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Just by way of an academic exercise it would be interesting to compare a pukka item (£175K on reverb right now) with the £700 quid version on AliExpress.
Annoyed they didn't try Kill Your Television on it.
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
The amp sounded good to me. But I'd like to hear one in a non-jazz/blues type setting. Perhaps rock or guitar pop - something I'm more likely to listen to. Not that Robben isn't excellent, but Rubber Soul, Revolver or Exile recorded with one of these would be interesting. Probably wasted in that environment...
Anyway interesting episode with great playing. We're lucky to have a channel like TPS that brings stuff like this to us in such a quality and accessible way.
Obviously this association is not only derived from Robben but also from some other artists.
I currently own two dumble inspired amps. A Mark Kane #183 and a Redplate overdrive classic. I've owned a couple of others in the past, although before I was mostly into blackface/tweed/vox.
These amps really have a lot built in, both in tones as well as in volume flexibility. You hardly ever see anyone demoing them this way, but they are very capable of doing dynamic clean sounds on the overdrive channel that explodes into a great overdrive by just picking harder. And this can all be achieved at whisper volumes or loud volumes with plenty of ways to compensate and always keep the amp sounding alive.
Dumble really was great at his craft and even though he probably wasn't too fond of his amps being copied, the truth is that a decent "clone" gives you a peek into the possibilities of his designs.
I’ve never taken a lot of interest in Dumble style amps, I’m not into the ‘scene’ where they’re used - I’d always thought they were about that fat overdrive tone, but that clean sounded really great.
Robben Ford's tones on the 'Talk to your Daughter' album and the track of the same name and 'Help the Poor' are some of my favourite overdrive tones and differ to what he went on to. That's what I've always associated and assumed 'The Dumble Sound' was and whilst Larry Carlton used them and is another mentioned when it comes to this amp, for his main recordings, especially if we're talking Steely Dan and The Nightfly, that was his 1958 Fender Tweed Deluxe.
I've had Dumble-inspired OD pedals like the Duellist, Dude, original Zendrive, Landgraff Dynamic Overdrive and played a friend's Dumkudo and I've never heard the above tones coming from any of those and I'd love to find something that does that.
Interesting about the cab. I had a wonderful Divided by 13 head that only sounded good with a 2x12 Tone Tubby cab with the Alnico/Ceramic combo. All other cabs/speakers didn't sound anywhere near as good and getting that perfect marriage is important.
RF mentioned Alexander Dumble being looked after by someone, paying his bills etc in his later years. I know in the past and early years of the Dumble Amps, he was living on Jackson Browne's estate and so I wonder if it was him, but I'm sure RF would've remembered someone so well-known as that and must've visited Dumble at that place.
It's a shame they didn't compare a Two Rock or anything like that to the Dumble - that was a missed opportunity. It also would've been great to hear RF through a Fender Red Knob Twin with a Zendrive as at one point, that was what he used for European gigs.
And of course it’s an asset that needs looked after!