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I believe if you purchased a Dumble you could arrange for it to be modded to suit your sound more, though generally Dumble himself did not like second hand sales of his amps, as they were all tuned to the player. His business model was indeed quite different, and as time went on he had more and more custom stuff like the HRM mod and other things. Just looking at the Ceriatone website shows 10 different "styles" of Dumble clones. Both Amplified Nation and Two Rock also have a good number of models, while Fuchs seems to have kept it a bit more streamlined. Still there are supposed to be some specific things that Dumble amps are known for, like the transparency, and the "bloom" of the overdrive.

thanks! similar to mine with my Millie, but slightly different. I'm not 100% satisfied with mine, so I'll try yours!

My "Robben " settings VOL/OD at 12 oclock, output at 1/4 , mods and bass at 1 oclock, treble at 9 oclock, Jazz switch , EV12 M cab Signal path : Xotic Super Sweet boost( set for mid boost and 6db of gain)->JA Hourglass dual compressor( set 50% comp )->Keeley Darkside->Enigmatic->Keeley Hooke Rev/Trem/Univibe (set for mild Uni- Vrb)-> TC stereo Chorus/Pitch/ Flange (set for subltle oitch shift)--> ch 1 Mesa Studio 22 + with 4x12 Marshall slant front / Ch 2 PRS Blue Sierra 50w with 2x 12 That's with my H 535 , slight tweaks for other instruments.

I'll never have the coin to own a Dumble, and truly the "Dumble sound" is sort of a misnomer as He built each one specifically for the artist. Robben Ford ( lifetime fan) has the #1 and he's played others that he didn't like. The pedal allows for an enormous amount of tweaking, I have a a full PA setup, (retired soundman) as well as 9 amps to play with . While it has a great OD sound, I set it more towards the "Robben" tone .. Clean , Rich and very touch sensitive. It makes all the other pedals on my board sound more Hi-Fi , similar to when I plug in my Alembics.

Although while they're are doing it, they have seriously upped their quality control game. You don't hear many people complaining about file marks along the bindings and fretboard, or ridiculously bad cut nuts these days And I think their custom core LPs rank with some of the best guitars to come out of Kalamazoo.

This guitar is a monster player. Playing it with three different amps, with and without a drive pedal. Sounds huge and beautiful no matter what it is paired with. I had to stop because my ears were ringing.

Not everyone has the wherewithall to put themselves in a position to rack up those hours on the gate and make the big bucks. More dumbles than I can shake a stick at.