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Friedman DS40 Manual
Friedman DS40 Manual
Potent emulation of 60’s and 70’s Rock-Era guitar amplifier designed by David Friedman
Owner’s Manual
Developed by Brainworx in partnership with Friedman Amplification and Distributed by Universal Audio.
The Friedman DS40 (Dirty Shirley) amp plug-in can be installed and operated like any other UAD-2 plug-in.
Please check www.uaudio.com for general info about the system requirements, etc.
Friedman DS40 (Dirty Shirley) Plug-in
Meticulously modeled guitar amp, speaker simulation and FX rack.
The Friedman DS40 has been modeled after the legendary-sounding vintage stack of Friedman designed the Dirty Shirley to capture Page’s famous modded-
David Friedman’s design. It offers the perfect complement to any engineering session Marshall tones while serving the requirements of today’s guitarist, without
where one seeks a faithfully emulated 60’s and 70’s rock era guitar sound – quickly compromising on the vintage mojo. Like many classic British amps, the Dirty
and cleanly in the box and at any volume level. Shirley is a one-channel amp. Included are separate Gain and Master Volume
controls to allow for better control over crunch and clean sounds.
The Dirty Shirley was heavily inspired by a modified Marshall JTM-45, one of Jim Mar-
shall’s first guitar amps. It perfectly emulates the iconic Jimmy Page sound as heard
on early Led Zeppelin records. The Dirty Shirley’s ability to precisely respond to a player’s technique, and a
guitar’s volume knob makes it a must have “in the box” amp sim for any UAD
owner who records electric guitars.
The main applications for this plug-in are:
1. Achieve exceptional-sounding electric guitar 3. Re-amp less-than-perfect DI guitar tracks previously 5. Get intense amounts of distortion without the need
tracks at any volume level, without the need for recorded in other guitar-amp situations. to maintain a high output volume.
great-sounding rooms or expensive guitar mics.
4. Faithfully emulate highly sought-after electric guitar
2. Record electric guitars directly into the DAW, tones made famous by rock’s greatest guitar players. 6. Have a piece of rock and roll history right in your
and then mix, edit and process without ever leav- DAW that feels and responds like a physical amp
ing the DAW environment when played through Apollo’s low–latency monitor-
ing.
The Basics
Use this plug-in exactly like you would operate the real Dirty Shirley amplifier. First pick an input based on your desired distortion setting - selecting ‘L’ input will provide a cleaner
tone, selecting ‘H’ input is ideal for maximum crunch. Start with a presence setting of ‘5’ and adjust to taste along with the Bass, Middle, and Treble tone settings.
The Dirty Shirley plug-in was developed with the Apollo series interfaces in mind. Of course the DS40 plug-in will work with any UAD-2 device, but to experience the
ultra-low latency (desirable for playing in real-time) you need an Apollo interface.
To play and record dry DI guitar tracks with the lowest latency and the highest quality possible connect your guitar to the Hi-Z Input of the Apollo Interface or connect a quality DI
Box and Mic Preamp to a line input of your Apollo series interface.
Input L is a lower sensitivity input that is best suited for cleaner tones and easing
in the amount of break-up.
Input H is a higher sensitivity input that is best suited for higher amounts of gain
(distortion).
The Controls of the Dirty Shirley Back Panel
We have modeled the behavior of the Friedman tube power amp, so you may
experiment with different settings of the Master of the amp and the internal POWER
SOAK. We recommend a setting of roughly -10dB for most scenarios.
The Controls of the Dirty Shirley Back Panel
UNDO / REDO: We have made a lot of presets for the Friedman amp plug-in, many of them have been
made to work perfectly with classic guitars like Strats, Teles or Paulas. All of the factory
You can undo and redo changes you made to the controls of the BE100 at any time. presets offer A/B/C/D variations, do try them out!
The undo / redo will work for as many as 32 steps. This makes experimenting and
tweaking knobs easy. If you don´t like what you did... just undo it. This effectively quadruples the factory sounds you can browse through, and many simi-
lar amp settings sound quite different with different FILTER or DELAY settings.
SETTINGS (A/B/C/D):
These presets are only intended to give you an easy start and to demo some of the
The DS40 offers four internal settings (A/B/C/D) that will be stored with every tones you can get out of the Friedman amp plug-in.
preset. So, one preset can contain up to four amp and effects settings.
CREATING YOUR OWN SOUNDS & PRESETS
You may use similar amp settings with more or less delay, different delay times, etc.,
to quickly switch between different sounds, or you can switch from clean to crunch When you start to create your own sounds the most important elements to adjust are
to lead within one setup / preset. the DRIVE, TONE STACK and the REC CHAINS.
The settings can be automated (!) in most DAW hosts. This way it´s possible to - Set the controls of the TONE SECTION (Bass, Treble) to the center position (’12-o-
switch from a dry rhythm sound to a lead sound with tons of delay, for example. clock’).
- Select an input (L for clean tones or H for more distortion)
COPY / PASTE: - Dial in as much GAIN as you like.
- Play through as many REC CHAINS as you like and pick the one that sounds clos-
To set up variations of similar sounds you don´t have to dial in all the parameters est to what you are looking for without altering the TONE SECTION.
several times. Let´s say you like your setting A and want to use the same sound, just - NOW start tweaking the TONE SECTION and DRIVE to fine tune your amp settings.
without delay, as SETTING B. - Add Delay or activate filters, the noise gate, etc.
- Simply press COPY while you are in SETTING A.
- Switch to SETTING B by pressing ‘B’ in the SETTINGS section. Experiment, be creative. We are confident that the different channels of the amp and
- Press PASTE, now SETTING B is identical to SETTING A. the huge selection of REC CHAINS will offer you many possible combinations that will
- Bypass the DELAY. Done. sound great on a big variety of musical styles and genres.
Now you can switch between A & B and play the same sound with or without delay. Combine the Friedman amps with other UAD-2 plug-ins (dynamics, effects, room simu-
lation), and you will be able to create countless world-class production-ready guitar
FX Rack: sounds in the box. Enjoy.
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