New Friedman Brit 50

Solarflares said:
I fucking hate multi-quotes.
It’s hard work to reply.
From bottom to top.

I had a unit next to Iron Maiden’s storage unit. The guitar sounds coming from there were frankly horrendous, and I often remember that twat when he put Super Distortions in Paul Kossoff’s old Strat. So no yardstick of anything.

Not just Indonesian guitars, but Indonesian tone-wood. Shit quality. Chinese parts. Fender and Gibson operated solely in the USA for 40 years making electric guitars - before entering the budget market. If some venture capitalist wants to flood your amateur market with crap foreign shite, then I don’t care - but ffs aspire to something man.

I’m still buying NOS St.Petersburg Svetlana’s, and have a good source for above-spec used Mullards - enough to see me out. Chinese valves totally suck arse. They know it. We know it. Why don’t you?

Class D amps are not technical progress. They have inherent distortion problems, and are purely a cost-cutting exercise to keep your amateur products affordable enough so you’ll jump. They know it. We know it. Catch up chummy.

Neodymium magnets, same as above - except they’re cunts.

Positive grid were the best guitar modeller in their day. They were however terribly noisy at high-gain - just like all the others are now. There’s no way I use a gate on guitar, just for casual playing. Their inability to produce a timely floorboard was their downfall. Same goes for Kemper probably.
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Way to double down LOL.

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JiveTurkey said:
Once I start thinking about Marshall-styled stuff and toggles/switches/modes/etc.; the Victory Sherriff comes back around as an option as well. Pricing is pretty nuts right now and resale (if that matters) doesn't seem to be great? Or at least might take some work outside of the "take it back to GC or sell to GC for 47% of what you originally paid" :cop
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I feel like Suhr should have come up by this point in the thread. Am I the only one here who digs Suhr amps? (Too expensive, maybe? Back to the "just buy a Marshall" argument?)

I'd actually love a Bella combo, but that's whole different animal.
 
mbenigni said:
No joke, when I was in my 20's I ran an MT2 into the clean channel of a Mesa MkIV for a while.

(I also sold a MkIIc+ for a few hundred bucks thinking, "I'll just use the MT2 for now and pickup another Boogie later..." So yeah, I'm an idiot. :facepalm )
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When I first started playing in the mid 90's I honestly thought the MT2 was the greatest pedal ever because you could get "every tone ever" with that level of gain and EQ.

I ran mine into a Peavey Special 150 (think Bandit on steroids) and later into a Marshall Valvestate half stack. I literally did not know what overdrive was at this point or the idea that there were tones outside of perfectly clean and fully saturated gain. I think it was SRV and then indie rock bands of the time that opened my eyes past that.
 
mbenigni said:
I feel like Suhr should have come up by this point in the thread. Am I the only one here who digs Suhr amps? (Too expensive, maybe? Back to the "just buy a Marshall" argument?)

I'd actually love a Bella combo, but that's whole different animal.
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I'll just go buy another Boogie :getmycoat
 
Jarick said:
When I first started playing in the mid 90's I honestly thought the MT2 was the greatest pedal ever because you could get "every tone ever" with that level of gain and EQ.

I ran mine into a Peavey Special 150 (think Bandit on steroids) and later into a Marshall Valvestate half stack. I literally did not know what overdrive was at this point or the idea that there were tones outside of perfectly clean and fully saturated gain. I think it was SRV and then indie rock bands of the time that opened my eyes past that.
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Same. Parametric EQ + zzzzhhhh distortion = everything sounds like Lights, Camera, Revolution = happy me. At the time, anyway...
 
GuitarBilly74 said:
No need to buy a Victory Sheriff, just get whatever Marshall you have and throw a blanket over the speaker cab. Done. Instant Victory Sheriff tone. Ugh.
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In my mind; they're basically "the same". Though one brand is seemingly less popular than the other yet just as expensive? I'll end up with neither I am sure :LOL:
 
mbenigni said:
I feel like Suhr should have come up by this point in the thread. Am I the only one here who digs Suhr amps? (Too expensive, maybe? Back to the "just buy a Marshall" argument?)

I'd actually love a Bella combo, but that's whole different animal.
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The whole thread could devolve into a circle jerk about not spending more than $1000 on an amp though.

Honestly the boutique stuff is all priced pretty similarly from what I can tell. The 50 Watters are all in the $2500-3000 range and the 100 Watters are in the $3500-4000 range. "Just get a Marshall" well the 1959 modified head is the same damn price at $3850.

The one cool thing with Friedman is I have contacted support and then Dave just personally e-mailed me back to answer my questions. When I contacted Suhr support they were really helpful too and sent me wiring diagrams.
 
GuitarBilly74 said:
I had a Sheriff 44 briefly. Even the dog left the room when that thing was on.

It's a Marshall for people that hate Marshalls. Mud city.
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Dude you need to review amps professionally.

Can we recreate the Harmony Central review database? Everything has either gotta be the best ever (written by a 14 year old who hasn't played anything else) or just legendary snark and one liners.
 
Fun MT2 fact: the day I first discovered this pedal, I was working at Guitar Center in San Francisco. We'd just opened up, about 10am, store's empty... and I'm standing on the floor messing with the mid-sweep control thinking, "This pedal is from the goddamned future!" And I turn around and Joe Satriani is wandering around about three feet away from me.

My boss explained that his band was on tour and someone had nicked their entire truck, full of gear. So he was in our store to gear up for the next couple of shows. I was encouraged to go and say hi, but I was massively intimidated and I bitched out.

:sofa
 
Jarick said:
Dude you need to review amps professionally.

Can we recreate the Harmony Central review database? Everything has either gotta be the best ever (written by a 14 year old who hasn't played anything else) or just legendary snark and one liners.
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Haven't you read this thread? We're ALL professional reviewers here.

But seriously now, have you heard the song "I Shot The Sherriff"? It was written by a guy that played that amp.
 
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