Long comment, but I'm bach'in it tonight so... I once played an outdoor set at church. Some teens walked up after we finished and said, "dude - like, how do you get that SOUND ???" Which set me back a bit as I knew these guys all played "electric guitar" but I'd only played acoustic in their world. That was the first church outing for my MIM Strat w/ 57-62 reissue pups thru a reissue TS into a '72 Super Reverb (that I restored myself but hired out the electronics.) Now... those are not super highly regarded instruments per se. But for kids used to cracker box amps and very lame inexpensive FX pedals, even the "pure tone" of a second-string setup like mine was something completely new to them. That's how I personally felt tonight listening to that Dumble amp - and a fine guitar player too. But damn, that was PURE TONE (!!!) w/ nothing artificial in the chain, period. I mean... go back and listen again w/ headphones. That's simply an amazing sonic signature from masterful craftsmanship in electronica and physics, and knowledge of how to almost literally acoustically paint with the electronics, so that a guitar player can almost paint acoustically with the amp. And for the love of all that's good pure and right in this universe, OH how I'd have loved to sit in that room during the shoot. Hell... I even looked online and found a 1x12 tweedle-dee for $95K right now (06-30-24). I don't have that laying around, but if I did.... baby, AI and modeling aside, aint no more Dumble's. E - V - E - R... But thanks to these videos and some idea of which recordings have that Dumble sound, I know kinda what I'm shooting for. So ironically, but affordably, I recently picked up a few year old Valeton modeling pedal on Reverb for $250, and a brand new Champion 100 amp last month for $250. I figure that'll be a pretty flexible 'digital' platform, and I've already started downloading files for the pedal. The Dumble Sound is the first one I'm looking for 😎🎸 might even make a video... if someone could just loan me a Dumble for A/B reference...
The 'Dumble' sauce is fickle, as in it only truly works in the hands of the player it was literally built for. This is an argument that leans into the digital modeling argument, that the digital models of amps are snapshots of an amp that works as best as possible for the middle-of-the-road players. Dumble was so painstaking in his pursuit of tone for the specific player he was building for, that if the charge on the chassis was off, he would start over. Great find! Beautiful example of his work you have shared with us!
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Long comment, but I'm bach'in it tonight so... I once played an outdoor set at church. Some teens walked up after we finished and said, "dude - like, how do you get that SOUND ???" Which set me back a bit as I knew these guys all played "electric guitar" but I'd only played acoustic in their world. That was the first church outing for my MIM Strat w/ 57-62 reissue pups thru a reissue TS into a '72 Super Reverb (that I restored myself but hired out the electronics.) Now... those are not super highly regarded instruments per se. But for kids used to cracker box amps and very lame inexpensive FX pedals, even the "pure tone" of a second-string setup like mine was something completely new to them. That's how I personally felt tonight listening to that Dumble amp - and a fine guitar player too. But damn, that was PURE TONE (!!!) w/ nothing artificial in the chain, period. I mean... go back and listen again w/ headphones. That's simply an amazing sonic signature from masterful craftsmanship in electronica and physics, and knowledge of how to almost literally acoustically paint with the electronics, so that a guitar player can almost paint acoustically with the amp. And for the love of all that's good pure and right in this universe, OH how I'd have loved to sit in that room during the shoot. Hell... I even looked online and found a 1x12 tweedle-dee for $95K right now (06-30-24). I don't have that laying around, but if I did.... baby, AI and modeling aside, aint no more Dumble's. E - V - E - R... But thanks to these videos and some idea of which recordings have that Dumble sound, I know kinda what I'm shooting for. So ironically, but affordably, I recently picked up a few year old Valeton modeling pedal on Reverb for $250, and a brand new Champion 100 amp last month for $250. I figure that'll be a pretty flexible 'digital' platform, and I've already started downloading files for the pedal. The Dumble Sound is the first one I'm looking for 😎🎸 might even make a video... if someone could just loan me a Dumble for A/B reference...
The 'Dumble' sauce is fickle, as in it only truly works in the hands of the player it was literally built for. This is an argument that leans into the digital modeling argument, that the digital models of amps are snapshots of an amp that works as best as possible for the middle-of-the-road players. Dumble was so painstaking in his pursuit of tone for the specific player he was building for, that if the charge on the chassis was off, he would start over. Great find! Beautiful example of his work you have shared with us!
Well, this Dumble wasn't built for this guy, was it? Sounds great.
It’s definitely the JT clip for me. Jesus