UNBIASED GEAR REVIEW - Joyo Mjolnir Guitar Amplifier Head
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I've had this amp for years and swear by it. It's a two channel amp and has no "crunch channel". You did not use the bundled footswitch cable, the amp expects a stereo 1/4 not a regular mono guitar cable for the footswitch. That "crunch" you got was the amps high gain channel being starved. The amp doesn't even have an orange LED. So sad to see this being the first video that pops up on UA-cam when you look up the Mjolnir as it does not do the amp justice.
I just found one for sale. I know it's what I want for my Jam project and I'll try to get some videos of it. You can make a video for this amp too yknow
Dude I'm so glad I saw ur comment. I've been scratching my head because of that orange light!
That crunch is horrendous ... it's attack of the killer fuzzy bees, dear GOD that's bad. I am actually suprised you endured through that torture. As ofr the foot swtich crunch plug unplug to get clean ... what is that bullshit!?! The high gain is MUCH better but I much prefer my OR15 for that tone.
The crunch tone options they give just make it sound broken.
Sounds like freekin crap !!
I have a Joyo Zombie 2 abs it’s amazing
Sounds like a cool amp. Definitely needs a boost to get it how I'd want, but interesting nonetheless. Kinda has a Mesa recto thing going on at certain settings
Hey brother its great to see something recent on this amp. I suggested to a friend/student of mine to pick one up back in '19 after being impressed by Spector Glenns review of it. When he got it we played it and could both agree it sounded decent but only with a TS or something up front. After some time i said fuck it and decided to mod it because after all its at least a good starting point right? I was impressed straight away with the components and PCB, (no SMT shit! good MF resistors, satisfactory electrolytics, Alpha pots and even WIMA caps not to mention very good JJ preamp tubes), this amp is fully serviceable. Too bad no amount of searching produced a schem and the board is 3 layer so 😂 tracing the circuits kinda not gonna happen. Whatever. So to make a long story boring i started reducing the first decoupling stages like i would with a 2203/2204 but that only sent me backwards. After a few days of scratching my head i noticed a couple op amps at the input similar to my old ADA MP1, which led me to think that potentially ones an inverting opamp and i was right. So I changed the 1meg input resistor to 2meg. Wow. Definite improvement. How about 3meg? Damn! Ok lets go 4meg. What the actual fuck??!! Suddenly this amp was in league, no, suddenly it buried 99%+ of all the amps ive ever played!! No, im not the guy thats played 200 of the latest and greatest, ive probably only played 50-60 amps in my 46 years but they were all noteworthy, ie Pitbull, SLO, (real) 1987/ 1959, 2203/2204 modded and stock, Krankenstein, Mesa MKII B, C+ and MK4, u get the idea. I honestly could not believe my ears. All in all i changed all decoupling and cathode caps to Sozo (preference) and modded the boost, push and mid cut circuits to make them actually useable. After hearing it this way my only question was why in blue fuck didn't THEY do this??!!. Truly, and ill swear on both my parents graves about this, 4meg at the input is all thats needed to get a distortion sound better than probably all the recorded high gain sounds youve ever heard and no pedals required! So to conclude, maybe u solder, maybe not, if not u must have a buddy that does. Humour me and try the 4meg, your jaw will drop. Itll literally change your life. P.S. Recto oversized, Marshall MF400, vintage Marshall slant, VHT Fattbottom, forget it. A $200 Marshall MG 4x12 bottom is a practically ideal match for this head. And after you realize im not a mush head just be running my mouth, delete this comment. Itll be our secret 🤘😤🤘
killer song killer tone, absolutely stunning guitar!
That "crunch channel" makes me not want to live anymore.
Hmm. Reminds me of a guy in Australia who reviews vape products paired with beer
My dude, on the opposite end of price point. You absolutely have to try the Friedman JJ jr. I’m not an EL84 guy at all but I have a JJ jr and have gigged with it. It’s loud as hell and can handle low tunings no problem. I play it more than my EVH 5150iii now. Would love to see a comparison between a cheap pretty decent lunch box head like this against something like the JJ jr or the Revv lunchbox heads.
Do you still livestream? Haven’t caught it in awhile if you still do.
That one is cool but I'd like to see you do the evh iconic someday. I own the 100S and 50 watt but im still curious about the iconic.
Such a sick intro song!! Thanks Arnold!!
Intro track was sikk as hell dude. Nice!
