Am I the only one who doesn't care for Dumbles?

[Lewguitar]

Re: Am I the only one who doesn't care for Dumbles?

"The top five world record prices paid for any musical instrument are for Stradivarius violins and were all sold at auction by Christie's. On May 16, 2006, Christie's auctioned a Stradivarius called The Hammer for a record US$3,544,000. It holds the record for the most paid to date at public auction for any musical instrument.[3] The previous record price paid at a public auction for a Stradivarius was US$2,032,000 for the Lady Tennant at Christie's in New York, April 2005.[4] On April 2, 2007 Christie's sold a Stradivari violin for more than US$2.7 million, well above its estimate. The 1729 instrument, known as the Solomon, Ex-Lambert, went to an anonymous bidder in the auction house's fine musical instruments sale. Its price, US$2,728,000 including the Christie's commission, far outdid its estimated value: US$1 million to US$1.5 million.[5] The London sales of The Mendelssohn at £902,000 ($1,776,940) in 1990 and The Kreutzer for £947,500 ($1,591,800) in 1998 constitute as the other two top selling Stradivari."

I'd love to own a Stradivarius violin but really: $3,544,000 !!!! What a rip off!!!

I mean come on folks. How much better could a Stradivarius violin be than a nice $400 violin? Twice as good? Three times as good? A million times as good? I doubt it. They all look the same to me!

Of course I've never even been in the same room as a Stradivarius let alone played one. But I'm entitled to my opinion and I'm 100% sure I could get a modern builder to clone me a Stradivarius that would sound just as good as a real one for a lot less than $3.5 million dollars!!! :banghead:

 

[Animal]

Re: Am I the only one who doesn't care for Dumbles?

Just say if Dumbles were as common and as affordable as "every other amp" would everybody be playing them? Would all Marshall, Fender, and Vox amps end up in the trash?

 

[Curly]

Re: Am I the only one who doesn't care for Dumbles?

I'd love to own a Stradivarius violin but really: $3,544,000 !!!! What a rip off!!!

Hey, I have a couple fiddles in my closet that say "Stradivarius" on the inside, and I only paid $125 for one of 'em. It even has a set of rattlesnake rattles in it for good tone.!!!

 

[weinergod]

Re: Am I the only one who doesn't care for Dumbles?

"The top five world record prices paid for any musical instrument are for Stradivarius violins and were all sold at auction by Christie's. On May 16, 2006, Christie's auctioned a Stradivarius called The Hammer for a record US$3,544,000. It holds the record for the most paid to date at public auction for any musical instrument.[3] The previous record price paid at a public auction for a Stradivarius was US$2,032,000 for the Lady Tennant at Christie's in New York, April 2005.[4] On April 2, 2007 Christie's sold a Stradivari violin for more than US$2.7 million, well above its estimate. The 1729 instrument, known as the Solomon, Ex-Lambert, went to an anonymous bidder in the auction house's fine musical instruments sale. Its price, US$2,728,000 including the Christie's commission, far outdid its estimated value: US$1 million to US$1.5 million.[5] The London sales of The Mendelssohn at £902,000 ($1,776,940) in 1990 and The Kreutzer for £947,500 ($1,591,800) in 1998 constitute as the other two top selling Stradivari."

I'd love to own a Stradivarius violin but really: $3,544,000 !!!! What a rip off!!!

I mean come on folks. How much better could a Stradivarius violin be than a nice $400 violin? Twice as good? Three times as good? A million times as good? I doubt it. They all look the same to me!

Of course I've never even been in the same room as a Stradivarius let alone played one. But I'm entitled to my opinion and I'm 100% sure I could get a modern builder to clone me a Stradivarius that would sound just as good as a real one for a lot less than $3.5 million dollars!!! :banghead:

Controversy over sound quality

Above all, these instruments are famous for the quality of sound they produce. However, the many blind tests from 1817 to the present (as of 2000) have never found any difference in sound between Stradivarii and high-quality violins in comparable style of other makers and periods, nor has acoustic analysis.[2] In a particularly famous test on a BBC Radio 3 program in 1977, the great violinists Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman and the violin expert and dealer Charles Beare tried to distinguish among the "Chaconne" Stradivarius, a 1739 Guarneri del Gesú, an 1846 Vuillaume, and a 1976 British violin played behind a screen by a professional soloist. The two violinists were allowed to play all the instruments first. None of the listeners identified more than two of the four instruments; two of the listeners identified the 20th-century violin as the Stradivarius.[3]

The violinist Christian Tetzlaff formerly played "a quite famous Strad", but switched to a violin made in 2002 by Stefan-Peter Greiner. He states that the listener cannot tell that his instrument is modern, and he regards it as excellent for Bach and better than a Stradivarius for "the big Romantic and 20th-century concertos."[4]

 

[J Moose]

Re: Am I the only one who doesn't care for Dumbles?

