Friedman BE-OD Deluxe Overdrive

Finally a pedal that does what it needs to do. Most dual distortion pedals have a boost section that in general boosts the gain of the pedal, and I wanted and needed a volume boost. I have owned a Blackstar HT Metal pedal for a long time, but it was to bulky, and needed a seperate power supply and had a tube in it. For a non stop gigging musician those 3 things are a no no, at least for me. So with this product I got a normal sized pedal, two volume independant channels (gain trimpot inside of pedal, awesome) and it runs on 9V (or 18V with a double cable). And the sound... fantastic. Some of the online videos don't do this pedal justice. When you try it and play it, the feel of a Friedman tube amp that you get is unbelievable... the EQ is not extreme and is very usable, it has a lot of gain but even all the way up it is not unusable, the little presence knob and the tight switch is fantastic too for fine tuning your sound depending on what guitar and amp you use. Very versatile. Usually I can say at least one bad thing about a product but this time I have nothing.. Thank you Friedman.

First of all, thank you Thomann for quick operation with failed unit! You're great! And what about the pedal?
Quality - It looked like everything was working but the pedal was dead silent - no sound going out of the device. After I received the second pedal the same issue also happened once or twice. And now I may understand the reason. Looking at the older videos on YT there were different in/out jack ports - the internal parts of them were covered. My pedal has them without any cover. I suspect the jack ports were shorted somehow to the casing. In the second unit it happened after I was setting internal pots. Probably I mounted the back plate a bit differently. I fixed it on my own - just tried to bend more the internal parts of the jacks to increase the distance between them and the back plate.
Sound - generally I like it, but do not feel blown away. It sounds better when it's connected to the real amp (Fender Deville). When it's connected to my Tonex I can hear some unpleasent modulating, higher frequencies. The second channel with more gain is noisy, much more than my cheap TC Magus Pro set to heavy gain, but maybe that's the cost of that high-gain channel.
Features - as you can see in the picture - two channels, many knobs ;) I can customize the sound depending on the needs.

Would I buy it again? I don't think so. Would I sell it? I don't think so :)

We play heavy and oppressive music, I needed an overdrive so that it had two different overdrives on board and so that it was possible to quickly switch from one to another with one click, to be honest, I bought it only for this reason)) , I didn’t think that it was possible to surprise me with the sound of an overdrive, I had all sorts of different ones, both expensive and cheap, good and bad, some of which I don’t even remember how they sound. And that’s why when I bought it, I was skeptical about it in terms of sound, first of all, I needed the convenience of using two different channels. But when I received it and it stood in my pedalboard and started to sound, I thought only one thing - where have you been before!? This is simply an amazing overdrive, it has so much power that you will never need so much and at the same time it gives a sparkling, clean and well-defined sound. For heavy riffs, I use the green channel, and for light acoustic parts, the blue one. Yes, it is not cheap, but it is worth it. I advise everyone not to waste money on all sorts of nonsense, which you will then want to change to another, and the next one will not be much better than the first, and so they accumulate and we spend a lot of money on unnecessary things - stop! Just buy this one and stop the senseless and expensive search!
This is the best overdrive pedal

Has been looking for a backup pedalboard for my Axe FX3.

Pros: I was able to dial good "pushed Marshall" tone with Boss SD-1 in front.

Cons:
* The input jacks are very tight. After first use they broke and became loose (both in/out) and I will be sending this back to Thomann.
* Constant noise from the pedal. Fine on low volumes, unmanageable on high. I've used it with independent power supply (battery based) so no interferences had to be expected.
* Had to crank presence and treble to 100% to cut through the mix even with the booster in front. Sounded great.
* Some controls don't do much soundwise (Treble, presence) but some are super sensitive (bass, mid, gain) and even a small micro-adjustment brings a lot of change to the sound which is not desirable in live setting.

Unfortunately the quality of this product is a gamble and is not worth the price. Very dissapointed with the purchase.