The Amp Garage

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The reality of it is that most of the Dumble designs have been dissected and stripped of their hype and the truth is that the man only made 5-8 variations on the ODS and a handful of other designs which were never popular enough to get past the single digit serial numbers. We can only talk about th...

He's much better when he's not playng blues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQMpPW874KI

Seeing as he edited his posts, at least we know he didn't electrocute himself














yet.

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I've done it through the F-hole (does the pickup rout even connect to that cavity?). I used a cardboard template to wire as much as possible before installing, leaving a lot of slack in the wires. Then I (poorly) tie strings to the pot shafts, which keep coming off when I try to pull them up through...

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I've tried it, and didn't find it to be particularly useful at all. There's only one setting which sounds good, and it's more of a volume control than a midrange control, anyway.

I ran into the same problem on an ODS+fender reverb build. The reverb driver would distort at high preamp volume settings. I fixed it by removing the cathode bypass cap and adding a grid resistor - I went straight for 39k, but you should try a few different values (10k to 68k, maybe).

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Nice idea for those Wima caps. I have used them before in pedals but not amps due to the short leads. Socket makes sense, quick change presto! :D I just solder some extra leads on them: [img:1011:319]http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a280/mr_hankey/IMG_1040.jpg[/img] It's probably not 100% as mecha...

If I had to take a guess based on almost no information, I might say that the owner tried to "mod the amp", messed it up completely, and is too embarassed to admit it.

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