Playing The First Steel String Singer Ever Made
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- čas přidán 1. 06. 2024
- Dumble’s Steel String Singer is arguably the most sought after clean amplifier ever made. We got our hands on the first one he ever built: Steel String Singer Serial No. 001. Today, we’ll be putting this Steel String Singer through its paces to hear and feel the amp that started the Dumble clean tone legacy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
00:00 Introducing Steel String Singer No.001
01:02 The Story Behind this Amplifier
02:00 Playing “Lenny” by SRV
03:52 Playing “Wait Until Tomorrow” by Jimi Hendrix
05:36 Playing “Waiting on the World to Change” by John Mayer
07:34 Playing “Belief” by John Mayer
08:54 Dumble-Signature Controls on This Amplifier
12:20 Reflecting on this Legendary Amplifier
13:21 How to Support Our Channel
14:33 Final Thoughts on Steel String Singer No.001
15:06 Thanks for Watching!
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Host/Co-Production: Mason Marangella
Co-Host: Gabriel Bergman
Videographer: Nico Sotomayor
Video Editing: Mason Mejia
Co-Production/Design: Mason Mejia
Audio Engineering and Editing: Hunter Harrison
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It really takes me back to the d02 setting on my Zoom 505 back in 1999!
I guess you just saved yourself a bunch of money
@@VertexEffectsInc that was my attempt at humor.
hahaah
god i hate that pedal. first pedal i bought, and it made everything sound like shit... nowdays I have a handwired 5e3 and a dumble ODS/hiwatt dr103 hybrid clone plus an all analogue front end with a bunch of other wank hardware etc etc. Only thing good about that pedal was demonstrating what 'not' to sound like
today is my daughter's baby shower, she is named after this song. i just opened up this video. strange how the universe works...
Wow, congrats to her!
What an extraordinarily normal sounding amp!
lol
Amos Garrett's solo on Maria Muldaur's Midnight At The Oasis is still one of the most difficult guitar solos ever!
Yes!!! 👍
People have forgotten that years ago the average consumer had very little to no access to content like this.
With all the sims and pedals out there attempting to replicate these iconic tones; its blows my mind that we're at a technological point in society where we can get a demo of the real thing.🤯🙌
Really glad i found this channel; content on here is awesome!!!🔥
good comment
No matter how many dumble amp you have, it’s the player that makes it sound amazing. No more no less.
That is Henry J Kaiser's amp. Grandson of Henry J Kaiser the steel magnate. He is that insane jazz player who did the show that Dumble played the ZZ Top song.
You might be right
Love the series on Dumbles as well as the pedals you showcase and tremendous players that you’ve been interviewing.
glad you enjoyed the video
@@GabrielBergman95 I did and I really enjoying watching you play. You’re an excellent player and you have a very sensitive approach.
Cut cut cut! Can we get more volume please let’s turn these amps up
Why would you think it wasn’t loud, of course, adjusting the levels for CZcams but that doesn’t have anything to do with how it was recorded
it was loud in the room hah
So cool Mason, thx for showing us this awesome amp 🙏 much appreciated…
glad you enjoyed it
Came her by way of Vertex, a video about Dumble amps one that was made for Amos Garret.
Glad I did, some sweet guitar playing!
Rig Doc. Great video. Thank you for sharing. Did you make a video with John Leventhal that you intend to post soon? Thx
Beautiful sounding amplifier and great playing ❤ 🎸 👏 👏 👏 👏
Glad you like it!
thanks!!
Steel String CLEAN Singer! Sounds awesome.
Yes, indeed
oh yess
What a great sounding amp.
yesss
As a previous owner and user of several fender amps,it sounds like a deluxe with waaayyy more headroom and of course .....a jbl.Nice video
It has similarities, but has a fairly unique thing
@@VertexEffectsInc Def!It has its reference point then a unique character beyond that.I like it !
oh totally, even like a twin reverb. but just has so much more muscle compared to those amps
@@GabrielBergman95 I owned TR/super/princeton etc and have inputted design to some of my own private custom amps.The TR does not have the "drive" in the tone that the SSS has,you can hear it crystal clear with that JBL.To my ears -deluxe,bigger power stage,jbl,Mod the midrange response would be (subjectively) as good.I really like the amp and masons interesting and informative videos.😀
Well… it sounds very good! I think it’s hard to really appreciate the legendaryness of such an amp through a youtube video. To me, who wasn’t in the room, it’s just a good amp sound.
yeah, being the room you get everything the amp has to offer sound wise
Would have loved to hear the tremolo of that amp, one of its unique features, based off an old magnatone amp
It’s cool, it was a little finicky on the amp so we decided not to use it because we couldn’t get a consistent result
@@VertexEffectsInc makes sense! I never managed to get that trem circuit to work perfectly as well! Thanks for documenting those amazing amps! And Gabe is always great, love hearing him play, great chops
Hey Rafael!
