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[jimbobothy]

… wanted to try one for a while (to compare against my other B15 type offerings 👍🏻):

 

[Paddy777]

1 hour ago, jimbobothy said:

… wanted to try one for a while (to compare against my other B15 type offerings 👍🏻😞

 

What’s the verdict?

[jimbobothy]

9 hours ago, Paddy777 said:

What’s the verdict?

Not tried it yet lol, I’ll have a play over the weekend 👍🏻

[Quatschmacher]

20 hours ago, jimbobothy said:

… wanted to try one for a while (to compare against my other B15 type offerings 👍🏻😞

 

I’d like to hear what you think. I had and loved this pedal for years but sold it before I got hold of the Grand Slampegg and Bassrig Fifteen so haven’t been able to compare. I’d be curious to try it again. 

[Baloney Balderdash]

Just ordered a Tech 21 Oxford preamp/drive pedal from Reverb, to a price I couldn't resist.

 

I already own 2 Joyo Oxford Sound, bought the latest one recently, as a backup, cause it is a pretty essential part of my basic setup.

 

Got the Oxford used for what basically was little more than 2 Joyo clones from new.

 

I hope it doesn't sound too different from the Joyo though, one can hope even greater, and this one got a cab sim on/off switch, and I know it will be quiter and much more sturdily build.  

 

It is this little fella' :

 

So looks rather used, but I don't really mind, and says it works perfectly.

 

Let's face it though, the Tech 21 Oxford is not a pretty pedal, no matter wear, and the Joyo clone looks much cooler.

 

 

Edited February 10 by Baloney Balderdash

[dudewheresmybass]

great find @Baloney Balderdash

I'm jealous lol

[jimbobothy]

On 06/02/2026 at 23:05, jimbobothy said:

Not tried it yet lol, I’ll have a play over the weekend 👍🏻

… well I’ve tried it and it’ll knock off the Grizzly Bass on my fretted board for the moment. Not compared it to anything else, but like what I hear and how it makes the bass feel under the fingers. I actually don’t like that much cab sim applied (takes off too much high end), and like a bit of grit to the sound when mild gain applied. With the comp I’ve tried it with (Greer Lamplighter Optical comp) I think I actually prefer it with minimal or nil compression. Got other compressors to try with it though. Will be interesting to compare it to the Slampegg and Beta Mk 2 at some point (and the TC Spark and Mojo Mojo for less expensive variants!).

 

Glad I bought it thankfully 👍🏻

Edited February 10 by jimbobothy

[nilorius]

My last pedal - Aguilar octamizer

[Skybone]

Trying to find some time to play with a HX Stomp XL, recently purchased from this very emporium.

[fretmeister]

Impulse buy from Effects Bakery.

 

https://www.effectsbakery.jp/en

 

I had never heard of them and I wanted a univibe type thing. Most of their models are about £50 and available fast by ebay.

 

It only took a week to get it from Japan and it sounds great!

[fretmeister]

3 hours ago, Skybone said:

Trying to find some time to play with a HX Stomp XL, recently purchased from this very emporium.

 

Nice!

 

I love my regular sized one. 

[Bagman]

On 11/02/2026 at 23:46, nilorius said:

My last pedal - Aguilar octamizer

please mean latest not last !

[Skybone]

20 hours ago, fretmeister said:

 

Nice!

 

I love my regular sized one. 

It's a nice size unit, more options to switch effects on & off during song, and a lot more options / flexibility than the POD Go (which is a great bit of kit imo).

 

Looking forward to getting the chance to muck about with it.

[tayste_2000]

😈

[walshy]

1 hour ago, tayste_2000 said:

😈

A fine pair. Enjoy buddy

[pantherairsoft]

Birthday, plus massive work promotion haul.

 

The Asheville Music Tools stuff are basically Moogerfoogers on crack… and OMG they are phenomenal.

 

[HoorayForAnonyms]

9 minutes ago, pantherairsoft said:

Birthday, plus massive work promotion haul.

 

The Asheville Music Tools stuff are basically Moogerfoogers on crack… and OMG they are phenomenal.

 

You had me at, “Moogerfoogers on crack”! I’ve not head of AMT before. Will definitely be checking these out! Congrats on work promotion and belated happy Birthday @pantherairsoft! 

[pantherairsoft]

1 minute ago, HoorayForAnonyms said:

You had me at, “Moogerfoogers on crack”! I’ve not head of AMT before. Will definitely be checking these out! Congrats on work promotion and belated happy Birthday @pantherairsoft! 

Thanks!

 

The designer behind AMT is an ex-Moog guy. These are built from the same DNA as the foogers, but with lots of modern upgrades etc.

 

The delay and phaser do what the foogers did with a cherry on top. The chorus and flanger are a bit like the Cluster Flux split into two pedals, with some extras thrown in (though the flanger gains some stuff at the cost of some CF features).

 

So far, I’m blown away. Will report back after the honeymoon period.

[LukeFRC]

that's some birthday @pantherairsoft!

