BE-OD is a fire breathing dragon. I use through a Bassbreaker 45 and it really does deliver the tones in this demo. Internal gain trim pot lets you dial back the insane gain a bit if desired. EQ is extremely responsive, the presence control allows this pedal to work with dark and bright amps equally well. Beautiful amp-like response, the BE-OD feels like it's part of your amp, not a pedal.
I got the pedal after your review. One of the most wicked pedals in my arsenal. It is truly brilliant! [Note: I play 80's Metal and Punk rock style riffs.]
craziest thing. I have pedal board that is 90% Strymon top of the line gear, and I love it. It's excellent. Then I went out an bought the BE-OD and the Walrus Audio Juliana. I can't stop playing just these 2 pedals. They are AMAZING and both cost togther about the same price as just one of my Strymon pedals. Great Pedals. Friedman hit it out of park on this one! The BE-OD is a BEAST!
I bought the BE-OD to play thru my spark amp with my sterling John Petrucci guitar OMG this is incredible, and the feedback wow doesn't get any better IMO
Holy shit man your playing is insane (10:08 if you wanna hear some of the best shredding on YT)! Please tell me you are in a band so that I can hear you shred in a mix!
I think that might be the first PRS guitar I've ever seen that I didn't immediately hate the look of on sight. I don't know why they insist on making so many of their instruments look like the inside of a tacky Vegas motel room.
Hi, the Friedman pedal is fantastic, best I ever played, will be my new standard. I play into the clean channel of my Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier, amazing sound! Even better than channel 3 of the Mesa!!
That's awesome dude and the pedal is tempting. The best modified Marshall 80's tone in a box.I the amps are becoming very popular. I think this one might be all that.I need to go practice now. Thanks for the inspiration.
I only hear good things about this pedal. There is a taper pot inside the pedal to adjust the gain amount but I hear dialing that back it still has crazy amounts of gain.
it's true...I haven't gotten around to turning it down,..but it needs it ...at noon it's the maximum gain anyone would ever need....sounds like an amp....I plug it into my orange rockerverb 50 mk2 fx return....it's just killing...so much gain and still clarity....
try it, dude...if you have a nice power section,...it just sounds amazing.....I've used it through the front of the amp too,...sounds great,...but on my orange amp I like it straight through the power amp with no preamp from the orange...it just sounds pure...more than enough gain....but I'd use it through the front too if the situation demanded it!!! ...the bottom line is it's a magic pedal...it's weird....it has the most gain but is still clean....sounds "amp like"....love it...
I can attest to that....it's still actually articulate at the crazy gain sounds...I love mine...if I had to have one pedal,..this is it...other than the fractal ax8 that is....but If I was flying anywhere,..that thing is coming with me just in case....for me it's desert island shit...
this pedal is so fucking incredible --IT DESTROYS THE OCD . I sold my OCD today , I sold my ZVEX box of rock .. this pedal sounds the way you think it should .. you can play it in front of any amp .. like a fender and you instantly have a Marshall also I opened mine up on the back dailed back .. Freidman just took over the entire Game... they are 199 and worth ever cent .. if you can get used online get it .
im pretty sure i would adjust the thing inside so that the gain would be alot cleaner when turned way down...im not into to much overdrive, but what a nice pedal man, i believe ill pick one up....great playing brother.
Great demo!! I’ve got one coming today or tomorrow. I just wish you didn’t need to be such a show off. Now I won’t ever wanna play my guitar again. You’re amazing!!! Great video
I love your playing and tone, really nice. "Clean" is Master Volume all the way up then using preamp level as the "Volume". If the amp is already on "edge of break up" the pedal will sound "gainier" than it would on a completely clean amp. I have a non-master JTM 45 (which functions as Master all the way up and volume is the basically preamp level) and it takes a lot of gain to get it as filthy as I want it. The Friedman BE-OD- it actually has enough gain to push a TRULY clean amp into chunky nasty territory. There's a budget pedal by "Tomsline" called the British OD (I think the Plexion is really similar) that has a similar, very aggressive gain stage like the Friedman and it's great for the house but doesn't quite have all the bells and whistles (or pick sensitivity) of the BE-OD. There are some really nice, transparent OD's out there that sound great but don't have enough gain to push a truly clean amp to where we are trying to get. Cheers!
