Ep. 18 - Last Tone-Talk Show of 2017 - Q&A Show with Dave Friedman and Marc Huzansky 

I hope you both realize how MUCH we enjoy Tone Talk! It’s just fantastic...and MUCH appreciated!!

Watching this in 2019...nothing better to do! 😆

Missed it but...Outstanding channel. Keep up the good work in 2018. Thanks for taking the time to do this. Happy New Year!

Single channel amp for me. Every amp I have had in my life I always seem to stay on one channel and use my volume knob to change dynamics and volume. It's just how I learned

Just watched the whole of this show over 2 days at work haha Love the show and love Friedman amps, currently talking to Dave about a modded amp.

Great show as always! Here’s who I’d like to see on: Warren DeMartini Mike Soldano Rheinhold Bogner George Lynch Doug Rappoport. Keep up the great show!

Took me 3 days to watch this show in increments but totally worth it - the 1.5x speed increase is still weird. You Tube leaves the clip exactly where you end it, so that's a better option IMO than the 1.5x speed option. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I just got your Dirty Shirley pedal as a Christmas present from my wife. I’m floored by how amazing it sounds!!! I play on Lower Broadway in Nashville, and have to play all styles of music. I’m amazed at how much ground is covered by this little pedal; rock, country, blues, some metal, and some pop! Sounds fantastic on a Marshal JTM, Bogner Shiva, Immix 11 VS30, and even a Quilter 101. Had about 16 hours of solid gigging with it since Christmas. I’m in love with it. Makes me want to upgrade to the real DS!

Thank you for being so nice and answering questions! It means a lot to us. Regarding the ”LPD Pedals”, Phil McKnight talks a lot about them on his Know Your Gear-channel, maybe he knows more about it.

Happy New Year Mark & Dave. I’ve really enjoyed the shows and the open ended nature means you really dig into the subject and the guests have been unfailingly brilliant too. Looking forward to the new year shows. 🤘🏻👍🎸🤘🏻👍🎸🤘🏻👍🎸

Great show again! Just catching up on the ones I've missed..love it!!

You guys are great. Really appreciate the channel and info you provide. Looking forward to 2018.

How the hell can you have negative comments about Pete Thorn ?! That guy is such a sweetheart and very generous with sharing !! (from what I've seen, I don't him personally).

First concert , Edgar Winter / Brownsville Station @ Louisville KY for $7.50 in 1973 . Those were the days my friend .

Hey Marc and Dave, I've seen every episode, but have never commented. Thanks for all the great shows this year. Looking forward to see what you have in store for 2018.

Another great show, guys! Thank you! I love these shows!

Happy New Year, Marco. Keep up the good work along with Dave. Youz guyz rock.

enjoyed your show! thanks for doing it

Dave, your amps and pedals are incredibly thought out and sound amazing. Marshall hit it right by chance in the 60s and 70s. Their RC mixer of 470K ohm and bypass cap of 471pf seems to create the tone dynamic with bass, middle and treble for that special crunch. That too is amazing. I am so impressed by the Buxom Boost pedal and it's tone capability exceeds all the others on the market. My favorite Celestion speaker is the Red Back 150.

Another great show! Again not long enough though.

Thanks for a killer 2017 year Dave & Mark...Looking forward to all my Friedman/Synergy gear in 2018! Congratulations on the most Killer RU-vid show on the net! Nice know that all of us Gear Nerds (especially you two) are here to stay. Rock n Roll Aint Noise Polution, Rock N Roll Will Never Die!!!! Rock on you Tone Talking Hipster Nerds!!!!!

Thanks for these shows guys, the long format really makes it feel like a hang with friends where personalities come through. Would love to see Scott Splawn on the show!

Absolutely love the show, however I expect five hours every time guys! lol I hope your 2018 is blessed!

Happy New Year you guys!!

Excellent show as always, foil side marked for Synergy Caps got my attention :-)

You guys are awesome. Watched every episode at least twice to date which 03/08/2020.

