Friedman Jose Arredondo Tribute Amplifier - Why have one mod when you can have them all?

[tbonesullivan]

This was talked about a bit in the JEL-50 thread, but Friedman had been working on a Jose Arrendondo "tribute" amplifier, and had actually brought the family in, and had Jose's daughter Marisol with him at NAMM, talking about all the stuff that her dad did in terms of mods. She had helped out at the shop so she knew quite a bit about the different pieces of equipment he worked on, which were not just Marshall amps. Anyway, Dave Friedman had known Jose, and actually purchased a Modded amp directly from him when he was 18 or something, and also has worked on a lot of Jose modded amps. He pretty much found out all the mods that Jose did, and put them all into ONE AMP based on a Marshall 4 input Super Lead, using a more modern implementation than Jose did.

It's got two different presence knobs, so you can have the original presence, as well as the Jose style one which is almost more like a negative feedback control. It's also got two different master volumes, the various different gain mods that Jose did, and so forth. While it doesn't have the word "Marshall" on it, it does have Jose's Face and signature. There are no "official" demos yet, just some videos from NAMM, but if someone was after the "ultimate modded 80s Marshall", this might be it.

 

[rockabilly69]

On 1/28/2025 at 7:32 AM, tbonesullivan said:

This was talked about a bit in the JEL-50 thread, but Friedman had been working on a Jose Arrendondo "tribute" amplifier, and had actually brought the family in, and had Jose's daughter Marisol with him at NAMM, talking about all the stuff that her dad did in terms of mods. She had helped out at the shop so she knew quite a bit about the different pieces of equipment he worked on, which were not just Marshall amps. Anyway, Dave Friedman had known Jose, and actually purchased a Modded amp directly from him when he was 18 or something, and also has worked on a lot of Jose modded amps. He pretty much found out all the mods that Jose did, and put them all into ONE AMP based on a Marshall 4 input Super Lead, using a more modern implementation than Jose did.

It's got two different presence knobs, so you can have the original presence, as well as the Jose style one which is almost more like a negative feedback control. It's also got two different master volumes, the various different gain mods that Jose did, and so forth. While it doesn't have the word "Marshall" on it, it does have Jose's Face and signature. There are no "official" demos yet, just some videos from NAMM, but if someone was after the "ultimate modded 80s Marshall", this might be it.

 

pretty juicy tone, and if the second presence control works to control negative feedback I would be into that!

Edited January 29 by rockabilly69

[RJLII]

Wow. Super cool amp. Alas, it would spotlight my inadequacies. 

[tbonesullivan]

15 hours ago, RJLII said:

Wow. Super cool amp. Alas, it would spotlight my inadequacies. 

Yeah... this is honestly one of the reasons I love having amps with built in reverb: it covers up a lot of stuff!