Friedman BE-OD - IN DEPTH Review
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
- THICK, SATURATED, SCREAMY, SUSTAINY... me want!
There is no other way to put it, the Friedman BE-OD is pure rock'n'roll high gain packed into a pedal. It sounds great with "almost" every amp. To test this, I ran it through 12 different ones in this video.
If you play rock music, you need this pedal.
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Just got mine yesterday, your review was determinant for me. If anyone wants shorter reviews there's plenty, your reviews in general are very good. Thank you and thanks David Friedman for that awesome pedal. Oh by the way the pedal is fantastic !
I'm confused by why people watch Henning's videos if they hate them or him so much, if you don't want a long, in depth video, then don't click on it, this is a very simple concept. If you do not like Henning's personality, then don't watch his videos, he's not just going to change. That said, great video, I'm VERY interested in this pedal now that I have many other pieces of my gear in order, thanks for the great in depth review.
He does great videos. It's just that some people don't want to be educated, they just want someone to hurry up and tell them it's good or it's bad. Younger people today do not have a great attention span. Henning, you're stuff is great.
I fell in love with this pedal after watching the Animals As Leaders rig rundown. Tosin Abasi has one for his distortion tone and it rips.
Henning, your reviews are getting better and better! For me you are the freakin' master of guitar reviews!
Dude!! That riff at 15:30-15:50 was killer. I need to be able to do that. You're a hell of a player man.
Great demo. I was contemplating the MXR EVH 5150, but after watching a lot of videos I’ve decided on this. You play fantastic. Great description of the knobs, especially the tight knob. Great sense of humor!!!
Great Demo Henning! I purchased one one these ($200 US) the day they were released and your 100% correct, this pedal is amazing sounding! I used it with a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe as well as a Friedman Runt 50 on the clean channel with my Les Paul and even on it's lowest gain setting it blew me away! I actually opened up the pedal and turned down the trim pot to give me more range with the gain knob. I think this is one of the best OD pedals I have ever heard and he could of charged $350 for it and it would have been worth every penny if your looking for that Brown Eye sound!
You seriously sold me on the BE-OD + Vox AC30 combo. I was looking for a guitar head that could handle cleans and gritty tones and was blessed with your demo of it! Thanks!
This video has pretty much everything I was looking for in a review about this pedal. Thank you!
That was a lot of fun, nicely done and thanks very much!
Friedman seems to be doing the high-gain Plexi/JCM 800 Marshall thing better than just about anyone - I really like this pedal!
Showing this plugged into multiple amps was great help to me I love this
Man how I love your videos !!!! I just ordered a BE OD and once you click on the payment button. You immediately start to ask yourself did I just do something stupid? Then I come here to watch this video and I immediately feel so good :D !!!! Can't wait to have the Paket delivered !!! Grußi aus Bayern 8-)
That's exactly what I did😂ordered 2 days ago, now I'm here because I felt stupid 😂
Aber kommt heute an hehe, wie findest du das Pedal?
@tony with which amp are u using it? And what guitar? I also get it 2 days ago and I love it. But the question ist, is it worth 200€?
Your description is right on to me! Great job as always. I really like that pedal from what I've heard.
Thanks for every detail. The comparison is killer dude.
Dang. There was a comment about how long the video was for "only" showing a distortion pedal. I just want to say, just keep on doing what you do Henning!
I completely missed this pedal =) Damn it sounds good. Yes, Henning your vids ARE long but that's really the charm with your channel. Usually when in the market for something I end up browsing YT for demos, Andertons, Chapman, That Pedal Show, Pete Thorn are som of the channels I would go to, to be able to listen to the product from different point of views and different payer styles. But I also go here just for the laughs but also for the in depth demos with all the knob noodeling. Thumbs up as always.
Love your channel and reviews. 👍
A little late to the party here, but I must say, this is my favorite Marshall-in-a-box type pedal at the moment. Sounded great right out of the box.
