Are Amazon Guitar Pedals Actually Good?
In this video, I put a bunch of Amazon guitar pedals to the test – and I was shocked by the results! These budget-friendly guitar pedals surprised me with their quality and performance. I compared them to more expensive options, and the difference was often minimal. You won’t believe how well these Amazon pedals can hold up, especially for the price. Tune in to hear my honest review and find out if they’re worth adding to your setup!
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00:00 Introduction
00:28 What I Bought
01:47 Vintage Overdrive
03:35 Ultimate Drive
05:44 Ad Break
06:30 Analog Chorus
08:00 Digital Delay
10:39 Final Thoughts
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Originally posted by UCRV9hA2QVQupmyQ9R3cVplA at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6wKg6MykwU
The ultimate drive pedal is a ocd clone just so ya now great video btw
Pretty sure the Ultimate drive is emulating the JOYO Ultimate Drive.
good info -thanks
I'm a total beginner and got the same polytune pedal on reverb. It was brand new. Bought myself a cheap pedal board and wanted to play around with pedals, however I'm not sure if my boss katana 50 MK2 can handle them. But it looks like the Amazon option is a cheap way to find out.
Liked your video! Very helpful!
I bought 5 CHEAP CHINESE PEDALS, and got what I paid for…
… 4 DIDN'T work.
Lesson learned.
You younger guys have no idea how much better cheap gear is now compared to say the 80's and 90's. First, cheap gear is now actually cheap. 13 bucks? LOL, you couldn't even get a cheap pedal for 13 bucks new 35 years ago. A cheap pedal was still going to cost you 40 to 50 bucks and it was cheap. Very cheap. There were some that were better than others. Arion pedals were cheap and made of plastic but they had a couple decent ones. Brands like Roktek were around. Just suffice to say, they weren't nearly as cheap in price but in quality they were far cheaper than now.
And that's just pedals which were, at least still usable for the most part. A cheap amp or a cheap guitar. Jesus, just pure garbage most of the time. You all mock things like the Line 6 Spyders. My generation would have given their first born for a 99 dollar amp that sounded like that and did all of that. A 99 dollar amp in my day was some unknown brand at a pawn shop with no footswitch an 8 inch speaker and about 10 or 20 watts. Pull this knob for "distortion". If you wanted a Crate or a Peavey it was going to cost you quite a bit more.
Vintage Overdrive is a TS9 clone. Ultimate Drive is a OCD clone. Chorus is a BOSS CE2 clone. These are licensed and or OEM Joyo circuits. They're available as Saphue, Kmise and various other brands. One of my Kmise pedals has a Joyo labeled board in it. They also have a US Dream thats a Suhr Riot clone. The naming convention breaks with the Saphue/Kmise/Aodesk/etc Crunch distortion, which is a Joyo Pocket Metal. The Joyo Crunch Distortion is a MI Crunch Box clone.
I recently took my base and guitar out of storage because I want to teach my son. He's in second grade and has music class so I figured what the heck. I haven't touched any musical instruments in a long time.
I lost a lot of equipment letting people borrow it and not getting it back. I'm sure we all know how that goes. I have a line six base pod, a Dunlop cry baby, and Ibanez power lead, and a few others I can't find at the moment.
Where I live in Pennsylvania the music scene is completely dead. Even if I travel 20 miles I can't find a music store. I was actually thinking about buying a guitar off of Amazon and I really hate that company and I hate giving them my money.
Anyways I just saw your Channel gave you a subscription and look forward to seeing whatever you're working on
Would have loved the reverb to be shown..
I have Boss pedals and chinese pedals too. They sound good but not on transistor amp, only on tubes amp.
I got an Amazon tuner pedal. It sounded horrible. Maybe it was just me …
Delay is the only effect I'd be interested in. Next time try distortion, EQ, and looper as opposed to overdrive, chorus, and <whatever>.
I bought the compressor and it adds less than a second of sustain when turned up full with not much compression. Plus, it adds some noise. I tossed it into my scrap parts bin. Definitely don’t recommend.
Cool review… Subbed!
nicely done
TS=identical. Blues Driver=identical. Chorus=close enough to identical. Delay=usable settings close enough. Great job! You dont need a 59 Les Paul or Muphylab clone with a 69 Plexi and Vintage USA /Japan fx to get good guitsr tones. Cheers!!
I did not like the chorus and delay whatsoever. A bit too harsh for my taste.
Thank you for the video
Great video!
