Tried out the settings Mike recommended and it definitely adds pizazz to the cleans on the amp. In fact the Blackstar cleans with tones set to 12 neutral are really dull with any humbuckers or p90’s. Fender single coils do give it the much needed treble a bit better. The Pedal itself lifts the tone out of the murk and gives it the bite and clarity I was hoping for.Mike wrote:Would thoroughly recommend the American for that
Voice and drive at 10 o clock - eq to taste = great fender cleans
Turning the ‘voice’ all the way left gives me a tone I really dig with the amp distortion. Hard to explain but it’s like it gets me the sort of low end clarity I hear on Shellac records. I have a riff that usually only sounds right when on the bridge pup as too much bass murks up the dynamics and you can’t hear the string separation required to make the riff sound ‘right’. Using the voice knob far left really brings out the dynamics of the riff whilst retaining the low end grunt. It’s a really really great tone for my purposes. In fact, if I understand his rig set up right, Albini has his signal set up so that one half is routed through a 60’s Bassman into the 1x15 cab, so in effect I am achieving a similar vibe by routing the my signal through a pedal that emulates a ballpark similar tone into my own 1x15. COOL.
A question: What would be the benefit of being able to turn off the speaker emulation a’la the Tech 21 Blonde? Has anyone looked inside the Joyo to see if this feature is available either via an internal pot/switch or with an easy mod?
