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Picking up form my original question whether this pedal would get me some sparkly cleans Mike advised the following:

Mike wrote:Would thoroughly recommend the American for that
Voice and drive at 10 o clock - eq to taste = great fender cleans

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.

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?

Oooh just used this to plug directly into my PC which is at the bottom of my bed (yeah yeah) and it means i can have a decent sound coming out of my monitors for ad hoc noodling! I'll no doubt disappoint you all in saying I loaded up a youtube blues jam backing in A and layered it up! Great pedal with many uses and a lot of range!.

One of the best uses of it IMO. Great pedal.

It would be nice to turn off the Speaker Sim as it would make it less spiky when used as a Distortion device with an amp but I don't use it in that application so it's all good

I want to pick one of these up too. Have got the British one and I think it's great. Am using it mostly as a distortion at the moment as am being lazy, but is so good as a preamp pedal.

Mike wrote:It would be nice to turn off the Speaker Sim as it would make it less spiky when used as a Distortion device with an amp but I don't use it in that application so it's all good

I found a thread over at Freestomp boxes where someone has bypassed the sim on an ACTone joyo:

http://wiki.freestompboxes.org/viewtopi ... =1&t=13545

I got one of these last year. Great bit of kit, especially considering how insanely cheap they are. Ended up getting the British, AC and Californian ones as well.

i have the ac30 clone and love it. i use it as a low gain drive and really dig the extra spank and detail it adds; the eq is also unbelievably wide and responsive.

good pedals. have been looking at the american sound as well.