Review Demo - Friedman BE-50 Deluxe
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 9 авг 2018
- Read the review: bit.ly/FriedmanBE-50Deluxe
Rock aficionados have heaped boatloads of acclaim upon Dave Friedman’s BE preamp topology-praised for years as one of the most delectable “modified-Marshall-style” lead channels around. This Marshall model 2203-derived circuit has been reconfigured into several Friedman models over the years, but it has typically appeared in beastly 100-watt iterations like the BE-100. The BE-50 Deluxe changes all that by packaging three distinct channels into a versatile 50-watt head that Friedman calls “my most flexible design yet.”
It’s true: There are a lot of knobs on this thing. But approach the 3-channel design one step at a time, and it makes sense pretty quickly. There are two independent EQ stages: one for the clean channel, and one shared by the two lead channels. Each has bass, middle and treble controls. While the clean channel has a single volume control, the two lead channels-the standard BE channel and high-gain HBE-each have dedicated gain and master controls. All share a trio of output-stage controls labeled presence, response (negative-feedback-loop level), and thump (a resonance or deep control). The two-button footswitch (included) allows selection between the clean and lead blocks and the lead channel’s two gain levels (HBE is labeled “boost” on the footswitch).
The clean channel’s preamp is lifted from Friedman’s Buxom Betty, a non-master-volume amp that delivers bold, sparkling, American-meets-British clean tones that get a little crunchy when you push it hard. True to form, there’s no master volume on the BE-50’s clean channel, either, though it does have a 3-way bright switch to tailor the sparkle. A full-/half-power switch on the back panel means the two EL34 tubes can be run in pentode/full-power mode or in triode mode for a more club-friendly 25 watts. Four 12AX7s drive the preamp and phase-inverter.
Continue reading: bit.ly/FriedmanBE-50Deluxe 
Видеоклипы
Great tone. Awesome amp. Your best playing for these vids. Way cool B-Bender licks!
The clean channel is incredible! Add that to real M-Style growl and you have the best amp of all time. Wow!
That damned custom PRS of yours is a beast!!! Absolutely love it!!
Hey John, thanks for all that you do for all of us! Plus, that Rig Rundown with Edge's main man was the BEST so far!!! BY FAR!!!! You also said you were gonna dig out one of the FX you've had for years. I wanna see those moments!!! Thanks man!!!
This amp matched with the Friedman 4/12 cab is amazing. Never run it half power, just doesn't feel the same. Clean is amazing, BE and HBE channels work well together. Really need to play with the switches to dial in for each persons needs. Playing at home I use the Rivera RockCrusher Power Attenuator/Load Box for Amps.
John does an amazing job, but you have to test this out. Every guitar comes through with its own voice.
Hi .so you say the 25 watt setting sucks 😮.
Would you say it's worth stepping up to the 100 .and just use the master volume.
Looking between the 50 and 100 .won't the best tone poss for home studio
@@davidwilson4771 Hi David, I really didn't care for the lower setting which is why I used the RockCrusher. However now I use the Two Notes Torpedo Captor X. This allows me to drive the amp hard with no hit to tone like the Rivera does. I have expanded my Friedman line to include the Runt 20 combo and now my fav is the Friedman Twin Sister Combo. Running these in stereo, almost never use the BE-50 Deluxe. My son uses more now.
Love the review. Thanks! John, your awesome!
Thank you for showing a little more of the clean channel ! I am looking to be a little more convinced with the clean channel on this Model. I tried a BE 100 a couple of years ago, if it would have had a little better clean channel, i would not have returned it. I am totally sold on the drive channels ! If I could get a decent Sultans of swing or Buckaroo out of the clean channel, I would jump on this amp with the velocity of a gazelle ! I wish you would have turned the clean channel up to where the amp could breath a little to get meatier thicker clean sound . . if it will do that. Otherwise, I loved the rest of the demo !
Always happy to see John.
Sounds good, hard to hear what you here over the net on my iPhone. Having said that, you do great demos and I appreciate that. Things are explained and demonstrated efficiently and logically. Other reviews would do well to study your process.
Johnny - YOU ROCK!!!
The Bohlinger - in full effect!
What a tasty guitarist.
Great player!
Love this guy
Lettin grey hair out in all its glory. Lookin good!
I don't know why John always gets so much hate, he seems like such a nice, down to earth dude. Never thought I'd see someone play a tele with a b/g-bender through a brown eye though lol!
I run a BE-50 and 4 different bender teles, but I was thinking the same thing! Lol
It’s the internet
Some more impressions you can get on the PhilX Friedman demo.
Epic Clean and Semi Dirt tone!
Oh wow this really nails the Plexi sound with more features.
That's sweet brother, thanks for sharing!
Guess these amps are more designed for heavy genres and might not be the best for Johns style. Sounds great nevertheless as expected by Friedman
Gummmibaer Yea, that’s my immediate thought. I love Johns playing but....John 5 would be better here.
Gummmibaer no...these amps can do virtually ANY genre...and do them WELL.
John, I know full power would have been very LOUD, however, triode and pentode modes do NOT sound the same! The amp's response is totally different to each other!
Should have done it on both!
That's my experience too, I much prefer the 50w mode, even with the master set quite low it sounds much better to my ears
John,.....Fuchs ODSII review! Please! 👍👍👍👍🎸🎸🎸
That’s a big Amp!
You guys do great gear videos and articles full stop. But my one complaint is that with amps/gear like this, that PRS Tremonti, and stuff like that, you really need a different style player to demo it. Someone who will play some Mastodon, Tool or Prong riffs. Leave the banjo licks for the Conway Twitty tribute model. NO knock on JB. I love Johns reviews on everything else, he is phenomenal.
I have a had time evaluating amps when a PRS is used to demo - is the amp missing the “x-factor” or the guitar...
