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Find Your Guitar’s BFF

Sometimes a rhythm box and, say, an envelope-controlled modulated filter can sound like … love!

Whether it's 6-strings or drum machines—or any instrument—finding a perfect pedal partner can create a signature sound all your own.

Electric guitars are pack animals. They need a partner to do their thing—unless a very, very quiet acoustic guitar is what you really want. I like this kind of symbiotic approach to thinking about instruments. The guitar and the amp have been best friends for decades, practically inseparable, and it's useful to apply that same thinking to other things, in other contexts. Like the perfect pedal to complement your drum machine. It's not only helpful in a practical, sound-sculpting way. It also lends a nice conceptual structure: finding that one thing that gets along with another and brings the best out of it—and keeping them together, like one extended instrument.

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Joyo Audio Debuts the Tauren and O.M.B

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The wide-ranging overdrive can reportedly go from a clean boost to full-on distortion, while the other aspires to be a band in a box by pairing a looper and a drum machine.

Shenzhen, China (December 14, 2018) -- Joyo Audio has introduced the new R series pedal line, designed to offer guitarists premium tone with affordable price. The Tauren is one of the overdrive pedals among the R series.

The Tauren delivers the nuances of music precisely, with a wide range of high-gain, the tonal possibilities range from a clean boost to distortion by adjusting the gain knob. Besides, both low gain and high gain are delivered vividly. You can enjoy the dynamic overdrive this pedal gives you, also you can use it as a clean boost to warm up your guitar signal.

Features:

  • Volume, Gain, Tone control knobs
  • Ambience LED light on the front and rear side
  • With toggle controls 3 LED light modes (SYNC/ALWAYS/OFF)

The Tauren will be available from official Joyo dealers and distributors worldwide at an expected retail price of $54.99.

Watch the company's video demo:

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