After owning up to shipping the wrong boost in the V1, JHS is back with the version it meant to build.
JHS has gone back and fixed its most public mistake with the Notadümble V2, a corrected take on the two-channel DIY Dumble-style kit pedal that shipped with the wrong clean circuit the first time around.
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The original Notadümble was meant to run the Box It Later as its clean channel – JHS’s clone of the A Box Later, a buffer-and-boost with a built-in effects loop that Howard Dumble built in the 1980s and that John Mayer has used for years.
Two weeks after launch, while prepping a Short Circuit episode on modding the kit, the team realised they’d fitted the BBC-1 instead, a similar-looking Dumble boost reverse-engineered from the same 2019 batch. That reverse engineering had been the work of head of R&D Cliff Smith, whose notebooks were the documentation and who passed away a few months after finishing it, so when the kit was greenlit years later the wrong schematic was the one that got pulled.
Josh Scott owned it publicly in a video, sold through the remaining V1 stock, refunded anyone who asked and released the BBC-1 on its own as the Fumble so the circuit V1 owners liked didn’t disappear.
V2 puts it right and adds the changes builders had been asking for. The correct Box It Later clean circuit is now in place, and the single slider that switched channels on V1 has become two independent footswitches, so both sides work as a true two-in-one.
A TRS effects loop sits on the clean channel, taking a Y-cable to drop one pedal, several or a whole board into the clean circuit and bring the lot in with a single stomp, with the loop bypassing itself when nothing’s plugged in. A front order toggle sets which channel runs first when both are on, and the Presence control that lived inside V1 now sits on the face of the pedal.
The dirt side chases the sustaining “violin” Dumble tone heard on records from Larry Carlton, Eric Johnson, Santana, Robben Ford and Joe Bonamassa, a boutique overdrive lineage JHS traces back to a stripped-down, heavily modified Tube Screamer. As a kit, it hands that sound over to be built at the bench rather than bought ready-made.
The Notadümble V2 is out now.
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