Lots of talk about lunchboxes but don't think I've seen anyone snag one of these:
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Why U No Kvetch Bout This One? Friedman BE Mini
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Superficially, the specs and price are identical to the Bogner and Diezel 30w minis. Makes me wonder if there's a single overseas company making them all just with different logos. Albeit slight differences with the EQ tilting switches/knobs across them all. Conspicuously, the reviews are almost all 5-star.
I'm not in the market for a lunchbox at the moment. 30w is still pretty loud and I have an Orange AD50 that can do 30w class A, and I have a Plexi that is 45w, so I don't feel a strong need for an SS 30w that is mimicking a tube 30w base I already have covered. But I'd be interested in hearing a shootout, if someone has all of them to compare.
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Originally posted by Little PigbaconI have never tried it, but just looking at it and thinking about Friedman’s other amps makes me kind of sad.
No. No, it is not.
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It (all of them) are just their amp-in-a-box pedals repackaged with a 30W class d power amp. If you already have some kind of power amp, or an amp with an fx loop, the pedal seems like a better investment. But, that's IMHO only, YMMV, ice cream, etc...
Is it a real Friedman, Diezel, whatever, uhm, no, still might be a cool toy, but hardly the "real" thing.
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Honestly that sounds pretty bad. It doesn't have any depth.
It sounds like there is some kind of intermodulation or pulsing in the distortion. Doesn't have any thump. Sounds like a typical distortion pedal.
Please anyone considering this... just get a Katana.Last edited by Top-L; 05-13-2022, 05:01 PM.
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Oh look! A powered pedal in an amp enclosure!!
Not my thing and just more gimmicky BS catering to these lovers of low wattage amps cuz my back hurts and I can't carry a proper amp.The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
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A low wattage tube amp is still a lot different than a powered pedal..
Unless you actually manage to build something that sounds like this (funky aesthetics are a bonus)
So tubey and organic you'll wonder why you ever had to lug around that big old Orange or Matamp of your's
I just wish that the $15.00 chinese class D power amp did'nt die in there so often (had to give up on them after the 4th one crapped out). It's a shame cuz they sounded pretty awsome"Less is less, more is more...how can less be more?" ~Yngwie J Malmsteen
I did it my way ~ Frank Sinatra
Originally posted by Rodney GeneIf you let your tone speak for itself you'll find alot less people join the conversation.
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