HowieJams
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I have been promising to do this and finally got 13 minutes to put this together before my wife said we had to leave for a family engagement.
I bought my Little Sister Combo for one reason, that 70s-80s hard rock gain tone I grew up loving.
I don't play clean much, but it is nice to know it has beautiful cleans in there if needed.
We can talk about it and I can tell you how it sounds, but videos let you hear what I am talking about, that is why I do them.
Let's talk first...
I always used 2-3 channel amps with dedicated clean channels, I couldn't see why people used single channel amps, but I get it now.
I always believed the guitar volume should be on 10, now I get rolling back the volume on the guitar to clean up a dirty amp.
My eyes and ears have been opened.
I used all 3 gain structures on the Friedman comparing how it sounds with the guitar volumes on 10 and then rolled back.
It will show how you can have a clean amp and just by turning the guitar volume up or switching to another pickup that has the volume up, you can go from clean to high gain leads and both sound great.
It took me 13 minutes to run though all the different structures and possibilities, there are more, but this should give you an idea of how versatile this amp is.
You can do beautiful chimey cleans, gritty cleans, bluesy tones, country tones all the way to hard rock high gain and more with a TS808 boost.
Every tone is beautiful out of this amp.
I did just order today a Friedman Pink Taco V2 Head and 1x12 Cabinet as it has more gain which is great for a lot of the lead work I do, but the Little Sister easily could be my only amp.
In fact, if I could only have one amp, the Little Sister probably would be it, just so versatile.
It is not a jack of all trades master of none, it is great at everything it does.
Here is the 13 minute demo if you dare...
I put a lot of time in to doing it so I hope it helps anybody thinking about buying one.
Added a second video of the cleans to a blues backing track and a 3rd with the amp all out rocking
I bought my Little Sister Combo for one reason, that 70s-80s hard rock gain tone I grew up loving.
I don't play clean much, but it is nice to know it has beautiful cleans in there if needed.
We can talk about it and I can tell you how it sounds, but videos let you hear what I am talking about, that is why I do them.
Let's talk first...
I always used 2-3 channel amps with dedicated clean channels, I couldn't see why people used single channel amps, but I get it now.
I always believed the guitar volume should be on 10, now I get rolling back the volume on the guitar to clean up a dirty amp.
My eyes and ears have been opened.
I used all 3 gain structures on the Friedman comparing how it sounds with the guitar volumes on 10 and then rolled back.
It will show how you can have a clean amp and just by turning the guitar volume up or switching to another pickup that has the volume up, you can go from clean to high gain leads and both sound great.
It took me 13 minutes to run though all the different structures and possibilities, there are more, but this should give you an idea of how versatile this amp is.
You can do beautiful chimey cleans, gritty cleans, bluesy tones, country tones all the way to hard rock high gain and more with a TS808 boost.
Every tone is beautiful out of this amp.
I did just order today a Friedman Pink Taco V2 Head and 1x12 Cabinet as it has more gain which is great for a lot of the lead work I do, but the Little Sister easily could be my only amp.
In fact, if I could only have one amp, the Little Sister probably would be it, just so versatile.
It is not a jack of all trades master of none, it is great at everything it does.
Here is the 13 minute demo if you dare...
I put a lot of time in to doing it so I hope it helps anybody thinking about buying one.
Added a second video of the cleans to a blues backing track and a 3rd with the amp all out rocking
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