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    In The Driving Seat

    Aug 21, 2020 2 minutes

    THE BACKGROUND

    JOHN FISCHER, Via email

    love big amps for my distortion and drive tones, but the amount of venues I can run a 100-watt head in are diminishing on a daily basis. Before lockdown I was gigging regularly running my Friedman BE-100 at a fraction of its maximum volume – and it just didn’t sound as good as it could. So I’ve contemplated moving to pedal-based overdrive

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