Friedman Amps - What's Up?!

[turtlefingers]

The Aiken I had did the same noise, I asked and the answer was the Marshall esque.

 

[311boogieman]

Yeah, a tag on the handle, etc. would be a great idea. I've seen companies do that with amps to remind people of things like "Ensure amp is connected to a speaker cab!" and stuff like that.

A lot of us that have been playing for years assume that these newer players are going to know things like this.

you mean like the warning at the bottom of this amp?

my Killer Ant

 

[DragonCrestPC]

When i had my butterslax it would make noise on the presence or thump.

 

[NewReligion]

When you tested it, did you account for the difference between 5k and 4k tail? In the newer type it looks like the 4k7 and 25k are in parallel wrt AC (what really counts here it would seem). That makes the tail 3.96k (~4k).

I bought a '76 50W early this year and I thought it had the newer type because it had the 4k7 hanging off the pot to ground. Turned out it was a 5k pot.

As was my 1976 2204 that I just bought in July of 2020. CTS 5k with .1uf Mustard.

1976 was a transition year to Master Volume Series. Not all 2204’s were up to spec or cascaded for that matter until sometime in 1977 to the best of my knowledge. In fact there were some weird variations with ridiculous mixer and V2 anode values by my account.

Kind Regards, David Hopkins

 

[turboblues]

When I bought the BE100 DLX I read the manual. The amp has several tone shaping switches, so I wanted to know what everything did.. There is a review of the amp on YT where a guy is randomly turning knobs (wrong gain knob for the channel) and pulling switches (Fat Clean while on an overdrive channel) while (someone) playing.. Better read the manual. And everybody raving about the review.