[alexsga]

not to be confused w the other brand AMT 😁

 

[Baloney Balderdash]

On 10/02/2026 at 17:34, Baloney Balderdash said:

Just ordered a Tech 21 Oxford preamp/drive pedal from Reverb, to a price I couldn't resist.

 

I already own 2 Joyo Oxford Sound, bought the latest one recently, as a backup, cause it is a pretty essential part of my basic setup.

 

Got the Oxford used for what basically was little more than 2 Joyo clones from new.

 

I hope it doesn't sound too different from the Joyo though, one can hope even greater, and this one got a cab sim on/off switch, and I know it will be quiter and much more sturdily build.  

 

It is this little fella' :

 

So looks rather used, but I don't really mind, and says it works perfectly.

 

Let's face it though, the Tech 21 Oxford is not a pretty pedal, no matter wear, and the Joyo clone looks much cooler.

 

 

Got it with the mail yesterday, and have been spending much time ever since experimenting with it.

 

As expected it is much more quiet than the Joyo Oxford Sound clone of it, though still a bit of hiss with the drive set relatively high, nothing I can't live with though, and who knows, it might go away when I finally pull myself together to remake my pedal board, which got a powersupply with isolated and filtered outputs.

 

Other than that it also sound better, the controls works a bit different though, and the build in cab sim filter seems somewhat more aggressive than on the Joyo clone, so it was not possible to simply 1:1 replace the Joyo.

 

With a lot of experimenting, trial and error, though, I managed to come up with an even better solution.

 

That is that the Tech 21 Oxford has single handedly replaced, well, the Joyo Oxford Sound, of course, but also the Joyo Orange Juice, that I used as my always on overdrive in conjunction with the Joyo Oxford Sound, as well as the NUX Melvin Lee Davis Bass Preamp, which otherwise functioned as my main tone shaping preamp.

 

So now the Tech 21 Oxford functions as both my always on overdrive and as my main tone shaping preamp, and I couldn't be happier, the result is a much clearer tone, with much less background noise, and a s a welcome bonus it simplified my setup quite a bit too.

 

I use it with cab sim turned off, and in one of the loops of a Boss LS-2, using the remaining empty loop as dry blend, to retain some more low end, just a bit, Oxford/Dry blend set at an about 67:33 (~2:1) ratio, that is 100% Oxford and then about 50% dry signal. 

 

And with the EQ of the Oxford actually nearly flat, having it dialed in as follows:

Level: Unity - Mid; Ever so slightly boosted not even full 1 o'clock (12:30) - Character: same as Mid (12:30 o'clock) - Drive: a bit above 1 o'clock (1:30) - Low: noon - High: ever so slightly cut, not even full down to 11 o'clock (11:30) - Cab Sim: Off

 

Thing is you can really hear the subtleties of the controls on this pedal, so even small changes actually makes a notable difference.

 

Fortunately the pots of the controls are super tight, that is they do actually move perfectly smoothly, but you have to apply a  bit of intentional push for them to turn, so you would have to do an effort to accidentally knock the settings of the pedal out of whack. 

 

Anyway, to conclude this ramble:

 

The Tech 21 Oxford works really well in my "amp-less" setup, as the main tone shaping preamp and always on overdrive, followed by a Zoom MS-70CDR, that I use exclusively as an EQ based cab sim filter, making use of the dual parametric bass EQ effect model in it (personally I found that I prefer this over every single IR based cab sim I ever tried, and believe me, I tried a lot).

 

Gives me a really grindy overdriven tone, without any of the fizzy artifacts you tend to get with most drive pedals, and with low end, punch and attack intact.

 

You can hear it here: 

 

Signal chain :
HoTone Trem (tremolo pedal, acting primarily as buffer, but also got some very subtle tremolo dialed in) -> EHX Black Finger (tube driven optical compressor, though primarily used as tube preamp, with minimal compression dialed in) -> Boss XS-1 Poly Shifter (set to a 1 octave up, to emulate an effect somewhat similar to that of an 8 string, octave course, bass) -> Boss LS-2 -> [Loop A : Tech 21 Oxford |+| Loop B : Dry blend (67:33 ratio)] -> NUX Tape Core Deluxe (emulates a Roland RE-201 Space Echo tape delay, dialed in with spring reverb, and additionally is set to deliver a reverb like subtle delay) -> Zoom Ms-70CDR (utilizing the dual bass parametric EQ model to emulate a cab sim filter, back at the same settings as the old Joyo Oxford Sound setup, where I used a Zoom B1Xon) -> ART Tube MP Project Series (tube preamp)

 

Playing a 28.6" scale length 5 string Ibanez GSRM25 Mikro Bass, with just the stock J bridge pickup wired directly to the output jack socket, and tuned to G#1 (51.91Hz) standard tuning (that is as in one half step bellow the upper 4 strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning, plus a high E).

 

First half or so of this sound test is finger plucking, last half, from about the 1:48 mark, or so I use a pick.

 

 

Edited 50 minutes ago by Baloney Balderdash