Redneck ODS50 Dumble Clone

[mr. beaumont]

With a bowling shirt...and a "soul patch."

[John A.]

With a bowling shirt...and a "soul patch."

Hey! For your information, I do not have a soul patch, and it's a Hawaiian shirt, not a bowling shirt.

John

[eazilyled]

I built a ceriatone ots from a kit last year. It wasn't too hard but then again it was my 3rd build and I took it slow. Probably not a good choice for a 1st build.

[bananafist]

Wow, its amazing to read such pleasant, well mannered comments re Mr Ds babies! They seem to excite high degrees of intolerance on some forums, and on others, (Amp Garage,) they have a much more technical, 'how do you do it' approach. Similarly with the late Ken Fischers Trainwreck amps.

Lots of folk say 'oh, its just tubes and parts,' but similarly, music is just notes - isn't it? Its how you put it together that matters, and Mr D was the first in his field. His Steel String Singer brings a different dimension to 'clean.'

Based on my observations only, I haven't heard any clones that come really close to sounding like either of these original amps.

Just for the record, I think both amps can sound phenomenal in the right players hands, and if I could afford it I'd have one of each to play with.

Not a Kaiser fan, sorry.

[Jabberwocky]

I think we have just been trolled. Egg on my face; yolk's on us, I guess.

[bananafist]

Hey! Not meant as a troll or put-down, or whatever. Sorry if I've caused offence, none intended. It is good to read reasonable, considered opinion, instead of the sometimes crazy antagonism on TGP and others.
My bad

[BigMikeinNJ]

I've had a couple of FUCHS modded amps, my first was a lovely MusicMan 112, and then I got more what I wanted: an older Princeton Reverb totally tricked out. The guy that paid to have all the work done was a hard working programmer with bucks and he went nuts having Andy trick this thing out. I had a blackface Fender Deluxe Reverb which I let go of (MISTAKE) and I miss the chimey jangly sweet tone of it. I'll get another.

I kept just the Princeton Reverb amp Andy modded, flame maple and mahogany cabinet, 25 watt Mercury Magnetics transformer, total ODS and other mods that were current at the time. It's small and does all kinds of stuff. Andy totally guts the donor amp and rewires it and uses his ODS board in there. If you ever wanted to go the FUCHS route this is an affordable way to do it. Find someone selling theirs on eBay. The Princeton I got for $1800.00 and I think that is what the fella spent on the mods and cabinet alone... I've barely scratched the surface on what this thing can do.

I like it.

[jorgemg1984]

From my experience / clips dumble type amps sound like refined blackfaces to me. Much less mid scoop, usable mid pot, sweeter highs and tighter lows.

Although I believe the design is not farm from a blackface the tone stack is different and that's what counts on these amps... I believe the wiring is different which makes the knobs more interactive, the mid pot has a much higher value (hence the more mids and the more active control) and the treble cap has a higher value too. They don't sound very far from flat frequency with non extreme knob settings to me.

This sounds like a good example although the treble sounds very "cut".

[guitaryellow]

Check out Tube Tone Engineering over here in Kent, my next buy is a Kittyhawk, they were the official importer/distributor for Dumble in Europ and came up with Kitthawk as the production model.
My ODS 50 is bang on the tone, I have a Dumkudo also which is now in its box.