Friedman BE Mini

By listening, I don't think most people would realize that it's solid state. It sounds great, and I think $329 is a great price point.
 
It’s the BE-OD pedal with a solid state power section. If you have an amp already with a good clean channel or effects loop return, just buy the pedal. Great idea though for someone who may not have an amp or wants that option
 
My first thoughts were that it would be handy for someone who just wanted a self-contained, small head to grab and go, or have for home recording or similar.

But, for around the same cost as the BE Mini, a BE-OD pedal and something like an Orange Terror Stamp or Hotone Nano Legacy would give a floor amp with more options.
 
Honestly, I don't think it sounds THAT amazing on the demo. Sounds like a pedal through an OK solid state poweramp to me.
 
It's ok for what it is. I wonder how many more ways Friedman will think of to sell the same thing in a different variant over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. So many of his amps overlap each other (IMO). To me, at this point, things are getting ridiculous and I own several Friedman things.
 
I thought their product line certainly has overlap. I can't keep it all straight. The Dirty Shirley is about the best to me, and some of the others are the same basic tone with more gain.
 
Bogner said:
It's ok for what it is. I wonder how many more ways Friedman will think of to sell the same thing in a different variant over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. So many of his amps overlap each other (IMO). To me, at this point, things are getting ridiculous and I own several Friedman things.
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If you were a small company leaving out of your products, I think it's a great idea to overlap. It's not changing your "production chain" so why not have something to everyone?
 
IMO the worst idea on the BE Mini is the outside power supply. And a 24V power supply is usually not light & small. I avoid any amp without an internal power supply and an IEC14 socket.
 
Most of the small amps have an external power supply like that, that's part of how they keep them so small and cute, if they had to build the power amp inside, not to mention the IEC connector, they would have to grow.
 
donaldr said:
IMO the worst idea on the BE Mini is the outside power supply. And a 24V power supply is usually not light & small. I avoid any amp without an internal power supply and an IEC14 socket.
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I'm sure Friedman will make one of those too...
 
Sounds decent, cool package and features but the value proposition doesn't seem to there.
 
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If this is anything like other Freidman products, it is most likely going to be an OEM amp with Friedman's pre-amp grafted in and of course his logo. For Freidman to make this amp at this price point, it must cost less than half of that to produce it, likely 1/3rd the cost. My bet is that the production cost of this thing is around $100, perhaps even less.

Let's keep in mind that is essentially his BE pedal with a 30-watt amplifier built-in. The power supply is a run-of-the-mill laptop charger-style unit. I bought a 30-watt amplifier module from an eBay auction a while back for about $6. The amp module didn't even require a power supply module, simply connect a laptop charger to it and send it a signal! The Mooer Baby Bomb is a prime example of what I built with this $6 amp module. SUPER CHEAP OEM stuff from China. My bet is that the cabinet to house all the electronics costs more to produce than the actual amp itself.

Freidman does have some stuff that is 100% legit, but he also has quite of few things that are complete BS that are made solely for the purpose of making money with his name. While he deserves to make a buck, there are a few things that he has that are egregious. Business is business though.
 
Honestly, Friedman's sound pretty cool for the most part ...but I did'nt think this thing sounded any different to to the mini Oranges or Joyo's for that matter (@ double the price)...

I've been gassing for a Hotone 'Captain Sunset' (the mini Slo) ....way better/more tubey & realistic imo. They have a mini Friedman too ....I guess Dave does'nt like losing out :lmao:
 
Hard to tell if it is more "tubey and realistic" from a youtube video, but yeah, those are the same idea, a FET preamp circuit into a class-d power amp.
 
Well yeah, I agree ...but youtube video's being what they are, the "Captain sunset" sounds a lot more convincing as a 'recorded' Slo than the mini Friedman sounds like a 'recorded' BE100, at least to my ears. That's pretty impressive considering it's just 5 watts, pure SS (no tube pre/buffer) & way cheaper.
 
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