TABLE OF CONTENTS 00:00 Introducing Dumble Overdrive Special NO.0022 01:10 Our Objective/Gear Used 02:48 Overdrive Channel (Les Paul) 04:35 Clean Channel (Strat) 06:41 Clean Channel (Telecaster) 08:03 Boosting into the Overdrive Channel (Les Paul) 09:31 Sustain, Clarity, Compression 10:45 More Boosted Overdrive Tones! 12:56 Final Thoughts on Overdrive Special No.0022 14:05 Outro Jam

Man, this was an incredible day! Thanks again for the invite Mason! Glad everyone is enjoying the video!!

You guys have been on an absolute tear with killer videos, lately! I really appreciate the content, thank you!

Several decades ago, I purchased a Silvertone guitar with the case-this happened to be one of the Silvertone cases that had a built-in amplifier. Mine was not just any Silvertone case/amp. My Silvertone case/amp had been modded by Alexander Dumble’s lesser known distant cousin, Darius Dumble. Rather than compete with Alexander, Darius had concentrated his efforts solely on the Silvertone cases with built-in amps. By limiting what he would mod, he became an absolute genius at modding the Silvertone amps. Due to the limited number of Silvertone amp/cases sold and the painful fact that many ended up at the garbage dump, Darius Dumbles creations are extremely rare and the market for his amps is even rarer. Darius also was very idiosyncratic in his ways and would only mod Silvertone amps to match the actual Silvertone guitar that was sold with the amp. Once a potential client tried to trick Darius into modding an amp to a guitar other than the Silvertone guitar sold with the amp. The potential client substituted an identical model Silvertone guitar with identical lipstick pickups for the original. It is said that Darius recognized the ruse immediately by ear and came close to suing the customer for fraud. It took a phone call from a famous guitarist, who like Darius, was an aficionado of the Silvertone and was also a loyal Darius client to convince Darius to back off. Because Darius had chosen such a limited medium in which to exercise his talents, he was often without work and broke though a complete Darius mod often pushed 7 figures. Darius spent most of the money he earned in what was usually a fruitless search for the few existing matched pairs of Silvertone guitars and amp/cases available. Like Ahab searching for Moby Dick, Darius’ fanatical searching and his obsession with perfection eventually drove Darius to the brink of insanity. He spent his last years in an alcoholic stupor obsessively playing through the 1962 edition of the Mel Bay “Fun with Guitar” beginners handbook (Darius believed that the only way to accurately put one of his modded Silvertone amp/cases through its paces was to play the 1963 Mel Bay “Fun with Guitar” versions of Buffalo Gals and The Blue Tail Fly). No one knows what eventually happened to Darius. In the fall of 1992, Darius disappeared leaving no note, body or message of any type. Darius had no real friends and no one can point to an actual date when he supposedly disappeared. A potential client attempting to contact Darius for a mod, eventually contacted the authorities. After several months of looking, Darius was declared dead. I have been offered a small fortune for my modded Silvertone amp/case and matching guitar but consider them priceless and not for sale. I was once offered a straight up trade for one of Alexander’s creations (and while they are amazing amps), I refused to part with my Darius Silvertone amp/case. I realize this video was about Alexander and his magical irreplaceable amps but felt it important to also give a nod to Darius and his amazing, if lesser known, obsessions.

Sounds amazing. Love the history and mystique associated with these amplifiers. Thanks for sharing! Cheers!

Thanks guys .Great classy tour of this work of art.Some sharp playing Gabe.

Thanks for giving us the opportunity to hear this rare Dumble, who only personally built 300-350 Amps. It's great that you showed us the signal path, and all the details. In one of your videos from 2022, you mentioned that "... the Providence SOV-1: the ONLY pedal that has Dumble's stamp of approval." Now we have another Overdrive pedal, this time approved for Dumble Amps by Robben Ford. 😎

Beautiful tones!!!

What an amazing piece of amp history. Thanks for sharing with us and Gabriel, he looks so happy.

Man that eould be a dream come true!! I envy you guys! Thanks for sharing this moment with us!

What a treat. Thank you!

Best Dumble I’ve ever heard also. Overtones are unreal. Clean beautiful sustain.

