perhaps the greatest feature of this pedal is the fact that it has inbuilt cabinet emulation meaning you can go from the pedal directly to a mixing desk, a DAW or directly to your computer/laptop with a jack to usb lead. So this pedal is essentially a DI. You can use it instead of an amp and it can save your gig if your amp fails, just put it at the end of all your other pedals and set it clean like your amp then just take the output from the American sound straight to the desk. Gig saved. Or by going direct into a DAW or even your laptop you can record direct from the pedal."

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