Anyone else try and not like the BE-OD?

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Re: Anyone else try and not like the BE-OD?

Just ordered one of these. I'm hoping it solves a problem i'm having without having to drop the cash on a new plexi-style head.

Until a couple weeks ago my primary guitar was an ESP Eclipse w/ Dimarzio buckers and that guitar through my Mesa Single Rec on either channel sounds awesome, even more so on the overdrive channel with my Tech 21 OMG OD in front. However, a couple weeks ago I got a Richie Kotzen Tele and for the life of me I can't dial in a satisfying tone through the overdrive channel on my Mesa. No combination of the amp and/or OD pedal is giving me anything pleasing to my ear. Through the clean channel for clean tones the guitar sounds great but I can't get what I need in a ballsy rock tone. So i'm hoping that going after a plexi-style tone running the BE OD through the clean channel will give me what i'm looking for, since Kotzen has a lot of success with that guitar w/ the Dimarzio Chopper T in the bridge through a classic british-style amp (Marshall or Cornford). We shall see. I'm anxious to get it.

I've never cared for Mesa gain personally. So if you're working with a good clean tone on that amp, the BE-OD should give you vastly different results than your amp's gain. Whether or not you like those results is the only question. But it will be a different tone. I'm curious to hear your feedback on this once the pedal shows up.

 

[DMR]

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It'll arrive next week. I'll be sure to post my impressions.

Something about the amp gain with my ESP just works. And something about the amp gain with that Kotzen tele just does not work. At all.

 

[DMR]

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The pedal arrived and man I'm in love with this thing already. Got a massive sound out of my tele that's exactly what I was looking for, and the hot-rodded plexi sound just works so much better with this particular guitar than my amp's gain. The BE is going to be for my tele and for the ESP i'll continue using the amp's natural gain in conjunction with the OMG pedal as a boost. Very satisfied with the pedal. And no way i'll ever have to go into the unit to play with the internal trim pot. I can't imagine anybody needing more gain out of this thing than the preset 12 o'clock position.

 

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The pedal arrived and man I'm in love with this thing already. Got a massive sound out of my tele that's exactly what I was looking for, and the hot-rodded plexi sound just works so much better with this particular guitar than my amp's gain. The BE is going to be for my tele and for the ESP i'll continue using the amp's natural gain in conjunction with the OMG pedal as a boost. Very satisfied with the pedal. And no way i'll ever have to go into the unit to play with the internal trim pot. I can't imagine anybody needing more gain out of this thing than the preset 12 o'clock position.

Very cool man... congrats! The BE-OD is definitely a Friedman in a box. Anyone curious about the Friedman sound should try one. No... it's not 100% of a BE100... but it's 90% when played into a good clean channel. How can you go wrong for $200 new???

 

[DMR]

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Dialing the "tight" knob back to the 9 o'clock really makes a world of difference with the tele pickups, fattens them up quite a bit. it's my favorite knob to play with on this pedal.

 

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Dialing the "tight" knob back to the 9 o'clock really makes a world of difference with the tele pickups, fattens them up quite a bit. it's my favorite knob to play with on this pedal.

Absolutely! The tight knob is definitely indispensable on the BE-OD.

I A/B'd the BE-OD pedal and my Carl Martin Plexitone [v1] tonight into my Fender DRRI Ltd and Super Champ X2 FSR. The Plexitone is still a great pedal, but there's no question that I prefer the Friedman pedal at this time. Will likely put the Plexitone up for sale on the forums with several other pedals this week.

 

[bluefrog]

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Hi I had the friedman BE OD for a some days.
first I was very impressed as had it before my Fender Blues Junior tweed.
After a while A/B versus the Xotic SL drive... I was missing that "mids" from the be od. What the SL Drive
had in spades by nature.
And in front of my marshall 6100 in clean channel it was worse with the BE OD.
So after a while I concluded this is not what I am wanting from a marshally sound.
And so it went back.
The friedman be od is a great pedal and the Pete Thorn demos are killer in youtube.
but not for me and what I want from it.

 

[PFDarkside]

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Finally got around to doing this yesterday G_S...

And wow... sounds pretty much just like my Smallbox. So the BE-OD into a sufficiently clean source will definitely give you that Friedman sound. After playing that setup for a while, I went back to playing the Quickrod by itself and is character went right back to being all Splawn. So Dave definitely put his tone into his pedal.

BTW... my Smallbox is shipping out today, to a guy who's sending me his Dirty Shirley. Damn stoked about getting a DS, as I absolutely love ACDC and Def Leppard "High & Dry" era tones.

Since you had them both, how does the Smallbox compare to the Quickrod?

 

[carbenez]

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I played a blues gig with a 3 piece horn section Saturday evening; I had both a BE-OD and a JHS Angry Charlie V3 on the board. These were going into the clean channel of a Fender Supersonic 22 (Deluxe Reverb clean).

While the BE-OD sounds incredible to me when I'm playing by myself or recording, in videos of the show it was totally lost in the mix when the horn section kicked in. I switched to the Angry Charlie for the last song of the set, and the difference on how the sound cut through was striking.

Just my 2 cents worth. Would be glad to post video if anyone is interested.

 

[JMP/HBE]

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Dave modded a Marshall for me, we are friends, he told me the BE-OD was made for a clean amp only, thats why i didnt buy one.