JHS NotaDumble pedal - a different distortion voice to Darkglass?

[visog]

Great sound on bass and voiced differently to Darkglass. Not sure of the retail yet but JHS are usually reasonable - especially the kits.

 

 

[bnt]

For me it would be €107: it’s out of stock for now, but they say they’ll be getting more stock monthly. 

[visog]

Bass the World's take:

 

[Chris2112]

I watched the basstheworld video and thought it sounded kind of tame/lame. I have no interest in furious levels of distortion but this one just sounded a bit limp. 

[fretmeister]

I really like that.

 

It’s the sort of drive I like. More about harmonic content rather than straight filth.

[0175westwood29]

On 05/05/2025 at 18:15, visog said:

Great sound on bass and voiced differently to Darkglass. Not sure of the retail yet but JHS are usually reasonable - especially the kits.

 

 

I mean it’s voiced of a Dumble……..I’m not sure why the comment about darkglass 

[2pods]

Lots of Dumble

UAD Enigmatic pedal

[fretmeister]

14 minutes ago, 2pods said:

Lots of Dumble

UAD Enigmatic pedal

 

 

That's £359 though!

 

Could almost buy a real.... never mind!  

[krispn]

On 11/05/2025 at 15:54, 2pods said:

Lots of Dumble

UAD Enigmatic pedal

Lots of £££

You’d hope it’s enigmatic for the money. 

[rwillett]

3 hours ago, krispn said:

Lots of £££

You’d hope it’s enigmatic for the money. 

I'd actually hope it isn't enigmatic for that sort of money...

[Chris2112]

On 10/05/2025 at 14:22, 0175westwood29 said:

I mean it’s voiced of a Dumble……..I’m not sure why the comment about darkglass 

 

Probably because the Darkglass sound has become almost a default sound in the industry, for worse, I would argue. This isn't a product made to appeal to the same audience though, so I agree that it is an odd comment. 

[0175westwood29]

2 hours ago, Chris2112 said:

 

Probably because the Darkglass sound has become almost a default sound in the industry, for worse, I would argue. This isn't a product made to appeal to the same audience though, so I agree that it is an odd comment. 

Yeh I feel the same 

[bnt]

In a new video, Josh Scott reports on a weird situation regarding the current crop of NOTADÜMBLË pedals that has me a little bemused: apparently, the clean channel used the wrong circuit, one from a different Dumble pedal than was intended:

 

 

This apparently came to light when Josh asked one of his engineers about using part of the circuit with an effects loop return in a future pedal, and the guy went "eh?". It was supposed to be the circuit he made for John Mayer called "a box later", but it's actually based on the rarer Dumble BBC-1 pedal that Mayer also has.

 

Given Josh's history of pranks - I remember the Digitech Bad Monkey situation - I don't mind admitting I'm sceptical. The next and final batch of NOTADÜMBLË V1s will be released soon. Will the V1 gain some kind of legendary (pricey) status as a result? In the video, Josh says there's no difference, sonically.

 

Me, I actually want to see a V2, since it sounds like he's going to put in an effects loop and channel switching, both of which will be welcome. But if you already bought a V1, hang on to it, and you might have a rare-ish pedal at your feet.

Edited May 23 by bnt

[BabyBlueSound]

On 09/05/2025 at 21:50, Chris2112 said:

I watched the basstheworld video and thought it sounded kind of tame/lame. I have no interest in furious levels of distortion but this one just sounded a bit limp. 

 

I don't like to distort bass, but with my guitar, it's one of the best damn distortions I have ever heard. Nice controllable breakup on lower levels, but insane crunchiness dialed to 10. It makes me wish I could play the guitar... 😁 That rarely happens!

 

I downgraded my Notaklon to a clean boost that comes after the Dumble, but I might put it before, on paper it makes more sense. The Dumble distortion is just SO much better to my ears.

 

And with bass, through the clean channel, it just made the sound better, more exciting, like saturating it. I am not familiar with the whole oldschool Dumble stuff to be honest, I don't know how accurate it is, but I LIKE it! Makes me turn the always-on Sansamp off, so I can enjoy the pure Dumble sound more.

 

I'll still play around with the dist channel on a very low setting on bass, to see if I can get it more sansamp-y. But there's definitely less froom for EQ here than on a Sansamp.

 

Anyways, this will live on my board, always on in some form!

[BabyBlueSound]

On 23/05/2025 at 22:03, bnt said:

Given Josh's history of pranks - I remember the Digitech Bad Monkey situation - I don't mind admitting I'm sceptical. The next and final batch of NOTADÜMBLË V1s will be released soon. Will the V1 gain some kind of legendary (pricey) status as a result? In the video, Josh says there's no difference, sonically.

 

This doesn't seem like a prank to me, more like a genuine product management messup, which he handles admirably transparently.

 

People were saying "duh this is just so Josh can sell 7500 pedals in minutes"... Well I bought mine in the previous batch where all this drama was not announced yet, and guess what, it was sold out in about 15 minutes. 😁 I was glad I set up an alarm for the restock timer at 10pm BST. They were out of stock by the time I paid for my shopping cart and refreshed the main page.

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

On 23/05/2025 at 22:03, bnt said:

Me, I actually want to see a V2, since it sounds like he's going to put in an effects loop and channel switching, both of which will be welcome. But if you already bought a V1, hang on to it, and you might have a rare-ish pedal at your feet.

 

I wonder whether V2 will be the same, but with an additional 'a box later' circuit added to the existing two — so three channels? He could then call it NOTALOTADÜMBLË

[Chris2112]

5 hours ago, BabyBlueSound said:

 

I don't like to distort bass, but with my guitar, it's one of the best damn distortions I have ever heard. Nice controllable breakup on lower levels, but insane crunchiness dialed to 10. It makes me wish I could play the guitar... 😁 That rarely happens!

 

I downgraded my Notaklon to a clean boost that comes after the Dumble, but I might put it before, on paper it makes more sense. The Dumble distortion is just SO much better to my ears.

 

And with bass, through the clean channel, it just made the sound better, more exciting, like saturating it. I am not familiar with the whole oldschool Dumble stuff to be honest, I don't know how accurate it is, but I LIKE it! Makes me turn the always-on Sansamp off, so I can enjoy the pure Dumble sound more.

 

I'll still play around with the dist channel on a very low setting on bass, to see if I can get it more sansamp-y. But there's definitely less froom for EQ here than on a Sansamp.

 

Anyways, this will live on my board, always on in some form!

 

Thanks for your input, it's good to have this perspective!

[BabyBlueSound]

I found the Notadumble fairly useless with my Sandberg that's got pretty hot passive pickups, even the clean channel distorts it a bit more than what's pleasant to my ears.

 

On the Ibanez that's got passive EMGs, it's very different, and gives the tone some beautiful saturation that I like.

 

So I am guessing it's not really for anyone who plays an active bass.