Perhaps the best Dumble tone? (my .02) (Page 1 of 5)

Yeah without having played it myself I cant speak to the feel of the amp... But the sound thru Youtube is no different in my opinion that a bludotone or some ceriatone's I've heard.

wonder how this compares to a Two-Rock?

- Nic from Detroit... posting on JB's Forum since 6-2-2006
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You'll have to let us know how that Tim works out. I'm buying a zendrive kit to build when I'm home this winter break. I'm already buying a jub so I can't afford an OTS, too

I also think  "Talk to your Daughter" by Robben Ford is a very good Dumble tone. It's much more pure than the clip I posted.

I didn't think that recording was anything special, turned it off.  I own a Ceriatone OTS 50-watt and I've played a Bludotone and virtually all of Two Rocks current offerings - they all have just a slightly different voicings from each other and no Dumble was created the same twice to my knowledge, so you can't compare, but all are close.

These are my favorite single style amps for my tone.

Plug straight into amp go to lead channel and be in that Ford, Carlton territory - no OD pedals required, just maybe a reverb and delay in amps loop.  Here's a link to a quick little noodle I did with Strat, though posted here recently I think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NAACfgtpS0

My everyday tone is heard here on guitar solo at 2:12 and outro part of song. Amp on clean channel and me using a Klon and two other OD pedals stacked behind it.  Song is Breakaway from the Robert McDougall Band across the pond, I wote solo and outro parts on guitar for him to learn and or use mine take for free.. seems like a good kid.

http://soundcloud.com/t92780/breakaway

Yeah, stopped listening after about .30 - will give another listen.

The first time I saw those on youtube, I thought someone was playing a joke on me.  It was like watching Professional Wrestling where you and everyone else knows it's fake, but the guys in the video are all into it, acting like it's real!  -Seth

Yes the Dumble Steel String Singer was featured all over Ah Via Musicom.  All the Hendrix-y fuzzed out stuff and dirty crunch tones were the Dumble.  Also that whooshing flangy goodness known as "High Landrons" was mostly the Dumble + a MXR 126 rack flanger.  Reportedly EJ dropped the Dumble from his rig after it blew a transformer and Howard Alexander Dumble gave EJ crap about fixing it.  Evidently EJ broke the Dumble code and let someone else peek inside or take a crack at fixing it.  It was later sold to Carlos Santana for an untold sum.  Rumor is that Eric just re-aquired his famed Dumble SSS and it's back at Alex Dumble's shop for a tune-up and voicing.  After the transformer blew Eric stated that it never quite sounded the same.  In a recent interview Eric was quoted saying that he recently listened to Ah Via Musicom and wanted to recapture aspects of his tone and playing from that era which as a diehard EJ fan is VERY EXCITING.  Not that his current tone/style is bad it's just that in era, EJ was frickin' incredible.

The SSS and the ODS unit posted in the clip are wildly different-

The SSS has a (massive) pre-amp but no OD stage so you can get insanely big cleans without break. This amp with some EVs/Eminence Delta Pros are pretty scary.

If you are ho/hum on Dumbles that's cool but you need to hear a 90s Skyline circuit, EL34 HRM 100 watt with Marshall Trannies vs. the big Music Man 700v Iron. I'll put it against any Superlead for the Eric Johnson lead tones. With a 'lator and the right delay it's on point!!!

The clip the OP did was a 6l6 based 80s Skyliner (Peter's Amp) is a low plate unit. Hearing it in person is pretty impressive.