JHS discontinues NOTADÜMBLË pedal after less than a month – after Josh Scott admits his “biggest mistake I’ve ever made”
JHS has officially pulled the plug on its NOTADÜMBLË pedal less than a month after launch, after founder Josh Scott admitted that the unit was built using the wrong Dumble circuit – an error he calls “the biggest mistake I’ve ever made.”
In a new video detailing the mix-up, Scott explains how the NOTADÜMBLË’s clean channel was supposed to be based on Mayer’s Box It Later unit – one of two rare Dumble amps he had borrowed after a 2019 Mayer rehearsal in Los Angeles.
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But on May 17, when he emailed JHS’s head engineer asking for the original schematic used in the build, the reply didn’t match what he expected.
“Upon reading the end of that reply I immediately froze, knowing something was horribly wrong,” he says.
The engineer noted that the schematic didn’t appear to support the effects loop Scott believed was central to the Box It Later circuit. That was Scott’s first red flag. “In that exact moment I began to go, ‘Oh no, what have we put in the Dumble?’”
“I immediately jumped on my phone and I started digging through our R&D database,” he explains. But there were no records for the Box It Later circuit he intended to use – no schematics, no files, nothing. While scouring old photos, he stumbled on an image of two similar pedals: one labeled Box It Later, the other Basic Boost – a forgotten build based on the ultra-rare Dumble BBC1.
Still unsure, Scott traced his 2019 trip to a John Mayer rehearsal, where he had borrowed two Dumble units. Photos from that day confirmed it: he had mixed up the circuits. The NOTADÜMBLË, he discovered, had accidentally been based on the rare BBC1 circuit instead of the intended Box It Later.
“I do not take lightly your choice to buy our products,” Scott continues. “And honesty and transparency are absolutely more important than how many of these pedals sell or don’t sell.”
He also acknowledges that while some fans may be thrilled to unknowingly own a clone of the ultra-rare BBC1, others expecting the Box It Later that Mayer uses may be disappointed.
“I’m sorry for that and I’m sorry for how this all went down. It was unintentional but it happened” – and JHS is acting accordingly: The first version of the NOTADÜMBLË is now discontinued. Of the 15,000 units initially planned, only 7,500 remain, and JHS will release the final batch on Friday, 23 May. As of now, 2,500 are already built and ready to ship, while the remaining 5,000 will be sold as pre-orders, fulfilled at a rate of about 1,000 per week.
Scott adds that a second version is already in development, though there’s no set timeline for its release. “Don’t ask what version two is or when it’s coming, because I don’t know either of those yet,” he says.
In the meantime, JHS is offering full refunds for customers who purchased the NOTADÜMBLË on either 5 May or 12 May. Buyers can contact support@jhspedals.com to return their pedal for a refund through the end of June.
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