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I have a Friedman Small Box and today I lost sound with the band. I went to check the amp head and could smell a faint burning smell and turned it off. The problem is I finished playing the song even though I had no sound before turning the amp off. When I got it home, I went to troubleshoot it...

Darren Housholder had three instrumental guitar records on the Shrapnel label back in the 90's and he also played guitar in the band Love Hate. He also taught guitar lessons back in the 90's in Burbank California and I was one of his students. Darren has resurfaced the last couple years on...

I bought this sunburst Heavy Relic Strat from Lincoln Brewster I think in 2015. I am thinking about selling it because I have not been playing with the band at church much the last year and a half and want to get a Friedman Cali. I love the guitar but I also have a Fender 1963 Relic Strat that I...

My wife and I will be at at least one of the Vegas House of Blues shows. DLR is one of my all time FAVS and I was just cranking his Greatest Hits CD on the way home from work today. Was not more than an hour later my wife told me she just read he announced his retirement. I was already thinking...

I just ordered a Buxom Boost. Anyone have one yet and have suggested settings for hitting my Small Box with it to give it a little more juice but without really changing the tone?

I had one of my stock ARS/JJ EL34's go microphonic today. I bought some new power tubes and I am taking my amp in tomorrow to get biased. Should the bias adjustment screw be easy for the tech to locate? Is there something he should look for to find it? I know the bias should be set at 32ma.

I had one of the stock ARS/JJ EL34's in my Friedman Small Box go microphonic today. I bought some new power tubes and I am taking my amp in tomorrow to get biased. Should the bias adjustment screw be easy for the tech to locate? Is there something he should look for to find it? I know the bias...

I am thinking about getting a Friedman 212 cabinet for my Small Box head. Any other speaker recommendations besides V30's?

If I buy a Runt 20 will I be able to run it directly into the PA system at church without having to purchase any other equipment? I might also just buy a Torpedo Live and use my Small Box, but it would be nice to have a Runt for a backup amp. Plus I could use it if I try to get into some home...

I am thinking about getting some NOS Siemens EL34 for my Small Box, but I have heard they do not handle high plate voltage very well. Should I be okay to use these in my amp? I am not sure if my plate voltage may be too high. Mesa is selling a matched NOS "A Grade" duet for $150.00.

I am still running the stock JJ/ARS EL34's in my Small Box and I have been using an RFT 12ax7 in the V1 first gain stage for a while now. I just recently pulled the stock Chinese V2 and V3 preamp tubes and put in a couple New Sensor/Tung Sol 12ax7's in V2 and V3. The amp has never sound better...

I turned my Smallbox on this morning at church and no sound. I plugged straight into the amp, changed a preamp tube in V1 and tried different guitar and speaker cables. Nothing worked. When I got home it worked fine, but I noticed a popping noise when changing channels that I have never noticed...

I have a Friedman Smallbox head and the stuff on my board is pictured below. The orange pedal with the faded logo is a JHS Pulp n Peel compressor. The delays and reverb are going through the loop and the bottom row is going through the front of the amp. I am actually playing a Fender Custom Shop...

The two Guitar Centers in the San Diego area (La Mesa & San Marcos) are carrying Friedman amps now and they both have deals on the Smallbox for $2349 brand new. That is a pretty sweet discount on an amazing amp which lists normally for $2799.

For some reason my Modtone power plant is not powering my new Strymon DIG delay pedal. The outlets are all 150ma and everything is set to 9 volts. I am jumping two outlets giving me 300ma to power the Strymon pedal which only requires 250ma. The same cable powers my TC Flashback X4 no problem...

I am thinking about getting some NOS Siemens EL34's for my Smallbox, but I hear they are not recommended for amps with a plate voltage higher than 450. What is the average plate voltage for the Smallbox?

Does anybody have a picture or a good description of where I can find the Bias adjustment knob on my Friedman Smallbox? I am thinking about buying a Compu-Bias and playing around with some different power tubes.

No amp has ever made my guitars and pedals sound soooooooooooo good. The Smallbox is truly a joy to own and play through. The amp has basically eliminated any of the gear and tone frustrations I was dealing with previously. Even if some of those frustrations were minor, it is still nice to have...

What kind of preamp tubes are the Smallbox and other Friedman amps shipping with these days? Are the preamp tubes now TAD's also?