Ideas for guests, 1) Luke (think you’re already working on that one) 2) Scott Splawn 3) Reinhold Bogner 4) Tom Scholz (yeah right!) 5) Neal Schon

Please I will not stop begging you guys until Jeff Diamant from Diamond Amps and Guitars comes on! He is such a wealth of knowledge!

Thanks for answering my question at 30:20 (and for getting the pronunciation of my surname right!). I can see why the OX is worth it's money. At nearly £1200 it's a lot of coin though

A Great quest.

Cool show 👍😊

I bought a SmallBox a couple years back and had an issue. Dave diagnosed over email but I had to send the amp back to get it fixed. Ended up being a loose solder joint on one of the filament wires (I think I’m saying that right)? This was around Christmas time, they had the amp back to me in 2 weeks and I absolutely LOVE the SmallBox. I mention this because anything hand made things happen, it’s how companies deal with issues/hiccups that matter and I can honestly tell anyone looking to buy a Friedman to just pull the trigger. Dave is a solid guy and stands by his products (what other business owner of Friedman’s size is answering direct customer emails??), Since then I’ve purchased a DS40, Friedman 4x12, 2x12 slant and 2 1x12’s (no joke) and I’m about to order the SS100 v2. Amazing amps!!

Awesomeness x18

Nik, from ceriatone would be awesome as a guest!

Great, great show, watching it from the Netherlands! Adrian VandenBerg would be great as a guest (fellow Dutchman)! Mike Landau or Dave Phillips would be awesome also!! Keep up the good work! Cheers!

I regularly gig a Runt 50 head boosted with a Suhr Kokoboost for “high gain” tones. Really fantastic results! Will a BE-100 or a BE-50 Deluxe be significantly different in terms of the amount of gain, tonality? Or, is it mostly it’s “feel” that is better ? Not sure how much better an amp can sound than what I’m currently using...also, how would you compare your Buxom boost to a Suhr Kokoboost?

Debatable the negative feedback from output is awesomeness

I have had pretty much all of your shows on in the background while I have been filling legal forms for a couple of cases I have in my orbit. Great ... Simply great stuff to listen to. You guys are the real deal and I have a ton of respect for all you share with everyone. I really respect the way you treat your guests too. It simply all good. Thank You. Oh, I have a question that comes to mind as a result. I have a '59 Bassman that I love playing thru with a '85 Master Lead Mark II 50 watt Pushing 1x12 Eminence, thus creating my Wet/Dry set up. Fender Wet/Marshal Dry. Is there an attenuator that you can recommend that will work with the Bassman's 2 ohm combo? Weber Mass 100W is what I can find, that is if that's correct, I'm not sure? Thanks Again, Shane

Great show guys! Happy New Year to all! Please get Floyd Rose on. Definately changed our world as guitar players!

I use the SAT switch on my Friedman modded Marshall SL all the time. It is amazing for turning the amp way down and switching the SAT on. 100 watt bedroom lvl applications, the switch adds that saturation you need for that cool breakup.

Dave and I are the same age. It's funny, his first concert was The Who, and it would've been mine also, .. but my fist concert was in '82' when me and my friend went to get tickets at Sears for The Who's farewell tour and they were sold out. So we said what else do you have (to the old lady), and she said Van Halen, so we went to see VH on the Diver Down "Hide Your Sheep" tour for 12 bucks a ticket ha ha.

Thanks for doing all these shows guys, best on YT - Ideas for guests Warren D George Lynch Luke Vai Sykes Aldrich Mark Cameron ;-)

Love the show:D!!! What about Steve Lukather as guest:)?

Lawrence Petros is being promoted a lot by Phil McKnight's channel. The seem to be decent but I'd rather have the real thang. I would love to see a BE/Betty pedal offered up... BEtty

Love the show. Get Eddy or Matt bruck, , Mike soldano,......would be killer. Loved the two with john suhr. Happy new year

Friedman merch'... FINALLY Yay! Happy new year guys. Love the show - played my Friedman Dirty Shirley Mini at a New Years Eve gig last night and it owned the place :O)

I’m late to the party but man even the local acts that could draw 300-500 people in the early 80’s had great tone man… mostly just cranked Marshall’s. What a great time to be a young idiot man awesome

Can you use the runt 20 speaker out without a load box? I know you can use the xlr without a speaker but with about the speaker out can i send it straight into something like a Suhr Ace or Blubox?

