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Quick question fellow rumblers.
I have a 200c but I'm no longer playing at church and most of my playing is with friends and siblings, acoustic guitar, bango, electric drum kit, etc, where the 200 is overkill and there's been a few times now where I've gone to the cabin with family and siblings bring there instruments but my 200c is too big to fit in the minivan with all the gear a family of 4 kids requires.
Now I've got that exact situation this weekend. Here's the used options at local GC I can pick up on the way.
used 25W v3 for $60 or used 40w v3 for $120, which would you buy?
Space is at a premium and cheaper is better but I don't want to sound like I have a toy amp, lol.
Keep in mind that I'm hanging on to the 200 just in case I ever need the firepower.
I have a 200c but I'm no longer playing at church and most of my playing is with friends and siblings, acoustic guitar, bango, electric drum kit, etc, where the 200 is overkill and there's been a few times now where I've gone to the cabin with family and siblings bring there instruments but my 200c is too big to fit in the minivan with all the gear a family of 4 kids requires.
Now I've got that exact situation this weekend. Here's the used options at local GC I can pick up on the way.
used 25W v3 for $60 or used 40w v3 for $120, which would you buy?
Space is at a premium and cheaper is better but I don't want to sound like I have a toy amp, lol.
Keep in mind that I'm hanging on to the 200 just in case I ever need the firepower.
Rumble 40 for sure! Just one inch larger in all dimensions and 3 pounds lighter. Sounds better. It's worth the extra $$$.
Oops, I thought I was on the local GC site but that's all stuff that can be shipped in.
My only option in stock locally is an Ampeg BA110 for $100. Haven't played BA series much but wasn't impressed once when I did, maybe I'll see if my dad can haul my 200c
My only option in stock locally is an Ampeg BA110 for $100. Haven't played BA series much but wasn't impressed once when I did, maybe I'll see if my dad can haul my 200c
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That man can play! 
It's wonderful to hear how good the Rumble's XLR output truly is in such a simple straight forward way. 
I'd go for the 40. It has all the features of the larger amps and has a 10" speaker. It's also just 18 lbs.
Very cool, but given the built in compression on the amp, why do you need another compressor?
Because that's the way I like it
I use the diamond mostly for tone enhancing, fattens it up a bit, etc.
Fair enough. It was just a question, not a challenge.Because that's the way I like it
No problem, it simply helps me get the sound I'm after. Also I don't think that the internal delta comp and an external compressor really fulfill the same purpose or impact the signal the same way. The diamond really tightens things up and adds a bit of something extra that's hard to explain.
I'm sharing this again, because this time it takes you straight to the video and no need to shift through anything else. This was originally done about a year ago live, 1 take in the studio using the Rumble/DI. It didn't sound so clicky in the room with us, I never heard how it sounded until the video came out. They played it back once, so we could pretend to play it again for more footage, but I never noticed it in the monitors. So what you see is a mix of when we actually recorded it and when we pretended to play it again. But I assure you the audio is 100% live with no overdubs( and all the flubs we just played through) and I think it was just a simple mix to fix levels. Part of me wishes they had mic'ed the cab instead. I had never heard the DI before that day. This is the Rumble 500 Head and 210 cab. Not that matters in this mix though!
The song is called "Beautiful Charlie" and it is about Kyle's Niece, Charlie. Kyle is the handsome fellow singing/guitar, Tom lead guitar and new comer Fred on drums and yours truly on the Jazz bass.
The take away here, listen to your mix with headphones or inside the control room and not trust it sounds a badass as it does in the room going direct!
All that clickity-clackity is primarily you @munkeyfish when you're digging in too hard. That's a combination of your jazz being wide open; you playing too hard, your action is too low, and your pickups are too close to the strings. It all adds up. If you had your high mids boosted on your amp that just made it worse.
Finger; string, and fret noise all live in the 1kHz neighborhood. Running a wide open tone control just exacerbates the noise lets it all through unabated. Too low of an action is always the source of clickity-clackity strings on frets noise. Raise it up and strive to find a good solid clean action. Pickups too high makes your bass sound bad all the time, but you don't seem to be suffering too much. Raising your action may do the trick. Finding the sweet spot for your pickup height is a trial and error hunt and pluck ordeal so take your time, but is always lower than you think.
I agree with the above.....In addition, watching your right hand: You are playing more so over the neck pickup where the string has more bounce. Also when you pluck, your fingers are are dropping down on the strings rather than a more sideways pluck. Its hard to describe, but I can get a much cleaner and less clacky sound using more of a sideway pull/pluck...I imagine more so like an Upright bass. Hope this helps.
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