Dumble on eBay

[RG955TT]

What does the Dumbleator II do? Looks like one rack space unit with a drive control and two knobs labeled recover but i can't tell much else about it....

 

[WizardSouth-JP]

not much different than people paying absurd amounts of $$ on old Gibson or Fender. At a certain point it's all relative, $50k for a fancy pants guy may be like $5k for regular Joe or gear addict.

And true, if you add up $ spent over past 20 years on gear...easily near $50k

 

[shredi knight]

Large percentage of us have spent that and more on gear over the years... granted I understand it's ONE item... but hey, if it ends up being the end all amp for somebody... is there really a difference between that and 50k worth of gear that you don't even own anymore?

At least partly, yes.

Added up, some of us may have had 50k worth of gear over the years (I sure the fuck haven't though ), but I'm guessing that's mostly from regenerated funds. While we may not have that gear anymore, a lot of us have different gear that was paid for (at least in part) from the money made selling the old gear.

 

[MississippiMetal]

What does the Dumbleator II do? Looks like one rack space unit with a drive control and two knobs labeled recover but i can't tell much else about it....

Drive and Recover would suggest an FX loop.

 

[greenmosheen]

What does the Dumbleator II do? Looks like one rack space unit with a drive control and two knobs labeled recover but i can't tell much else about it....

According to the interweb:
Dumble also occasionally makes a tube-buffered external effects loop called a Dumbleator. A few Dumble amps have a Dumbleator circuit built into them, but most do not. Many users insist that a Dumbleator is required to obtain the optimal sound when using effects boxes and pedals. The Dumbleator has separate "Send" and "Receive" circuit for the effects; a gain control, "Bright Switch" and a return level. Dumbleators are even rarer than Dumble amplifiers. The original Dumbleator was mono-in with mono-out, and follow-up Dumbleator II allowed for stereo output instead.

 

[charveldan]

***[yawn] ...

 

[MississippiMetal]

***[yawn] ...

I say the same thing everytime someone mentions Friedman.

 

[steve_k]

Shit.....I just saw it was "pick-up only". Have to retract my bid.

 

[thegame]

Well, consider this. Robben Ford has been playing a Dumble for a couple of decades at LEAST. He's also used other amps, but he always comes back to the Dumble as his main amp.
He's had guys from Two-Rock, Category 5, and just about every other boutique company out there offer him amps, amps that arguably reproduce the Dumble sound. But Robben still goes back to
the Dumble. There is an elusive and poorly understood detail to Dumble's amp-building ways that, to my ears and hands, has never been quite reproduced with full effect by any clone or facsimile.

Does that make the amps worth $50,000? Not in my opinion. But how far would someone be willing to go to obtain that sound and that feel? That's up to the individual. Some folks can live without it, some can't. If the Marshall sound was as elusive as the Dumble, you can guarantee Marshalls would be going for tens of thousands of dollars too.

Excellent post and I feel the list of amps that could be substituted for 'Dumble' in your post is very small but undeniable.

 

[John4021]

Shit.....I just saw it was "pick-up only". Have to retract my bid.

NO no Noooooo...
Win the auction,
I'll pick it up
you send two tickets(me & your new amp)
I'll get some sun -n- sand and get to see your gear stash.

 

[brusky]

given how much musicians get paid - I wonder how long is the payback period.

 

[jcj]

Relative... not ridicuous...

Who among us wouldn't drop some coin on an exotic/modders car if we had the $$$$...

Then try to explain why "This Corvette/Lexus" whatever is worth $50k more than the stock one to a non-car person...

Funny anecdote regarding the non-players that buy these...

two years ago at the Baked Potato, Joe Bonamassa pulls up in a BMW. Get's out, smiles, opens trunk, whips out a dumble, and a Jim Kelly combo, and proceeds to go inside and get to work. No road case or armed guards, or semi to transport... Just a dude showing up to a small venue gig with his shit in the trunk of his car! Now the 59 Paul did travel separately,,,, but still!

Yup.

If you have a ton of dough, 50k is a non-event....shit... people drop 4-5x that on cars, watches, etc....if it floats your boat, more power to you.

 

[rupe]

The Joe B's and John M's aside, amps like this and original Trainwrecks, Gibson bursts, etc are driven by investors/speculators...it has very little to do with any perceived tonal magic. That supposed "magic" combined with scarcity creates the perfect storm to facilitate the perceived insane prices. If an investor could have afforded to dump $40K in a Dumble a few years back, based on this auction it appears that he may have done ok...THAT is what this is truly about, not tone or feel.

 

[Ventura]

Cliff [Chase] just bought one over on the FAS site. Not sure what he paid or where it came from, but he's buying it in order to have it as a new amp available in the upcoming FW10.0

I don't get it, but I do. I guess what I don't get is I couldn't give a rat's ass about the tone out of these amps or the players who play them. It's not my style. Just like I don't like domestic cars. So it goes. But if it's the tone you must have? Sure, buy it. Whatever.

 

[Klesk]

Nice amp but you can get so many more other amps for that price and still have enough left for like 10 custom shop guitars lol

 

[rupe]

Just like I don't like domestic cars.

That's understandable

 

[ibenhad]

I say buy it and a Kemper model it and sell the amp and the models of it. Win Win..... Plus I have a Fargen VOS which is Ben's take on the *umble. What a great amp that is.

 

[steve_k]

Sold @ $55,600.

 

[TrueTone500]

How does a Dumble compare to a PWE Event Horizon and Bogner Shiva?

 

[the rossness]

How does a Dumble compare to a PWE Event Horizon and Bogner Shiva?

Its a modified fender circuit, not marshall.It blows most amps away, but it takes a certain kind of player and music to make a dumble sound awesome. It also cost a crapton of dough!