I got scared at (0:55) I thought there was going to show a caption reading : R.I.P. GAK 1992-2017 and a eulogy "Standing before you today to farewell the guitar player/reviewer: Gak is one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. Words cannot describe the sorrow and loss that we are feeling, but we will try. GAK was a wonderful, sweet boy. Even as a baby, he had a calm temperament and as he grew into a little boy, always took things in his stride. I remember his first day at guitar school - I think I was more nervous than he was. I held his little hand and walked to the gate thinking that he was about to cry, but GAK calmly turned to me and said, “This is going to be fun, Daddy... Will there be lots of guitars here for me to play with?” I laughed and assured him there would be. Being the youngest of three, GAK was always special to his sisters, GAK II and GAK III. They would dress him up and take him out for walks in the pram - they were just so excited to have a little brother and when he started guitar school, they became fiercely protective of him. As GAK grew from a boy into a teenager, I could see the man that he would become - strong, steadfast assured and a bad-ass at guitar. He loved guitar school but hated sports. Every afternoon after guitar school, he would race down behind the school and smoke "fatties" with his mates and smoke "fools" with his sick guitar skills. He had lots of notches on his guitar strap. When he became captain of the guitar team, we were so proud. He was always competitive, but never humble. It was such an endearing quality. William and I had some wonderful times together. After the girls had left home to go to university, the two of us would go camping together at the weekends. GAK loved soloing - he loved the adventure and simplicity of it. After a day of guitar shredding, smoking weed and getting laid constantly, he would get philosophical spend hours talking about life-all at the age of twelve!!!!. It was those conversations that I will never forget. I was watching GAK grow into a young man - a young man with so much enthusiasm, spunk and with so many heinous plans for the future. Recently, all he talked about was the overseas trip he had planned with his mates after they finished their guitar school. He couldn't wait to go over to Asia to have what he called “his amazing Asian adventure”. But he also looked forward to studying to become a guitar MASTER - a vocation that was a perfect choice for GAK as he was a gentle but perverted soul, unwavering in his decadence, and with a real desire to get his "hump-hump" on!!!. GAK was adored by his friends and family and it is testament to him how many of you are here today to farewell GAK. Not only was he a loving son and brother, he was a kind and giving friend ...he never was stingy with his great weed. Someone who was always a pleasure to be around..and LOVED to spread pleasure all around.. To have lost GAK is heartbreaking - it has come as such a shock to us all. His life was far too brief. the UK has clearly lost its brightest star in an otherwise boring country-whose aesthetically seem to be stuck in the1970s. GAK's family wishes to express our heartfelt thanks to all those who have given their support, compassion and love throughout this very difficult time. I know in my heart that he would not want us to grieving for too long. Rather, GAK would want us all to remember the good times we all shared with him and all the great review videos he made. Goodbye GAK. You will live in our hearts forever.He died doing what he was put on God's green earth to do....reviewing guitar pedals. this guitar playing, knife hitting pussyhound will never be forgotten."
Absolutely flawless great hard rocking guitar play!, would this pedal sound similar with a Fender Bassbreaker 15 combo with pedal? If so that would be awesome, as I am looking into getting the bassbreaker 15
Distortion/overdrive pedals are ran in front of the amp. He doesnt say this because it is unusual to run dist/od pedals in the fx loop. This doesn't mean you cant but most every guitarist runs through the front of the amp EVH, Hendrix, Kirk H., Paul Gilbert, David Gilmore, Jimi Page, Kery King, SRV, Joe Satch, Angus Young, Randy Roads, Tony Iommi, Zakk Wylde, Gary Moore, Nuno, Marty Friedman. Dist/ODs in front. Put it where you think it sounds best.
Dont you thinks its got enough gain???... wow .... that is the reason I'm still in 2 minds about it , even when he turns gain to zero , thats still a lot of gainy compression there , Im thinking it stuggles to do anything else other than what it does, but it does that great though.. maybe not open sounding enough for some
I've been using the Freedmen BE-OD Brown Eye for a year now I gotta tell yea this is the shit 🤘😎 Ive watched quite a few reviews and they all forget to mention this is a fantastic amp emulator as well as an overdrive 🎶🎸🎶 well worth the $200 price tag.
this guy has two incredible hands. i'm impressed with how flawless his picking is even on clean sounds
in my opinion, this is the best review and demo of this pedal. thank you!
One of the best amp-in-a-box pedals for hot-rodded Marshall sounds I've ever heard.
