Low Cost Guitar Clone (Klon?) Pedals and You - Saving Dollars on Accurate Sound

Guitar pedals cost a pretty penny. Sites like Cheaperpedals.com seek to remedy this by stocked Chinese knockoffs (and semi original ideas). We'll sketch out the recommended copies and the original undefeated champions.

RECOMMENDED CLONES:


Joyo JF-01 Vintage Overdrive trumps Ibanez TS808 Overdrive 

$130 savings

Joyo JF-02 Ultimate Overdrive trumps Fulltone OCD Drive
$100 savings

Joyo JF-06 Vintage Phaser trumps MXR Phase 90 Effects 
$30 savings and a better product

Joyo JF-34 US Dream Distortion trumps Suhr Riot Distortion 
$90 savings

Joyo JF-36 Sweet Baby trumps Mad Professor Sweet Honey Overdrive 
$120 savings

    
STICK WITH THE ORIGINAL:

Demeter TRM-1 Tremulator trumps Joyo JF-09 Tremolo

$160 more but the "chop" and build quality is much better

Any Octave Fuzz trumps Joyo JF-12 Fuzz Ultimate Octave
$60-100 more, but the Joyo is a stinker in sound and build quality

Way Huge Aqua Puss /  MXR M169 Carbon Copy Analog Delay (and ilk) trumps Joyo JF-33 Analog Delay
$60-100 more (build quality issues)

MXR Custom Compressor trumps Joyo Audio Dynamic Compressor
$70 more. Compressor fanatics are sound sensitive to high and low end loss. Joyo just can't compete.

AVOID BOTH:

Joyo JF-04 High Gain Distortion and Boss MT-2 Metal Zone Distortion
Widely revered as the worst Boss pedal





AVOID ENTIRELY:
Joyo JF-08 Digital Delay Early device with a poor showing. Go analog delay.


Joyo Audio Analog Chorus A weak take on a stock sound.