Just ordered mine!!!! Ty as always you are who I go to for my information... and chuckles too lol
At around 17:25 when you added more presence, man that sounded bad ass!
There is a volume control inside the unit. But no one demo this. It makes a huge difference. Good video
Well this is the best review of the BE-OD I've seen so far!
Very good review, covered a hell of a lot of bases.
Great review and I love the energy. Great production as well. I have this peddle and will use it on my mini board with my line 6 stomp.
really liked the test of the carl martin. they all sound good, but that carl martin seemed like it were on another level. the little joyos toward the end sounded good for what they cost.
playing the tone you were getting through that Friedman amp in the video-in-video pretty much killed any chance the other amps had , lmao. THAT tone was SO snappy and crisp and dynamic , my GOD !!!!!
Just ordered this thing. Can't wait to get it. Was having a hard time getting a good tone with my Kotzen tele through my Mesa Single Rec using the amp's gain. Maybe this pedal through the clean channel will do the trick.
That's for that kind of distorted sound I wanted to put myself at the guitar. I am definitively gonna buy it !!
I've been really digging this pedal ever since Pete Thorn's review.
The pedal sounded incredible through the Carl Martin Custom and the Vox ac30 was nice as well.
Nice that u put it thru so many amps Henning. Nice demo. Sounded great. Awww ferrets and a cat.
Great review for a great pedal, very much in competition with the MXR EVH pedal.
Ferrets are so cute. But so are pink unicorns.
THAT is the best info ever!! :)
Eine schlechte Bewertung? der ist taub xD
Geiles Pedal. Mehr muss man nicht sagen aber sehr cool das du es trotzdem gemacht hast Henning xD
Habe es seit gestern und bin einfach total überzeugt von dem guten Teil.
Friedman tone in a box.
Das Geile ist halt das man den Friedman Ton jetzt jetzt ganz einfach mit sich herum tragen kann und so schnell auf der Bühne oder im Studio den Ton bekommt, egal welchen Amp man nutzen kann/muss.
Viele Grüße,
Robin :o)
I have the BE-OD (modded with an external trimpot). Thanks for not Gating your sound. It is a noisy pedal and not meant for the long trailing notes, the noise floor will come up fast. Cheers
Great, brilliant review. You're the best man.
excellent video... i have this pedal and it is awesome. This pedal fits the high gain modded plexi sound to me. I would just make one suggestion and that would be to show the pedal up in front of the amps with the settings used on each amp... unless they were all the same. Thanks again.
Well sounds good and full with those Les Paul type guitars of yours, and that with the presence all the way down. How will it do with brighter guitars, Hss strats in my case that would be my concern.
I have my trim pot turned all the way down and he gain turned all the way down on mine and it's still has a lot of gain. I found it at GC for $150. That's a lot for a used pedal but it's the best overdrive pedal I've ever owned.
Hmm I've just gotten a Blackstar ht dual AND a Blackstar ht metal at an incredible bargain price from a bargain sale, I paid 240 usd for both together!!! :)
I like both but the dual suits me best. And now I see this....
Holy frog, now I just HAVE to have this too!
Very cool review BTW, I like your style, hehe
Wow this pedal is 100000000000000000000000000000 times better then any Marshall amp ever made!!! I would seriously trade my crap jvm and just put this into a nice clean tube amp
The actual Friedman amp is literally based off a hotrodded Marshall... So...
I just bought an MXT EVH 5150, i really love it. However i want this one too!! These two pedals are awesome!!
I have both pedals. I like the BE OD better.
Great pedal and video as always!! :)
Brilliant!! I want "Pink two trick Unicorn with naked Chicks" Pete's review sounded awesome, but yours gave me a better idea what that pedal really sounds like. Besten Dank!
was the MY2CENTS music at the end done with the this pedal???? if not what distortion was that?? I think that sounded just as awesome. thanks. btw GREAT vid, I was going to settle on a either the Throttle box or the fulltone OCD but now, well, this pedal sounds very very good:)
+Roland Lemus yes, that was the BE-OD
What do you think of the engl screamer 50 amps? I'm thinking of buying it as an all around high gain studio amp? I bought this pedal already to and like it a lot!!
what amp do you have now? Do you play the amp clean with just the BE-OD? Just curious?