Nothing missing here. PRS have more soul than any guitars I've played. It's all in your mind.
Open any PRS vs Gibson thread and you’ll see Gibson backers frustrated with the PRS folks whose ears just miss certain frequencies. I could describe it to you, but it’s be like describing a color you’ve never seen. Th only PRS that breaks out of this is Paul’s. It is very, very real.
Please have a rock player review this amp to show what it can really do. It has way more gain than what was shown here.
There are tons of chug demos out there. It’s nice to see a guy who isn’t a metal player showing how versatile the amp is
I never knew Billy Bob Thorton played guitar. You learn something new everyday.
He does have a band ... irl
A-hole comment......JB is incredible musician
That's one of the best guitars I've ever heard, what model PRS is that, anyone ?
It's a custom private stock, uber expensive, but unique.
I'm happy with my DV Mark Micro 50 functioning as a pedal platform.
Would love to get one but nowadays I only play using headphones on my computer or a 5 watt amp set to low in my man cave.
I hear the WHIPS a cracking!
wow he's aged about 10 years since his last video
Johnny beans the man!
Nice amp....how much are they?
Blake Johnson over 4K with the head and cab
Good God! I'll stick with my Uberschall. Thanks!
I played one of these at gc everything I want in oNe amp but out of my price range...
But well worth it! Just save up, I own 2 Friedmans (SmallBox and Dirty Shirley) and couldn't ask for more.
Forget the amp
Let’s talk about that killer geetar
Custom prs? $?
Come on John do tell 😀
PRS built that to order for me about 8 years ago. Always loved hollow bodies, strats and 3 p Black Beauties so this kind of gets them all. Great guitar.
Great amp for sure but there's something about the PRS sound i can't get past...... Sorry !
John
John's got tone and chops but I'm not feeling this amp at all...
TheTRUTH I know a lot of folks love the Friedman stuff, but there is a harshness to the gain tones on every one I’ve heard that just don’t do it for me either. Not saying they are bad amps, just not the right amps for my ears.
rebelcat420 - That's exactly how i feel about them as well. I've described them as grainy before. There's something nasty in the upper mids or highs to my ears. In every single Friedman i've heard. It almost sounds like a bad overdrive pedal has been mixed into the tone somewhere, just in a really specific frequency.
It's probably the diode bounding (Sat switch) you are hearing...overrated indeed.
I have a runt 50 and a couple of 70s marshalls they just don't compare. its okay but doesn't feed back properly and the mids are wrong. its too nasaly and not sweet enough. harsh and rough sounding upper harmonics. needs to be more smooth and creamy with crunch and growl with singing highs. some of this is how new the amp is. give it twenty years it will probably sound a lot better. something about those carbon film and carbon comp resistors used in the old marshalls. mustard caps too there's mojo there people think new stuff can get and its just not getting it. I just picked up a 5150 block letter head for $400 and I put a choke and bias mod on it and its crushing this Friedman.
I agree! I really wanted to like it, as I’m looking for a plexi but there was something in the sound I couldn’t quite put my finger on and it is in fact a certain harshness in the upper minds. This is not the amp for me.
this guy is great but wrong guy to demo this amp. barely found any tones in the dirty channel which is 99% of the market for this amp, and when he started to find them he wasn't comfortable using them "lets try some single coil!"
Hey guys, I love the videos and everything, but what about reviews of amps that us mortals can afford? Thank you :)
I think I like my TC-50 better, was really hoping for this amp though
Chasingtone The TC-50/100 is a better amp IMO. Best of all, individual tone controls for all channels and it doesn't cost 4k.
Dan Perry Thanks and I agree
NO WAY is the TC-50 on par with this amp. This video (and really ALL videos) is misleading. Play one. Turn it up. You'll see.
I agree! I have not heard any videos on this amp yet that says its worth the price. Hope to see one, Do you have this amp? If so do you have a video because I order from Sweetwater and do not like returning.
Chasingtone yes. I own one, have gigged it regularly now for 6 months. Again...don’t rely on vids. They are crap. PLAY one.
Man, these amps can destroy buildings. Why don't you play some heavy riff with this beast? Would be cool to hear some drop-D riffs and some fast rhythmic playing.
John seems like a great guy and I’ve really enjoyed a lot of his demos but this seemed like a bad match.
Wonder if he knows he got the channels wrong...was talking about the wrong channel when he says the gain's all the way up...other mistakes too. I can attest that there are MUCH BETTER tones available from this amp...and gigging it? Well, let's just say nobody's going to be disappointed in the results!
$3500??
More slide . . .
sounds rather compressed
Do you ever get tired of playing the same thing over and over?
Sounds good but definitely not $3,495 good. I’m not even sure it sounds $2495 a good.
Take my money and run
A PRS played through a Friedman Amp. Can't get much more trendy than that. "BE" on the BE-50 stands for "Brown Eye" (no, I'm not kidding). Friedman is a modified Marshall clone. $2,500 for a clone, named after a butt hole? What kind of suckers do you take us readers for?
^
They call that textbook ignorance, ladies and gentlemen.
Mellow down, man. Sheez.
Sorry this demo sucks it sounds nothing like the amp can really can perform. The best demo I have seen is the Andertons one with Mick from the pedal show. You cant do Nashville on this amp
Yep, sounds like a guitar going through an amp.
Have friedman and there is nothing better.equal to my plexi on steroids. So stop nodding about man! this amp wants to rock; unleash it!
Weak. Greatcifcyoucwant crunch but no searing lead. And a no option clean....helios ? I'll pass
too much knobs
Definitely the wrong guitar for that demo!
Great amp horrible demo. In person this amp is so much better than this demo.
Would love to hear your demo.
Kind of a sin to play a Friedman with a Telecaster