@@GabrielBergman95 Hi Gabe! Keep it up, love these Dumble amp demos!
@@VertexEffectsIncI'd love it if the owner sent it off to Lyle at @PsionicAudio to have the tremolo straightened out. Such an unique amp deserves to be brought up to full service!
Recipe for perfect dumble tone , DOD BiFet boost 410 into a Fender ‘59 LTD Bassman…done.
Wondering who has the Lowell George Dumble? That would be a cool amp to review. Especially with the two compressors in the front.
I recommend Jim Lill’s channel for anyone who is suspicious of these unicorns. He demystifies pretty much the whole music industry from Mic tones, cabinet tones and guitar body tones. Unreal content and makes you wonder why the hell these amps are so damn expensive. They’re pretty much Uber hot rodded Fenders.
What a great sounding clean amp. Though I don't hear anything mind blowing, like would make it a holy grail and worth countless thousands of dollars.
Obviously a well designed and well built amp from a great engineer in Mr Dumble, but there were many talented techs around the world back in the late '60s and '70s building similar amps, though not getting any fame from it.
you gotta try one, it'll make a good impression
You should do a speaker episode where you swap out a speaker see if that makes a difference for you. I know it does for hard rock and metal. But you should try it with blues and see. If so it’ll save a lot of people money as well. Speakers aren’t that expensive lol.
Absolutely, speakers would make a huge difference
oh yeah, id love to hear it with a celestion!
I want Gabe’s job.
Yes! We’re lucky to have him
im down, we can switch for a day! Can i play your DGT though?
@@GabrielBergman95 any time you want!!
Man, what a cool opportunity you guys have had to play and sit with these amps. I am super jealous! i do sympathise with you trying to capture a Dumble SSS like this on camera as I reckon that the bigger sounding the amp is, the harder it is to capture the amps true sound and size on camera. Sometimes I feel like a phone video captures a better example of the sound of the amp in the room even though the quality is "lower." I am sure the amp sounded and felt massive in the room. You can definitely hear the fatness of the single strings here. Does the amp feel stiff or bouncy to play? I'd be interested to know that
Hey James, thats a great comment. The amp was for sure moving air in the video and very much at a gig volume for todays world, and very big sound in person. One thing thats obvious over the dumbles that we have played , is that they all cover you with the sound, which is incredible, so 3D. Big fan of your playing, i think you would really get along with these amps!
@@GabrielBergman95The 3D thing is very interesting. I'd love to play an SSS! My dumble clone is an ods but I believe quite close to the real deal with the old vintage fender transformers. I get that 3D thing from that amp. Just amazing circuits and magic amplifiers that this man made. I found your comment about the SSS being a little easier to play interesting. My ODS is a real pig for any mistakes or fluffs that I make. Everything is heard! But when you hit the right note it's magic 😎 thanks for your kind words about my playing mate. It's been a great series on these amps that you guys have been doing!
@@jamesemerson4102 oh yeah i totally get thats, i have a Welagen ODS thats very percussive and very in your face. This SSS was soft, punchy, but felt like home in a way, coming from vintage fender amps.
Yes its a great amplifier
Not sure you'll have the time to answer this but I wanted to ask you: If you could put together a pedalboard for that Paul Jackson Jr's late 80's tone, specially that Anita Baker, No One In The World tone, what would you choose? It's such an amazing, snappy but dreamy tone, wetter than the MJ stuff. I was sad he didn't elaborate on the Anita Baker era when you asked about it, but I understood he was using the Bradshaw rack by then.
Please now compare it with your SSS SRV pedal I bought from Thomann side to side. It would prove how accurate this pedal is as an affordable alternative to this "Million dollar Baby" amp. Cheers
The vertex pedals need the Accent option and the expander Hi and Low controls added to the vertex SSS pedal. When is the Vertex SSS 2.0 version coming out?
