Product: Dumble Winterland Head
Price Paid: US FREE
Submitted
06/15/2006
at
10:18pm
by
Michael Husser
Email: michaelhusser at hotmail<dot>com
Features
:
10
Price Paid: Free
This amp was the result of a conversation I had with Howard Dumble in 1968. At that time I was playing bass through a Sunn 200S with a 2 15" cabinet. Dumble asked me whay I chose the Sunn. I told him I had seen Jack Casady play through one at Winterland in San Francisco with the Jefferson Airplane and liked the sound. A month later, Dumble delivered two heads. They were labeled "Winterland" and were amps #3 and #4. He said to me" Iguess you'll beable to fill up Winterland now". The amp had 4 KT88 tubes witha Dynaco transformer and put out 220 watts at 8 ohms. It was loud enough. The amp was a single channel the volume, treble, bass and two boost swithes for treble and bass.
Sound Quality
:
10
I used the amp for bass. Dumble was a bass player and he knew what I needed to sound good. No distortion on the bass, just a very clean tight bass sound.
Reliability
:
10
The amp never failed. It was rock solid. The only mods I had done were new tubes, a banana plug, and a cooling fan for the tubes.
Customer Support
:
10
Dumble would do anything necessary to make the amp sound as good as when it was delivered.
Overall Rating
:
10
I've been a pro bassist for over 42 years. I have a Sunn 200S and a Mesa Boogie Walkabout amp. The Dumble became too heavy (62lbs.) to haul to gigs. The Dumble is a good amp, I like it, but I believe a good musician can get the tone they want with almost any equipment if they just pay attention to their instrument and amp.
Product: Dumble Winterland Head
Price Paid: N/A
Submitted
10/29/2003
at
02:26pm
by
Michael Husser
Email: michaelhusser<at>hotmail dot com
Features
:
10
Built fo me in 1968 by Dumble. Tube amp w/ 4 KT-88s; amp produces 220 watts RMS@8ohms; single channel, have used this amp since it was new, no problems, built as a bass amp, amazing tone: warm and woody for a Fender jazz bass.
Sound Quality
:
10
Use the amp with a 1964 jazz Bass for blues amd rock. No distortion just the best tone for bass.
Reliability
:
10
The amp has never failed since I bought it from Dumble in 1968.
Customer Support
:
8
had a small fan installed to keep tubes cooler; had a banana jack also installed, nothing else. the amp tech worked for ZZ Top. have not needed Dumble to do anyting to the amp.
Overall Rating
:
10
In june of 2004, I shall have been playing electric bass for 40 years. The amp cannot be replaced. I also use a Mesa Boogie bass amp. The founders of Mesa Engineering and Dumble are friends of mine.
