It's just gotten silly at this point. You're playing is just getting better by the week which is insane and everything you play through just sounds amazing

@BigHairyGuitars

11 ай бұрын

Thanks Spin! I'm trying 🥵. It's hard trying to keep up with the Pete's and RJ's of the world 😭 (key word is 'trying')

@reereelization

11 ай бұрын

Dunno man, love all the names, but, your number one slot in my humble opinion. …listening to you read Guitar magazine issues is like being told a Christmas story on Christmas Eve, lol! Best. Ever.

@z1g

11 ай бұрын

I couldn't agree with you more. Really fantastic playing and tone. Reminds me of Pete Thorn where he can play any style of guitar brilliantly and get an amazing tone appropriate for the style with any piece of equipment. If I were selling gear I would want Michael to demo it for sure.

@Jay-sy5yf

11 ай бұрын

Honestly none of the youtube guys are even close. They're guitarists. Michael is a musician. There is a difference.

@SlimeyGuitarStrings

11 ай бұрын

@@BigHairyGuitars I feel like you, Pete, and RJ should get together and do an album.

I'll be honest, for the most part I watch your videos for your opening music. I know the gear reviews help pay for your time putting these together. But it really is such a joy to hear these songs you're putting out. You should collect them all together and release them as album, I'd surely buy it. Thanks so much!

Your playing is fantastic. Full length instrumental album has been required for some time now. Second, the top end on most Friedmans is absolute gold. This sounds badass.

@BigHairyGuitars

11 ай бұрын

Thanks! I'm working on it (slowly)

Demos sound great! Thank you for the professional work.

Opening cut was truly inspiring. This demo checked all the boxes. Channel 1 tone sold me. 🔥🤘👍

Slammin opening track Michael. Hope it's on your album/cd when it comes out. Great demo of this sweet amp. Rock on my man!

6:35 throw on some chorus and 1986 will see you in court….😂

Amazing!!!! This amp sounds so incredible!!! And the playing🤯🤯🤯

As always great video and killer demo song!! I ordered a jel 20 at 4 am this morning. Very excited.

Man this might be my favorite sounding Friedman!!! It has a internal load for silent recording and a presence knob as well!

Oh man this sounds so incredible!! Your original compositions are amazing....love listening to them! This amp sounds killer!!!

I've watched this 4 or 5 times now and just ordered one because it sounds so good.

Great song idea and riffs. It put a big smile on my face.

Killer playing and tone Michael!!!

Amazing video, killer playing and tones!

I really like your playing. Thanks for that demo !

@BigHairyGuitars

11 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Thx for a great review Michael, as always! Amp sounds and looks fabulous! Dave always is coming up with great new ways to make a great sounding amp! BTW...that Shabat Tele is awesome!

Been looking forward to your demo of this!

Jesus H Christ that intro was insane. Do you lay down those crispy lines and those fat beat every day man. Thank you again for these bits of musical dinner with all the marbled beef included. That funky vibe à la Nuno, and those crazy pinch harmonics dude you nailed that thing. Sick

Great job as always. Killer little amp! Dave does it again 🤘

You always play with taste and passion man. It is inspiring. You sell the amp without saying words. CHEERS!

Anytime you pop up in my feed I’m genuinely excited to watch the video. Also extra point for the tonetalk shirt🤘🏻

Great video. Love the tones and the color.

Great Amp ,great playing..Badlands style and tone

Awesome musical playing!

I’m very impressed with your exciting and skillful playing from the very start of the video. You’ve created an instant fan fine sir. All the best.

It’s so refreshing to hear something different than the classic be/hbe circuit for mid to high gain from Friedman. I just played this amp in person and the JEL is just different in a really cool way. It has its own thing going on. And the presence control is so powerful on this amp as well. As far as I know, this is the only Friedman amp with sat capability on the plexi channel! This and the Twin Sister are just so badass for rock stuff. Also it is more than loud enough to gig with for me!

Been waiting for this one

It sounds like a killer amp, and Jake deserves all the kudos he can get. He had a huge impact on me.

Really dig your playing Michael. Always look forward to your videos.

@BigHairyGuitars

6 ай бұрын

Much appreciated!

I know that the JEL-20 has been out for a little while now. This video actually convinced me to buy this amp next. Thanks, Micheal. Keep on rocking 🤠🎸

Holy hell this amp sounds phenomenal!

Sounds great!!

I just bought one. Cool demo!

MN productions are the best which makes sense since he's a producer for cinema and video games but the guitar playing is just as masterful. I love that and your product reviews, hats off to you.

Sound like an amp that would be irresistible to CRANK UP ! Great review ! Cheers brother , great playing too BTW , you always sound KEWEL !

(as usual) came for the riff; loved the amp!

I love your reviews !! Your JJ Jr review convinced me I couldn't live without one. Please do a JJ Jr verses the JEL-20 review !!!!