Just say if Dumbles were as common and as affordable as "every other amp" would everybody be playing them? Would all Marshall, Fender, and Vox amps end up in the trash?

You obviously didn't pay attention to a single **** thing I said on the previous page.

But as a direct answer...

I think that if Dumbles were more common, nobody would really care.

 

[Animal]

Re: Am I the only one who doesn't care for Dumbles?

You obviously didn't pay attention to a single **** thing I said on the previous page.

EDIT: ehhhh......nevermind.

 

[RiffRaff]

Re: Am I the only one who doesn't care for Dumbles?

I went to a Robben Ford clinic in Ojai probably five years ago, he played through most of the demo using a blackface deluxe reverb, sounded pretty awesome, he had his dumble head in a combo cab and at the end of the clinic anyone who wanted to jam with him was welcome to plug into the dumble and play. The dumble definitely has it's sound, very rich harmonics (even clean), it does compress substantially when the overdrive channel is kicked in, but then that's how it gets all those excellent harmonics. It's very pick sensitive. No Robben sounded like Robben no matter what amp he was plugged into, originally I think he used twins and pedals to get his overdrive sound? I've seen him in concert locally where he used his dumbles and his tone was stellar. If your going to make a judgement call on the sound of him playing into his dumble don't do it based on what you here coming out of your little powered computer speakers.... I didn't join in on the jam but I'm sure I would have sounded 100% like me dumble or no dumble. The people who jammed with Robben didn't sound great but then they don't play like Robben either, that amp was tailored for him, had there been a Robben Ford clone in the group it probably would have sounded **** good. As for the price, it's supply and demand, there's more people who want them than are available. Are they worth the price? Definitely are to those people who are paying big bucks to get one. So before you knock em, go listen to one, live, up close.

 

[Lawless 67]

Re: Am I the only one who doesn't care for Dumbles?

Honestly, they don't impress me at all.
The tone is just so polite and boring... I feel like it even limits the guitarrists playing.


Maybe that's just me though, my 0.02

WTF is Dumbles...Maybe that's why you don't care for it.

 

[weinergod]

Re: Am I the only one who doesn't care for Dumbles?

I went to a Robben Ford clinic in Ojai probably five years ago, he played through most of the demo using a blackface deluxe reverb, sounded pretty awesome, he had his dumble head in a combo cab and at the end of the clinic anyone who wanted to jam with him was welcome to plug into the dumble and play. The dumble definitely has it's sound, very rich harmonics (even clean), it does compress substantially when the overdrive channel is kicked in, but then that's how it gets all those excellent harmonics. It's very pick sensitive. No Robben sounded like Robben no matter what amp he was plugged into, originally I think he used twins and pedals to get his overdrive sound? I've seen him in concert locally where he used his dumbles and his tone was stellar. If your going to make a judgement call on the sound of him playing into his dumble don't do it based on what you here coming out of your little powered computer speakers.... I didn't join in on the jam but I'm sure I would have sounded 100% like me dumble or no dumble. The people who jammed with Robben didn't sound great but then they don't play like Robben either, that amp was tailored for him, had there been a Robben Ford clone in the group it probably would have sounded **** good. As for the price, it's supply and demand, there's more people who want them than are available. Are they worth the price? Definitely are to those people who are paying big bucks to get one. So before you knock em, go listen to one, live, up close.

Like I said a few pages ago, I did listen to Robben Ford live bro.

 

[The Golden Boy]

Re: Am I the only one who doesn't care for Dumbles?

Dumbles are for losers and wannabes. Wannabe losers like John Mayer.

Maybe if all the Dumble loving wannabe loser John Mayers were members of Mensa like me. They'd know the secret to tone. Getting kicked in the head.

I don't think I've ever been involved in a Dumble thread. Even on TGP.

I think the trifecta has been reached.

Dumble.

Mayer.

Mensa.