Very cool rare Dumble review. It's just amazing that the sound , as sweet as it is , is so insanely priced . I do understand the rarity . It's just so unfathomable. I can get some Gary Moore sustain and tones from my Les Paul and Fender Hotrod Deville , that make me want to play endlessly . I'm thankful that tones and sustain and saturation , can be attained, without breaking the bank.. Great video . Nice work ! And thanks for the glimpse .

Beautiful video Mason....thank you!

Sounds so good. Nice surprise to see a K Line guitar in the video. Thanks for that too!

Great sounding and appreciate the listen as I really don't know a lot about Dumbles and have only heard a few examples - save for listening to EJ for 40 yrs. Now, could another amp not achieve the same result? I think there would be several that could but there's no denying that this has a certain clarity that has the sauce in spades.

It sounds both sharp and soft and has a roundness to the tone like a really amazing vintage amp should. Super amazing purrs grinds sings all depending on your playing. The last clip w the Les Paul was excellent at showing this

So many Dumble type amps/clones/copies that you can achieve this tone relatively easily.

Very smooth midrange overdrive !

This is great, I've heard of Dumble Amps but I have never seen one in person.

I love that Earnhardt #3 decal on the mixing board behind ya'll. 😎

Hi Mason this something you should know. I have two power supplies that are reputable but the have two spots labled high voltage what pedals or what is their purpose.

Thank you for your video!!! Thanks to Gabriel also not to shred! I would have appreciate more rock'n'roll riffs than single notes solos btw ;-) I'm working on builing my own Dumble inspired amp... Is there any chance to get the schematics and/or photos of the inside? Usually some component value are susceptible to change from a model to the other, we can see that on models #102, #124, #183 schematics (that are known).

So if I come across one of these amps at a garage sale I'll be sure to grab it lol

the les paul and that amp was a perfect combination!!

Great tones! I've seen Robben Ford A few times and he always had a Zendrive on his board.

The thing that gets me right off with Dumbles or really good Dumble clones is that "vocal" quality about the tone, and the dead quiet purity and harmonic richness of the sustainnnnnn. I have a Sebago Sound DT25, (basically an OD special) and it just absolutely sings in that vocal way. Not the best master to be honest, ... the amp has to be opened up a little to bloom, and when you do it's still well below most gig volumes, yet the sustain will drift into the most beautiful hint of harmonic feedback. It's crazy, no other amp circuit I've played does that so pure and no noise....... just that sweet voice like tone on a background of dead quiet. What a circuit!

Sounds great - excellent playing too, Gabe - very nice, I'll take it!

It really does just sound great

Really nice compression

I like that Strat. I see you put a bird on it. - Beyond that, I really enjoy this channel and the history and wisdom you share Mason. Thanks for all you do

Dumble, Soldano, Mesa - all have the forward sound - great sound! I play a Suhr Bella which I read is a Suhr interpretation of a Dumble modified Bandmaster. It has that same forward, clean, articulate sound.

TAG!!! I remeber the TGP Tag days. Hilarious dude. Then the Quinn debacle. It’s how I got turned on to the Ethos. Eventually I got myself one of your Ultraphonix pedals and never looked back!! I love it!! Tag…😊😊😊😊😊 Edit - 22 sounds amazing and your buddy is a killer player

Wow what an incredible tone the notes are almost horn like

Sounds great. I was able to hear Jason Isbell play it live a few weeks ago. It must be really loud - he plays the amp with the speaker cab turned backwards.

I’m a tech and it’s finally nice to see a Strat with the pickups at the right height. They have to be almost flat on the pick guard

I got to play 2 different dumble. S before the hype I loved them. They were around 15 k 20k. I was young didn’t quite have it .but it was beautiful. I played a few of copies.70 to 80 percent but none 100 percent in person . In person is another level

Should've dressed up as Indiana Jones for an intro bit :) well done on finding/borrowing this legendary gear !

Dumble. It has to sound great. I paid a lot of money for this amp.

Sounds like a glisteningly smooth glass pipe with a thick, creamy milkshake flowing through it.

