Friedman Jose Arredondo Signature Amplifier

la szum said:
That Steve Stevens V2 Friedman Amp is the budget option now, @Whizzinby . :rollsafe
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I came close to buying a good reverb offering of the SSV2 a couple months ago. The urge never leaves. I really need to delete that watchlist. Ha

The rub is, I kind of think my JVM410 might be equal to, or in some instances better than all of them. :bag I kind of have the Modded Marshalls Gone Wild amp.

Love the one you’re with… dance with the gal that brought ya… or some shit :ROFLMAO:
 
Ed DeGenaro said:
Yeah I like it in single notes but not on chords and riffs
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Exactly what I was thinking. The single parts definitely not bad but none of the rest.

Could it have been the way he had it dialed or do you think it’s just the way that amp is?
 
ejecta said:
Exactly what I was thinking. The single parts definitely not bad but none of the rest.

Could it have been the way he had it dialed or do you think it’s just the way that amp is?
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Since he’s one of the few YT guys I can stomach and I’ve heard plenty of his demoes I’ll assume it’s what it does rather than operator error.
 
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Whizzinby said:
I came close to buying a good reverb offering of the SSV2 a couple months ago. The urge never leaves. I really need to delete that watchlist. Ha

The rub is, I kind of think my JVM410 might be equal to, or in some instances better than all of them. :bag I kind of have the Modded Marshalls Gone Wild amp.

Love the one you’re with… dance with the gal that brought ya… or some shit :ROFLMAO:
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JVM, my own weirdo grievances aside; always.
 
Anyone pull the trigger on a Friedman Jose? Got the email today… don’t know if I want one though.
 
I think that'd be an amp I'd get if I already had a couple 'fundamental' Marshalls; a JTM45, Plexi and a JCM800; I'd rather have access to that range of tones and just use dirt pedals/Hot Mod for the extra dirt than have one Plexi with different levels of dirt.

Sounds fucking great though, these are the exact tones I've been noodling with ever since I got that SD-1.
 
DrewJD82 said:
I think that'd be an amp I'd get if I already had a couple 'fundamental' Marshalls; a JTM45, Plexi and a JCM800; I'd rather have access to that range of tones and just use dirt pedals/Hot Mod for the extra dirt than have one Plexi with different levels of dirt.

Sounds fucking great though, these are the exact tones I've been noodling with ever since I got that SD-1.
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I have a lot of Marshall amps here, 1987x , '79 JMP Super Lead, '86 2204, DSL etc and I also have many boost pedals. They all sound great stock and boosted, but the Jose mods are different than a stock Marshall boosted. I wouldn't say it's better, it depends on your taste, but it's just a very different tone, and especially, feel.

If you haven't tried a Jose style modded amp, I'd recommend you try one. It's different than using a SD-1 in front of a Marshall. Or any other boost for that matter. The Jose mods add gain without removing that "give" that Marshall amps naturally have and it's often lost with a boost.
 
GuitarBilly74 said:
I have a lot of Marshall amps here, 1987x , '79 JMP Super Lead, '86 2204, DSL etc and I also have many boost pedals. They all sound great stock and boosted, but the Jose mods are different than a stock Marshall boosted. I wouldn't say it's better, it depends on your taste, but it's just a very different tone, and especially, feel.

If you haven't tried a Jose style modded amp, I'd recommend you try one. It's different than using a SD-1 in front of a Marshall. Or any other boost for that matter. The Jose mods add gain without removing that "give" that Marshall amps naturally have and it's often lost with a boost.
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100% this! And you can still use the amp as pretty much a standard 4-input head as well. But yeah, you don't get the sound with pedals.
 
GuitarBilly74 said:
I have a lot of Marshall amps here, 1987x , '79 JMP Super Lead, '86 2204, DSL etc and I also have many boost pedals. They all sound great stock and boosted, but the Jose mods are different than a stock Marshall boosted. I wouldn't say it's better, it depends on your taste, but it's just a very different tone, and especially, feel.

If you haven't tried a Jose style modded amp, I'd recommend you try one. It's different than using a SD-1 in front of a Marshall. Or any other boost for that matter. The Jose mods add gain without removing that "give" that Marshall amps naturally have and it's often lost with a boost.
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Yep. The Jose thing is its own style of amp that isn’t really comparable to other circuits. Not saying better or worse but it’s hard to approximate it in any other way
 
I had a little bit of insomnia last night, maybe it was the large coke after band practice, so I watched about half of this where they talk techy about it if anyone is interested

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GuitarBilly74 said:
I have a lot of Marshall amps here, 1987x , '79 JMP Super Lead, '86 2204, DSL etc and I also have many boost pedals. They all sound great stock and boosted, but the Jose mods are different than a stock Marshall boosted. I wouldn't say it's better, it depends on your taste, but it's just a very different tone, and especially, feel.

If you haven't tried a Jose style modded amp, I'd recommend you try one. It's different than using a SD-1 in front of a Marshall. Or any other boost for that matter. The Jose mods add gain without removing that "give" that Marshall amps naturally have and it's often lost with a boost.
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Oh, I don’t doubt that at all and would imagine the Hot Mod is closer to the feel of a Jose mod (depending which one) than the SD-1 is. I know I’ll get to some Jose fun down the road and actually looks like I’ll be able to start taking some electrical/E.E. classes later this year to accommodate that.

Just from where I’m at right now, quite early in the whole Marshall world, I’d rather ‘work my way up’ to one and experience the history of the amps first. That and there’s an endearing/charming aspect of the more basic circuits being modded, rather than throwing the kitchen sink in an amp, but that’s more the history dork in me than anything involving tone or convenience.
 
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