JHS has a solderless build it yourself Dumble clone for $99 out tomorrow. Allegedly. 
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I just recently discovered Dumble-style pedals... I'm now obsessed.
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NOTADÜMBLË
$119.00 USD"With the flip of a slider switch, you can go between two highly sought after sounds that are as magical and rare as it gets. In the Drive setting–slider up–you get the dirty and distorted violin-like sounds you know from guitarists like Santana, Joe Bonamassa, and Eric Johnson. In the Clean position–slider down–you get a powerful preamp buffer pulled directly from John Mayer's rare and never before replicated device."
NOTADÜMBLË
**NOTADÜMBLË is excluded from all current discounts. The NOTADÜMBLË is a DIY pedal kit from JHS Pedals that puts a half-million dollars of tone at your feet. With the flip of a slider switch, you can go between two highly sought after sounds that are as magical and rare as it gets. In the Drive...
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I thought the NotaDumble sounded good on bass. Saw the JHS NotaDumble streaming premier and it definitely sounds great on guitar. I think I might have to look into this. If I can replicate that "violin" clean tone on my P Bass...
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Looks pretty good but since it'a not a limited edition product probably no reason to rush. I'll wait for user reviews/videos, not just seeded units.
FYI the JHS website has little 10%-off stickers on its web pages it but the pedal's page says "NOTADÜMBLË is excluded from any discounts."
I bought one. I will post any info once it's received and assembled.
Yeah, I saw this video and I agree that it sounds good on bass! I look forward to getting one.
I thought it sounded okay but the host's honest admission that he had almost no experience with Dumble amps or the many pedals available leaves me waiting for a real review from someone knowledgeable about other Dumble pedals for bass.
JHS itself has for years sold
the pretty Dumble-ly Moonshine pedal, even coming out with a v.2 — and at $200 it had a lot of very useful features for bass players, like a Blend knob. The Moonshine page specifically says "It also kills on bass guitar, the reason it was originally designed."
And they to refer to the Moonshine as Dumble-esque:
> DUMBLE-ESQUE
>
> On another note, you might find a few
>Dumble-esque lead settings that
> will have you feeling like you
> saved a cool $100,000 in search
> of that sacred tone.
You don't see reference to bass on the NOTADUMBLE, which leaves me thinking that if bassists like it they might just prefer the Moonshine for just $80 more (and no assembly needed).
MOONSHINE V2
OVERDRIVE Are you looking for an overdrive that is not transparent and adds its own character and attitude? The Moonshine V2 is for you. Our Moonshine V2 overdrive is a highly unique and massively tweaked version of the most famous overdrive ever created and housed in a little green...
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I thought the same. But bought the nota anyway and can always find a moonshine later if I like.I thought it sounded okay but the host's honest admission that he had almost no experience with Dumble amps or the many pedals available leaves me waiting for a real review from someone knowledgeable about other Dumble pedals for bass.
JHS itself has for years sold
the pretty Dumble-ly Moonshine pedal, even coming out with a v.2 — and at $200 it had a lot of very useful features for bass players, like a Blend knob. The Moonshine page specifically says "It also kills on bass guitar, the reason it was originally designed."
And they to refer to the Moonshine as Dumble-esque:
> DUMBLE-ESQUE
>
> On another note, you might find a few
>Dumble-esque lead settings that
> will have you feeling like you
> saved a cool $100,000 in search
> of that sacred tone.
You don't see reference to bass on the NOTADUMBLE, which leaves me thinking that if bassists like it they might just prefer the Moonshine for just $80 more (and no assembly needed).
MOONSHINE V2
OVERDRIVE Are you looking for an overdrive that is not transparent and adds its own character and attitude? The Moonshine V2 is for you. Our Moonshine V2 overdrive is a highly unique and massively tweaked version of the most famous overdrive ever created and housed in a little green...
I've been using a Jetter Gain Stage Red on bass for many years. I love the character, kinda tubey, with singing mids and creamy smooth overdrive. I usually use it in parallel in my distortion loop, but it works well on its own and doesn't lose much bass. It's not very flexible, but it does its thing, which is supposed to be Dumble-like, really well.
The host made a couple mentions to the pedal not being a good live pedal but didn't really elaborate why. Makes me curious on what made him think that. The playing samples sounded good thru phone speakers… did it cut a lot of bass out something?
Through my studio monitors the YT demo sounded good. I'm not sure why he was skeptical.
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The JHS Double Barrell has the Moonshine on one side and the Morning Glory on the other. I think that one is a pretty good value.I thought it sounded okay but the host's honest admission that he had almost no experience with Dumble amps or the many pedals available leaves me waiting for a real review from someone knowledgeable about other Dumble pedals for bass.
JHS itself has for years sold
the pretty Dumble-ly Moonshine pedal, even coming out with a v.2 — and at $200 it had a lot of very useful features for bass players, like a Blend knob. The Moonshine page specifically says "It also kills on bass guitar, the reason it was originally designed."
And they to refer to the Moonshine as Dumble-esque:
> DUMBLE-ESQUE
>
> On another note, you might find a few
>Dumble-esque lead settings that
> will have you feeling like you
> saved a cool $100,000 in search
> of that sacred tone.
You don't see reference to bass on the NOTADUMBLE, which leaves me thinking that if bassists like it they might just prefer the Moonshine for just $80 more (and no assembly needed).
MOONSHINE V2
OVERDRIVE Are you looking for an overdrive that is not transparent and adds its own character and attitude? The Moonshine V2 is for you. Our Moonshine V2 overdrive is a highly unique and massively tweaked version of the most famous overdrive ever created and housed in a little green...
I'm not sure what makes a Dumble pedal different from other preamps or ODs, but I have this Donner Dumbal Drive and I think it's pretty good for the $28 I paid for it. It works very well for bass.
Basstheworld, they make about everything they demo sound great.
It's interesting how they switched basses to get a bass that would deliver better low end. That's one thing people don't talk about with (various) Dumble amps and modern Dumble-style pedals (and something not explicitly called out in the two bass-specific reviews either): the Dumble focus for guitars on "insane clean high headroom" with a "sparkly clean high" with a "smooth violin-like overdrive".
I think the point of that would be that whatever they are demo'ing can be made to sound great.
I've seen videos -- mostly pandemic-era ones, though -- where they were clear about things they didn't like. Lately when they're being polite they'll merely find and highlight positive aspects and call use euphenisms like "neat."
Here, a little surprisingly to me, they really were completely positive, with the exception of disappointment in the clean/dirt channel switch that isn't a footswitch.
As an aside, one of the guys at 60 Cycle Hum recently put out a conspiracy theory video suggesting that Josh at JHS was "trolling" us with that switch and is daring/hoping modders to put a footswitch in there.
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