The Joyo sounds cheap and horrible in comparison.... Blonde is by far the winner

Top riff at the end.

Sounds to me like the Blonde has a better speaker sim. Has a bit of “thunk” to it. I had the American, regret selling so I bought an “Irin” brand one for $17 and it’s amazing haha. Maybe I should just get the Blonde then…

Great video! I have both pedals but no single coil guitars. Sounds fantastic with your Tele! Really nice playing too! QUESTION: Are you using any external cab sim? With the built in cab sim my Joyo sounds very "fizzy" with gain into a QSC CP12 monitor. Thanks! I've subscribed and looking forward to watching more of your vids.

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JOYA sounds Anemic.

Joyo for clean, Blonde for crunch. Both great pedals, but the Joyo is a hell of a lot cheaper.

But be careful,the JoYo are poorly made and eventually fall apart.

Tbh- once pedals get this close, you can't tell a difference listening over KZbin. When you upload something to KZbin- and probably anywhere else- it gets compressed, the eq curve is changed- and if you have two pedals that already sound pretty similar- now they're going to sound even more so. That said- I can tell you from 30 something years of experience dealing with gear- the Tech 21 is going to be a better pedal- it's going to last longer, retain more sound quality over time, and be less prone to tear up on you. It's going to stack better with other effects, it's going to record better through a DI connection, the cab sim is going to be higher quality, etc., etc. That said- if you play at home, and you don't record, you're not gigging so it doesn't matter if a pedal tears up, you're not looking to go DI so the cab sim doesn't even come into play- the Joyo is probably your pedal. The tiny bit of improvement you would get from the Tech 21 doesn't really justify the price.

I own each of them, I was surprised to find that they are quite different. I would say that the Blonde objectively sounds better overall: the frequencies seem more balanced and less aggressive. In the extreme settings, the sound remains precise and the noise is minimal. On the other hand with the Joyo, even if the sound is overall a bit messier, it seems to me more open and less compressed. In fact, the frequency response is not the same and we have the possibility to remove muddy frequencies with mid control (wich operate at 400Hz, while on the Blonde this control is unfortunately done at 1000Hz). In the end, I find the Joyo more interesting in clean sound but the Blonde remains more qualitative and more realistic in crunch or saturated sounds. Also note that the settings suggested by Tech21 work extremely well on the Blonde but not at all on the Joyo (some controls do not react the same way). The great paradox is that I think I'll keep the Joyo on my pedalboard while the Blonde is objectively better. Is that in my specific use (clear sound platform to receive several pedals), the Joyo finally seems to me more suitable.

The Joyo is to the Tech 21 what BlueChew is to Viagra.

I use the Joyo American with a Behringer TO800. Covers all the bluesy sounds I could want 👌

Both are good. Acording to sound from video, Blonde is a little bit warmer like old boutique small votages amps, Joyo is closer to Vox AC30

click this and jump to the next to clearly hear the difference 0:29 & 5:00 ,tech21 sounds more mids upfront and more compressed?

I have the joyo and my preferred 'voice' settings are for clean @12 o'clock and for the tweedy goodness at about @3-4. Great pedal. Thanks for the vid! :)

I have the Joyo and I might have bought an original if it wasnt for the terribly placed dc jack lol! I build 90% of the new pedals I have but this would have been a really big Vero project and I'm not set up with the chemicals to make my own boards right now. The joyo is perfectly fine. I immediately modded mine to turn on and off the cab emulation via an on off dpdt switch. I added a cap and resistor in the no cab sim setting to take down the excess highs in that setting (2.2nf cap and I think a 6.8k resistor, I'll have to check the resistor value an come back. But pretty much any value cap an resistor around that value in series should work to tame the highs. Just remember the larger the cap value the more highs are attenuated) works wonderful. I use it mainly through my Marshall DSL100HR through the preamp so I can still use the effects loop pedals without rearranging everything. It also sounds great direct into an interface or direct into a power amp (effect loop in my case). Direct to interface or fx loop tames the highs considerably but the "high" adjustment has more than enough cut to tame it when it's going into an amp.

clean 1:36 - 6:25

Please, if the both pedals would cost 250 dollars for each, which one would you buy?

Which is better Sansamp Tech 21 classic or Tech 21 Blonde any one ? 🤔

Are you using a noise gate on the pedals? I know you are on your voice.

Why no A/B comparison of the pedals? Why no Joyo with the SG?

El blonde suena genial pero el joyo es más fender

hi, Your Tele sounds aawsome, with the Tech 21 knobs 12 very perfect I can hear the Tele, I once had an ES-S one with a humbuck for neck, I have two Tech speakers 100W each..., and two Joyo Amsound pedals, Im tired and reasonbbly happy, mr Bruce Joyce, your tele sounds very good! luv n sleep, Kimmo : )

I have a series one Tech21 sansamp. DI'd it fooled engineers. I lent it out so I bought the American. Plugged in at the end of my board. It sounds amazing. I go Fuzz Wah>MXR Phase 90>Strymon Riverside>RE20 Space Echo. With the EV5 I can go from clean stones to metal. The take boost pedals just great. My fuzz has 16db boost. The Strymon has 6 db boost. Nice Ted sound by the way!!!

