The JOYO R-28 Double Thruster is an overdrive pedal made for bass guitar. JOYO describes it as a pedal specially designed for Bass, part of the maker's R series of compact pedals1. For a bass player looking at overdrive pedals or bass pedals generally, it is a dedicated bass design rather than a guitar overdrive adapted for low tunings.
What it does
JOYO's own description of the sound is that the Double Thruster "sculpts clear and punchy lows, delivering sharp and grainy mid and high frequencies"1. In practical terms, the maker is positioning it as an overdrive that keeps the low end intact while adding bite in the mids and highs, which is the usual goal of a bass-specific drive circuit: distortion character without the lows disappearing.
As an overdrive, it sits in the drive family alongside distortion pedals and fuzz pedals, and it is a different tool from the Joyo Tidal Wave Preamp, which is a preamp design, or the Joyo Scylla compressor.
In JOYO's bass range
The R-28 is part of a wider set of bass-oriented pedals from JOYO. The maker's range includes the Joyo Double Thruster line of bass drive pedals, the Joyo Dr.J Soloman Bass Overdrive, and the R-27 Scylla and R-26 Monomyth in the same R series family as the R-281.
A downloadable R-28 Manual PDF is linked from JOYO's product page, dated 2023-03-21, for players who want the maker's own documentation1.
Videos
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Sources (1)
- R-28 DOUBLE THRUSTER_JOYO, JOYO, 2023-03-21
