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Fender Rumble 100 2014
- Thread starter Sawido
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Fender Rumbles are great amps. Tons of fabulous Fender tone with rock solid reliability. Just pick the one that suits your needs best. Just as you might expect, tons of love over at the Fender Rumble Club. One member @eric_B that had been living with the V3 Rumble 100 for some time just picked up a new Rumble 500 combo yesterday.
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Sawido, the Rumble 100 V3 is a great and versatile amp with a lot of features and can get reasonably loud.
It will depend in which setting you play if you need more power or not, how will you be using it?
Try one if you can but I have no doubt you'll like it.
BTW: I got the Rumble 500 as well for a couple of reasons:
- I like the 100, so the 500 should be great as well
- a brand new one was in stock at a discount & I'm expecting the price to rise again & I can afford it now
- but mainly: I'm expecting to join a pop/rock band again with loud drums and guitars so rather have a bit more power
It will depend in which setting you play if you need more power or not, how will you be using it?
Try one if you can but I have no doubt you'll like it.
BTW: I got the Rumble 500 as well for a couple of reasons:
- I like the 100, so the 500 should be great as well
- a brand new one was in stock at a discount & I'm expecting the price to rise again & I can afford it now
- but mainly: I'm expecting to join a pop/rock band again with loud drums and guitars so rather have a bit more power
Thanks for the replies!!! I'll be using it to play in a rock band with 2 guitars, so I want something pretty loud that will allow my pickups to have a kind of Dirnt tone
Fender Rumble 500 or Bassman 500 heads + speaker cabs for you! $$$$
Can you define 'pretty loud': what kind of amps / power?Thanks for the replies!!! I'll be using it to play in a rock band with 2 guitars, so I want something pretty loud that will allow my pickups to have a kind of Dirnt tone
Like Linnin says, I feel you might need a bit more power.
I think the Rumble 100 is great and can keep up well with practice at decent levels or (semi-)acoustic settings.
But if you're talking about 2 guitar players playing through big Marshall stacks and a drummer whacking his remo heads like a caveman than you'll need more power, like the 500 combo (or head with a cab).
Maybe the 200 will do but, looking at the relative small price difference, I would get the 500.
Mike's playing a Fender Super Bassman with an Bassman Pro 810 Neo speaker cabinet (or two). Add in his Fender Custom Shop Precision. So $10,000 easy.
Unfortunately, I can't afford the 500, it's so expensive for me. But, I don't think that I'll have problems with the power, its true that I play with 2 guitars + drummer, but we still don't have stacks or other "loud" stuff: we're playing just for fun in a garage, so I don't think that it might be a problem.
The 100 is great and can go pretty loud, just don't expect rock concert volume levels.
It sounds very nice though and you have a lot of features to adjust to sound to your taste.
I already own one Mike Dirnt P-bass
but the squier version, still sounds ghreat to me, and I don't really think that I'll change it for the moment (if I don't find my beloved Grabber
)About the Super bassman, I wish I could afford it...
Yeah, I know your profile says you're 16. The Fender Rumble 100 is still an excellent choice. Light & Loud it's a lot of amp for $300. If you haven't already, go audition one. If you could possibly swing $100 more the Rumble 200 would really take you places. Either way you are still going to be able to sound very close to Mike Dirnt. Be sure to join us at the Fender Rumble Club.
