A new company calling themselves the ‘Dumble Preservation Society’ attended the trade show and ended up stealing headlines for bringing along the very first amp Alexander Dumble ever made ...

Owning the amp afforded Harper a meeting with the legendary amp builder, who soon revealed its surprising past ...

Word on the street was that if you got a Dumble second hand, third hand, you had to make sure it was kosher with him,” Ben ...

This included Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Steel String Singer, Carlos Santana’s old Overdrive Special, and the first amp Dumble ever made. There was also, perhaps most poignantly, the last Overdrive ...

Based in Santa Cruz, California, Dumble’s origins were repairing guitar amps for the local music community, which led to his first amp design-related work for Mosrite. Like other contemporary LA amp ...

Dumble designed and personally made amps for guitarists including Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robben Ford, John Mayer, Eric Johnson, Santana and Kenny Wayne Shepherd. ... Alexander began building amps in the ...

Howard Alexander Dumble, a 1962 EBHS grad, played in several local bands in his youth, including The Epics. He went on to develop a line of custom amplifiers sought by many of the greatest guitar ...

For decades, the most-cherished piece of gear owned by Grammy-winner Ben Harper has held a secret. Watch as Ben tells the story...and sheds light on its maker, famed tube amp builder Howard Dumble.