CeriaTone Overtone

I ordered the amp completely assembled ready to plug and play. It arrived in the San Pedro port customs office and I went to pick it up. My Style of music is mainly blues, but once in a while we have to play cover music at some of the local clubs in Southern California but mostly Eagles, Joe Walsh, Vince Gil, ZZ Top and others of that nature. The amp has two channels (clean and overdrive) switch able via the foot pedal. I use it to mainly gig at night clubs and some out door festivals, just enough wattage 50 of them.

I use a 1970s Yamaha SA-2000 semi hollow body guitar (better than any Gibson 335) It has a set of WCR Good Wood pickups that make it sound tremendously thick and fat and on the verge of a little break up even on the clean channel. My other three guitars are clean as hell and only Overdrive in channel two.
Once this puppy gets a taste of the OD channel look out!!!!
You are talking Gary Moore's Les Paul sound. I also play an 80s custom Stratocaster with Di-Marzio Virtual Vintage pickups and Callaham complete bridge system. The OD channel can be driven from a bit grungy to a toothy bite (ala) Talk To Your Daughter by Robben.

I've only had the amp for three months, no problems yet!
Maybe if it does ever have a problem I'll can Alexander Dumble and ask him to repair it.....Ha Ha!!!

Warranty is one year, Ceriatone told me they would send another amp to me within that year. You have to ship them the original amp first.

I've been playing for 19 years. I also own a 5150 head, Bogner Ectasay head and a Carvin V-3 head. I play with one other classic rock band that does allot of Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Cactus, and Van Halen. I use those amp for that Band. I mainly use the O.D. Special for the blues band. I was previously using one of my other 3 amps with a Zen Drive pedal and it sounded Okay but NOTHING like the Ceriatone OD Special. I love the lower mid's this amp can get without over riding the highs. The bass channel remains strong regardless of what you do with the treble and mid. The Ratio and level on the OD controls don't need to much tweaking to get that Robben Ford sound. This is a dawn good $1,150.00 I spent buying this amp, my buddy who paid $2,600.00 for his Two-Rock admits he made a bad choice. Our mutual friend really hates his Fuchs after hearing the OD Special.

50 watt head, channel switching, with cab and footswitch.
Fully built and assembled i head cabinet.
Take on the famed OVERDRIVE SPECIAL by Dumble.

Ok, so I've been playing my new OVERTONE for about one week, and, first of all, let me say that I'm totally satisfied with this fantastic amp, and with the service I've been getting from Nick.
Made in December 2007.

To begin with, living in Italy, I've never had a chance to try out other Dumble inspired amps, like Two Rocks, etc. so all I'm comparing to is the recorded sound of some tracks I've enjoyed listening to during the years.
The one sound I was looking for in particular was from the track "Revelation", from the Robben Ford album "Talk to Your Daughter". Was I able to get it?
In a word YES, and I AM HAPPY

Keep in mind that I'm using a very cheap 1x12 cabinet, made by Epiphone with its stock 70w speaker made by Eminence, the one that is sold with the Valve Junior head. Actually, I'm so satisfied with the sound, that I'm thinking about NOT switching to the famed Celestion G12-65 everybody seems to be talking about. Anyway, maybe in the future, who knows.

What I've been most impressed with, is the fact that it doesn't really sound "like" any other amp, but seems to have most of the characteristics I've loved in other amps, i.e. the fatness of Fenders, the good "honk" of Voxes (boost on), the dynamics of Hiwatts, etc. It doesn't "sound" like those amps, but it's got those qualities.
It really helps me sound like me, it's really fun and inspiring to play.
What else does one need?
I find it to be a VERY versatile amp. Clean, semi clean, or overdriven. And I've been playing it with a Les Paul, SG, Strat, Teles, Firebird. Another thing is that it sounds good and responsive even with the master on 1 1\2


Keep in mind that I keep the overdrive trimmer inside the amp slightly lower than it was set at the factory, maybe around 10 o'clock. It makes a big difference in the overdriven tone. It seems to me that the higher it is set, the more Marshall \ less Dumble like the overdriven sound becomes.

All in all a fantastic amp, not even considering IT IS an amazing value.
I would buy another one in a minute.

Can't tell.
Seems to be built like a tank.

Amazing customer support from Nick.
He promptly responds to e-mails, maximum within 24 hours!!!

Amazing!!!