Would have really liked to hear the Strat into the overdrive channel without any pedals. Other than Mick playing that ODS for Guitar magazine I don't know of any other videos demoing that specific sound. PS, Only two springs on the strat trem seems like a bold move. Any reason for that?

I saw this came from Dennis Herring's collection at Techno Empire. I managed to grab his seafoam green 1983 Valley Arts Strat with early 1960s gibson patent number pickups

Assuming a single EV in the cab. What are you guys using for mics?

Love Gabe!! Deadheads unite!

OMG!!! That tone is Luscious and Rich!!!

No magical gear, only magical players. This sounds good on this video, it doesn't sound otherworldly, nor even all that special. If you're not a great guitarist, this isn't going to help much.

The original owner of Dumble 22 actually described this amp in a video 2 months ago on the Techno Empire channel

Ive watched a few Dumble vids on KZfaq and this one def sounds the best. The clips with the Les Paul have a stellar tone. Yeah, that's a killer amp.

Its definitely a very smooth overdrive sound.

Am I the only one here to look at that Neve board with my jaw dropped?

Wow the mid range is doing the thing. Sounds so smooth

Bless us with a toneX capture lol😁

I'm curious about the transparency of the solid state FX loop buffer vs tube. I have a tube buffer but have never tried a solid state. I know a lot of people get the tube ones because they think it'll be "warmer" , but it's a buffer; I don't care about it being warm I just want it to be transparent. If there isn't much difference Ill get one, if only to save space and weight. It's funny hearing how we could dial it in to get the tone we want since it's moot, quite literally none of us will ever find ourselves in that scenario.

Bring that bad boy to Oakland and let me try it! Lol what a dream it must have been!

Funny this should appear for me. I just dropped my Dumbleator clone into a brand new rack case😂 I love that #22, FET is very useful with single coils/slide. Never forget, TKT😅

Time for a brand new Quad Cortex capture!

My brother has a 100 watt Dumble power amp to drive a Leslie.Howard put military grade horns in the Leslie to handle the power. I met Howard when I was 12. He sold my big brother a Gibson 330, the first electric I ever played.

What speakers are in cab? Why can’t this be duplicated? Is it gooped? Are there special diodes? I’m new.

The amp is great, but lets just lay out the simple truth: Robben will blow your mind... with any amp. Cheers! PS: Mason, there's an angry mob waiting for a triple preamp with the ultraphonic and the Supreme together :D

Mason nowadays is more of "the Dumble Guy" than the "the Rig Doctor"

Which speakers were in the cab?

Thanks for this! I have The Book, and now I know it's incomplete! 8^) Just a quick note about the Kleinulator/Dumbleator loop interface -- I have a Ceriatone 20w D clone, and I bought the Kleinulator with it, but I've found that at least with the time-based efx that i have in the loop (right now, an Earthquake Astral Destiny and a Line 6 DL4 MkII), that box is not required. I would assume that the real D is similar in this regard.

Could yall tell if you were playing this Dumble blindfolded with 10 other amps like say, Magnatone, Two Rock, Kemper, other boutique builds and for good measure a cheap fender blues jr with a dumble inspired pedal slamming the front end? Hearing yall play through this amp, it sounds great for sure, easily can achieve said tones from a new high end boutique amp too. Perhaps it's my own ignorance but I can't pinpoint the "Dumble Sound" if that makes sense.

Oooohhhh…. Serious Droolage happening here! ✨🎶🤪🤤🎶✨

Sounds a lot like a $4000 amp with a $246,000 premium added on for rarity. Which is how things work. But, I think people make them out to more than they are. Just like some fancy food that a rare bird craps out and some knuckleheads make a dish out of it. If you don’t appreciate the taste, it is because your palate is not refined enough.

Thank you for this video! Is it possible to know the speaker model? Thank you ever so much!

The Fatness and the dynamic response on these amps are just insane. Doesn't sound like some one boosted low end artificially or muddy at all.

"Think before you play." This sums up the tone that I have been looking for. I am pretty unworthy, but I need all the help I can get so when I came across a Dumbleland recently with an asking price of only $120,000 I quickly started tabulating my assets and such. (Shazbot! Not quite!)

What speaker is in this cab?

