Bluesfendermanblues, have you tried the JB with a 250k ohm volumepot? It's specially designed around that value, if you use it with a 500k ohm pot you'll end up with a thin harsh sound. I once had a JB in a Les Paul copy, great thick rock sounds. Then I put some 500k pots in and the result was horrible!

Then something else. If I listen to recent Ford's sounds, say from 2008 to now on, I notice the bottom end is something I haven't heard in any Ceriatone OTS clip so far. It is very aggressive, tight and singing.  Are you guys getting close to this? To me a lot of the 6L6 OTS' low-end can sound somewhat flabby/overly bassy. But I once read in a recent interview that Ford is using Sovtek 5881's just as Carlton is? I'd be pleased to hear if I'm wrong or not. Have a listen to the clip.



This is properly my favourite guitar sound ever, would love to recreate this.

Told you through YouTube, I love the tones you have on the recent clips.
Don't mess with your amp.

BTW. I prefer the 65 speaker in a 212 format, not 112. + You need quite a lot of treble to make it sing.

Humbuckers, JB and 59, that was a long time ago. Robben has used Sakashta/Rolphs or vintage PAFs recently.

Cheers

The bypassed pots makes sence, I guess, but still the JB is noe muddy HB, that I don't associate with Robben's sounds at all.

i build and sell guitars for a living.... and finding the right pickup for a particular guitar can drive me crazy.....however its not just the pup.....its also the tone pot.....i generally will swap in the pup i think would be good..... then i will cange the pots to get a sweet tone....not to trebly and not too dark. strating with the volume pot and keeping the tone pot at 500k. the 500k tone pot has less influence in tone and then i can change to 250k  and play with tone cap if i need to reduce brightness more.

the g12-65's are a great speaker, but i found it useless in the combo in its own....it changes its tone at higher volumes.....at bedroom levels its great. so i put the EV12L in the combo and use the g1265 in an extension 112 cab.....they sound excellent together becauae the EV provides the clarity and solig low end... and the g1265 does its thing in support of the EV.

if i was to use two g12-65 then it would probably not be such a problem as the speakers would be sharing the load and not driven to the point where a single would be.

Thanks for this. Could someone verify whether these specs are true to the current specs of Robben's Dumble?

They are spot on. The specs are made public at ampgarage by the maker of Bludotone and 2 other members.
Emiel , you played my amp, these are the specs I had in my amp.

Thanks Erwin!  I'll just have to find for someone who can mod my OTS to the RF specs!

Though the new 'OTS 183' looks promising as well! The clips I've heard so far do sound great too...