Nailed Dime's Far Beyond Driven tone @ 10:30 😁
Love your honest reviews! \m/
The crunch mode would do well for some heavy doom fuzz stuff but always here for the high gain. Fuck whoever bitches about whatever bs ur tha shit bra🤘🏾
Yeah I think that footswitch is just broken, or rather whatever happens in the amp when the footswitch is plugged in is doing something very wrong in the amp. From what I heard elsewhere it shouldn't sound like that with footswitch in.
Seems like they want you to buy pedals alongside this amp.
It might be cool to mod.
Dude I commented back there ive spent time with this thing and it's a fuckin joy to mod. No SMT! But of course it was soldered by a 10 year old using lead free shit so it's worth the couple hours needed to extract all the OEM garbage and get things right. You'll probably even find a couple or 47 dry joints while you're at it. If your bag is fuckin razorblade chainsaw style that requires brutal clipping without sounding like 20 pounds of liquid shit in a 1 pound bag (Pantera, early Metallica etc.) then this amp and my suggested mod(s) will get u there faster than Pegasus çan get to the top of Mount Olympus. You've been warned 😂🤘
Would this possibly inspire you to get a few of the joyo mini heads? Curious of your thoughts of the meteor, zombie, and vivo. I have the zombie and its ok. Bug now I just use my hd500x and a headrush frfr. But want a better frfr and maybe a helix lt or a mooer modeler.
Love the shirt, awesome band.
It soundes good, everybody boosts in metal anyway, and it's a 350$ amp anyway. You can get better stuff 2nd hand for that but it's alright
Secret crunch channel with an HM2-like skreeeeee? Cool 🤩
Basically
That crunch channel sounds like Rockford local metal bands. 😳
@arnoldplaysguitar at 8:25 you might have used a standard cable. It needs the trs cable.
Hey! Arnold do a review on the Ibanez Axe Design Lab RGDMS8 Multi-scale 8-string Electric Guitar of 2023!! Would love a review! Thanks
I wouldnt trust a glitchy thing like that what else may not be working right also my "clean" is usually a crunch so thanks for helping narrow my home amp search
Nice to hear that kickass 8 string Blackened Death Metal full mix demo. 🤘
So basically no actual clean? Everything else was perfect
Thanks for the review Arnold, I have this amp and just wanted to note that it only has two channels - clean (green) and distortion (red). I haven't had any problems with the footswitch and it changes channels quietly, though some folks have reported a popping noise. The push switch adds a bit of gain to the clean channel only, but I agree that it's not enough for crunch. I just use the distortion channel alone as a crunch and then kick on an overdrive to take it into chug territory with some degree of success if the gain's on 5 or less. On another note, an ale with cacao and coffee flavours is something I'd like to try! \m/
Hey! Did you have any problems with channel switching at any point? I'm using a Disaster Area DPC-5 but for some reason it doesn't want to change channels. When you connect the TRS cable to the back of the Mjolnir it enters "channel switching mode" and the front channel switch toggle is disabled, but then I can't switch channels and I don't have the footswitch it comes with since I got it second hand. Any ideas are greatly appreciated, thanks!
@@estebanjosealvarado3138 Hello, I'm sorry for taking so long! I personally haven't had any issues changing channels on the Mjolnir nor experience with the MIDI controllers. You're right about how inserting the TRS cable disables all channel switching, it's the same for me too. Perhaps you can ask Joyo or their dealers if a Mjolnir footswitch can be purchased, or try 3rd party ones. Hopefully this helps :)
That sounds awful. I appreciate your honest review because it definitely helped me decide on whether to get one or not.
I would pick a Boss Katana any day rather than this amp.
I’d actually love to look at the schematic for this amp. I have a theory on what’s going on but I need to see the circuit schematic.
I've searched far and wide with no success. Doesn't help that the PCB is 3 level either. In case u even read this and happened to find a schem do me a favour and comment back. Cheers brother🤘
@@dalepiwek Hey, I’ve never found anything on it. Crazy how these sound great in some reviews and awful in others. I have a feeling it’s just inconsistent quality control and some have issues.
I don't see the price on the website but it sounds pretty great at times
$345US at Thomann
I think that’s a broken amp you were demoing there Arnold, that crunch/ distortion Channel foot switch issue and sound didn’t seem right like a bad biasing component too fuzzy.
I heard it! Freezing moon
That "clean"/pushed channel is awful with that footswitch in. Before you plugged it in, it had a pretty decent gain-y Marshall thing going on. Something is wrong with that amp.
