I will have to say that Mick Taylor seems to have aged the best of anyone in the band...

For the price of a Dumble, you can buy everyone in the stadium a tiny dose of molly and they will enjoy the sound coming out of your Line 6 more than they would the Dumble sober.

Boy Mick Taylor is looking pretty young after his years in the Rolling Stones!

2:45 *flips £20, 000 switches to activate £2.50 capacitors*

Asking the really important questions: Did you try it with a Metal Zone? ;)

Ahhh i see not that Mick Taylor

Wow. The OD tone is just killer. I think any guitar would sound heavenly through that thing. Beautiful.

Beautiful tone and killer playing Mick! The harmonics came through on the recording. Thank you for sharing!

Micks playing is what shines for me here

I love the clean sounds. Really nice definition, it lets the Strat shine.

This is a great review, Mick, thanks so much. Very clear and your enthusiasm makes it all the more enjoyable and informative.

this is something else, really, everything that's played hits a spot for me. Bass an overtones together, wow.

It must have something I have never heard Mick sound so fluid.

This amp can't produce a bad tone...and neither can Mick! Well done, great pairing!

In Mick Taylor's hands, the Dumble really is the sound I hear in my head. Excellent playing. Incredible tone. Best review of an amplifier I've ever watched. Now we all want (need?) a Dumble...

I think this is the best Dumble video on youtube, thanks Mick!

Wowza. what a clean clear deep tone. Holy wow. Mr. D. you were a wizard, a true gift to every musician.

Mick´s definitely sounding better than ever before. Great tone, man.

gotta be one of the greatest strat tones I have ever heard... Want one! not gonna happen, but thanks for sharing this experience Mick!!

I'm sure this Dumble also sounds better than some of the others i've heard, but, I sooo appreciate the effort you made to get a clean, amazing recording of this amp. Just wonderful. Peace.

Sounds great. You can hear that "Bloom" of the notes sustaining. Like your fingers are controlling a wild beast!!

Mick is such a cool player... he makes it all sound so easy, but DAMN.. that man can play!

Great clean compression. For my ears sounds amazing clean on low input. Overdrive sounds just as well, smooth as butter.

Finally! I have been waiting for this for a long time! The NAMM videos will have to wait!

Lovely amp, outstanding demo! Two thumbs up Mick, really superb!

You can definitely hear what the ZenDrive was trying to accomplish, or, what Robben Ford heard in the Zen that reminded him of Dumble. For what it's worth, the dynamic range mentioned, did not come through in the vid. In fact, it almost sounded dark/muffled.

Yep, that's it.... and it brings out the finest in your playing, Mick... lovely

Nice review Mick and good to meet you on the day. Best Steve.

Great amp and I miss playing through it the 1-2 times per year I was able to as it was in my extended family. I was never a huge fan of the Dumble overdrive tones but the clean sound was otherworldly, That's what made it special to my ears and you have to be in the room to appreciate it. Even against my vintage Fenders, this was on another level.

Yeah, Mick!!

Beautifully said, reportage was pitch perfect and the amp sounds great too. I’m used to you from TPS. I found this refreshing.

Instructive. Good playing in reviewing this amp. The Dumble sounds great (as far I can tell through my computer speakers). It seems very well thought in design and versatility. I'm sure that is the main reason why top musicians ordered them in the past.

You did the Dumble proud, Mick... Played some classy stuff.

Mick's playing is next level here. And the tone is awesome. Is it $50,000 awesome? Who cares, I'll never own it, but it sounds great.

I come back once a month to watch, or LISTEN to this video, such a treat.

Thanks, Mick. You were able to draw attention to what distinguishes the Dumble from everything else. It was easy to see your expressive playing emphasized in a tool that captured all the nuance that sometimes goes missing in other amps. Great job of getting to the heart of the matter.

I like it; its a nice sounding amp that can cover a lot of ground tone wise and would be very cool for recording work.

Videography deserves an award.

I had no idea Mick was still at Guitarist.. awesome. I dig all of these videos. This especially..

