talbany wrote:To be able to have such a kind of feedback effect at ones disposal at the turn of a volume knob and when used sparingly to create a kind of tension or suspension in a certain passage or phrase is IMHO a rather valuable bullet to have in ones belt!!
Tony, of course does a versatile amp have a lot of advantages, especially for a studio player, even for one, who's familiar with a Dumble amp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjSX5UvVGzI
But IMO versatility often has to be bought with some compromises. So many players like specialized instruments, which can't do everything but do just what an individual musician likes best. And that's IMO exactly what Alexander Dumble does, building customized instruments with customized qualities, amps that perhaps aren't as versatile as a Boogie Mark V e.g., but just versatile enough to provide an
individual player with an
individual palette of all those tonal colors that she or he needs. And AFAIK at least most of his customers in the end liked the - IMO very different! - amps that he built for them.
So if it really should be the case, that RF's original #102 can provide RF with some special kind of feedback response that other Dumble amps, like #183 e.g., perhaps aren't able to deliver in exactly the same amount and manner (if this should be the case), this would IMO most probably just have the reason that other players, like the one who ordered #183 e.g., did or still do have other priorities. IMO it's just the same as in regard to guitars: For some musician his custom-made Zemaitis may perhaps be "the best" guitar, someone else may perhaps prefer his custom-made D'Aquisto Solo.
That's one of the reason, why I allways have some problems to understand discussions about what's "the best" amp or guitar or car or whatever. IMO "the best" whatever is just something that has exactly all the properties some individual needs and asks for. And AFAIK individuals need rather different
individual things, just because they are
individuals. So some player may perhaps indeed feel the need to allways have as many "calibers" at hand as possible, but someone else perhaps feels that he can do all what he wants just with a .44.
So IMO it's far more important in the context of The Amp Garage to find out, like it's done right now in the "102 Feedback City" thread e.g.,
why different Dumble amps are able to deliver their
individual kind of tone and feel etc., which the
individual musician, who ordered this
individual amp, aperantly asked for: What precisely makes ODS #102 sound like #102 and #183 like #183 and #075 like # 075 and #008 like #008 etc.? These are IMO the interesting questions. But a discussion about which Dumble amp delivers the "better" kind of feedback e.g. IMO doesn't make much sense, at least without at first making crystal clear, in precisely what kind of musical context and by what kind of player with what kind of touch etc. it shall be used.
A great time to all here!
Max
You should just go ahead and order a 183 from Shad. You would be blown away!! 
