Posts by themegabacon

  • Still havent found what i am looking for: the definitive Friedman

    I'm in the same boat. I haven't found a Friedman profile (BE-100 or other models) that really does it for me. I find that some Marshall profiles ( My favorite being the JCM 800 profiles from @r_u_sirius ) do a better job of approximating the Friedman 'thing' than most of the actual Friedman profiles I've tried.


    I've owned a pink taco (roughly the BE channel) and I've tried the smallbox and BE-100. They are jaw dropping in person and even some youtube videos will at least give you a taste (

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    ). IMO the biggest issue with the profiles that I've tried (admittedly I'm sure I haven't tried them all) is that they don't come close to emulating the dynamics that to my ear make Friedmans some of the best sounding amps. For that same reason I love the JCM 800 profile I mentioned earlier. It does an incredible job of cleaning up with the guitar volume but retaining a real sweet top end and deep lows (something Friedmans do extremely well).

  • Gun to your head - what's your favourite profile

    Another set of my favorites are the JCM 800 profiles from r.u.sirius. I played around with three of his JCM 800 profiles here:

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  • kemper monitor out into cab is distorted when using clean profiles

    Glad that worked out. Pretty new to this whole thing as well so I'm not sure how much help I can be on the rig exchange question but I have found that you'll probably find at least a few good DI profiles just searching for "direct" though that's by no means a comprehensive search for DI profiles.


    As for it not sounding good through a cab... as Kempermaniac mentioned make sure you're turning off the cab portion of the stack when you're listening through a cab (though you may be doing this already) if it is not a DI profile. I believe you can globally turn off cabs for the speaker out but I haven't dug that deep yet.


    Let me know how it works out. I bought the power head recently and I've only played through a cab sporadically so far and never at high or even moderate volume since the only cab I have on hand is a 60 watt single 12" 16Ohm. That said even at low volume it has sounded good through the cab as long as I remember to turn off the cab portion of the stack for non-DI profiles.