Thanks lads I really enjoyed that and great playing Mick as always!! Peace!!

Nothing SPECIAL here, except for the shear number of views and comments.....Well done Guitarist Magazine.

6:28 My God. That's the tone.

It is the warmth in the drive which tickles me. I would say a big thanks to Guitarist for this. Mick, as usual delivers a quality review. No bs, no potty humour, just intelligent and considered thoughts. Is it worth it? Of course it is.......If I could afford it I would buy one. Ant that finish is the best!!!!!

That thing does sound amazing great playing too Mick.

I mean, sound really amazing. I would be interested if they had a Hot Rod or something as benchmark next to it.

Lovely review. You deserve to have one. Maybe a rich benefactor will be inspired to give you one!!

Mick , I really wish you owned one of those amps. you can hear the connection you have with that amp and that connection is the goal of musicians and their gear . stay real and thanks for sharing !

NIcely done Mick. Great playing as usual and thanks for sharing.

A tone to die for. Espacially with the 335.

I played a clone of this amp recently. The builder has studied this amp for about a decade and followed all the known steps that Dumble followed. This thing was UN believable. 3D sound, sustain, perfect EQ curve. Just amazing.

Great demo! Thanks for sharing this rare gem.

Mick, you really made this one count. Congratulations!

I feel like there's so much that we're missing. I can't imagine how good it sounded in that room.

At least you got a trip to Clitheroe out of it.

I think that's the most beautiful, versatile amp I've heard on youtube.

Never knowingly heard a dumble before but straight away I thought it sounded crazy close to the clean channel of my Mkiii boogie. Then you revealed the EV12L speaker which explained the similarities. It's clarity and defined bottom end clunk is unmistakable.

Nice tone but nothing struck me as so unique that it couldn't be duplicated by a Fender Custom Shop model or a Boogie. I thought Mick's playing was the key ingredient here. While the amp sounds great, I'm wondering how many folks in a club could hear the difference over drinks, dinner, and conversations...

sounded great but like many others, i couldnt hear anything that made me say WOW thats a dumble!

Glorious tone. I hope to one day play through a Dumble. Lucky you!

Awesome, Mick, thanks. That is definitely THE sound. Beautiful.

Klon Centaur into a Dumble "didn't feel like the right thing to do"..?????? - it would literally be the only properly recorded instance on KZfaq

sounds just like my blues junior

Late to the party but thanks for this! Much appreciated that you set up the recording so we could really get a feel for this amazing amp. I'll probably never get to play or even see one of these up close, so I will have to settle for my $29 Dumbler pedal LoL.. and videos like this.

So glad to see this, Mick is a great guy.

The tone at 14:46...holy shit! THAT'S it.

Great sounding amp, no question about it. But worth $100,000? Not in a million years. One thing is for sure -- guitarists sure know how to waste money.

holy fuck its beautiful sounding!! that overdrive is really something out of this world!

Absolutely impressed by these EQ controls! So effective

I've owned a Dumble clone, you can get all it's tones out of a Mesa Boogie mk II or III plus a lot more. I can't believe the Mesa's are any less touch sensitive, they excel in that dept. as well.

By far the best sounding Dumble demo I've seen! Great job Mick! You sold me to kingsley stuff but this time, my bank account can't follow!!! :)

Great tone. Can’t afford one, but thank you so much for the review and your excellent play!

I got to watch Howard hand build an amplifier for Jackson Browne, when I lived at Alley Rehearsal in North Hollywood, CA at 5066 Lankershim Blvd, just down the street from The Palomino club, a long time ago .....

No one ever comments on the fact that Alexander Dumble makes no $$$ for the overpriced resales, and that when he did make amps a fundamental agreement was not to re-sell. Think about it. He made these amps for specific people and then the upsell market makes insane profits, that he never ever sees!

He hasn't aged a day since the Stones Amazing

This also reminds me of the Mesa Boogie Mark IIb from back in the late seventies. The clean sound was like this. Everything almost psychedelic clean with blooming notes everywhere.