Oh my god his playing, the speed of a shredder and the tightness and precision of a blues god
BE-OD is a fire breathing dragon. I use through a Bassbreaker 45 and it really does deliver the tones in this demo. Internal gain trim pot lets you dial back the insane gain a bit if desired. EQ is extremely responsive, the presence control allows this pedal to work with dark and bright amps equally well. Beautiful amp-like response, the BE-OD feels like it's part of your amp, not a pedal.
what voice and gain do you use the bassbreaker (low, mid, high)
It can definitely turn a Fender clean into a Marshall crunch and beyond
I got the pedal after your review. One of the most wicked pedals in my arsenal. It is truly brilliant! [Note: I play 80's Metal and Punk rock style riffs.]
3:17 skip the bullsh*t, treasure your time.
Thank you!
Time is of the essence! Thank you ♥
He is picking with such speed and accuracy with so much gain ...wow!!!! The noise gate are his hands!!!!
Omg..beautiful sound when you switch to single coil pickup...amazing...
Best stomp purchase I've ever made...
and I highly recommend the Friedman SIR-COMPRE stomp as well
Man your chops and phrasing are totally outstanding! Very well done. I've got to get this pedal. Just the tone I'm looking for!
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craziest thing. I have pedal board that is 90% Strymon top of the line gear, and I love it. It's excellent. Then I went out an bought the BE-OD and the Walrus Audio Juliana. I can't stop playing just these 2 pedals. They are AMAZING and both cost togther about the same price as just one of my Strymon pedals. Great Pedals. Friedman hit it out of park on this one! The BE-OD is a BEAST!
Tons of massive gain! The Tight pot seems to be also very effective.
There is an internal trim pot too so you can actually dial the drive down further. More on tap as well!
I like my Brown Eyes TIGHT.
Proceeds to tighten.
I bought the BE-OD to play thru my spark amp with my sterling John Petrucci guitar OMG this is incredible, and the feedback wow doesn't get any better IMO
The guitar!!!and the way you play!!!!killer tone!!
Holy shit man your playing is insane (10:08 if you wanna hear some of the best shredding on YT)! Please tell me you are in a band so that I can hear you shred in a mix!
As have shit-talking jealous bedroom keyboard critics.
thats it . i am ordering this pedal right now !
The editing of this video is awesome haha great review as always!
Wow... never been first before...
I think that might be the first PRS guitar I've ever seen that I didn't immediately hate the look of on sight. I don't know why they insist on making so many of their instruments look like the inside of a tacky Vegas motel room.
You dont hate the look because they look like a Gibson
Holy crap that things sounds great
Hi, the Friedman pedal is fantastic, best I ever played, will be my new standard. I play into the clean channel of my Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier, amazing sound! Even better than channel 3 of the Mesa!!
That's awesome dude and the pedal is tempting. The best modified Marshall 80's tone in a box.I the amps are becoming very popular. I think this one might be all that.I need to go practice now. Thanks for the inspiration.
I only hear good things about this pedal. There is a taper pot inside the pedal to adjust the gain amount but I hear dialing that back it still has crazy amounts of gain.
schlagdog not that crazy, it's controllable.
it's true...I haven't gotten around to turning it down,..but it needs it ...at noon it's the maximum gain anyone would ever need....sounds like an amp....I plug it into my orange rockerverb 50 mk2 fx return....it's just killing...so much gain and still clarity....
Evan Davidson thought effects loop?! I think this is meant to go out front..
try it, dude...if you have a nice power section,...it just sounds amazing.....I've used it through the front of the amp too,...sounds great,...but on my orange amp I like it straight through the power amp with no preamp from the orange...it just sounds pure...more than enough gain....but I'd use it through the front too if the situation demanded it!!! ...the bottom line is it's a magic pedal...it's weird....it has the most gain but is still clean....sounds "amp like"....love it...
I can attest to that....it's still actually articulate at the crazy gain sounds...I love mine...if I had to have one pedal,..this is it...other than the fractal ax8 that is....but If I was flying anywhere,..that thing is coming with me just in case....for me it's desert island shit...
Nice demo Great playing
This is seriously a very good pedal. Sounds like a boutique amp in a stomp box.
this pedal is so fucking incredible --IT DESTROYS THE OCD . I sold my OCD today , I sold my ZVEX box of rock .. this pedal sounds the way you think it should .. you can play it in front of any amp .. like a fender and you instantly have a Marshall also I opened mine up on the back dailed back .. Freidman just took over the entire Game... they are 199 and worth ever cent .. if you can get used online get it .
