I am curious if anyone has seen this dumble before because I am fascinated by the sound of it: https://www.instagram.com/p/CXSUJQctbAZ/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CZFZws0v1Lj/
I assume it's an HRM and the owner says it's from the 2000's. I've NEVER seen pics of this particular amp before in my hours of looking up ODS's and the owner is from the New Orleans area, he just recently acquired it from a place called Scruff's in Texas I believe. Anyhow, this tonality is one that I really enjoy so should I be funneling my build towards an HRM? I've been studying the #124 mostly because of how well it's been examined and am wondering are there HRM amps that have been fleshed out in similar fashion? Would I be able to build the 124 and convert it to something more along the lines (HRM) of this little combo in the future?
I'm sure you guys get this all the time, "new dumble build what should I do" type of posts. Hopefully it's not an eyeroll for you guys
Also if anyone would like to comment on the sound of this particular dumble in context to others that would be pretty useful for me to figure out how it sounds and what to realistically expect. This thing has so much harmonic content and I don't know what I'm really hearing? Is it the guitar or what? It sounds like it's on the verge of feeding back and there are a lot of overtones. Is this what I can expect if I build any dumble? What should my expectations be?
I've always thought the Dumble sound was very saxophone-like (a smooth dull but vocal kind of tone) but perhaps my understanding of this has been mostly due to the typical "listen to Robben and Carlton" suggestions one usually encounters when asking about the sound of a dumble. I feel like that's really more just hearing how they set the tone stack than what Dumbles are known for. I've read that the earlier ones are more raw sounding and thus kinda negating my conception that they are "sax-like"?
Is what defines an ODS more about how the harmonics stand out when the note is held out? That's been my most recent understanding of the sound of an ODS. Just tons of harmonics and "bloom". I find myself listening for this a lot more now when I play amps, including my own 1965 Fender Pro Reverb which has a ton of harmonic content that I never noticed before.
Anyhow, I hope that wasn't too hard to read. I've stayed up all night reading about transformers so forgive me if it's a little incoherent!
. I'm just trying to navigate this dumble world haha. I've also got almost no clue how to tell which parts are what. I see you edited your post to leave out the fact that component choice is super important (??). I can see the resistors in your layout but how do you know what parts are what? How does one tell "oh these are x resistors". Are there some that I should know about that dumbles sound best with? There's a vast sea of component choices out there and I am in dire need of some guidance haha. I'm sure I'll figure it out eventually but it can't hurt to ask right? No question is a wrong question in my humble opinion.
). But I don't mean necessarily Mr Dumble's branching paths but say within the ampgarage world. There's so much coverage on amp 124 I feel like that's a good place to start? Is there another ODS that is as fully documented as that one? Basically I want to get my feet wet with a proper ODS build and just learn from there by changing it once I have absorbed the design into my psyche so to speak. Yeah I know that sounds weird lol but yeah I'll read the generation identification thread you shared with me and see what's what.