Friedman Dirty Shirley Pedal | Killer rock, indie + metal overdrive tones with P90s | Review & Demo

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This is my take on the Friedman Dirty Shirley pedal. I’ve had this overdrive pedal for about three years, but only just realized how to make it sound good – which was my fault, not the pedal’s!

Get the Friedman Dirty Shirley pedal here:

Basically, the Dirty Shirley pedal aims to deliver the tones of the Friedman Dirty Shirley amp – in pedal form (an amp in a box pedal, if you will). The Dirty Shirley is one of the lower gain amps/pedals in the Friedman collection, so I thought it’d be great for my indie and classic rock stuff. But when I got it, it was just way too gainy and full-on for me. I just couldn’t make it sound good for the styles of music I play.

Anyway, cut to early 2021 and I discover there’s an internal gain trim pot on the pedal that the previous user had set to maximum! So I opened up the pedal, turned it down, and it has opened up a whole new world of awesome drive tones for me. So if you’re reading this and have the pedal, try it too! (Note: there’s no mention of this gain trim pot on the official Friedman website that I can see, and there’s no manual available for the Dirty Shirley pedal either… I wish Friedman would change this.)

But enough waffling. Here’s the Friedman Dirty Shirley overdrive pedal through my P90-equipped Harley Benton SC Junior on a variety of indie, classic rock, alternative rock and heavy riffs… enjoy! More on that guitar here:

After the riffs, I also do an indie rock, classic rock and alt rock loop, where I tweak the Dirty Shirley pedal’s controls to show you all the sounds it can achieve, and then there’s another loop where I tweak the internal gain trim pot too.


Here’s the timestamps for the different parts of the video:

00:00 Hello!
00:37 Dirty Shirley pedal info
01:28 Why I hated this pedal for nearly three years!
02:53 Today’s rig

03:34 Turning on the pedal
03:57 Classic rock sounds
06:37 Indie sounds (guitar volume knob test at 07:04)
11:22 Pop punk sounds
12:26 Hard rock sounds
13:13 Alt rock sounds
14:11 Heavy sounds (in Drop D tuning)

16:43 Indie rock loop with control tweaking
18:18 Classic rock loop with control tweaking
21:31 Alternative rock loop with control tweaking
24:23 Classic hard rock loop with internal gain trim pot tweaking: this is the interesting one! On this loop I tweak the pedal’s internal gain tromp pot too, really showing off all the extremes you can reach

26:50 My thoughts on the Dirty Shirley pedal and the internal gain trim pot
28:12 Controls on the pedal
30:17 Why I’ve changed my opinion on this pedal
30:46 Final conclusion and what’s to come!


My setup was as follows: I ran the Dirty Shirley pedal straight into my Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 head. That went from the Red Box DI straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done. Oh, and I used my TC Electronic Ditto Looper to play the loops.

Here’s some links to those bits of gear:

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H&K Black Spirit 200 head:
TC Electronic Ditto Looper:
Focusrite 4i4 (this is the newer equivalent of my 2i4, which they don’t make any more!):
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Enjoy!



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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Controlled Distress - Biz Baz Studio.

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