is it worth upgrading from a Friedman Runt?

[Akira69]

So with the runt the gain and strong mids put me off for a long time so was using a kemper alot, the hbe from the be deluxe. But with a quality pedal to push the front end and a mxr eq in the loop its sounding better then any friedman profile i have. So now that the runt sounds great is it really worth getting the big brother or look to other amps ir mesa mark v or vh4? would the be deluxe just be more of the same?

 

[Jon BCN]

The Runts are really bright while the BE line are more in the darker/smoother kind of tone, but the BE100 Deluxe has so many tonal options you can make it sound whatever you want, really.

 

[M@tt C]

Agreed. Ultimately that's why I moved on from mine- it's really cool amp that excelled at the aggressive JCM 800 vibe, but I wanted more tone shaping options.

 

[Racerxrated]

If you really like what you have now, just leave it be and get something different. Unless you need more horsepower that is.

 

[Donnie B.]

You looking for more channels? More watts? A different tone?

 

[Akira69]

You looking for more channels? More watts? A different tone?

was just looking for a single good high gain channel, Not having a deep/low res is a one factor missing in the runt. But i was really surprised how effect having an eq in the loop was to correct alot of this little amps shortfalls.
Thanks for all the feedback,

 

[marshallmel]

I recently switched from a Runt 50 to a Smallbox. It’s like night and day. Smallbox is everything I wanted the Runt to be. I figured pedals with the Runt would get me where I wanted to be but it wasn’t the case.

 

[Holy-diver]

was just looking for a single good high gain channel, Not having a deep/low res is a one factor missing in the runt. But i was really surprised how effect having an eq in the loop was to correct alot of this little amps shortfalls.
Thanks for all the feedback,

If you’re looking for 1 good high gain channel I would pass on the mark v and get a mark iii