Must have indeed. Great playing as always

I knew you'd have video on this. That sat switch sounds like it might have some Jose inspiration behind it

@BigHairyGuitars

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, I agree. The SAT always gives me a bit of that Jose thing.

I like the JEL20. A great amp for my teenage grandson.

... Outstanding

Michael's slaying it!

This sounds VERY similar to the Marshall SC-20 (to my ears).... I love that clean channel! Would like to hear this amp on a lower-gain, plexi "super-crunch" setting....or maybe even the clean channel pushed, depending on how Dave designed this circuit. When this circuit get's pushed it loses articulation, and punch, and get's fizzy. It could be that with the gain dialed back a hair this cleans up beautifully. On another note, I'd love to see a 20watt version of the SS100 V2. I absolutely love my Little Sister. But, IMO the kind of the lower wattage hot-rodded plexi, Marshall circuits is the SLO-30. As always, killer video, love the playing!

Thank you good sir. This sounds much less gainy than I assumed. I had seen other reviews where it seemed more wide open plexiglass/jcm800. This seems to not get there without a boost. I'll wait and see how they sound on some live vids. Much appreciated sir

That crunch!!!!

Wow! Killer, smokin riffage Mike!

A lil 🔥 breather!

Good Lord….Uffda…. Wicked song and playing. 👍💪

You are a monster player Michael !

While it is no secret Friedman makes great amps this particular model really impressed me the most! 20 watt tone monster for under 2K! 👍 at times i would swear it was a old late 60's Plexi i was listening to! 🤘

Just ordered mine today with the cab. I can’t wait. I have the 20 watt JJ combo already and totally love it, but I think I’m going to like the JEL even better. From what I can tell it does seem a bit tighter and more percussion which is what I want. Plus the Plexi channel is exactly what I want for my cleaner tone, AND it has its own gain and master. I mean how could I not order it right? I might sell my JJ but maybe not. It’s a fantastic amp too. Without fail every show I play I have people who are musicians and ones who aren’t telling me the sound is amazing. Friedman really makes the good stuff. And he actually responds personally if you have a question or something. I’m way excited to get my amp if you can’t tell lol. Bad news is everyone else wants one so I have to wait for them to come back in stock at Sweetwater which is about 4-5 weeks. Oh well.

Wasn’t planning on buying an amp this year….. then this happened!! I gotta get one

Mikey- you hit for the cycle, slugged a moonshot, and stole home base with that intro song. Magnificent.

Beginning song was bad ass man...

Great play man as usual 🔝😎 Friedman amps is the Best Beast ever

Watched the Sweetwater demo of this amp earlier and thought “meh”. Now I think “want”! Damn you Nielsen! 😉

@BigHairyGuitars

11 ай бұрын

haha. thanks !!!

It sounds like a good hot rodded plexi, I think the "sat" mode is a Jose mod. I love how it looks, but I'd like to hear it through different speakers. Part of me wants it really bad, and part of me says "I want more upper mids". Good playing as usual, thanks Michael.

SICK !!!!!! 😮

This would be my favorite all around small Friedman amp for the music I play. On wish list unless Line 6 releases a profile for HX stomp.

Yeah bro, that was fkn sick

Into is fu..in’ amazing man!!!

That first channel nails the free paul kosoff tone

Getting ready to purchase this head want to use it this summer for the gigs I have scheduled and also getting rid of my silver jubilee. This seems like the ideal upgrade to the silver jubilee I can get rid of a few of my boost pedals and really this is basically to me a modified silver jubilee but just a way big improvement as usual. I also use a dirty Shirley but truly this is a beast in my opinion for a 20 W amplifier. I just don’t see how you could put much more into a 20 W head for invoicing From Dwayne Allman to slayer you can pretty much get anything you want here truly amazing stuff. Great great video my friend. I truly look forward to playing this. I am curious about the responsiveness of the amplifier and also as I know it’s assembled in the USA and has custom wound transformers, that’s the only description so I didn’t know if the PCB board design was import and then assembled Darren California as Maya boogie has done with like the Mark five series 25 seems like some of the smaller heads the PCV boards are imported same with the black magic ampprobably spelled that wrong again 7:35

Burning fingers and mind...Awesome!

Killer demo!

Siiiiiiick intro!

Sounds very plexi ish but on steroids. So many El84 amps in the Friedman 20 watt range that it's becoming a hard to tell them apart on YT at least. Awesome playing dude!

We all should appreciate, love and respect Mister Jake E. Lee for his awesome playing in Ozzy and Badlands. But we also give a big shout out to his current band Red Dragon Cartel. Because they are awesome, too. 🤘🤘

Badass!!

Oh great, just what I need, another piece of gear I cant live without. When will it end?

sounds massive and amazing. Great tune. twin little sister with two channels would still be my choice.

@MRxr400

11 ай бұрын

oh, it's two channels. got excited with comment too early. the opening tune got me excited. also like how the 20W amp goes to 11. nice touch of humour. Dave makes amazing amps.

