Friedman BE-Mini Amp Head (Seriously GOOD Tones?) 

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Another great review, Elmo. Keep 'em comin'.

The BE-OD is hands down the best sounding distortion pedal I've ever owned. Never selling that thing because it will always have a use with any amp I can pair it with

I always like your review ,keep up good work!👍

Good review, honest opinion, thanks for that. The tone seemed a little scooped but it may be my listening setup.

Thanks for keeping it honest, thanks for trying a pedal with it, thanks for giving an alternative - and good luck with the channel \m/

Nice Uli-Jon Roth style string bending & vibrato 👍🏻

Great review once again Elmo - another piece of gear I was already curious about and delighted to see you demo (as a Friedman owner myself). Man, this thing needs a clean channel or that special "Something Else" as I too wouldn't be able to find a use for it in my band or recording projects. Thanks again for saving me a bit of dosh! Loads of Love, Gabe

Excellent review, Elmo! This is essentially a BE-OD with an effects loop and power amp. However, I think my 5 watt Peavey Mini Colossal amp is louder. I bought for recording and practice (where it shines), and if I'm feeling lazy, a back up for gigs, as you can carry with one finger.

Wow. I didn't get the notice about this brother. I don't think. Can't wait to hear this. Just now hearing the video. Well, now that I've watched it sounds really good to me. Especially with the humbucker guitar, but I'm partial to those guitars / pickups. I think getting the od pedal would be smarter and pairing it with a clean amp and then you would have the best of both worlds. Just my thoughts though. Great reviews as always sir. I could tell you liked it by the way you were playing. 🤣😜 I could play a gig with it though no problem.. 🤟♥️🤟♥️ Hope all is well in viking panda sir!

hi Elmo. sounds good

Was hoping you would be picking one of these up. Sounds dark, tend to prefer brighter amps which I can then tame to tastes. Having said that some of tones were monster considering what's producing them. As always great honest review thank you Elmo.

Good review as usual Elmo! It's a very good amp but not very flexible as you say. It's sound dark to my ear. Probably, as you suggest, a Joyo jackman 2 will be a better choice in therms of flexibility. Thanks a lot :)

Sounds like what is costs.

Hi 👋🏽, have a nice November Sir

How does this compare to Marshall 5 watt DSL or Origin? Its the same price pretty much or close. If you run this through tube power amp would it be more comparable to a tube amp? Great channel

Would be interesting to compare the Mini Amp with the BE Pedal in Front of a clean Marshall..is the Pedal better than the Amp?

hello Elmo, just wondering if you kept the ibanez universe swirl, cuz you it wasnt what you expected. i got my dream guitar last month. A jem 777! it was yellow instead of green but I dont mind. very happy with mine!

Nice video

The name alone tells me im paying too much.

Hello I have a combo amp with a Celestion Greenback in it. The amp take me from clean to hard-rock/80`s metal but am struggling to get more modern and tight high-gain metal sound. This might be ideal to plug into the speaker of the combo and use for strictly high-gain tones? The other option is to get the BE-OD pedal and hope it pairs well with the amp I already have.

Itd be great back up amp for gig’s Keep it right in pedal bag

Not bad! You made it sound good!😂

Hi Elmo you didn't say what cab you have used with it or how was the sound recorded?

Hi Elmo!

Huva Païva ! ! I think thé same but i think also that you dare not critize toi much this amp which is worth nothing. But we know that its big brothers with valves deliver one of the best tones. Salut !

Interesting I had heard another review. Thought it had clean. Not sure what or who these little amps are for. H&K solid state mini ones seems a waste of money as well.

Another commenter mentioned the bluguitar amp 1. I would be curious to get your take on that piece of gear. Idk if they are still marketing it as hard as they were a couple years ago but maybe they will send you one out if you reach out. When this be mini was released I wondered who it was for. It would of made more sense as a little combo amp for beginners with the Friedman name. What beginner is going to want to buy a cab and and a mini head when you can easily get a bugera for less. Even a vox ac10 or ac4 etc etc etc. I don’t know who this was for. Makes no sense. I wonder also how much this is just a be pedal with a class d power amp attached. I also wonder if running a be pedal into say the Seymour Duncan power amp would be a similar experience. Strange item to bring to market in my opinion.

Sounds cool for the money, I don't think it's for me, but cool none the less.

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Greetings to Sesame Street. ;)

It was really dark while gain all the way down. It brighten up just by giving more gain. Sound was nice but that lack of anything even close to clean is really bad :(

I don't really like it. You can't alter the tone nor clipping enough. Around the same price range Orange super crush (or the discontinued cr120) or fender champion 100 are more worth the money. Just my opinion

So...You're saying this is great for someone who doesn't want eed a(nother) cab around, and who could start with working on playing more flexibly... and it's cheap? I'm in

It’s only a pedal. Not an amp

Do you still have the Harley Benton tube 15? This seems nowhere near as good.

Definitely not my kind of amp! Solid review, as always.

Too be honest this was the only demo of the mini BE that didn't sound shitty! I was expecting you to say that is sounded bad... but you said "for a solid state sounds good" ....until you hear something like the Bluguitar Amp1, your perspective on solid state amps will be limited :D

I had this and couldn't get rid of it fast enough..... I just HAD to have it, and for whatever reason thought it would be amazing..... WRONG.

I owend this amp. Not very happy. Getting very fuzzy. And...i think it has not sooo much gain. It sounds sometimes like the tom scholz rockman. When i play longer this amp...my ears gonna hurt. I dont like those frequenzy

Good tone, but its solid state, so its a swwet spot and thats it. Anything Friedman needs a noise gate even a solid state, LOL!

Better just to save 300 euros and play unplugged than get a bad tone for that money.

I thought it sounded good, but who its aimed at I can't work out . It sounded great but I wouldn't buy it, there bigger amp heads though are soooo good, they're quite expensive but worth it there are so many great amps out there, have you heard the Marshall 1 watt practice or studio amp ? They are really good maybe you could review one Im sure they still make them. And it seems I also upset a lot of people, I treat everyone like they've been playing for years have lots of gear & are professional musicians , thats my fault. I guess its like agig 99.9% of the audience isn't a musician maybe some guitarists becauase they've heard things . Its the same here most of your sub"s are like I just mentioned but most don't seem to have amps at all, its straight into the computer. I use real amps not modellers, they have Chinese guitars ha, again thats on me I treat people on these RU-vid guitar channels like they are pros and they are Not. I wont get sucked into arguments anymore ( And they have the gaul to call me a troll, I don't stand fools lightly ) But I will defend myself , I don't know why coming to think of it they are most likely trying to learn Bar chords plugged into a soldano emulator , by the way the Soldano emulator sounds nothing like a real soldano, I owned one just like they sound nothing like real Marshalls especially live. a Marshall can scar a fan for life if its loud enough hahaha . Emultors & children telling me im wrong , Rant keeps going :) Take care Mate .

Seen this wee amp get some hate on YT and, as someone who prefers Fender amps, I think it's perfectly good for the money. If someone wants something that gives very decent British crunch that won't break the bank, it's a solid (state) option. The BE mini is cheap as chips, it's not supposed to sound like a Plexi or Silver Jubilee.

Sounds bad. Overated product. In this price we can get a full tube amp

People are really starting to clue in that these mini amp heads are just a fad and are actually all basically the same garbage, all made in China, and are all just pedal circuits into a crappy solid state amp. Honestly the old Joyo stuff destroys these.