Steel String Singer video?

[stelligan]

I have one of alf's cabs, it's AMAZING!!!!

Funk,

Do you have the 1 x 12 ported cab? Is his math/geometry for an EV?

TIA

[ODwan]

Here is EV's official builder's plan for a Thiele/Small cab with EVM12L.
Greetings,
Timo

[Max]

Sounds like the SSS, I hear some verb on the guitar. Of course that could have been added later.

Even cooler is the Dumble 4x12 cab. Think SRV is the only one I have every seen use one.

Steel String Singer 150 Watt and Dumble 4x12 together with a Vibroverb to drive the Leslie was SRVs usual live set-up in the middle eigthies.

A good example of the sound and (still more important) a lot of exciting music you find on the "Live at Montreux" double DVD (DVD #2) recorded in 1985.

But concerning the SSS used by SRV always remeber, that the preamps of SRVs SSS are rather different from a "normal" SSS. Stevie's SSS are more similar to a Dumbleland with reverb, set up for maximum headroom.

A godd example of the sound of a "normal" SSS you find on Larry Carltons "Renegade Gentleman" All the Nashville tracks have been recorded with his SSS.

Cheers

Max

Lary sold his SSS long ago back to Dumble, he used it for that one album/tour and didn't like it.

SSS amps are already set up for max headroom, they DO NOT DISTORT at any volume level. WHat is different about SRV's amp is the setup of the Hi-Lo filters, and the removal of some of the positive feedback loops within the amp.

Hi Brandon,

How then do you interpret this part of the Guitar Player Interview?

GP: "Stevie Ray Vaughn calls his Steel String Singer the King Tone Consoul.

HAD: "There are some different things about Stevie's (Max: SSS). His (Max: SSS) is set up more like a bass amp (Max: Dumbleland Special for bass guitar), modified to accomodate the guitar range (Max: EQ and filter network not as in a usual Dumbleland Special for bass, but more similar to the EQ- and filter-network of a Dumbleland Special for guitar or a usual SSS). It's not the usual Lead Guitar "Singer" aproach (Max: "singing" sustain and "singing" overtones without an audiable "overdrive" effect, achieved by a preamp tube with a special network, that intentionally does n o t work with maximum headroom). One thing he liked (Max: liked to be d i f f e r e n t as the usual set up of a usual SSS) was that he could turn the volume control (Max: of his unusual, custom made SSS, set up more like a Dumbleland) all the way up and it did not distort (Max: like with a usual SSS) -it just got louder".

What I read here is:

SRV used a SSS custom made by HAD with the general characteristics of a Dumbleland Special for bass with a lot of headroom (like the Dumbleland of Jackson Browne, that SRV had used for the recording of "Texas Flood") but with an EQ- and filter-network more like a Dumbleland Special for guitar or a usual SSS with the "singer" aproach, achieved by making use of an intentionally limited headroom of a preamp tube to create a special kind of harmonics, that you don't perceive as audialble "distortion" (as in an ODS in the "Overdrive" mode) but as a sustaining "singing" lead guitar sound, that is a bit similar to a "slide guitar sound" even if you don't play "slide".

What do you think about this?

Greetings and a wunderfull weekend

Max

[dr. who]

can we please divert this over to the other SSS thread so that it will be easier to keep updated with all of these ideas on the SSS.

https://tubeamparchive.com/viewtopic.php?p=55756#55756

[brucedrennen]

John Mayer also plays one. He usually has some Dumble with him. Currently the Two Rock JM sig with the SSS...pretty cool lookin..