After spending some time with this amp, I have to say it’s great. As soon as I saw Friedman’s social media announcement, I called my sales engineer and told him to put me down for one. You never know if you’re going to love something even if Michael, Pete or Ben make it sound great. Well, it’s great. One thing that has really surprised me is how much I love the Plexi channel. This amp is more versatile than my other amps which are all Friedman modified and those amps are great. I love them but this amp is fantastic. Can’t recommend this amp highly enough if you love late 70’s and early to mid 80’s rock tones. It excels at it. Bottom line: I’m impressed

After spending a long time trying to figure out what new amp I was going to buy I just ordered me one of these today

nice. sounds great! Maybe you could talk to Dave and see if a 20 watt Steve Stevens amp would have a future?

@Terry_Aki

11 ай бұрын

Bingo!

@BigHairyGuitars

11 ай бұрын

That would be cool!

great demo as always ! would this little beast be too loud for home ?

Killer!

Fantastic.. Can you summarise the differences you find between the JEL and the JJ Jr? Are they different enough that you would by both or prefer one over the other

🤤🤤🤤🤤 oh boy … love this

Yay!!

If you had to only choose one small Friedman amp which would you go for? I liked the JJ Jr with the 1x12 that I briefly got to try but I haven’t been able to try the PT v2 or obviously this one.

Wow, so many great compact heads coming out these days. You also had the 3rd Power Dirty Sink 6VEL. Do both amps cover much of the same territory?

@BigHairyGuitars

11 ай бұрын

The JEL and 6VEL cover the same gain range, but come at it from different sides. The JEL is more aggressive and sharp percussive and 'nasty', the 6VEL is smoother and 'nicer'.

Great demo, Michael. Also, how dare you make my JJ Jr. feel like it might have to get sold to be replaced by this. Amps have feelings, too! 🙂

@BigHairyGuitars

11 ай бұрын

haha. The JJ is quite different though. So sadly, my recommendation is to have both. 😈

@DavidLee07

11 ай бұрын

@@BigHairyGuitars 😁

DANG

Caught between “I don’t have $1,700 to spend” and “starting next week these will be back-ordered forever” haha

@BigHairyGuitars

11 ай бұрын

The good news is that these aren't limited runs like the 100 was.

Michael plays, I want... Friedman has the marketing figured out! LOL!!! 🤣Staying with my BE100D but tempted! 😎

I was a denier of this amp - boy was I wrong. It still doesnt have that LOW that big iron and big glass gives you, but it sounds great, especially the plexi channel boosted with a klone.

Shut. The. Front. Door. That's awesome! Also, how could you not love an amp where everything goes to 11? ;)

Is this my huckleberry? A step up from my trusty Runt 20? And don't need pedals? BTW, when I need inspiration, I come here to listen to you play! 🤘

….WOAH!!! 💪😎👍

I really want to know about that green guitar in the intro.

Damn!

Thank you for your comparison. I tried really hard to get hold of a 100watt JEL but couldn’t… There is also none on the used market here in Europe. Having them both side by side do you feel I‘d be missing something with the 20watt?

Beautiful guitar. Enjoy it Mike!!! And the Friedman’s imo are the best amp’s out there. Is the neck a shorter scale? Re the JEL amp I think it’s based on the smallbox. I traded up to Wildwood Guitars spec’d Smallbox with the micro amp for a 3rd ch with extra, perfect gain. So plexi, regular gain and extra gain. Off white. It’s perfect. Mike, any way we could get a video on that Shabat guitar?

@BigHairyGuitars

11 ай бұрын

Thanks! Congrats on the WW spec SB! Those are great. The Smallbox and JEL are more firmly rooted in vintage Marshall lineage than the some of the others…so they may sound more related in that way. This Shabat is standard scale. Love it. I have a black p90 Shabat that is actually Gibson scale. Also so great! I’ll do a video on them as soon as I can

My next amp has to be a Friedman! I own a Marshall and a Mesa. Oh yeah and I need a SLO100!

1:13 the look of a man who knows what he's doing. Pure filth, love it.

Great lead in tune! What’s your green tele? It’s gorgeous.

@BigHairyGuitars

11 ай бұрын

Thanks!!! The guitar is a custom Shabat shabatguitars.com

Obviously at the moment the holy grail of tones! Sounds to me like an Arreddondo modded EVH or Vai modded Plexi. These tones are more than 40 years old, but even today simply awesome. Sell your Rectifiers and 5150's! Only a Savage 120 comes close with the right setting in my opinion.

Correctamundo gents, Michael and Pete Thorn do write outstanding tunes and give great demos! In all honesty though, these guys could play through a cardboard box with a speaker in it and sound incredible!! Lol😂 Thanks Michael and keep up the great originals.

Fantastic! Does anyone know where Jake is? He's been out of the picture for quite some time. I hope soon for a third RDC album👍

@SlimeyGuitarStrings

11 ай бұрын

I'm hoping for another RDC album too, the last one was AMAZING.