Friedman is always striving to provide players with the proper tools to customize their sound. With Friedman pedals, we've been able to accomplish this, starting with the release of the BE-OD in September 2016, prompting Dave and the rest of the team to continue designing pedals and effects that make longed-for tone across different playing and musical styles possible. The sound in Dave’s head, and hopefully yours, is steadily coming to resonate in real life. Always driven to keep making gear that carries forth a player’s raw, authentic emotion, Dave created the Golden Pearl, a lower-gain overdrive pedal. Rounding out the BE-OD and DS(Dirty Shirley)-OD, high and mid gain overdrive respectively, one of the Golden Pearl’s highlights is its capacity as a delectable tweak to an already overdriven amp, pushing the overall tone into seductive saturation. 

Receiving high praise already from a wide array of guitarists, the Golden Pearl shines in its capacity to bring tone into focus and make playing incredibly enjoyable. The Golden Pearl features Volume, Gain and Tone Knobs, and a Three Position High-Frequency Cut Switch. Then you’ve got the Voice switch, which allows for three different kinds of clipping – none at all, the up position for a softer LED clipping and the down position for a traditional diode clipping.

With this transparent, versatile overdrive, you can sharpen up your clean tone, take a clean amp to slighty broken-up clean, or dirty it up with a turn of the gain knob. Pushing the front end of your Friedman for a cutting boost can be achieved with the LED clipping, but even more so with the diode clipping -  dial it in by means of the amount of gain and the pedal’s capacity for tone-tailoring with its other settings. The Golden Pearl is superbly versatile, affording you a graceful, low-effort approach to getting the tone you crave, existing in perfect harmony with your Friedman amp or whatever your amp might be.

What tone treasure will you unearth with the Golden Pearl? 

Blood, Sweat & Tubes Fall 2018 Clinic Tour
Official Announcement

We’re excited to share that this month Dave Friedman is headed to select cities in the Northeast and Midwest to conduct in-store clinics with Friedman retailers. Dave will be joined at each stop by Friedman artist Sammy Boller, and on limited dates by Steven Stevens (see below for full info) to help demo and discuss products. Each clinic is an opportunity to find out more about Friedman products and get insights into Dave’s design inspiration and process, get in-depth knowledge about our newest releases and hear some killer playing! The clinic tour is falling right between two new pedal releases, the Gold-72 Wah which is available now, and the Golden Pearl, coming next month. Dave will be discussing these pedals as well as other new and established products, so get your questions ready! We’re starting out in Cleveland on October 13th, and traveling East from there, then heading to Chicago and ending in Dave’s hometown, Detroit. We’re called these store visits the Blood, Sweat & Tubes clinic tour because that encapsulates the work & passion Dave puts into Friedman every day, and we can’t wait to bring it out to all of you.

What to Expect

The schedule, including dates, times and locations is below, but we strongly recommend that you contact your retailer for information such as RSVP’s, arrival times and anything else you may need to know about the event. Each clinic will be about 2 hours long, and will include a performance by the Friedman artist(s) in attending, a Q&A, Product Spotlight and Meet & Greet, AND a Raffle/Giveaway.