Music_360 EVH Pedal blows this away
No. I had both, the BE-OD is so much better than the 5150 pedal. I traded off that 5150 within a week it was so disappointing.
greatest big chunky sound among all the YT reviews
Finally a reviewer that CAN play! This or the duncan palladium?
im pretty sure i would adjust the thing inside so that the gain would be alot cleaner when turned way down...im not into to much overdrive, but what a nice pedal man, i believe ill pick one up....great playing brother.
Man! I want to play like you! Sheeeesh.
Smokin' playing, bro!! I just got one of these!
great demo
I got it now and will test it tomorrow........
how was it? what is the AMP are you using? is it a solid state one?
Jo Khoury Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier, into Cleannel whow!!
Great demo!! I’ve got one coming today or tomorrow. I just wish you didn’t need to be such a show off. Now I won’t ever wanna play my guitar again. You’re amazing!!! Great video
Dude do I remember you from some Andertons videos? Real cool demeanor and killer playing... I see a lot of shine in you ,)
I love your playing and tone, really nice. "Clean" is Master Volume all the way up then using preamp level as the "Volume". If the amp is already on "edge of break up" the pedal will sound "gainier" than it would on a completely clean amp. I have a non-master JTM 45 (which functions as Master all the way up and volume is the basically preamp level) and it takes a lot of gain to get it as filthy as I want it. The Friedman BE-OD- it actually has enough gain to push a TRULY clean amp into chunky nasty territory. There's a budget pedal by "Tomsline" called the British OD (I think the Plexion is really similar) that has a similar, very aggressive gain stage like the Friedman and it's great for the house but doesn't quite have all the bells and whistles (or pick sensitivity) of the BE-OD. There are some really nice, transparent OD's out there that sound great but don't have enough gain to push a truly clean amp to where we are trying to get. Cheers!
nice licks brother
Yeah Yeah Yeah!
Sound killer man!!!
There is a hidden knob inside the pedal that you can adjust to lower the gain on tap .
What speakers are in that cab?
I got scared at (0:55) I thought there was going to show a caption reading :
R.I.P. GAK 1992-2017 and a eulogy "Standing before you today to farewell the guitar player/reviewer: Gak is one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. Words cannot describe the sorrow and loss that we are feeling, but we will try. GAK was a wonderful, sweet boy. Even as a baby, he had a calm temperament and as he grew into a little boy, always took things in his stride. I remember his first day at guitar school - I think I was more nervous than he was. I held his little hand and walked to the gate thinking that he was about to cry, but GAK calmly turned to me and said, “This is going to be fun, Daddy... Will there be lots of guitars here for me to play with?” I laughed and assured him there would be.
Being the youngest of three, GAK was always special to his sisters, GAK II and GAK III. They would dress him up and take him out for walks in the pram - they were just so excited to have a little brother and when he started guitar school, they became fiercely protective of him.
As GAK grew from a boy into a teenager, I could see the man that he would become - strong, steadfast assured and a bad-ass at guitar. He loved guitar school but hated sports. Every afternoon after guitar school, he would race down behind the school and smoke "fatties" with his mates and smoke "fools" with his sick guitar skills. He had lots of notches on his guitar strap. When he became captain of the guitar team, we were so proud. He was always competitive, but never humble. It was such an endearing quality.
William and I had some wonderful times together. After the girls had left home to go to university, the two of us would go camping together at the weekends. GAK loved soloing - he loved the adventure and simplicity of it. After a day of guitar shredding, smoking weed and getting laid constantly, he would get philosophical spend hours talking about life-all at the age of twelve!!!!. It was those conversations that I will never forget. I was watching GAK grow into a young man - a young man with so much enthusiasm, spunk and with so many heinous plans for the future.
Recently, all he talked about was the overseas trip he had planned with his mates after they finished their guitar school. He couldn't wait to go over to Asia to have what he called “his amazing Asian adventure”. But he also looked forward to studying to become a guitar MASTER - a vocation that was a perfect choice for GAK as he was a gentle but perverted soul, unwavering in his decadence, and with a real desire to get his "hump-hump" on!!!.
GAK was adored by his friends and family and it is testament to him how many of you are here today to farewell GAK. Not only was he a loving son and brother, he was a kind and giving friend ...he never was stingy with his great weed. Someone who was always a pleasure to be around..and LOVED to spread pleasure all around..
