Friedman BE-OD Deluxe w/Marshall Artist 3203 Head

[Charvel1975]

How would a Friedman BE-OD Deluxe sound through the front end of my Marshall Artist 3203?

 

[Speeddemon]

Thinner than through a typical Fender clean tube amp.
The Artist (like its solidstate brother Lead 100 Mosfet) has quite a bit of filtering going on, removing a lot of low-end from the input.

Drive-wise it obviously has a lot more gain than what the amp itself is capable of (unboosted).

What I haven't tried yet, is plug the BE-OD Deluxe into the FX Loop return of my Mosfet.
I sold my Artist, since I really missed the Pull EQ function that the Mosfet does have.

Attached pic from 9 years ago (I modded both for a better input jack type FWIW

 

[Charvel1975]

Thinner than through a typical Fender clean tube amp.
The Artist (like its solidstate brother Lead 100 Mosfet) has quite a bit of filtering going on, removing a lot of low-end from the input.

Drive-wise it obviously has a lot more gain than what the amp itself is capable of (unboosted).

What I haven't tried yet, is plug the BE-OD Deluxe into the FX Loop return of my Mosfet.
I sold my Artist, since I really missed the Pull EQ function that the Mosfet does have.

Attached pic from 9 years ago (I modded both for a better input jack type FWIW

View attachment 378980

Interesting

 

[Speeddemon]

So, I tried it out this afternoon on my Lead 100 MOSFET;
if you're going direct into the FX Return, you're basically bypassing the master volume knob as well (since the Send of the amp isn't used), which means that your clean tone is pretty much at max volume, and it's kinda dull.
The BE-OD Deluxe into the fx-return yields a thick, dark tone, so you want to up the treble and presence controls and even then, it's easy to get the thick, smooth Priest 'Defenders' tone.

Into the clean (Normal) channel, it's way brighter and a bit thinner, although not thinner than the amp itself, so you can easily crank the BE-OD's bass knobs to 2 or 3 'o clock, but don't have the treble and presence high (somewhere between 9 and 10 'o clock should be sufficient!)

Both options give me useable results AND more reason to keep my Mosfet head around. I modded it a bit to already sound fuller than stock (look for my threads on the Marshall forum; forumite wakjob helped me a lot there).

 

[Charvel1975]

Thinner than through a typical Fender clean tube amp.
The Artist (like its solidstate brother Lead 100 Mosfet) has quite a bit of filtering going on, removing a lot of low-end from the input.

Drive-wise it obviously has a lot more gain than what the amp itself is capable of (unboosted).

What I haven't tried yet, is plug the BE-OD Deluxe into the FX Loop return of my Mosfet.
I sold my Artist, since I really missed the Pull EQ function that the Mosfet does have.

Attached pic from 9 years ago (I modded both for a better input jack type FWIW

View attachment 378980

Great pictures!!

 

[Charvel1975]

So, I tried it out this afternoon on my Lead 100 MOSFET;
if you're going direct into the FX Return, you're basically bypassing the master volume knob as well (since the Send of the amp isn't used), which means that your clean tone is pretty much at max volume, and it's kinda dull.
The BE-OD Deluxe into the fx-return yields a thick, dark tone, so you want to up the treble and presence controls and even then, it's easy to get the thick, smooth Priest 'Defenders' tone.

Into the clean (Normal) channel, it's way brighter and a bit thinner, although not thinner than the amp itself, so you can easily crank the BE-OD's bass knobs to 2 or 3 'o clock, but don't have the treble and presence high (somewhere between 9 and 10 'o clock should be sufficient!)

Both options give me useable results AND more reason to keep my Mosfet head around. I modded it a bit to already sound fuller than stock (look for my threads on the Marshall forum; forumite wakjob helped me a lot there).

Awesome!!