Right now I have a Marshall DSL 40 with a cream back speaker. I love it's cleans and crunch is ok but high gain not so much. So right now I'm playing the BE 100 OD pedal through the clean channel of the DSL and it sounds really good. I am still in the market though for am amp that can get me the modern metal high gain tone down to crystal clean jazzy tones. If one exists lol. For the time being though the BE 100 OD is pretty sweet. I only got it a few days ago and already I'm enjoying it a lot.
Also I've only be able to play the pedal with a single coil start so far as I haven't had a chance to restring my Gibson. Tom that will change though and I'll try with the gibsons humbuckers. Even with the strat though it sounds pretty massive.
'Pink unicorn with naked chicks' ... I want 3!
Great video. Would be cool to hear a short sample of it with reverb or delay on 1 or 2 of the amps like most people would use. I understand can't compare as easily but just like a real world application would be nice.
Sweet pedal! Thx.for the video!
There is a trim pot inside the back plate. It can change the entire dynamic range.
Nice... fur shivering... thrilling rock pedal!!! and nice guitar and video!!!
Tools for me in this pedal would be: presence and tight pots and the trimpot.
I would use it as an exciter for a rotary horn. (rock 'n roll keyboards). (some gain coming from previous OD pedals)
And, of course, I would have fun with it with my guitar also.
Thinking a little bit more, I could have some nice surprises applying it to synth sounds, adding some sort of old radio resonance to the bass high end of a synth (sort of Eddie Van Halen stuff). Cannot afford it (yet). But it goes to my zoo collection of pedal reviews.
Ich hatte meine augen geschlossen gehabt im letzten part, mit den zwölf amps... Erstaunlicherweise haben die Joyo sich richtig gut rumgekämpft, wobei der AC head sich echt schlimm angehört hat, selbs mit dem super pedal xD.. echt gute arbeit, Henning! Schöne GrüB(sss)e (ich hab das "eszet" auf meine tastertur nicht xD) aus Perú.
Thanks for the demo Henning.
Definitely a smart way to demo by using a looper, as it would be a great tool to perform A/B comparisons between pedals.
This method would be extremely useful when it comes to making buying decisions in store, to try and find the sound you desire, whilst being able to tweak all the pedal parameters when the loop is playing, much like reamping in a DAW using guitar amp sims and cabinet impulse responses or comparing sounds/instruments in a daw using the same midi patterns.
I love the tone of the Friedman BE-OD pedal and I do wonder how it would sound plugging direct into the fx loop power amp input stage of amps like the following models:-
Orange Micro Dark
DV Mark DV Micro 50 M or DV Mark DV Little 250 M
Marshall CODE100H Head
Peavey 6505MH Head
Boss Katana Head
Fryette Power Station
Even the new VOX MV50 models - AC, Clean & Rock
I don’t know the difference in the power amp stages, especially between the mosfet/solid state models
I can imagine the tube models reacting much differently, not just from the circuits but the model type and brand of tube too.
The other pedal I would love to hear in the same setup would be Laney IRT-Pulse.
Cabinet wise, something affordable in a 1 * 12", maybe a Carvin or Laney
Alternately those pedals running into Powered Monitors like the following:-
Laney IRT-X
Friedman ASM-12
Used with Speaker cabinet simulators/emulators including the following products:-
(straight into desk/PA or Audio Interface)
Note:- I would love to see a cabinet simulators/emulators comparison shootout between these too.
Two Notes Torpedo C.A.B.
