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And it's amazing! This is it, the tone I've been searching for!!! I've been through a lot of amps over the years and I know that I can't get every sound out of just one amp. But I'm at least at the point know where I know what the amps are that cover e tones I'm looking for. I now own three of the four:
1. Friedman BE-100: covers mid to high gain and is exactly the tone in my head for high gain and crunchy mid gain. With a boost pedal on the BE channel it kills. VH, AIC, APC, Mastodon, Vai, Zep, metal, blues and everything in between. Great with single coils, humbuckers, P90's. the loop is awesome, really transparent and really helps to keep the volume in check. I'm running a couple of delays and they sound really good. Also looking to add a Lexi PCM81 for plate and more delays.
The BE loves boost pedals as well on both inputs. I run the gain around 6-7 (of 10) and that leave a good amount of clarity and allows the boost to push the amp. I found maxing the gain makes it a little too saturated for my taste. The clean channel is very good on the amp, I use a Big Muff and a few fuzzes and they really sing with the clean channel, very full and fat sounding. I am still testing out all of the switches on the amp to see what I like. So far I'm running with all the option switches off and love the tone. The HBE channel is also very cool, I think I'll need to pick up an A/B switch so I can switch between both inputs and use the HBE side like a solo boost.
I'm running the BE-100 into an Orange PPC412 with Scumback M75 25 watt speakers and it sounds huge. I have a Mesa Recto cab with V30's and I really don't like the tone, a little too toppy and a bit harsh overall. So the cab will have to go, but no matter - the BE and Orange are perfection.
2. A Glaswerks ODS: Clean to Dumble style OD. Very Fender blackface sounding, amazing spring verb and the od channel really sings. Great loop with send and return levels.
3. Straub Cantus (a clone of a small box 68 plexi with a switchable gain stage). Great amp, really good crunch and classic Marshall vibe. No loop, but has a PPIMV and sounds very good.
The 4th amp will be a Fender Princeton for clean and edge of break-up. I love the tone with a 10" speaker, really focused and snappy with single coils.
It took a long time to arrive at the BE-100, many amps came and went looking for that tone in my head. The PT100 was very close, but in the end something about it was just not working for me. I try some higher gain heads as well like a VH4 and an OD100 SE+, but in the end it came down to the modded Marshall tone - that was the sound that really stuck with me.
1. Friedman BE-100: covers mid to high gain and is exactly the tone in my head for high gain and crunchy mid gain. With a boost pedal on the BE channel it kills. VH, AIC, APC, Mastodon, Vai, Zep, metal, blues and everything in between. Great with single coils, humbuckers, P90's. the loop is awesome, really transparent and really helps to keep the volume in check. I'm running a couple of delays and they sound really good. Also looking to add a Lexi PCM81 for plate and more delays.
The BE loves boost pedals as well on both inputs. I run the gain around 6-7 (of 10) and that leave a good amount of clarity and allows the boost to push the amp. I found maxing the gain makes it a little too saturated for my taste. The clean channel is very good on the amp, I use a Big Muff and a few fuzzes and they really sing with the clean channel, very full and fat sounding. I am still testing out all of the switches on the amp to see what I like. So far I'm running with all the option switches off and love the tone. The HBE channel is also very cool, I think I'll need to pick up an A/B switch so I can switch between both inputs and use the HBE side like a solo boost.
I'm running the BE-100 into an Orange PPC412 with Scumback M75 25 watt speakers and it sounds huge. I have a Mesa Recto cab with V30's and I really don't like the tone, a little too toppy and a bit harsh overall. So the cab will have to go, but no matter - the BE and Orange are perfection.
2. A Glaswerks ODS: Clean to Dumble style OD. Very Fender blackface sounding, amazing spring verb and the od channel really sings. Great loop with send and return levels.
3. Straub Cantus (a clone of a small box 68 plexi with a switchable gain stage). Great amp, really good crunch and classic Marshall vibe. No loop, but has a PPIMV and sounds very good.
The 4th amp will be a Fender Princeton for clean and edge of break-up. I love the tone with a 10" speaker, really focused and snappy with single coils.
It took a long time to arrive at the BE-100, many amps came and went looking for that tone in my head. The PT100 was very close, but in the end something about it was just not working for me. I try some higher gain heads as well like a VH4 and an OD100 SE+, but in the end it came down to the modded Marshall tone - that was the sound that really stuck with me.
