@@whatsthisbuttondo2885 Dustin, you are a wonderful human being and you are inspiring so many people with your authenticity and passion. You are an inspiration to me!
Another pointless Dumble review video from someone who has never heard or played a Dumble. Unless you have this pedal hooked up right next to a real Dumble, I DO NOT GIVE TWO FLYING SQUIRREL TURDS ABOUT YOUR ASSUMPTIONS AND OPINIONS BASED ON NOTHING. Crap video.
I tend to cringe when people mention Mayer and SRV in relation to the Overdrive special Dumbles. Just for some general information - John Mayer and SRV primarily used the Steel String Singer. They are Massive high headroom clean amps. Totally different to the Overdrive special, although John and SRV did also use the ODS on occasion, but they were using the clean channel. The clean channel on the ODS is often more stiff and basically like a HIFI fender clean channel. The Overdrive Special OD channel is a totally different thing all together from anything relating to SRV or John Mayer. The Mayer and SRV tones are essentially cranked clean sounds with a tube screamer. The ODS drive channel has a totally different character all together. The Overdrive special tone is pretty much Robben Ford and Larry Carltons humbucker sound. Vocal, Chirpy, rich harmonics, tight low end, explosive upper mid range, smooth overdrive. That is what this pedal is supposed to be doing, it seems - The Overdrive special tones. These are not comparable in any way with clean fender tones or the SSS tones. It's just a separate sound all together, but people often through these names Robben Ford, Carlton and Mayer in together - Nah, Robben ford and larry carltons sounds are totally separate from SRV and Mayer.
That’s absolutely true, my friend. I actually chose to use my overdrive reverb instead of my steel string singer for that very reason. Though both amps can get into some of that same territory in the cleaner settings. But that is fair. I probably shouldn’t have mentioned those two names without referencing the SSS.
Well, JM used the clean channel of a Dumble ODS on Where The Light Is, which is arguably his most well known tone. So I don't think it's thaaaat cringe worthy.
I’m so glad you did a demo of this pedal! I’ve been curious about it. If a person were looking for just a line direct clean pedal platform, which do you like better the UA Enigmatic or the UA Dream?
For line direct if you just want pure clean I really like the dream. Granted I don’t run line direct very often, but if you want a little gain or you are going to add gain pedals in front I really love the enigmatic. But right out of the box by themselves I like the dream more plugged in direct.
I've had the Dream and Enigmatic and the Enigmatic has a ton more clean headroom. I was not a fan of the Dream's lack if headroom. It does react like a 65 Deluxe Reverb, but if you turn the volume up past like 9 o'clock, if your guitar volume is on 10 you will get breakup. The Enigmatic is able to stay clean a lot further than the Dream and you can use the OD trim to reduce the amount of overall drive on the "amp" even more.
@@LennyGuitarNash Thank you my friend. When running it direct what cab were you using? I kept getting a lot of breakup on mine, I may need to experiment with that more. My dream stays pretty clean but I’ve had a lot of time to get it like I like it. The Enigmatic I’ve been struggling to not get breakup around the edges
Ah I'm a day late, sick as a dog, up way too early, and can't follow along because my finger is jammed and nose is dripping too fast LOL And I was just in town AND shook your hand, hope you're ok LOL *edit: I almost forgot to tell you, there's about ten seconds of silence in this video 13:46 to 13:51 so watch out for that in editing. Anyway as an autodidact I've always thought of the concept of double stops as oddly contrived and a good example of why people are afraid of lessons making their playing sound conformist and boring. Guitar isn't even close to my first instrument, beginning with piano then a few various brass and woodwinds. So while I am familiar with instruments that aren't capable of more than single note lines, I've never moved to a polyphonic instrument and thought to myself, "I'm going to do a septuple stop here, move downward by double stops to a single note lead line ascending back up to etc. etc. etc." Does that make sense? I also used to think of pentatonics as "no fours or sevens." I'm not defending guys who scoff at lessons; I used to be one of them and am simply articulating the nature of their argument, "I don't want to sound like Tim Pierce; I want to sound like Joey Santiago," a.k.a. deliberate sloppiness is emotive, and the more polished the more lame. But after a few months of chords and coffee I've learned so much more than I ever expected. I think, upon having snapped out of it, the "lessons conform" philosophy may be simple self justification. Like when we buy a piece of gear and it suddenly becomes the best ever (until the next piece of gear), I think I was wrong to refuse to learn in any way except by ear. So thank you for that, Nate.
Thanks for the heads up on the editing mistake and I appreciate your encouragement!!! Your comments are always so insightful. I hope you get to feeling better soon Craig. God bless you! 🙏
Awesome video! As a loud chicken picker who prefers clean tones for that style, how do you think this preamp will respond? I would like to lighten my load. My current amp of choice is a vintage 68 Twin Reverb ugh!! Good tone can be painful!
I’ve been using this for a while now at church, and I haven’t loaded any IRs into it. I’ve literally used it stock since I got it. Channel one does not get crystal clean. There is always a touch of gain. I will frequently use a clean(RC) boost on channel one with the gain turned down and volume cranked while playing very lightly to achieve my clean sound. If I continue to go down this line direct path, I will probably have to load a clean IR into channel one. Outside of that, the best part about this unit is how easy it is to use. I can get a pretty good sound very quickly. “Ease of Use” is a big deal to me. 👍👍👍
Bro Nate! Great lesson here...getting into the realm of possibilities opens the creative side in a special way. I was wondering if you would consider doing something on DADGAD tuning? Possibly there are others who would love to transition from standard to DADGAD that could use a touch of coaching (can you guess who needs/wants this the most ha!!)??
Just to let you know: To me the video starts at 11:30min and does not dig deep enough into the possibilities of both vibes. What about more intensity for a start? ;o)
At a point technology gets ridiculous. The simple keyboard synthesizer the Doors used or Edger Winter was awsome and futuristic. This is just ridiculous lol
