Pete Thorn demos the Friedman Jose amp

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Pete's demos are always killer, not crazy about the amp tone but the playing makes up for it.
 
I usually like Pete's demos, especially some of his deep dives. He's absolutely a shill, but he's a great player and really knowledgeable.

Having said that, I'm actually a little disappointed in this one. Kinda seems like he's just learning the amp, doesn't really quite understand how it all works. It just seems a little short of his typical standards. And how many edits can you fit in one sentence?

Personally, I love the amp! I've heard better demos, though, and this one isn't that bad.
 
I like Pete. He’s a total sales guy, but he is completely upfront about that and doesn’t hide it at all, he’s big enough in the industry that he doesn’t have to review anything he doesn’t like, so if something shows up on his channel, you can be pretty confident he does actually like it, and he knows gear and is entertaining.

His style and production are becoming less in-line with the kind of stuff that suits my ear personally these days, but he it’s still great most of the time if you want to get a technical handle on how a product works and what its capabilities are.

This one did feel a bit off though, yeah. He’s usually the guy who rattles off bright cap values and stuff like that from memory, but he didn’t really have that kind of technical info ready to go in this one. The way he went through the section about the two Presence controls kind of stuck out in particular. You would think a guy like him would be able to instantly tell exactly what was going on with the switch. Hope he’s doing alright.
 
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Another demo where this amp sounds fantastic...Again, Dave should seriously consider injecting a little more of this raw aggression and bright attack into his other production amps.
 
Again, Dave should seriously consider injecting a little more of this raw aggression and bright attack into his other production amps.

Yup. I mean, it’s so easy, it’s already set up.

Take the existing lineup sans Plex and Jose, call it the Shaved line.

New raw brighter line is the Hairy line. Or the BE-VER.
 
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