BluGuitar BluBox
A/DA GCS-2
Neunaber Iconoclast
GFI SYSTEM Cabzeus
AMT Electronics CN-1 Chameleon Cab
Hughes & Kettner Red Box 5
I guess to get a fair line level signal comparison, you would have to maybe use something like the following:-
Suhr Reactive Load
Two Notes Torpedo Live
Lots of gadgets for various setup situations, for recording at home, practice/jamming, sending live signals to front of house/pa mixing desks/FRFR
Might be cheaper just to buy either of the following:-
HeadRush Pedalboard
Atomic Amps Ampli-Firebox/Amplifire/Amplifire 12
Positive Grid BIAS Head/Rack or BIAS Head/Rack Processor
Other options, among endless possibilities:-
Synergy Amps models including the:- SYN-IPA, SYN-001, SYN-002, SYN-5050
and then buying the preamp modules which include:-
FRIEDMAN BE
FRIEDMAN HBE
FRIEDMAN DS (Dirty Shirley)
SOLDANO SLO
DIEZEL VH
MORGAN AC
SYNERGY PLEXI
SYNERGY 800
SYNERGY TW/DLX
SYNERGY BMAN
Or the new Mooer micro preamp pedals
ISP Technologies Theta and Randall RG-13 Pre-amp Pedals are pretty awesome too \m/
using an ISO Cab would be another handy option - like the Randall or Jet City cabinets ... swiss army knife solutions for live performance and recording studios like yours, although you have an awesome collection of guitar gear Henning. Truly envious but proud of you too (That's what she said!!!) :P hehehe
Very nice demo ! How is the clean channel of the "Paul" compared to the Einstein ?
Goddam, a friedman pedal and a diezel head - I'm salivating over here.
I play my BE-OD pedal through my Line 6 Catalyst 200 watt and it sounds sick.
I can't imagine playing it through a high-end tube head... one day...
Awesome video man! Could you a video of the software you use or how you make those videos ?
Thanks for sharing !
Nice thorough evaluation Sir ! The pedal reminds me of the E.V, tone. question: what is your guitar ? The headstock is so beautiful.... Thanks!
The BE in the name stands for Brown Eye, a reference to the "Brown sound" the name EVH gave to his guitar tone.
In this video, the amplifiers chosen by my ear would be:
- Carl Martin (guitar)
- Vox AC30 (guitar)
- Hughes and Kettner Deluxe 20 (keyboards, high end for screaming spinning horn)
thanks for the effort that was put into this, great review
it was valuable to hear the pedal in a band setting
I'm buying a SL Drive tho, this has great tight bottom, but the top end is too "hashy" for me
sorry, Dave Friedman
The riffs at 15:29 are stellar!
da hat Friedman mal was richtig geiles in ein Pedalformat gebracht! Wahnsinn, so wie das Sologefrickel! Oberaffentittengeil!
... the final dream of the distorision's pedals, such a beast , yes !... :)
Sorry that Ididn't get that, but what was the song called at about 11:30?
Interesting to see the tight knob, as far as I know this control was first available on the Amptweaker products. I'd be really interested in a shoot out with the BE OD and the Amptweaker Big Rock Pro
Great demo!
so which model of guitar is that?the gold top one...😅thanks
henning this isn't a troll question, i'm actually serious "does it djent?"
I would say it really rocks, but probably not djent
For me the winners are the HandK Deluxe 20 and the blackheart !! sounds more 80's compared to 2000 euros amp...
I'm really interested whether this pedal cleans up when you roll down the volume on the guitar. You know, Phil X style. I like the idea of having something like that on all the time with a gradual overdrive setting with the knob. Or the neck pickup rolled off for clean/crunch and bridge for full throttle.
AC30 ftw!
How does it handle single coils?
It sounds great even with the gain at 0. Count me as impressed!
the guy said it does that to any amp? try it on a line 6 and then tell me it does it to all
Alright that first progression you played totally had a Ziggy Stardust feel to it haha
smokin :-) got to say 1st time I've heard you rock, nice
No, I don't want any Delay! To get an idea on how it sounds, I prefer to hear the product shown without anything added into the signal chain. On the other hand, the Tight potentiometer seems to be very useful and effective to my ears. Maybe, I'd prefer it has a Midrange knob instead of the Presence one? Be careful, there's someone playing your guitar when you're tweaking the pedal knobs!