Great review!

It sounds best with a tele. I love the sizzle it gives you. I don't run the gain more than half into a katana head with a marshall 212 cab. I liked the sg sound you got. Don't have a sg.

I run my Riverside into my American. I run a light crunch on the American and if I roll the pickup down to 8 and split the coils its totally clean. I can use the Riverside boost and the expression pedal for limitless gain options.

Got this Joyo and the Harley Benton version as well. Love them both!

I have 2 Joyo Americans, and one went haywire yesterday morning, six hours before a gig. I luckily (EXTREMELY) found a used T21 Blonde a mere 45 min drive away. So I bought it online and drove out. As soon as I strummed through it, I inew it was more what I needed than my Joyos (which I love). I was trying to tamenthe harsh brittle tone of a 2-day-old VOX AC4C1-12, without clipping caps, or swapping speakers. The Joyo American was that solution for a few minutes, until it went crazy. What some people don't like about the T21 BLONDE, is precisely why it works so well with the AC4C1-12. BUT, it doesn't detract from the tone, I can still get great jangle and glassy tone, without going muddy. I didn't find mine overly compressed, and am running an SP Compress and an EP Boost in front of it. I might run bith the Joyo and the T21 on the same board. I gig with several different rigs in a number of different venues, gotta have a very adaptable pedal solution.

I used to have both of them,when play live(direct to PA)sansamp blonde just feel warmer,and joyo sound steril,specialy when.pairing with overdrive or distortion

Bruce, what was that tune you were playing at the end?? One of yours? Really liked it. Where can I hear more of your stuff??

The sound similar BUT the tech 21 definitely has a FULLER tone. & output. BUT THEN AGAIN you are comparing a $30.00 JOYO new, to a $170.00 new Tech 21 Blonde... fair??

just ordered joyo - holy cow! 45 bucks here vs 125 for blonde.... have also tech21 liverpool (which cost me some 200 or more bucks years ago) - the best in the character series imho

I've tried two of them, and they both have static popping whether on or off. Disappointing, because as mentioned everywhere, the pedal is otherwise outstanding.

This is great if you get one that works. My Joyo arrived DOA from Amazon. :(

Would the Joyo work the same into a Tascam multirecorder??

Thank you Bruce! Good demo!

Lot of mid-range in both. I like it.

Do you think this would make my Engl Ironball which is kind of a dark cleand more sparkly and pristine?

IMO these Joyo Sound pedals perform well in front and bring what i expect. Great value. I have three. The can be had for $20-$30 and that makes the brain send the good chemicals throughout the body. Nothing like a deal that pays off to feel good all over.

both have a horrible sound when he's picking hard, like a digital clipping 3:03. Is this unavoidable or does the player need to be more careful with settings?

I have both pedals. I prefer the Joyo bcause the EQ sounds more natural. With the Blonde there's a real problem with the loudness of certain strings being diminished with relatively small amounts of frequency cut - turn the treble down and the high E gets weak, turn the mid down and the D and G get weak. It really got on my nerves. The Blonde is collecting dust now because it was too hard to get it to sound good with all of my guitars. With the Joyo I set it once, and it sounds good with everything.

Very nice vid......great riff's!!!!

Also, just turn up the voice knob

Thanks for the review. Might be better to run one at a setting then compare the other to the same setting. Instead of running one in a bunch of different settings then the other. Just a suggestion. It would help us listeners get a better comparison.

The joy unit sounds better to my ears, but I could be wrong. I've owned a few fender alms and it certainly sounds close to me. A loss of out out isn't hard to fix with either a boost, overdrive or just turning up the amp. Seems like they $47 joyo is the winner in my books. It's really too close to call, so it's worth saving the cash.

I've had the Joyo on my board for a year or so. It's at the end of the signal chain. I plug it into an old 1980 Roland Cube 40, with a clean tone. Or I just take it direct into a PA. Either way, it takes my other pedals great and gives me that nice warm Fendery tone. Roll the volume off, and it cleans right up. Just like a real amp. I think I paid $35. I also use the Joyo Sweet Baby to push it for some more overdrive. Those two things together with a little reverb and delay, give me a tone you could almost chew on. (oh ... and my guitar is an SX Tele - their good one with a swamp-ash body and a bound neck etc. That cost me $180 delivered. This is the golden age of cheap tone.

@1:03 = Blonde @5:01 = Joyo

Joyo American sound is 100% better by far and 1/4 of the cost anyone can see thats the one you want so what if the china guys can make and sell them less price stop fucking crying and send the other guys your extra cash if you really care that there going to miss out on the cash they lose by not giving us a good pedal for a good price fuck them money grubbing dickheads buy JOYO and maybe the other guys will follow suit and give us a break on our gear!!!!! THINK YOU DUMB ASS FUCKS THINK!

Both sound good, but the Joyo gets closer to the classic Fender vibe.