I’m not that impressed with the clean sound but that overdrive and the sustain is amazing! This amp really shines with the gain up and especially with the Les Paul. 👏👏

Magnifico.💰💰💰💰💰💰

I genuinely don’t understand why people pay so much or freak out about a dumble. Its low end isn’t special, its mids sound extremely normal, and its high end is pretty insignificant, so like whats so special about it? People often are like ohh but you gotta hear it in the room. No. If it doesnt record particularly well or unique, then whats even the point. If its room sound, the room has more impact on that energy then the amp. It just sounds like a fender with less high end sparkle, a little bit less of everything honestly, with even distortion. It sounded pretty dark, and when amps sound dark you usually get really nice low end, or soft mids, but you dont get either of those with a dumble. It sounds like a dark fender with an overdrive pedal. Since its always the play Good video though!

I am eagerly waiting for Harley Benton to one day make a good copy of Dumble amplifiers. Just a matter of time

I believe this is now owned by Jason Isbell. Killer amp live!

Yes yes yes!

Awesome!!! Please next time play the strat Waaayyyyy more😅😢

Hopefully you made some Tonex, Kemper, NAM captures of this amp!

Robbens dumble must be the most valuable dumble out there

Hey guys, what speaker was in the cab? EV12L?

7:38 That was a transcription of Robben Ford’s Vertex boost demo?! Haha little weird..

Great video guys! Mason should have played a bit too. So much ground to cover with this amp, maybe we get an extended video?

That sounds absolutely lovely but it is nothing I've never heard before out of a high end amp. Maybe you have to hear it in person. I'd love to see a blind test of this and a similar amp (say, a Deluxe Reverb, or a Twin or something along those lines) and see if anyone could reliably tell the difference once you dialed in a tone. Not hating on Dumbles, they're excellent, but I just don't hear this unattainable tone that people seem to think are inside these amps exclusively. It is without question very nice, but it is in no way a unicorn of tone that's out of reach for people who don't have 5 or 6 digits to drop on something like this. A nice Fender, a nice Boogie, a nice Matchless I feel could all more or less replicate the sound coming out of that speaker such that even experts could not tell between them, or say which one was "better." Would I love to own one? Absolutely. But is it doing stuff other amps don't do? If it is, I can't detect it.

🎸👍🎸👍🎸

FINALLY!!!!!!

Rumor has it Mr. Dumble went down to the Cross Roads and made a pact with well....

VERTEX, the vertex dumble pedals don't have that extra lengthy sustain that makes the notes have that blossoming effect like this dumble. Try to make a vertex pedal that gets that dumble midrange EQ plus have that extra lengthy sustain so the notes get that blossoming effect. This might have to be a pedal that is designed to only work in the amplifiers effects loop to get that extra lengthy sustain and dumble compression to get that blossoming effect.

Now we have to get the Vertex Catch 22 O/D😉

Dayum!

I've played through #40 and took the pix of the chassis that have been over the internet for the last 20+ years. It was OK, but It needed to be recapped, as well as a new set of tubes.

dont let John Mayer find out he buys them all

Do we know the original owner, and trail of ownership to present?

Hi. This amp is from What year? Thanks

what speaker is in the cab?

It's... just an Amp. I need to see these pick the Dumble out of a lineup blindfolded

Sounds cool but not for half a million dollars 😂

I used to think tone was good enough. My first solid state was good enough until I played a tube amp. The line 6 bean was just like having the real amp , until I played the real amp. That dumble sounded great on the video but I’m sure if I were playing it in the room it would be mind blowing. I guess that’s the great tone chase . Dumbel may send overpriced but there’s a reason they are so sought after. If I had the money I’d own one l but until then I’ve got good enough.

God that amp sounds exactly how I want a Dumble to sound. It's practically archetypical. Fat, loud, almost harmonically oversaturated (that's to say that chords can sound kind of burnt up and fuzzy). Also, Mason, two springs in the strat? What is that strat's story anyways? Seems like something personal.

This kid is a monster

The epitome of creamy tones

People need to keep in mind that Dumbles are like tailor made suits. They most likely won’t fit anyone better than the person they were made for.