Friedman BE-OD Deluxe Overdrive

Uno de mis pedales favoritos. Nunca he tocado un Friedman BE-100, por lo que no sé qué tal se compara al original, pero sin duda el sonido y la sensación que ofrece al tocar son muy buenas.

La distorsión se me hace muy natural y se lleva muy bien con un overdrive delante para moldear el tono de distintas formas (aunque no es necesario). El potenciómetro de presence es una gran incorporación para evitar el fizz o compensar amplis muy oscuros.

Ojo, no es un overdrive a pesar del nombre, ambos canales son de distorsión aunque uno esté seteado por defecto con un rango de ganancia más bajo que el otro.

I needed a pedal to play with more gain than my overdrive pedals and after lots of research I decided on that one.
Superb quality of construction and features. The 3 band EQ is a must for me. I Just wish that it could be set to mid gain or JTM 45 territory as well I keep the internal trim pots set to zero and there's still plenty of gain on tap. It seems to sound better with the gain knob quite high.

Finally a pedal that does what it needs to do. Most dual distortion pedals have a boost section that in general boosts the gain of the pedal, and I wanted and needed a volume boost. I have owned a Blackstar HT Metal pedal for a long time, but it was to bulky, and needed a seperate power supply and had a tube in it. For a non stop gigging musician those 3 things are a no no, at least for me. So with this product I got a normal sized pedal, two volume independant channels (gain trimpot inside of pedal, awesome) and it runs on 9V (or 18V with a double cable). And the sound... fantastic. Some of the online videos don't do this pedal justice. When you try it and play it, the feel of a Friedman tube amp that you get is unbelievable... the EQ is not extreme and is very usable, it has a lot of gain but even all the way up it is not unusable, the little presence knob and the tight switch is fantastic too for fine tuning your sound depending on what guitar and amp you use. Very versatile. Usually I can say at least one bad thing about a product but this time I have nothing.. Thank you Friedman.

First of all, thank you Thomann for quick operation with failed unit! You're great! And what about the pedal?
Quality - It looked like everything was working but the pedal was dead silent - no sound going out of the device. After I received the second pedal the same issue also happened once or twice. And now I may understand the reason. Looking at the older videos on YT there were different in/out jack ports - the internal parts of them were covered. My pedal has them without any cover. I suspect the jack ports were shorted somehow to the casing. In the second unit it happened after I was setting internal pots. Probably I mounted the back plate a bit differently. I fixed it on my own - just tried to bend more the internal parts of the jacks to increase the distance between them and the back plate.
Sound - generally I like it, but do not feel blown away. It sounds better when it's connected to the real amp (Fender Deville). When it's connected to my Tonex I can hear some unpleasent modulating, higher frequencies. The second channel with more gain is noisy, much more than my cheap TC Magus Pro set to heavy gain, but maybe that's the cost of that high-gain channel.
Features - as you can see in the picture - two channels, many knobs ;) I can customize the sound depending on the needs.

Would I buy it again? I don't think so. Would I sell it? I don't think so :)