This is the Bludo that Matt was using on his last tour. Very different settings to his TR. Each amp will sound different, you just need to find your own settings
Hey Hywell, that looks like Larry’s amp (bluesmaster with flexiplex OD) which I’ve played when he was in London. It had an enormous bass response and pretty mild overdrive. I’m not surprised Matt has turned bass down and OD up.
What is a flexiplex OD
Think of old Marshal plexi without diode clipping on drive – less gain and more open, milder tone. Actually think of Hendrix amp with KT66s but milder.
[flexiplex OD] As in an external pedal, e.g. fuzzbox? If so, I find that really strange one would need to embellish the overdrive of a Dumble clone with an extra gain stage.
I haven't seen Carlton with his Bludotone setup. I've seen him many times with Dumbles and even Boogies.
I must confess, his music hasn't interested me much in quite some time. I last saw him 4 years ago, I have no desire to see him now. The tour with Ford might have been good, if they had practiced together, beforehand. Obviously, they didn't, and I'm very disappointed in the outcome.
Hey Yo! You must be an old hippy smoking to much grass!!! What extra gain stage? What are you talking about? Oh, Oh, sorry! Probably your real name is Mr. Alegzonder Dumb and now I understand why you don’t like Carlton and Ford any more. One plays Bludo and another one Fenders and soon they will start to play CERIATONE which would be great. No offence, we love you anyway!.
Why are your remarks often provokative and premature?? IMO an utterly waster of other forummembers time??
+1 !!!
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As in losers.
Nice L6S from the 70s there. I'm sure you need a real Dumble to bring out the tone.
Hey, yospam,
Tone is in the hands of the player not in the amp! Believe me I can make cheap transistor amp sound pretty nice. Here is an example.
Now you show us what you can do music wise instead of cheap talk about how quantum state of a physical system changes in time, subject about I personally don’t give a shite!!!
Ceriatone and Bludo collaboration Why? Nik makes OTS almost three times cheaper then Brandon and quality is pretty similar and it’s much cheaper to import amps from Asia then US. I know. I’ve played several two Rocks, Fuchs, Skrydstrup and bludos, including Larry’s one side by side with OTS.
Japanese in 80’s used to built much more high quality “gibsons and fenders” then original US companies. In UK there are couple of instrument builders who build better quality guitars and basses then in US, Patrick Eggle and Status comes to mind. But people desire NAMES and “made in US” label more then quality this days.
By the way I’ve played Robben’s (actually Larry’s) Gibson with $100 000 price tag on it side by side with Robben's Sakashta Nu Paul and Sakashta was MUCH better instrument in every way.
Yes, I did go together with Mr. Clive Key who brought his fantastic 1959 Les Paul and 336. I was impressed with this amp, especially with built in great reverb and balanced effects loop, both switchable. Amp also has mid boost and deep, both switchable with a pedal. Tone wise it was bit dark sounding for my taste but customer wanted that way. Otherwise it sounded like Larry Carlton’s black Dumble. Builder is a very nice man who can tweak an amp the way you like which is great if you are in the UK. I’ve just bought another OTS but after some time I’m really looking forward to Volt amp, obviously with my specks.
I have a regular OTS as well. Lately I have been falling in love with the bluesmaster. Is it hard to do the tweaks you mention? I thougt it was quite a big thing Why didn't you order a Bluesmaster to begin with?
I don’t like Bluesmster’s drive tone and HRM tone stack. Personally I prefer liquid and compressed tone of the non HRM. It is very easy to tweak OTS clean channel to make it bigger and sweeter sounding : 1. change V1 slope resistor (150k) to 70k 2. introduce toggle switch (switch off) to the V1 NFB – adds more fat and compression. 3. permanently solder small bright cap (33pf or 47pf or more for your taste) to the volume pot.
Be aware that this procedure will affect drive channel’s tone too. Probably you have to increase a second snaber’s value on V2 a little bit.
Just ordinary high plate 100w OTS non HRM. I’ll tweak clean channel as a bluesmaster and also open up drive channel, more fat low mids and smooth highs. Nik’s got MM tranies for me but I have no clue how amp will sound with them.
That’s why we going Hywel, We are bringing my OTS, Clive’s D’lite 44 and Woody’s Bludotone with CCC G12-65 2x12 to compare. I guess builder can tweak the amp for individual taste and for us (UK guys) it’s easy to check out the progress.
Funny thing is I’ve just ordered 100w OTS with the mercury tranies and chok two weeks ago, before I knew that we had a builder here in UK.
IMO the secret about Robben's sounds is that it's in his hands.
I would not say that! Robben’s tan Dumble is a non HRM, tweaked skyliner with old Fender transformers and runs on slightly high voltage. Pretty harsh sounding amp alone but absolutely magical with a dambleator, T.C. 2290 and G12-65s.
boldaslove, Incredible clean and overdriven tones! Lovely playing as well. Loved deep reverb too. Don’t like drive pedal with clean channel, but it’s just my taste. Congrats! You’ve got great amp/guitar combination.
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