The Joyo R-24 RIGEL PREAMP is a high gain preamp simulation pedal, a stompbox that puts an amp-style preamp section on a pedalboard so a player can drive a power amp, a clean amp, or a flat response into distortion. Joyo describes it as a pedal "that simulates the head greatly", and says it offers "clean and futuristic tone for metalhead guitarists"1. It sits in the same family as the maker's other preamp pedals, such as the Joyo R-15 and the Joyo Preamp House, and belongs to the broader group covered on Preamp Pedals.
Controls and tone
The pedal carries a 3-band EQ alongside high gain and Overdrive controls, giving players shaping of the low, mid and high bands plus a gain stage to push1. Joyo positions the tone as clean and futuristic, aimed at metal players1. For players comparing it within the Joyo range, the R-24 is a single high gain preamp sim, while the Joyo R-15 Preamp House covers multiple preamp models in one box.
JOYO describes the R-24 RIGEL PREAMP as a high gain preamp simulation pedal, and the company positions it as a simulation of a valve amplifier head rather than a conventional distortion pedal1. In practice that means the pedal is voiced to sit where a preamp would in the signal chain, taking the guitar from a clean or lightly driven signal into high gain territory. JOYO publishes a manual for the pedal, dated 2023-03-23 on the page, which covers its operation1.
Availability
Joyo's product page listed stock of the R-24 RIGEL PREAMP at 0 as of 26 October 20261.
Joyo's own product page showed zero stock on 26 October 2026, so the pedal may be hard to find new1.
A manual for the R-24, the R-24 Manual PDF, is available from Joyo's product page, where it is dated 23 March 20231.
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Sources (1)
- R-24 RIGEL PREAMP_JOYO, JOYO, 2023-03-23