I don’t think so, remember we have a pedal that is a preamp going into another amplifier that has its own preamp between the two EQ stages, gain stages etc. I think you can get there without it
@@VertexEffectsInc the dumble expander hi and low is not a stock tone stack it's different than a fender,marshall,vox tone stack?
The cleans on this are fantastic. I don’t get the hate. As said, the JBL doesn’t sound good with anything other than cleans. I find that accurate. I’ve never played a real SSS, but the clones are crazy loud. I’m not understand all the expert comments here. Great video. Thanks for sharing a rare amp that we wouldn’t have heard otherwise
Dumble made 100W 4x6L6 and 150W 4x6550 SSS's. What power tubes were in SSS 001? I know that David Lindley's SSS was a 100W 4x6L6 model.
not sure in this specific amp
Cool demo! Never understood quite what people hear in a Dumble that you can't get in other amplifiers, but regardless it's cool to see a piece of guitar history like this.
Yea i never got it. Seems like corksniffing about “TONEZ.” Like, sure they sound great but it’s not some kind of magic and not worth 100x the price of other gear.
Funny how amps like, say, the Musicmaster Bass amp were seen as cheap beginner crud for years but decades later, they’re way more revered because they’re vintage, rarer, and major artists sing their praises. But they’ve always sounded the same.
if you you are used to playing fender amps, playing the dumbles will be very similar but the have so much more muscle
@@sc3ku It's always funny when people who aren't into particular guitar gear comment on FREE gear content that doesn't appeal to them. Why bother? It's kinda like you need the attention or something.
Where's the Kemper & ToneX captures? 😉
We were not empowered by the owner to capture these things
@@VertexEffectsInc Aww that's a shame, would be nice to preserve history.
hmmmmm. nooo hah
Just curious, is there going to be some content on this channel other than John Mayer or SRV related stuff? Still like it tho!
The content is FREE and you b*tch about what Vertex chooses to put out??? WOW, what an entitled little child.
this is the first time i think JM or SRV has been mentioned in a video in the past 6 months hahah
Obviously in amazing amplifier rivaling a Fender Twin Reverb. But I felt it sounded a little muddy. Maybe too much low mids? I'm sure it's an EQ issue
Funny, I don’t get that, I wonder what you’re listening through.
@@VertexEffectsInc I have a 5.1 Yamaha amp model RX-V685 with nice Cerwin Vega speakers. it has Bluetooth capability and I watched it on my cell phone. But of course anything in the signal chain will make a difference. The guitar itself. Strings, guitar pick, and even the guitar cable will influence that. (Yes I've gone down that rabbit hole). Amp settings. But yes, I feel it sounds a bit thick. Not horrendously though
hmm interesting
I don't know man, I heard some nice sounding tube amps but I don't think I heard one quite as defined as this one. Coming from AV install world it's like you're looking at a row of high def TV's and they all look great but then you see one that's been ISF calibrated and you're like, whoa why does this one look better than the others? Whites are whiter, blacks are darker, colors pop but nothing is unnatural there's clarity and detail that's not there in the others etc...this is a remarkable sounding amp.
cool to see these amazing amps. Hopefully we can get someone different to demo them!
glad you enjoy them
I'm looking for an awesome steel string singer alternative does anyone know one that would be a good fit?
@@seanmarshallmusic I've been looking at Amplified nation. That is most likely the route I will go. Someone told me there was one that had the steel string singer and the SSS in one amp
@@seanmarshallmusic just looking at your page good stuff! I followed.
I don’t know that anybody makes an exact replica of this one, but there are others that report to be replicas. I can’t speak to them as I have only played this one in stood in front of John Mayer for a few hour, long rehearsal. Both sounded amazing, I’m sure the clones also sound good. We also make an amp that resembles a steel string singer, called the Dr. special custom clean.
@VertexEffectsInc awesome I will check it out! I've been playing through a Twin Reverb most of the time. And I just love that super clean sound.
What year was this amp made?
Great sounds and playing. Although, would be nice if the jams were longer and more uninhibited.
Amos Garrett played arguably the greatest guitar solos of all time - midnight at the oasis
I would like to see a gut shot of the chassis.
hmm thats complicated hah
This amp sounds similar to my Kustom "72 coupe 2x12 is that normal?!
Kustom Coupe ‘72 blows this out of the water
Should have asked Mayer to come play it
he didnt respond to my text
What year is it?
