The Amp Garage

what are you trying to make her do?

Send me yours, I'll clone it and YOU can do the clips!

It really is amazing how much seasoned iron changes the feel of an amp

I have seen all of them at one point or another: The SSS is not a fresh build, that one used to be Eric Johnson's, and was built in like '82 the one That Alexander built in 07 has a gold hammertone chassis. The ODSR built in 07 used a recycled front and rear pannel (one of the 3 part chassis with th...

You should be running that at 8 ohms to get the primary right, The Twin OT probably helps substantially with the "woof"

That being said the Music Man setup sounds most like Rugged Road to me- My buddy's amp had 4 x 220 uf filter caps on the first stage

When I saw the 2 amps at the same time they both had chokes, both had Twin Iron(output). I've since had a chance to spend some 1 on 1 time with the tan amp.

The Music Man Iron has a different response, it is a tad darker, and the low end is tighter, it doesn't seem to have the "Woof"

Shipping a dumble is a scary thing!! I sweat bullets every time!

Yeah, Around 90/91 a friend of mine ordered an ODS from Dumble as "the robben ford thing" and what he got was a Skyline with standard overdrive and Music Man IRon. That amp NAILS Rugged road. When I stuck my head in back of the black amp it had what looked to be Twin trannies, Robben also said he ha...

Seeing him live then, and seeing him recently, his tones are completely different. There's an RF website where one of his techs (David/Daved?) answers questions on a somewhat regular basis. He had his main ODS sent back to Dumble for changes about 1 and a half to 2 years ago. Apparently, it's love/...

The tan amp looked like it hadn't been touched in Decades, the Parts were all early 1980's The goo was black and had a hefty layer of dust on it. I think it's the Other amp he got in the 90's that he fights with.

Do any of the Dumble builders/cloners on here have direct A/B clips of the Dumble and their clone of it when it was finished? That would be a true test mark, and a a great selling tool I would think. :wink: Here is Dumble # XYZ and here is how it sounds in three settings. Here is clone of #XYZ, now...

Most folks here on the forum have neve seen a real dumble in person, let alone been inside one to clone. Furthermore, the only way to truly approximate it would be to use old stock parts/seasoned iron. They sound different after 20 years of being played. That being said, I'll see if my buddy will le...

He also used to borrow Jackson Brownes amp(s) and Steve Trovato's amp which IS HRM. It's hard to say really-

Yeah the classic is a 6l6. I find the EL34's to not have the top end extension of the 6l6 and a bit more "grit" I don't necessarily find them more agressive though. The big difference is in the low end, the 6l6 is a gorilla and the El34 is a spider monkey. I find that El34 Skylines with Standard ove...

As a comparison, Here is the same guitar, cab, mic, etc but this time the amp is a high voltage EL34 Skyline-

As always nevermind the clams....