Freidman owners past and present

[JTyson]

Got a KS modded Metro-Plexi that Dave did for me years ago that is used on every project we do. If your a single channel and vol knob guy, it is hard not to love It cleans up amazingly well, even with a ton of gain. I've never had a problem with it, and I've put literally hundreds of hours on it. My Metro has a dual-output tranny in it, I usually run it in the variac (lower voltage) position for just a smidge more give.

 

[yngzaklynch]

Thanks everyone. For the most part everyone seems very happy with Dave's work

 

[Rango]

BE - Didn't care for it.

Small Box - Loved it but sold it TWICE b/c I thought the BE for my purposes was better. I was incorrect.

And I was happy to adopt your BE and it's working great for me...
My two Mesa's are sitting idle.

 

[Beyond Black]

Thanks everyone. For the most part everyone seems very happy with Dave's work

Dave Friedman is an amp guru and all around class act.

 

[Bluplirst]

Very expensive tone for what you get in return...2 channels?

Anyone else read this sentence again, thinking you missed something?

 

[BrentSP]

I have a schem/layout of the Smallbox. I made the BE/drive channel of the SB to exact specs minus the plexi channel and in 100 watts. Damn good sounding amp Dave has got there. Really simple but effective. He has a fixed depth/bass boost and I ended up making it variable with a depth control and a 3 way bright switch but IMO it doesn't need the bright switch, sounds perfect without it like Dave's original design. Great sounding amp for sure, I may have to pick one up some time.

 

[iggs]

Thanks everyone. For the most part everyone seems very happy with Dave's work

Really happy! Love my BE-100 ... I have George Metro built one with separate BE/HBE inputs and simple clean.
Sold all my other amps and only kept BE. Only other amp I recently got is a Mesa Mark V combo for smaller gigs.

 

[vchizzle]

I borrowed a BE100 for a decent amount of time. Great amp, but not really my style(I'm not a Marshall kinda guy). Bought a Naked(prior to JJ production), this amp fit me tone-wise a lot better. But damn it was incredibly loud. It sounded ok at reasonable levels, but it CRUSHED at loud volumes. We rehearse pretty loud too, but I just couldn't get where I wanted to be and get the tone I heard when it was ungodly loud outta my head. I felt the Naked was significantly louder than the BE100(at least between 6 & 10:00 on the master). The JJ probably would be right up my alley and fit me best but it's just more than I want to pay for an amp. I try to have a back up for gigs too, so that's pretty big $.