Mad Professor amps ... Dumble Clones???

[jazzyjoepass]

Check out http://www.mpamp.com


Has features that remind me of Dumbles although the front and back has been augmented with more options ...

Has an FX loop that seem to be a Dumblelator, an FET front, with voicings that combines Bright/Deep/Rock/Jazz into a rotary switch ... hmmm suspiciously Dumble-like ...

And listen to the samples ... only a Dumble can do that !!!!

[pedro]

gotta say,
nice amps but didnt sound at all dumble like to me ?

Rgds
Pete

[Chris333]

Maybe it's cuz I listened thru headphones, but lots of hum, even on clean tones, no?

Chris

[jazzyjoepass]

Listen to the clips by Josh Smith.

Man that fella can play !!!

[VacuumVoodoo]

Being a friend of Bjorn Juhl, the amp's designer who is an electronics wizzard and a great guitar player in his own right I can vouch for the originality of his design. Mad Professor is not a cloned design although capable of "cloning many sounds".

[jazzyjoepass]

Yes of course .... Dumble inspired ...

[dogears]

Josh rocks! Great dude.... We are friends and we chat all the time.

Recently, Josh got together with Gil Ayan and they compared amps. Story I got was that for D style tones the Ayan amp squashed the MP. Not close. Josh told me he would love to have an amp like Gil's. He also wants to to try a Glaswerks. So, moral is, he feels the need to have a D style amp in his stable and the MP is NOT it.

Scott

[ayan]

Josh rocks! Great dude.... We are friends and we chat all the time.

Recently, Josh got together with Gil Ayan and they compared amps. Story I got was that for D style tones the Ayan amp squashed the MP. Not close. Josh told me he would love to have an amp like Gil's. He also wants to to try a Glaswerks. So, moral is, he feels the need to have a D style amp in his stable and the MP is NOT it.

Scott

I was with Josh when he tried my amp, and I agree with his comments as relayed by Scott. I'd heard Josh's MP at a gig before we had our little tone party, and it hadn't done much for me (along Dumble lines, that is) then, so I was not expecting it to outdumble my amp the next day when we got together.

However, I'd heard a MP at the Anaheim NAMM show in 2005, and I remember being very impressed with it, as it was capable of putting out a number of different cool tones. Thing is that when I got to hear the MP in more detail I missed the "harpsichord-like" vibe I get from my amps.

Cheers,

Gil

[jazzyjoepass]

Since you guys are into building/rebuilding amps (and this is a D-cloning board), was wondering if any of you been in one of this?

Is it a D-circuit? with a D-lator?

Just curious to know.