Not as good as the American Sound

I was so thrilled with the Joyo American Sound that I ended up buying the British Sound roughly a week later. While the British Sound is a good deal overall, it just doesn't sound as good as the American Sound does (to me). This has nothing to do with how accurately it emulates a real Marshall amplifier (same thing with the American Sound), as opposed to how usable the sonic flexibility is when going straight into a (guitar) power amp. It's impossible to get a decent balance of bass/middle/treble frequency response, regardless of how clean or distorted the gain is set to. Along with that, there an unpleasant solid state-like harshness when the gain is set higher. While the American Sound isn't foolproof with how you can set it, there's a lot more usable sounds that are pleasing in a guitar amp way. Again, I have to stress that I'm using this pedal to be representative of a guitar amp's preamp, in its totality. If someone is just using this as an OD or distortion pedal, or if only using it as an emergency backup into the PA, it's probably potentially great for that. Also, the British Sound seems to have the potential (depending on where the gain is set) to have a much higher noise floor than the American Sound, too.

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