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Dave Friedman interview in his Los Angeles facility where all his amps are built
Monday, 16 March 2020
Right after NAMM 2020 we had the opportunity to not only have a private factory tour guided by Dave Friedman himself of the Friedman Amps (friedmanamplification.com) factory in Huntington Park, Los Angeles but also to record an interview with Dave afterward. Dave Friedman interview The Guitar Channel podcast The audio version of the video is
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Already met in 2019 during the Friedman amp and guitar promotion tour in Paris, Sammy Boller (sammyboller.com) was one of the booth demonstrators at NAMM 2020. It was an opportunity to talk a little more about the music he just released in an album called Kingdom of the Sun. Sammy Boller interview The Guitar Channel
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Friedman amp factory tour by Dave Friedman in Huntington Park, Los Angeles
Friday, 31 January 2020
Right after Winter NAMM 2020, I had the opportunity to have a tour of the Huntington Park facility where the Friedman amps (friedmanamplification.com) are built. Furthermore, my private guide was Dave Friedman himself. Pretty cool. The full version of the article includes the full length video as well as a complete photo album. This Boutique
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Sammy Boller interview, demonstrator for Friedman about to release an album
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Sammy Boller (sammyboller.com) is a young American guitarist met at the Friedman clinic in a Paris amp store (see the full report in this article). Although I only discovered him a couple of days before, the opportunity was too good not to do an interview with him. Sammy Boller interview Until the next interview, keep
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Dave Friedman interview, tube amp guru presenting his guitars in Paris
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
Dave Friedman is the great guru of the tube amp line that bear his name, he launched two years ago a line of electric guitars built and conceived with Grover Jackson. Dave talks about it in this interview done during the clinic in the L'Ampli à Lampes store in Paris, France (see the report in
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Friedman is a well-known tube amp brand that also has its range of pedals and guitars (made by Grover Jackson for that matter). The BE-OD overdrive pedal is supposed to be the replica of the saturated channel of the BE-100 amp, the flagship of the American brand. Let's go for this video test of this
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Here's a video review of the Friedman DS40 plugin available in the Universal Audio Apollo interface. Friedman is well know for the quality of their tube amp. That's why I was very curious to test drive the plugin based on their DS40 model. Here's a screenshot of the plugin : Setup used for the review
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Dave Friedman interview – Friedman Amps – 2019 Winter NAMM
Wednesday, 13 February 2019
Dave Friedman of Friedman Amps is a great gentleman in the world of amps and more recently that of pedals and guitars. The Guitar Channel offers you an interview with him in his booth full of amps during the 2019 Winter NAMM. Dave Friedman interview Until the next interview, keep on playing the guitar! Pierre
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Here's a video review of the Friedman BE100 plugin available in the Universal Audio Apollo interface. Friedman is well know for the quality of their high gain tube amp. That's why I was very curious to test drive the plugin based on the BE100 model.
Here's a screenshot of the plugin in what I call the simple mode where you see only the amp settings:
Here's a screenshot of the plugin in what I call the rack mode where you see in the top half all the settings to fine-tune the sounds : noise gate, cab and mikes, delay, etc.
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