Joyo BanTamp XL Tweedy | Tube-flavored Fender amp tones + extra features for €159! Review & Demo

Today we’re taking a look at the Joyo BanTamp XL Tweedy, an affordable two-channel Fender-flavored guitar amplifier with a nifty little few extra features! Joyo’s BanTamp XL range is an evolution of the brand’s top-selling mini BanTamp family, and the Tweedy aims to deliver all tones you’d expect from a classic American-voiced tube amplifier. Coming in at a very lightweight 1.3 kg (that’s just under 3 lbs.), the Tweedy is 20 watts, and it’s a hybrid amp: there’s a single 12AX7 tube in the preamp, and the power amp is Class D. The amp has two channels – which you can flick between using a switch on the amp, or by using the included footswitch – and each has its own set of four controls for Volume, Gain, Tone, and Voice. The Voice control lets you tweak the overall tonal characteristics of the amp – turn it all the way down to scoop out the mids and lower the overall gain, and push it up to add in those mid frequencies and an extra helping of drive. On the back, the Tweedy has outputs for headphones (perfect for silent practice), the channel footswitch and a guitar cab, and it also has an FX Loop – very handy if you want to connect delays and reverbs. You can also connect to the Tweedy via Bluetooth, which makes it easy to start jamming along to backing tracks. All this seems like pretty amazing value for €159 (or under $200 in North America), but how does the Tweedy actually sound? That’s what we’re going to address in this video! I put the amp through its paces in as...