But... that's not the Friedman, which is at best a tweaked stage monitor cab produced by someone else (and it's unclear what those tweaks might be). Not at all "purpose built".Purpose built is best - no PA cabs.
Really? This is from their site:But... that's not the Friedman, which is at best a tweaked stage monitor cab produced by someone else (and it's unclear what those tweaks might be). Not at all "purpose built".
Yeah, the marketing copy seems like a stretch.Really? This is from their site:
The Friedman ASM-12 powered monitor was designed and voiced for use with today’s guitar amp modelers and profilers including Fractal Audio Axe-Fx, Kemper Profiler, Line 6 HD Series and others. The ASM-12 delivers rich authentic tones, allowing you get the most out of these systems in live use and playback applications
So it's built nicely, but I still have questions about what exactly Friedman changed from a sound perspective, if anything. There's an argument to be made for the choice of cabinet material and its impact on the sound, at least.Dave Friedman said : "The amplifier design is a licensed product. B-52 also licenses the amplifier design. After trying many designs I liked this one the best. Cabs are made, painted and grill clothed right in our shop. As with all our cabs, they are made with baltic birch. No cheap wood or plastic will do if you want the punch. Hope that clears things up."
The speaker components are off the shelf and readily available too, but Xitone has a custom crossover by Mick nowadays which seems to be a huge part of getting a coaxial setup to perform well.The Xitone use Matrix Elements power amps so repackaging power amp modules seems kind of common.
I just switched away from a Friedman. If you are gonna do any sort of shows or traveling with it, id reccomend against it. But if youre just playing at home, its great.
I'm going to actually agree with you here. My ASMs stay in my studio, so the handle placement is not an issue. But if I toured with it, I'd have some serious issues. I'm sure Dave Friedman had a reason for putting the handle where it is, but I can't imagine what it is.
Dave did an open Q&A on Facebook a while back and I asked him about the handle placement issue. I said that many players find it awkward and were there any plans to address this. The response was: "Maybe".
So, not much of a response there. I take the handle is not a huge priority on Friedman's list.
The handle is in probably the best place it can be, but it causes a huge "jerk" when you pick it up when it flips forward, but its just so goofy to hold any other way. Everytime we unloaded the bus last year, nobody wanted to take my cab out lol. I ended up going to a Matrix FR12 and a gator rolling 1x12 case. I honestly think its lighter even with the case...
Same here. I did a lot of thinking about coax vs. physically separated woofer and tweeter and felt the coax would work better since all the sound would emit from the same point.As a stand alone solution I would personally prefer to use a coaxial monitor