2:08:40 You can always popout the chat window and have it full screen and adjust the text size from the browser "size" option!

What's the best tube Available on the market today

Love the show guys! How about getting Rene Martinez, SRV’s tech on the show?

Are Orange tube amps significant in tone

Fine...understandable

I would love to see Luke or Lynch on the show!

Marc do you have any trouble on you evh el34 head sqeeling on the 3rd channel especially with delay

I know it would be a tall order being international and all but Ben Crowe could be a cool guest. Martin Kidd formerly of Cornford and now Victory amps. Simon Jarrett from Kingsley Amplifiers would be decent guest as well. Bogner as well.

I wouldn't mind having a Friedman flask or a Friedman Belt buckle. Or a coffee mug. Any of them would be great merch.

Small studio, limited budget, I must have a versatile amp. I can't wait to talk to you at NAMM! (er... if you let me.) Regarding custom amps.. would it be possible to build my own box from your pattern from exotic hardwood (I have a cabinet shop. In Burbank)?

Hi guy's, really enjoying your show. Q: would love to know the difference/benefits between cathode resistors (ie. 890ohm-1.5k- 2.2k)?. Phasing of the output of pre-amp tubes, do/should all the final output mirror the input signal and the relationship between guitar and Amp! Seeing that if an Amp has only one pre-Amp tube not all are talking signal from the cathode? Is Amp/guitar phasing a problem the further away you stand from it!?. I've had Amp (power) (ground)phase problems using two Amps ( fender HRDLX and Laney LC30) I was wondering would reversing the active power leads into the AMP fix the problem I know you can get ground lift switches etc but I was just wondering whether how the transformers were made contribute to the phase problem?.

I'd like to know the appropriate header for My crate 120 watt

Yeah use the lower gain settings

Really love this show. Happy New Year to you both. I would be curious to know when developing his guitars, why Dave decided to go with a traditional style guitar, rather than come up with a new shape with Grover. I’m also curious to know why he decided to relic them. Cheers guys.

Would love to see Bob Bradshaw or Dave Phillips from LA Sound Design on the show.

3:14:46 Apples and Oranges... you can have a Kemper/Fractal/Helix/Bias/Whatever and still have the amp in the room; all you need is a cab! Comparing a Amp&Cab with a digital Amp from studio monitors is two different things and not comparable. C'mon, it's not rocket science...

How about having Warren D Martini as a guest since we like his tone.

Get Henry Juszkiewicz on your show! :-)

Its a friedman duh i can see it now, sorry marc

RUSH

Given how many times Dave gets asked about load boxes and attenuators maybe he should make them, lets face it people will buy em

Seriously... i believe cool cat is in necessary with a tube amp

Who are these guys anyway?

I call the show, technical trouble when yall are having issues with the sound or people cutting out. It's a good running joke in my room alone. Ahahaha, I need to get another hobby...

Yea cant beleive anybody hates on pete, unless there jealous pete seems like a really nice guy very humble also

Yes get Greg Koch on!

😂

Huh...like AC/DC

boy you gotta be a fan if you ask when a particular music company is going to stock something of yours in 2017! Ever heard of e-commerce? Internet get where your at? Dude watches youtube bont wont order from someone? idgi

Kids do knothen but you tube these days

YEAH SORRY NOT WATCHING ALL DAT

MAY SUH not Mezza

Seems pretty minimal on rapport here...are these gents really revelling in this chat?

I got better things to do. Might meet your wife at the movies.

How impopular Steve Morse can be? He was sugested as a guest, Dave and Mark didn't react. Steve Morse is a great guy, legendary guitar player with a unique tone.

Tone nobs are useless