I think that Ultimate Drive is some kind of OCD-clone. Harley Benton and Joyo have pedals with the same name, they are considered OCD-clones and they sound ok.
It's amazing what you get for so little money nowadays. When I started playing in the early 70s (I'm 66 now) there was almost nothing and what you could get was expensive. I bought a first generation Elektro Harmonix Small Stone Phase Shifter for around $180 (it was 165 Dutch guilders) in 1975, a small fortune! I still have it!
My only question would be, how long will these pedals last? They certainly sound good, but will they break easily? I suspect that the switches may be very cheap, but at that price it might even be worth it to buy some better switches and put them in.
After watching Jim Lill's videos, I'm way more open to digital gear.
Honestly, these pedals sound perfectly fine for 90% of the population.
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Tldr: no.
Stop giving money to amazon, douchebag !!
I’ve purchased a lot of cheap pedals through Guitar Center, and while their tones were ok, they were very noisy. Also, my tube screamer light comes on red and is very obvious. You implied this is an issue on all Ibanez tubescreamers, it’s not. Also these cheap pedals don’t work well with all guitars, especially overdrive
Excellent video ????????????
The Blues Driver has much better definition, meaning i can hear the strings separately, where i can not that clearly with the Ultimate Drive. Also the Vintage Overdrive, although clearly a TS circuit, sounds boxy and the Digital Delay and its delay loops… ???? Only thing useful is the Analog Chorus. Sorry, i'm not the world's best guitar player but those aren't for me.
Mosky has a pretty good cheap reverb.
NO ONE in the crowd will notice the difference. Going for the Amazon pedal.
My first dabbling with electric guitar effects was in the 80s with a Boss OD/Distortion and a Chorus, can't remember the models, rarely played eclectric at the time, was all about my old Yamaha FG 12-string acoustic back then
Fast forward to now I have a fairly wide range of stombox effects, 'amp in a box' pedals and other preamps, few mutlifx units, Positive Grid's Bias Amp and Bias FX softwares which are really good, recently got one of the Mooer Prime P1 'pedal' units which ain't really a pedal and the wireless footswitch which goes with it, didn't realise there was an updated P2 version until I'd already bought the P1 or I would've got the newer one
Been using that quite a lot lately, running a Marshall AVT50 head into a Celestion 2×12 from one channel of an ABY splitter, the other splitter channel into the Prime P1 then into the desk, pretty cool setup
I can do a wet/dry setup and switch between whether the amp or desk is wet and which one is dry, run driven or cleaner sound through both at the same time, obviously use any of the presets I've set up on the Mooer through the desk and use just that, use the Marshall either clean or dirty along with the Mooer presets to fill out the sound or use just the Marshall on it's own with pedals I have running into that for a more basic/simpler sound
It's a simple but incredibly versatile setup, board just has an almost clean boost, a Pigtronix Gamma Drive set to either add a bit of dirt to the Marshall's clean channel or push it's drive channel a bit more, delay, the Marshall's channel/reverb footswitch and the Mooer's foot controller, so just three effect pedals, the splitter, a pedal sized footswitch and foot controller barely an inch wider than the switches and just long enough for the four switches and it's small LCD display, so much you can do with that setup it's insane for what you have on the floor at your feet
Been a number of occasions where other players have looked at me as if if to say where the f'k is he getting all that from, they can't see the Mooer cos it's over with the desk on a wireless connection, so think I'm just using what they see, the Marshall and a couple of simple pedals
Subscribed btw
They have a pedal called Holy War and it is awesome if you want to go over the edge…..
BOSS pedals suck becsuse they use electronic buffers that ruin your sound and they use polarized electrolytic capacitors for interstage coupling. All BOSS pedals sound like BOSS pedals, dank and lifeless. They do that because a good polyester or mylar interstage capacitor costs about $2 each, while a polarized electrolytic costs about nine cents.
You did not even notice that half your signal was missing, did you?
It is to laugh.
Never buy BOSS pedals.
Super cheap reverb is a donner Reverb pedal. Actually pretty good… for the price that is
Cancelled Amazon…….so no thanks
there are only 3 gear very important,
1/Good room
2/Good monitor speakers
3/Good ear
This is why we are destroying our world: people will buy cheap no matter what the cost to the environment or other people. Google "Amazon boycott" for more details!
The truth is that the budget pedals of times past worked more consistently than today's cheap-o effects. That's why you still see them on the used market, and in great working condition. I never thought we'd still be seeing Arion effects, but here we are! ????