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Amp_chaser
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Hey guys,
there is a japanese named Takahiro Tamaya who has a blog about amps.
The interesting thing ? he is huge a Van halen fan and he seems to be friend with dave friedman and famous guitarists. he has a lot of posts about legendary amps like josé modded amps and he talks about secret gear used by legends and things like that.
Here is the post of his blog for july 20 2020 :
"The Joselified BE Mod amp is finally complete!
On Friday evening, I got a message from Dave, and I immediately jumped in my car and headed to the workshop.
“What exactly is Joselified?” I wondered excitedly as I arrived. Among the many amps sitting there, I spotted it right away. Just seeing the newly added push/pull knob was enough to knock me out (laughs).
It’s been two years since the Jose Project began, and during that time, many more Jose amps have been brought to Dave’s workshop for further research. He’s had the chance to study amps owned by Vai, Sykes, and Metallica, and even restored Toshi Yanagi’s 1968 Marshall Plexi. The incredible brown sound of that Eddie Mod had everyone in awe and became a hot topic of discussion.
Now, the result of all that research has finally come to life in the form of this brilliantly modified Marshall amp!"
Here is the original post from the blog :
So apparently Dave Friedman had a josé project : the idea seemed to be to reverse engineer a lot of josé amps. One can easily think that he was trying to find what josé really did to evh amp to get the brown sound. Apparently it took the reverse engeneering of Vai, Sykes and Metallica and a lot of other josé amps to realise this.
According to takahiro tamaya, it was clearly the brown sound and many behind the scenes were in awe about the the mod.
Now if this was done in 2020 why haven't we got a brown sound amp yet ? Some will say it's the friedman BE. Perhaps it was.
however there seems to reasons to think otherwise. At the beginning of 2025 Dave announced in tone talk that he got josé's arredondo's arppoval to release josé amps. Which means that Dave was perhaps looking for the blessing of the josé family before getting serious. Or perhap he will release some vai and sykes josés and we will have to wait some other years until he also gets wolfgang's approval.
here is the blog address :
http://blog.musette-japan.com/_mtos5/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&limit=20&search=josé
for those saying this is bullshit musette is a japanese company specializing in the import and distribution of high-quality musical equipment, particularly guitar amplifiers and related gear. They serve as the official Japanese distributor for several renowned brands, including RJM Music Technology, known for their advanced MIDI controllers and switching systems.
What do you think of this story and possible theory ?
Did Dave Friedman found a way to get the brown sound from the reverse engeneering of vai, sykes and metallica's josé heads ?
there is a japanese named Takahiro Tamaya who has a blog about amps.
The interesting thing ? he is huge a Van halen fan and he seems to be friend with dave friedman and famous guitarists. he has a lot of posts about legendary amps like josé modded amps and he talks about secret gear used by legends and things like that.
Here is the post of his blog for july 20 2020 :
"The Joselified BE Mod amp is finally complete!
On Friday evening, I got a message from Dave, and I immediately jumped in my car and headed to the workshop.
“What exactly is Joselified?” I wondered excitedly as I arrived. Among the many amps sitting there, I spotted it right away. Just seeing the newly added push/pull knob was enough to knock me out (laughs).
It’s been two years since the Jose Project began, and during that time, many more Jose amps have been brought to Dave’s workshop for further research. He’s had the chance to study amps owned by Vai, Sykes, and Metallica, and even restored Toshi Yanagi’s 1968 Marshall Plexi. The incredible brown sound of that Eddie Mod had everyone in awe and became a hot topic of discussion.
Now, the result of all that research has finally come to life in the form of this brilliantly modified Marshall amp!"
Here is the original post from the blog :
So apparently Dave Friedman had a josé project : the idea seemed to be to reverse engineer a lot of josé amps. One can easily think that he was trying to find what josé really did to evh amp to get the brown sound. Apparently it took the reverse engeneering of Vai, Sykes and Metallica and a lot of other josé amps to realise this.
According to takahiro tamaya, it was clearly the brown sound and many behind the scenes were in awe about the the mod.
Now if this was done in 2020 why haven't we got a brown sound amp yet ? Some will say it's the friedman BE. Perhaps it was.
however there seems to reasons to think otherwise. At the beginning of 2025 Dave announced in tone talk that he got josé's arredondo's arppoval to release josé amps. Which means that Dave was perhaps looking for the blessing of the josé family before getting serious. Or perhap he will release some vai and sykes josés and we will have to wait some other years until he also gets wolfgang's approval.
here is the blog address :
http://blog.musette-japan.com/_mtos5/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&limit=20&search=josé
for those saying this is bullshit musette is a japanese company specializing in the import and distribution of high-quality musical equipment, particularly guitar amplifiers and related gear. They serve as the official Japanese distributor for several renowned brands, including RJM Music Technology, known for their advanced MIDI controllers and switching systems.
What do you think of this story and possible theory ?
Did Dave Friedman found a way to get the brown sound from the reverse engeneering of vai, sykes and metallica's josé heads ?
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