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Some gear does that more than others but most modern gear doesn’t hold its value like a vintage piece would.My biggest apprehension is that I’ve yet to see a Friedman NOT depreciate massively.
Some gear does that more than others but most modern gear doesn’t hold its value like a vintage piece would.My biggest apprehension is that I’ve yet to see a Friedman NOT depreciate massively.
Agreed but new Friedmans seem to not hold up even as well as new Marshalls or Bogners or Soldanos. Maybe the Jose will be differentSome gear does that more than others but most modern gear doesn’t hold its value like a vintage piece would.
I could be wrong but I think literally every manufacturer in the music industry who is not big enough to stock items at Sweetwater, Guitar Center, etc. does this.
At the very least they require a deposit up front. Pretty much all of them. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
I also won't do this. I have before and never will again. With that said there are companies out there like Friedman for example who i fully believe would never screw anyone over. Either way it is a gamble that I won't take.
Can’t argue there. His gear does seem to not hold its value like others. I have a theory on that but I’ll just keep it to myself.Agreed but new Friedmans seem to not hold up even as well as new Marshalls or Bogners or Soldanos. Maybe the Jose will be different![]()
I really do not like the pay now, get later motto. Consumers have allowed it to be much more prevalent over the last decade or so.
I tried the amp with 6 other players, so this will hopefully give a good idea of what the amp is capable of:
Well yeah, this is not Dave's take on the Jose mods, they ARE the Jose mod exactly how he originally designed them. The only thing Dave updated was the build method, but the circuit is the exact same.On paper, I should be in love with this thing, but this - like all other clips I've heard thus far - sounds a little generic to me.
Yeah, It basically sounds like every hard rock recording from the 80's for some reason.
Wasn’t there loads of variations of Jose mods though, rather than a single one? Even the Friedman Jose amp is laid out a bit more purposefully than what a Jose modded Marshall would be like. Either way, Dave has probably had his hands inside more Jose modded amps than anyone on the planet so I think I’d trust his take on it. I always thought the Friedman Jose is Dave choosing his favourite Jose modded amp circuit and giving a few options within that (like moving the MV pre and post tone stack).Exactly. And the reason is, it's the exact circuit used on nearly every 80s hard rock record.
The amp has all the variations of Jose mods, switchable. The "moveable" MV is one of them. :)Wasn’t there loads of variations of Jose mods though, rather than a single one? Even the Friedman Jose amp is laid out a bit more purposefully than what a Jose modded Marshall would be like. Either way, Dave has probably had his hands inside more Jose modded amps than anyone on the planet so I think I’d trust his take on it. I always thought the Friedman Jose is Dave choosing his favourite Jose modded amp circuit and giving a few options within that (like moving the MV pre and post tone stack).
I think “nearly every 80’s hard rock record” is a bit of a stretch too.
There were several variations and theyare on this amp, accesible with the switches.Wasn’t there loads of variations of Jose mods though, rather than a single one? Even the Friedman Jose amp is laid out a bit more purposefully than what a Jose modded Marshall would be like. Either way, Dave has probably had his hands inside more Jose modded amps than anyone on the planet so I think I’d trust his take on it. I always thought the Friedman Jose is Dave choosing his favourite Jose modded amp circuit and giving a few options within that (like moving the MV pre and post tone stack).
I think “nearly every 80’s hard rock record” is a bit of a stretch too.
There were several variations and theyare on this amp, accesible with the switches.
Obviously "every 80s hard rock record" is figure of speech, but certainly most of the biggest records of that era had a Jose modded on them. Crue, Dokken, Ratt, Whitesnake etc
LeeJackson mods were popular too and that's a different sound.
Yeah, that was my point.Exactly. And the reason is, it's the exact circuit used on nearly every 80s hard rock record.
Well Sykes on 1987 were the Mesa AND the Jose Marshall. Blue Murder was Mesa only and it's a very different tone.Even with that list, I associate Ratt's heyday sound with the Caswell/Levi mods rather than Jose mods. Certainly for Warren DeMartini. Same with the #39 amp, which was a Caswell mod using the tremolo circuit to hot-rod the amp.
Similarly, the peak Whitesnake sound most people covet is John Sykes' Mesa Coliseum tone. And just as ubiquitous is preset 45 on the ADA MP1 that Michael Wagener used on so many records.
Taking nothing from Jose, but I think "the biggest hard rock sounds of the 80s" come from a wider palette than just Jose modded Marshalls, as fantastic as they sound. Thankfully, I've heard MUCH better demos of this amp recently.
The S.I.R. #34 was used on the Illusion records. Which amp was really used on AFD remains a bit of a mystery, but it was definitely rented from S.I.R. and almost certainly modded by either Caswell or Levi. Probably #36.The big outlier here being the Appeitite amp as there were several dudes clamoring to own that head back then, which I think was the Caswell #34?
The S.I.R. #34 was used on the Illusion records. Which amp was really used on AFD remains a bit of a mystery, but it was definitely rented from S.I.R. and almost certainly modded by either Caswell or Levi. Probably #36.
Santiago, the guy behind the AFD amp, is on this forum. Maybe he can shed some light?
Why are there so many Bad audio/videos being released??
The last 2 are really bad. If I was Dave I would pay them to take em down. Any amp can be made to sound bad or not at it's best but sheesh, these are bad
This one sounds great
and of course X brings the VH!!