What's so special about Friedman amps?

Evildurka

buy the be-od pedal and save some money

rockmonster

Evildurka said:

buy the be-od pedal and save some money

I had one of the first. I didn’t think it sounded remotely like any of the proper Friedman amps I owned!

WiresDreamDisasters

TBH my slight edge of GAS for a Friedman has all but gone now. My VH4 has been brought back to life (new tubes, bit of soldering, rebias) and my VHT alongside it is actually giving me the tone of a life time.

Evildurka

I am gassing one of the marshall 20w heads, can't decide between the jube, sv20 or sc20.

Jonathanthomas83

Evildurka said:

I am gassing one of the marshall 20w heads, can't decide between the jube, sv20 or sc20.

I miss my SV20H a lot. Definitely buying another when I get the cash together.

octatonic

WiresDreamDisasters said:

TBH my slight edge of GAS for a Friedman has all but gone now. My VH4 has been brought back to life (new tubes, bit of soldering, rebias) and my VHT alongside it is actually giving me the tone of a life time.

In the room, recorded, or both?

WiresDreamDisasters

octatonic said:

WiresDreamDisasters said:

TBH my slight edge of GAS for a Friedman has all but gone now. My VH4 has been brought back to life (new tubes, bit of soldering, rebias) and my VHT alongside it is actually giving me the tone of a life time.

In the room, recorded, or both?

Well we've got the cabs gobo'd away so I can't say in the room. But definitely recorded.

octatonic

WiresDreamDisasters said:

octatonic said:

WiresDreamDisasters said:

TBH my slight edge of GAS for a Friedman has all but gone now. My VH4 has been brought back to life (new tubes, bit of soldering, rebias) and my VHT alongside it is actually giving me the tone of a life time.

In the room, recorded, or both?

Well we've got the cabs gobo'd away so I can't say in the room. But definitely recorded.

Sweet.

hollywoodrox

Each one contains a sample of dna from dean Friedman and a collectors issue of lucky stars

Modulus_Amps

JMP220478 said:

Modulus_Amps said:

I don't think it is fair to judge the bigger Friedman heads based on the smaller ones, but I modded a Runt 20 for Steve recently and it sounded killer afterwards, cleans where nicely balanced and all the fizz was gone, you could actually turn up the presence control

I love the notion and irony of modified Friedman's ..

perhaps Marshall should make them ? :-)  

They are good at a certain thing, but not good for everything that would be described as high gain modded Marshall, Dave would say this too I am sure

Steve, whom I did the mod for has one of my 50w amps so I already knew what he was after and how the Friedman needed changed