Now I"m not trying to steal...
lol
I really hate this whole not being filthy rich thing.
Lol
haha
Cool can I get one on your store lol? I’ll take two.
Mason I think you play better. Little more that fire needed for a strat player.
Dumble is to Fender as Friedman is to Marshall
High praise
kind of
Dude made every song he played look dead easy
The trademark of a great player
haha thanks man, lots of practice
Hint just get an ampeg svt
How much ya this thing cost
Mostly sounds like a Fender amp. Doesn't sound as deviated as the ODS.
Tones not unlike my ampeg reverbrocket with a Mxr super comp in front.
The only way to really know is to put it in the exact same condition.
interesting
so it sounds pretty average (under the conditions of this video)😂
I guess the only way to know is, if you put other average amps in there and see how it compares.
maybe next video we compare it with my hot rod deluxe
@@VertexEffectsInc I’m sure it will feel and respond quite differently in the room. I’m just saying under the conditions of this video and these recordings. Fun video anyways guys
listened the first time, just average and a litte muddy. listened again with better headphones, and with the exception of Lenny, not much improvement if at all. Pretty average tones
Sounds almost as good as my hot rod deluxe v1. Not impressed by that, at all.
hot rod deluxe is the greatest amp in the world
Man I wish Mason would have got a different player for this video sorry Gabriel
On the contrary, Gabriel was the perfect pick. He understands the music that was played on the amp and did a great job. If you’d like to be considered, send me a video of you playing the guitar, then we can see how you perform after we press record and have one or two takes to get it right. That separates the men from the boys so to speak. Gabriel is a pro, and conducted himself and his guitar playing accordingly.
@VertexEffectsInc I simply would have preferred a different player. When did I compare myself to him? Or even hint that I could do better? Relax, Uncle Mason 😂 I'd love to send you a video of my playing, though. Let me know where to send it.
@@Chilinoploopy Bro, your reading comprehension is terrible. Mason never indicated a comparison between you and Gabe? He simply invited you to submit a video of your playing for possible consideration to showcase products. You're gaslighting for the sake of being a sad, little, troll. BTW, I would love to hear some of your music... if you've got a soundcloud or something let us know.
sorry ...
@@GabrielBergman95 Gabe... Your demos of these amps are EPIC! Don't let a small, petty trolls say otherwise. BTW, Dumble #22...WOW!!! That thing must have been super special to play. Hats off my guy!
Yah, if you play it a that kind of extreme low volume it is going to sound like any amp. Not a great video. Put it over 104 db in the room, please
Truth
You have absolutely no idea how loud it was in the room. You’re totally swinging at the piñata blindfolded - the amp was loud. There is - of course - a point of diminishing return as it relates to volume. I felt we got the amp in The Sweet Spot for what needed to be demonstrated. I would guess it was somewhere in the low 100 dB range, but again the point is to set the amp where it sounds optimal not where it’s just loud for no reason. Given that you’ve likely never played this amp or have any context whatsoever, attempting to infer that there was some sort of oversight on our end is completely unfounded. I’m surprised, frankly, then, instead of asking the questions about the volume, you immediately jumped to the conclusion that you somehow knew something that we didn’t. Unfortunately, this sort of shoot first ask questions later approach is emblematic of the Internet these days in your road the community, by taking a position of absolutes instead of inquiry.
Sounds like an effects company trying to stack the deck against the magic of these amps for the purpose of the appearance of their pedals being closer to big iron.
@@VertexEffectsInc sorry Mason, most things you do are good, I enjoy a lot of you contributions to the crazy guitarists out there. But I think the video speaks for itself and we are both allowed to have an opinion.
I do not know how loud that amp was, but I do know how amps react when they are at their optimum loudness. And the optimum loudness is based on tone, the design, the player, and their ear tolerance. Big high wattage amps played clean seldom do well at low volume, hence the popularity of the Deluxe Reverb. Sorry you felt offended, but I was dissapointed
@@waynetoneseekerandersen2213is that what we're doing? Saying that the amp was low volume, and then when you're informed that it was stage volume you change the goalpost to be about how the amp - that you've never played - doesn't sound like what you would imagine it would sound like? And then when someone replies to your comment with facts, you go into a victim mentality about how you should have the right to your opinion? And then your opinion is just false information?
Maybe Dumble amps are known for their cleans at high volume?