To have lost GAK is heartbreaking - it has come as such a shock to us all. His life was far too brief. the UK has clearly lost its brightest star in an otherwise boring country-whose aesthetically seem to be stuck in the1970s.
GAK's family wishes to express our heartfelt thanks to all those who have given their support, compassion and love throughout this very difficult time. I know in my heart that he would not want us to grieving for too long. Rather, GAK would want us all to remember the good times we all shared with him and all the great review videos he made.
Goodbye GAK. You will live in our hearts forever.He died doing what he was put on God's green earth to do....reviewing guitar pedals. this guitar playing, knife hitting pussyhound will never be forgotten."
C'mon man stop
I just bought it, keen to know how it sounds!
Dammit Joss, now I gotta spend 200 bucks lol. Killer playing as usual dude. You're awesome!
u could put the knobs is all sorts of diff directions and still wud get a usable tone with this pedal.. amazin
Absolutely flawless great hard rocking guitar play!, would this pedal sound similar with a Fender Bassbreaker 15 combo with pedal? If so that would be awesome, as I am looking into getting the bassbreaker 15
Nice precision playing! Worth calling out the PRS as an S2...not really a normal Standard 22
YOURE GREAT BRO🤘🤘🤘
Jimi Hendrix would have liked it too, works great wit a Fender Strat too!
dude you rock
Where can I buy your skills?
What are the settings you're running on your amp with the pedal
OMG! I had never heard any products from Friedman. This pedal kicks butt! What is that amp and cabinet? I need that too,lol.
can u tell us how was the trim pot set in this video ?
This dude is a fucking stud of a guitar player. Effortless playing man.
Dude just casually plays like a god while demonstrating this pedal
could we hear it with a jcm 800 with preamp on 10?
Lorna Woollett Wouldnt be enough gain
Turn it UP
hello,did you tried the Strymon Sunset ?wich one could suit Jerry Cantrell sound ?
Thanks
Try searching for "Sound Like Alice In Chains - Without Busting The Bank" the video did an AC15 with the BE-OD... sounded amazing.
Question: how does it work on an already crunchy amp? Does it boost and color the tone of the amp? Thanks
Was this Fridnal in "Front of the amp" or in the "loop section" in this demo? Important information for me, so I would be nice to get anwser :)
Distortion/overdrive pedals are ran in front of the amp. He doesnt say this because it is unusual to run dist/od pedals in the fx loop.
This doesn't mean you cant but most every guitarist runs through the front of the amp
EVH, Hendrix, Kirk H., Paul Gilbert, David Gilmore, Jimi Page, Kery King, SRV, Joe Satch, Angus Young, Randy Roads, Tony Iommi, Zakk Wylde, Gary Moore, Nuno, Marty Friedman. Dist/ODs in front.
Put it where you think it sounds best.
what is your opinion between this and the revv g3?
Tight is better down .i use a clone pedal as well. Thins it out a touch more flavour. And the internal knob turn down to 6
The thing with the 'tight' control is the tighter you go, the softer it gets and it loses quite a large amount of gain.
Dont you thinks its got enough gain???... wow .... that is the reason I'm still in 2 minds about it , even when he turns gain to zero , thats still a lot of gainy compression there , Im thinking it stuggles to do anything else other than what it does, but it does that great though.. maybe not open sounding enough for some
WHICH ENGL CAB PLEASE... Standard or Pro?
What pickups are you using on this PRS?
Nice guitar :)
😂😂 You can get through it mate
Your clean sound was not really clean, right?
You heard it. It was clean!
There a volume control inside. Makes a hudge difference. But no one demo this. But good video
Wow. Great what such a mini pedal will do with a Fender amp 😂
Wears a Ghost shirt, plays Ghost riffs
Smash like for coughs.
Who kill John Henry?
Brown eye, pink taco, dirty Shirley, little sister. Why these names so sus lol 😂
Tune that thing dude
turn down volume
Tune that guitar !!
Scamp Thelazycat pensei que só eu tinha percebido...
Get your ears checked
MOIST!!!!!!!!!
I've been using the Freedmen BE-OD Brown Eye for a year now I gotta tell yea this is the shit 🤘😎 Ive watched quite a few reviews and they all forget to mention this is a fantastic amp emulator as well as an overdrive 🎶🎸🎶 well worth the $200 price tag.