And its a damn good pedal! The best D style pedal I have tried yet, by a good margin. The lone exception being the mad professor Blue Sky overdrive, which was my favorite up until this one. they are quite similar, but this one sounds much "better" (Dumble like) through non D style amps, while the Sky blue may sound better through a D style amp for some reason. Of course if you have a D ODS type of amp, why would you need a pedal anyway? Into my Super reverb, this thing sounds really good though. Its far from being dead on with the Quinns or Dumble, but gives a great feel, and very convincing D style tones, especially when recorded. I think its well worth the $189 price tag. Here are two of several examples I have up on you tube. I have others into both the Quinn and twoRock E.Pro if you want to hear them up on my you tube site. very cool!
10thTx wrote:Do you have a video that is the pedal into ONLY the clean channel of one of your D-clone amps?
I'd like to hear a comparison of the amp's OD (no pedal) vs. the amp's clean plus the pedal.
With respect, 10thtx
I have not done a clip of that, but have tried it with both Quinns (6L6 and EL34) and the Emerald Pro. Thats where the Mad Professor Sky blue does a much better job. The Simble cuts to much high end, while the Sky blue lets it through. Into my fenders however, the Simble does a much better job than the Sky blue. Strange. Fenders have so much more shimery high end than a Dumble, and so much less midrange, that I think the EQ curve on the Simble is set to adjust for that. That may also be why they used a fendeer HR series in the Dumble comparison on the web site. I think I tried to say that in my OP. IMO its MUCH better into a fenders clean than into a D styles clean channel, although you can get some cool tones into the Ds cleans as well. Here is a clip of the simble into the Emerald Pro. I think I had the high end on the simble wide open.
Thanks for a thoughtful response comparing the pedal into Fenders vs. D-clones.
Yrs ago, I was considering a reverb pedal for an amp. So what I did was use a Princeton Reverb with the reverb on and then the PR with the reverb off and using the pedal for the reverb. I found that useful.
I wished the Dumblish pedal reviews would always consist of the D-clone or Dumble amp with the amp's OD on .............. then compared to the amp without the amp's overdrive on and instead using the pedal to see if it recreates a strongly similar tone. Not a perfect way of approaching it, but I think a useful way.
10thTx wrote:Thanks for a thoughtful response comparing the pedal into Fenders vs. D-clones.
Yrs ago, I was considering a reverb pedal for an amp. So what I did was use a Princeton Reverb with the reverb on and then the PR with the reverb off and using the pedal for the reverb. I found that useful.
I wished the Dumblish pedal reviews would always consist of the D-clone or Dumble amp with the amp's OD on .............. then compared to the amp without the amp's overdrive on and instead using the pedal to see if it recreates a strongly similar tone. Not a perfect way of approaching it, but I think a useful way.
With respect, 10thtx
We think alike. I have done the same thing picking out reverbs using different Fender amps turning the amps reverb on, then off with the pedal on. here is a clip doing what you are talking about with the Sky blue overdrive. (mad professor) I have it into the Quinn Dumble clones clean channel, and click both the overdrive channel on the Quinn on, and the Sky blue off at the same time. So you have the Quinns clean channel with the Sky blue, and the Quinns overdrive channel without the sky blue being A/Bd. Very very close! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxumqnF ... S4Ce-JEqow
Into my Super reverb, this thing sounds really good though. Its far from being dead on with the Quinns or Dumble, but gives a great feel, and very convincing D style tones, especially when recorded. I think its well worth the $189 price tag. Here are two of several examples I have up on you tube. I have others into both the Quinn and twoRock E.Pro if you want to hear them up on my you tube site. very cool!
here is a clip doing what you are talking about with the Sky blue overdrive. (mad professor) I have it into the Quinn Dumble clones clean channel, and click both the overdrive channel on the Quinn on, and the Sky blue off at the same time. So you have the Quinns clean channel with the Sky blue, and the Quinns overdrive channel without the sky blue being A/Bd. Very very close!