UAFX Enigmatic! - Your Own Personalised Dumble Amp in a Pedal?

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⏰ Timestamps ⏰
» 0:00 Intro Playing!
» 1:45 About the Dumble!
» 4:12 Introducing the Enigmatic '82 Overdrive Special
» 6:30 Let's Hear It!
» 21:02 Tone Sculpting in the App!
» 30:31 With a Les Paul?
» 31:40 The Cabs
» 33:02 Final Thoughts!

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[nflrunes]

Yep, this sounds exactly like all my dumble amps

[DTension]

Dumble for Christmas. Brilliant timing.

[jeremyversusjazz]

I think Lee made the best point. “It’s not trying to emulate a dumble in the room with you. It’s trying to emulate a micd up Dumble isolated and then produced and coming through a nice set of monitors” and that’s exactly what I want out of that pedal. me want!

[JurasPriest]

I have not played a Dumble yet, but I spoke a few minutes to Robben Ford. I magically sound good ever since, no need for certain amps.

[sordel]

I wonder if this sounded better on the video than in the room, because those tones sound pretty phenomenal given that you're not using any pedals at all.

[derrickmickle]

7:45 "I guess we have to always maintain this is a £350 version of a $350, 000 amplifier." Pretty much sums it up. Even though I have two Dumble clone amps, I'll be getting this pedal for the times I need to use something that faithfully recreates the Dumble amp sound in a convenient and portable form factor. It sounds fantastic!

[ToddTheJoker]

Great to see, and hear, Pete playing the OG Tele! We don't see enough of that anymore! Thank you and I have never played a Dumble BUT this pedal sounds great!

[dansomerville]

Why don’t you do these demo’s (and all digital ones) with Fender FR12’s so you can get volume and thump in the room? then send the thru to your interface for the video? I feel like a lot of Pete’s complaints are always more about volume than sound.

[guidefreitas]

I don't know for you in the room guys, but it sounds incredible here. Looking forward to try one in person. Thanks for the awesome videos!

[chesneytube]

Goddamn it you guys stop making me want things I didn't even know existed a moment ago

[lance]

It really does sound good on most settings. I like that you can hear a bit of the attack even at higher gain settings.

[joeleade]

Played a real 59 LP through a Dumble at SongBirds museum in Chattanooga TN .... got about 5 minutes .... it was impressive.

[willjam]

"Hey can you dial in a clean tone?" Captain leaves the overdrive on 🤣

[steveliberty]

The players that I like who play through Dumbles mainly play them pretty clean. The "Dumble magic" is that a clean tone can have a thick punch to it without getting distorted. Of course, an ODS has plenty of overdrive on tap, but the players I listen to don't push it that way. They were designed as a very modified Fender type circuit, so those clean and cleanish tones are probably what Howard had in mind.

[thedevilinthecircuit]

Yep, 30 years ago I played through a fawn suede leather ODS & matching 4x10. It needed to be cranked up LOUD to do that magic thing it does. It sounded great, but was completely impractical for me. Lee, your comments at the end were spot on: it's an amp for a specific type of player. Does the pedal get you there for less money? Only you can answer that.

[SixStringHarmonies]

The pedal sounds great. UA has some good engineers.

As for Dumble, he was a strange man. A recluse shut-in, especially towards the end of his life, but he had a few friends - namely Robben Ford & Henry Kaiser - who helped his home-based amp business take off in the early '80s.

His retainer for building services was $50k - in 1982. He was the first to do the "signature amp". The only difference is that he continued on building without the player's feedback.

No doubt he had a vision for the amplifier. Were he around today in his prime he would be a millionaire many dozens of times over.

Surely some predatory capitalist would milk every ounce of labor and every idea he had in him for their own max profits.

At the end of the day there is no one thing that makes a Dumble except having an amp built by Alexander Dumble. They're all so different.

[jorgesilva]

Would like to see a Roland Jazz Chorus version of these pedals. Would that be possible UA folks?

[joehynes]

Sounds fine. Expensive. No one has any idea what an actual dumble sounds like... so, there is nothing to compare it to.

[Sophiedorian]

Way back in 1991, the highest concentration of Dumble amplifiers could be found in Begijnendijk, Belgium. Eric Clapton was recording there at the time.

All four units were on when I was cleaning the place. I wasn’t supposed to turn them off. I kicked one, though. It didn’t make the sound of the pew benches going dominoes in the local 13th century Romanesque church of St. Dymphna’s. So it was either on stand-by, or wasn’t fitted with a spring reverb unit.

I knew these amps had to be important. They were the only ones without beer mats on top.

[jesperjacobsen]

Yes yes yes, a dumble is nice, but the year is three quarters of the way in and I have yet to see a Klon-shootout from you guys!? What gives!?