De Friedman Golden Pearl is een transparante lagere Gain Overdrive - Pedal met een sterk karakter en verschillende clippingmodi. Dit kan Golden Pearl de versterkers in het Clean -kanaal een kleine oppepper geven in de gebieden waar de buis uiteenvalt of reeds slepende versterkers extra verzadiging geven. De High Frequency Cut Switch biedt drie verschillende frequenties om de hoge tonen van de hoge tonen af te rollen, van romig warm naar transparant helder Overdrive geluid, terwijl de Tri-Mode Clipping Switch het clipping-gedrag van de Friedman Golden Pearl hoge tonen in drie stappen regelt. Naast de No Clipping Mode, roept deze mode het klassieke vervormingskarakter van de diode LED en de diode op.
After the Dirty Shirley, this is my second Friedman pedal. And golden it is! Just wow!
From a design point of view, she's a looker, built with top level components. Dave Friedman shure knows his engineering.
Soundwise, anything from sparkly clean to serious crunch is on tap. But that is not it's main selling point. What is though, is the FEEL. You can go from perfectly clean to crunchy with just your plectrum, use your volume knob in conjunction with this, and it is truly golden!
At low volume, the switches might seem not to have a big impact, but at band level, they are just glorious! They are perfectly engineered to massage the sound of the pedal to react perfectly with an amp at the point of breakup.
I use mine with an AC30, and it's a match made in heaven. Glorious for pushing a crunched up normal channel into lead, or a top boost channel on the cleaner side into rythm territory. And that are just my 2 uses for it. You can easily use it also as a distortion pedal (which cleans up to clean just beautifully) or as a volume or hairy boost to kick your amp in the nuts...
The main take away is, it feels and reacts as part of your amp, not just as a standalone pedal to give a certain sound. Allthough it will do anything you want it to.
This one is a keeper for shure! Untill we meet again Mr Friedman!