Paired with a nice fluent player like Mick. This thing is awesome! love that tone versatility dude!

Reminds me of my Peavy Rage.

Can't say anything about the feel and behavior of the amp, as well as for the playability but, sonically I can't actually find anything so rare in this amp. As ever, it's personal taste and feel that matters...

Love to see Mick getting his shot at finally playing one!

@7:16 man for all the world that sounds like a Fender twin with a TS808 pushing it. The overdrive channel definitely has a tubescreamery sound to it. Nice job Mick, great playing as always.

I do hope you got a Kemper impulse response.

Cork-sniffing nonsense. Nice sounding amp but there's no shortage of nice sounding amps available for a tiny fraction of the price.

The Dumble Overdrive Special I used to play through, Alexander built a 2 12" cabinet loaded with my most favorite speakers - Electro Voice 12L's. The cabinet is a partial open back, (like the Two Rock vertical 2 - 12's cabinet). I have never heard a guitar tone so "big, open, deep, dynamic, and clean" as the tones coming from that Dumble. (I used to play this amp at sound checks after I had tuned in the room). Sonny's guitar tech would tune one of Sonny's Strats in standard tuning for me and I got to have tons of fun. (I miss those days - a lot!) The tone doesn't come through nearly as well as "Live" testing. I am glad that you got to take it for a "drive" Mick. ;) (I did get to talk with Alexander about this amp at a gig in L.A. Very insightful. Alexander built his amps so that the guitarists could "sound like themselves'.) This first time I heard Sonny playing through his Dumble at sound check, my jaw "hit the floor" in amazement from "that tone". Good for you Mick!!

Sweet tone and awesome playing Mick.

I'm thinking a vintage RAT pedal would really bring this amp to life.

No crystal lattices were harmed in the filming of this.

Great playing as always Mick!

Really beautiful clean and Jazz tone !.......Well done !

That amp sounds fantastic to me. I don't care what it cost, that shit sounds great!!

Howard Dumble could take a stock Fender Vibrolux chassis out of a brand-new built amp, put it in one of his cabinets and people would be tripping over each other to give him $7000.00 for it.

Kept hearing Mick name drop playing this amp and I'm so happy to finally get to absorb it all! The Dumble made him play the best I've ever heard him play. Really happy with the video, thank you!

Great video. Thanks for sharing your experience.

So, where is Mick Taylor?

My custom Mesa sounds just as good. As far as the standard line I keep hearing: "It makes the player sound like himself.", yep, that's definitely my Mesa, & it has an effects loop.

i find myself repeatedly coming back to this video. God id love to have one

Always nice to hear Mick tasteful licks ;)

Did you take the opportunity to profile it with a Kemper?

Awesome amp, no doubt. But I will say, I was about to spend $2,800 on a Fuchs ODS 50 (another Dumble clone) to replace my Fender Super-Sonic 22. But then, my saint of a girlfriend had an Ethos Overdrive pedal built for me, and it turned my world upside down. It so changed the voice of my Super-Sonic, that I no longer had any need for the Fuchs. Moral of the story is, if you're like me, owning a Dumble might be out of reach, so expensive clones are the only thing we can come close to- but for 500-700 (I know, still not cheap.) you can get very, satisfyingly close. And it beats 50 grand for an amp. Beats 2800 too.

Thanks for the demo. As so many have already commented - the Dumble sounds great but there are dozens of other amps that cost literally 50 times less and sound subjectively just as good. I have a 1973 Traynor YGM-3 combo with a replacement Celestion speaker, and, whilst the amount of control of the sound is less versatile (no overdrive channel) and the reverb is not as classy (small tank) - the overall tone is fantastic and, with a few decent overdrive pedals similar types of sounds can be produced. This cost me £350 and just needed a basic service and some simple mods to the tone stack (changed a few caps and a couple of resistors). This fixed the very bright sound these amps have as standard. I also changed the value of a couple of caps in the tremolo circuit which runs rather fast as standard.

I must admit, there's a certain clarity there in the overdrive which isn't present in other amps I've heard. Great vid thanks!