What do you guys think of this build ( 3 channel ODS ?)

[PierreL]

Sold as a 3 channel amp : blackface clean (AB763 circuit) - ODS clean - ODS drive

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[Structo]

That's a lot of wire!

[bluesfendermanblues]

Yep, it doesnt look like a typical ampgarage ODS.

You should probably expect to spend 10-25 hours rewiring that amp.

[kevster]

I like the concept A LOT!!! I kind of have something generally similar in mind for down the road.

I want to know HOW IT SOUNDS...

Any clips coming?

[PierreL]

Not mine, it's on sale on a french board, no clips at all, sorry.
But the concept is intriguing.

[Structo]

Do you have a description of the amp?

Multi channel amps are nothing new.

But Mr. Dumble was the guy that made them sound good.
Most everybody agrees that the early blackface Fender amps have some of the best clean tones ever developed.

But what Dumble did was marry that to a very good and unique overdrive tone.

Some of the boutique builders that followed Dumble came up with amps with a clean channel and two overdrive channels.

All depends what a guitarist wants or wants to pay for.

[Bob-I]

I built an amp that exactly fits that description. It works well, but if I was going to do it again, I'd have the second channel as another od channel with separate gain controls. The second clean is just not necessary but I could use a second gain channel.

[PierreL]

Actually the description is quite generic, designed to sell to those who do not really know Dumble style amps...like "Robben Ford, Larry Carlton, David Lindley tone" etc...
"A repro of the Robben Ford Dumble Overdrive Special"
"mounted in the chassis of a seventies Fender amp"
"with an added AB763 Blackface channel, all of them footswitchable"
"mid boost switch, treble boost switch, PAB, rock/jazz switch"
He explains that the amp is quite complcated ', like a Mesa Boogie, and that the user need to get used to the controls to exploit all the sounds available.
The Fender channel is classic Blackface, with an added master volume though. He then says that among teh current crop of Dumble inspired amps, the closest you could compare it to is the the Fuchs TDS.
The specs :
50W - 1x12" (either Tonkerlite or Eminence Legend)
2 6L6 (NOS Svetlanas - hard to find he says)
External bias control points
Reverb (tube reverb it seems)
Orange drop capacitors
Hammond output transformer
Mains transformer : from the UK, high quality
4 and 8 ohms speaker outs
Price : 1000€ with the Tonkerlite - 950€ with the Eminence Legend

Thats' basically it. I'd be curious to try it out though. Next time I'm in Paris...

Do you have a description of the amp?

Multi channel amps are nothing new.

But Mr. Dumble was the guy that made them sound good.
Most everybody agrees that the early blackface Fender amps have some of the best clean tones ever developed.

But what Dumble did was marry that to a very good and unique overdrive tone.

Some of the boutique builders that followed Dumble came up with amps with a clean channel and two overdrive channels.

All depends what a guitarist wants or wants to pay for.

[mlp-mx6]

I built a similar amp - dedicated Fender-style clean or switch to an ODS which can then switch between ODS-clean and OD.

The footswitch includes the 2 switches for OD (red) and PAB (yellow) for the ODS side, and another that switches to the Fender clean (green). In other words, if I step on the green one it goes to Fender clean, if green is off then the ODS is active and the OD/PAB switches matter.

I built this as an ODS-101-HRM and it sounds great. Really vocal sounding, and the Fender clean is a striking departure from the ODS clean. Fun amp. Has a built-in D'lator too.