2 100W combo rumbles or 1 200W combo?

[BazzaBass]

2 x100 watts. 2x12 inch speakers.Very flexible rig. Doubling both wattage and speaker area
That is the direction I would lean in your situation.

Or a 500C - 2x10 = 350W - 1 box 36.5 pound. $600 for $350W

Rumble 100w - 2x12 / 2 boxes 22lb each (44lb) $600 for 200W

 

[Blue Swede]

That's a fine thought as an extension cab for the Rumble 500 and you can use the 210 or add the 410 to it for a 610, depending upon what the size venue is. That won't work with either the Rumble 100 or Rumble 200 though because they don't have an extension speaker output and the 410 is just a cab, not a combo, so it doesn't come with an amp that you can slave.

the rumble 200 has a speaker output rated 100W @ 8 Ohm.

 

[tshapiro]

One of the biggest mistakes you can make is buying what you can afford vs. what makes sense. Why? because you almost always come back around to buy what makes sense. In this case, there's only one thing that makes sense: buy the 500 and then an extension cab when you want to go bigger. But, you'll get more out of the 500 if you have it propped up on the extension cab from day 1

 

[mrjim123]

OP, don't cheap out and go for the quick, half ass solution. Forget the second combo, save a little more $, and do it right, i.e., invest in a solution that you're not gonna regret and end up wanting to fix six months down the road.

 

[Dana R Gregory]

According to a sales engineer I recently talked to at Sweetwater, the Fender Rumble 200 now pushes the full 200 watts without needing the extension speaker. He said that this change was made last year.

 

[tshapiro]

According to a sales engineer I recently talked to at Sweetwater, the Fender Rumble 200 now pushes the full 200 watts without needing the extension speaker. He said that this change was made last year.

This seems fishy to me as its still listed on the Fender.com website as 200w when used with extension speaker.

 

[MultiScaleMale]

You could chain two of them together using the effects loop circuit.

Can you? I thought the effects loop was not blended. So effects out on amp 1 to effects return on amp 2 gives sound to amp 2, but nothing to amp 1. You could add an ABY splitter.

 

[4SG]

If possible, save your cake for a 500 watt head and better quality 115, 410 or 212 cab.

OP, don't cheap out and go for the quick, half ass solution. Forget the second combo, save a little more $, and do it right, i.e., invest in a solution that you're not gonna regret and end up wanting to fix six months down the road.

Totally agree with @lomo and @mrjim123. I have a Rumble 200 that's great for bars and little rooms. But I never thought adding an extension would be the way to go. When I need more firepower I bring a Mesa 800 head and either a Mesa 212 or 410 cabinet. Mesa stuff is not cheap but, for what you get, it's the best value in the business.

 

[Bass Man Dan]

I have the 500 and I've played some decent sized rooms and have never pushed it. I don't think I've ever had the volume to midway.

 

[abarson]

Can you? I thought the effects loop was not blended. So effects out on amp 1 to effects return on amp 2 gives sound to amp 2, but nothing to amp 1. You could add an ABY splitter.

According to the block diagram signal to the power amp is not interrupted if only the Send side of the effects loop is used. This allows a second combo to be slaved from the first combo.
https://www.fmicassets.com/Damroot/Original/10001/OM_Rumble_40_100_200_500_US_5.pdf

 

[Muttleybass]

I think either way you're running a little light for playing in a full band. I'd go either a 2x10 or 12" 500w combo.

My Markbass 121P can hang with anything. Also eyeing up a GK 800w 12" Legacy.

 

[rugburn]

Looks like GC has a good sale on the Ampegs for Memorial Day in the U.S. If only the Rumbles would go on sale, I just love the current sound I have.

 

[RColie]

Looks like GC has a good sale on the Ampegs for Memorial Day in the U.S. If only the Rumbles would go on sale, I just love the current sound I have.

Call GC. The Rumbles are on sale.

 

[selowitch]

Sell the combo you have and buy what you really need (i.e., new combo + extension speaker).

 

[dbsfgyd1]

I have a Rumble 100, I'm needing to be a little louder. I was looking at upgrading to the 200 or 500, but it got me curious about something. If I were to buy a second rumble 100 and play through both at the same time, would that have a bigger impact than selling the 100 and playing through only the 200? Which would be louder: twice the amps/speakers or twice the wattage? I guess the real question is, how does volume work as far as it's additive properties? Like, if you have two sound that are both 50dB, do they together make a sound louder than 50dB? Or does the thing at the highest dB level just set the overall max for the mix of sounds? If something is 50dB and something else 52dB is the resulting combination 52, greater than 52? I'd like to know both how volume works in general as well as if 2 amps are louder than one? Thanks

In general, per buck, you get more dBs from increase speaker area than additional wattage and in most cases, I would recommend buying a separate cab.

That said, I have two Eden combos same amp, different speaker configuration. One is a two 10, the other is a 1-15. When run slaved, it’s a formidable rig that provides a fuller sound not to mention a lot of tonal flexibility. It’s the stack to the left.

 

[JakobT]

According to a sales engineer I recently talked to at Sweetwater, the Fender Rumble 200 now pushes the full 200 watts without needing the extension speaker. He said that this change was made last year.

This is very unlikely. There’s been no change in the specs, and the 200 still has an extension cab connector. If the amp delivered 200 watts at 8 Ohms, and connecting an extension cab would lower the impedance to 4 Ohms, the output with an extra cab would be more than 200. There’s no way that Fender wouldn’t tout the higher wattage, so I think the sales engineer was either ill-informed, or just making stuff up.

 

[Ric Vice]

I think slave amp setups only made sense in the days of Ampeg B-15's or Walter Woods Mi-100-8's. When amps were very low wattage by todays standards, the way to get more sound

was to gang two amps together with one amp serving as the preamplifier. My take now is to get a single amplifier with the power you need and the speaker coverage.

 

[Lenny JG]

Get the 200 w/ a cab. Later sell the 200 for a better amp head.

 

[Bassquest]

I've also done the 2x100 Rumble thing. Just get the 200. You'll be happy.

 

[DJ Bebop]

Running two combos together.

Brings back memories...

I remember running two Acoustic 126 combos together, 100 watts 1x15
stacked on their sides, not my pic but from somewhere here...

This was somewhere between me using my dad's B-15n and me going full bi-amp.

The next step was semi-bi-amping with one 126 out going into a power amp running a 1x18. The crossover and a new top box came shortly after