It sounded like it was farting out half the time. I have yet to hear this amp sound good on any demo.
Yeah the thing with the footswitch kinda kills it for me, great review as usual keep up the incredible work
Lol. Your thumbnail reminds me of sleepaway camp
“Hnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggg”
Hey dude thanks for making the video. Just wondering did you have the right cable on the footswitch? I've been looking up the Mjolnir for a while, the manual says the footswitch needs a stereo TRS cable - no idea why, it's just a single on/off switch to change 2 channels right? But I saw you held up the footswitch and it had that angled mono cable rather than a stereo TRS cable. No idea why they'd design it where you need a TRS cable to switch between 2 channels, seems stupid to me, but I wonder if that's what was causing the problems with the channel when you plugged the footswitch in. I might be wrong, maybe the amp is just broken haha
I've had one of these for about 3 years. It's just blown its 3rd set of powertubes, always after only a few weeks of usage. I think it sounds decent enough but seriously considering just throwing it out so I don't spend more money on it.
I had a problem too, one of the EL84s would cut out and it kinda gave me the shits cuz it wasn't an obvious thing. It came down to a cracked screen grid resistor, the single cement 180R one.
Im going to go play guitar, awesome video
Not clean enough
The guitar playing at the very beginning of the video, Is that a Jackson multiscale?
It's actually my Reichardt, a custom luthier based...literally a mile away from me. This thing is badass!!! Has Elysian Pickups, too!
One of my best friend's is Todd of TK INSTRUMENTS, he's working on the 4th custom instrument for me now. I love that one you've got
Freezing fucking Moon lol
That opening song was so fucking tasty
That thing really only sounds good distorted, and for that price, you could get a used 6505mh that sounds and functions better on all 3 modes.
Great video. I owned the PRS mt15 the distortion was unable.but put a mulity effects board threw the Clean with a klone boost now sound pasable. But the distortion on the jayo is probly the worst I've heard. Second is the prs
I’m assuming the footswitch is for going back n forth for the amp gain stages,( like a standard rhythm tone and a boosted tone) you wouldn’t need the Foot switch if your using the clean channel and running only dirt pedals n effects pedals,
Actually the cleans are not very clean. One thing I find annoying about a lot of high gain heads is when their clean channel sounds like di instead of an actual tube amp. The MT15 is like that. It sounds nice, but it basically is only useable for a heavily modulated prebreakdown arpegiated chords. The foot switch seems like it might just be broken.
Love the hair brah
I solemnly never hear brutal technical death metal riffs that endearing in my ear but you. Thanks! Gotta check all your
Hey man love you're content was wondering if you'd do a review on the boss katana mk 2 amp head it's pretty sick
Sounds terrible with that pedal plugged in but the high gain stuff without it sounds pretty dang good
Just out of curiosity, is the issue with the footswitch because you have the FX loop bypassed?
0:46 Dude! Only the intro is worth it 👍☕
How does it compare to the recto ?
Yikes.....that thing has 0 purpose except as a paper weight. 😂
no way that intro riff was just the amp alone. i rrefuse to accept a fucjin ttube amp could deliver that pristine depth of distortion
It was multitracked, but yeah…just the amp. No bass, either.
@@ArnoldPlaysGuitar thats intriguing, I may consider in the long-run, Love your content brother
okay,..this is suppossd to be a review videoo for an amplifier,...so why are they using pedals, its likee he's insinuating thatt tthe amp is an overpriced shhitbox without any sort of pedals to aaccentuate, the fuckin amp should standd on its own merits
True it's also rediculous that he used a cable, a guitar, a pick, strings, a strap, and maybe even strap locks. The amp should stand on its own merrits! I'm not here to hear a guitar, i want to hear the AMP, which is obviously an overpriced shit box if i have to hook up any external equipment to get it to have a pristine metal tone ready to go in a mix.
@@liamtahaney713 lol i take it youre the type of player who relies solely on effects,..and actual technique takes a side step eyy Nigel?
@@liamtahaney713i mean,..do you throw your hard earned cash away at frivilous accessories?? cause the amp i use confounds most guitarists I show it to,..and i only use the channel switcher lol.
It’s a common practice these days to run heads, even high gain ones with a boost in front. So I tested by itself, and then I tested with the boost.
@@ArnoldPlaysGuitar holy shitt!! first time I got a detailed response from the content creator, JOIN OUR BAND YOU FIEND
Holy shit, that's actually a sick little amp. Really crunchy.