Gucke grad, der erste von wahrscheinlich vielen Kommentaren... allein der Crunchige Sound bei 11:38, Highway to Hell... Wahnsinn.
(Btw: Pedal kommt morgen, noch für 199,-, bestellt auf Basis deines Namm-Videos...)
For it to turn on does it need to have a wire going in thru the top and not just the sides
What is happening when you use as an overdrive pedal over the amps crunch channel ?
AMT electronics legend pedal series are like this but they do most amps. I have the Soldano clone. great!
Sounds killer with the Harley Benton!
can you compare this pedal to bogner ecstasy red ? what's your opinion sir ?
How does it sound direct with a cab sim pedal?
19:07 I hate how accurate this is....
Love your videos but you say all pedals are not flexible. Which distortion preamp pedals are flexible? Or more flexible than this and Vai preamp pedal
Bogner Mini blue for example
Thanks I'll check it out
Does anybody prefer this or the deluxe with the mid and presence knob? Dave said on the deluxe, mids rolled all the way to the left is this pedal.
I have one: it's really one trick pony but it's awesome because it really sounds good. In fact I love it. I hope Dave Friedman updates it with a control for mids or I'm going to trade it with a Dirty Shirley to get more versatility... Last but not least: the pedal IS NOISY and i can't seem to get rid of that hiss that comes out when you raise guitar's volume with medium to high distortion settings.
My grandmas cookies not so good, but hey, free is free
Sounds surprisingly close to the amp
Henning, like somebody else asked here how is the noise level? I read more and more on the forums it is almost unbearable unless you use a noise gate.
Not true...I own one and noise is minimal.
highmax2002 I have one use it with humbuckers its not noisy. I've split my hbs and it's like any other pedal. With that amount of gain it was no noisier than any other pedal.
35 minutes of softballs
BTW was completely surprised by the Blackheart!
KRIKEY!! now you have thinking, what distortion pedals out there are NOT one trick pony's? The throttle box? the 5150 EVH? the fulltone OCD? From what I have learned so far, you have some companies here that have put their distortion from their amps into a pedal, for example, Wampler's Plexi drive plus, is a Marshall distortion sound in a box, the Throttle box is the Rectifier/Boogie sound, the fulltone OCD the same as the Marshall, this one, the Friedman amp head etc. So, all have their variences of tweakness, are you saying that this one can't do what exactly? Very curious to hear your take???? I will take your response off the air:) thanks:)
ok, had to rewatch this, and at 13:12 I hear what you are talking about, but I can't put down the vocal noises you made for the heavenly sounds it doesn't make lol, but I get it...
The Elements goes from Klon to Ts9 to metal
the elements of this pedal or the fact that that is what he cannot reach with this pedal? not sure what your pointing out here?
the elements is a pedal
Do i have to use a tube amp with one of these? I read it does sound best through a naturally clean tube amp like a buxom betty or a fender?
Was considering gettin one of those new Marshall CODE amps to use with it so i would have even more OD options?
Why get that amp if you going to use pedals, I played one Horrid. Imo a peavey classic 30 would be a better pedal platform
Eric sin sinner yeah i have been looking over old classic 30's and 50's
Pc Gamer 5150
we have two and bone stock sound great, under $300 shipped
Hello. I was wondering if it works with Orange Crush 20. Thanks!
Hi, how many mAh the BE-OD consume?
Love your videos! Keep them coming.. (if your grandma's cookies are good... LOL)
can it do it with a Marshall DSL5C combo? in the bedroom?
What's its polarity?
Man i loved the Song!! where can i get your album??
thanks man.... that album is available in a digital package with 13 albums total on www.therecordlabel.net
Nice!! thanks a lot! :D
I just don’t understand y this pedal is defined “overdrive”...
it’s clearly a distortion!
If you dial down the internal gain you can get a great OD out of this pedal, its the best of both worlds honestly
didn´t expect cute animals at the end lol