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Of the Rumble V3 series, and this is to the best of my meager knowledge, only the Rumble 200 and Rumble 500 have provision for external cabs.
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Of the Rumble V3 series, and this is to the best of my meager knowledge, only the Rumble 200 and Rumble 500 have provision for external cabs.
No way that I can see - at least not to a non-powered cab.
However, you could run a 1/4" cable from the effect Send to the input of another Rumble combo.
Big Hoss
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You Are Correct, Sir!
It happens on rare occasion...
Thanks guys. This is what I thought.
A decent FOH system will be fine for my uses, e.g. just DI out to that in a club.
For others asking about 5-string bass: I even found the Rumble 25 did pretty well with the low B, although of course the 100 does far better. So if you're afraid of running a low B through a 12" cab, don't be, these work really well. Love the tone on these!
And again, thanks to all who answered my post.
A decent FOH system will be fine for my uses, e.g. just DI out to that in a club.
For others asking about 5-string bass: I even found the Rumble 25 did pretty well with the low B, although of course the 100 does far better. So if you're afraid of running a low B through a 12" cab, don't be, these work really well. Love the tone on these!
And again, thanks to all who answered my post.
Welcome to The Fender Rumble Club, @LeoFromPortland. Have you a membership number brother?
Big Hoss
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We'll be annotating our calendars to reflect this fact.
Perhaps we should declare today's date a holiday? So I'll go ahead and say it today is Big Hoss was right day.
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You can only do it if you're feeding the di out to a powered cab or some sort of power amp
I Need some serious advice. I’ve owned the Fender Rumble V3 500 Head. I thought it was one of the best heads I’ve ever played through. (I’ve played damn near everything in the last 28 years) The sound was amazing & that head is way powerful for 500 watts. I played it through an Ampeg 810E & 410HLF At various shows and times. The sound was amazing with both cabs. I thought it would benefit me to order two Rumble 410 cabs to replace the Ampeg cabs. As I’ve stated before in this group that the sound was horrible. The rumble 410 cabs had weak lows and beyond excessive highs. They couldn’t handle the heavy C-Standard tuning my band uses and the tolex was peeling right out of the box. I found them very abrasive to my ears. Currently I’m loving my Ampeg SVT 3 Pro & 610HLF set up. Everything else has been sold. I can’t get over the punch and growl the Rumble V3 500 Head had. I smiled every time I powered that head up and laid into my Fender Jazz. I’m thinking about getting another V3 500 to back up my 3pro. I was wondering how well the Fender 610 Neo would handle the Rumble 500 Head under a pummeling C-Standard tuning? I can’t fart out the Ampeg cabs for the life of me. They just take the power and spit it right back in my face without a care. Many years ago I owned the Fender 810 Pro and that thing would turn to flab when I boosted anything around 200/300 Hz. So would the Fender 500 V3 Head & Neo 610 cab work for me? That head has been haunting my thoughts ever since I let it go.
The Bassman Pro Neo cabs are great and I'd think the 610 would handle anything the V3 Rumble could throw at it
I did not see the request, but the situation has been rectified.
Welcome Rumbler #848. Now, Rumble on!
So I haven't ever played with the Scoop, or Contour, shape button on my Rumble before. Sorry, I forget what the button is labled ... I'm blind and so do it all by ear and association. Anyway it's the middle of the three shape buttons. I used to only do manual settings until I discovered what the Vintage button could do. Anyway, with these new D'Addario super light nickel strings on my Rogue LX205B 5-String Series III at least, it really makes for an interesting sound. I used to turn the brights up a lot for my flats, but for these rounds I cut the brights, and instead of manually scooping the mids, I tried their contour or scoop shape button.
Anyay, kind of cool discovering yet another set of tones to play with. Like someone else on here said, the Rumbles really do have a lot of tonal diversity available right on the amp itself.
The only effects I'm using right now is the Old Blood Noise Procession reverb pedal usually set to a slow tremolo with the depth at 80%. But until recently, I never used effects at all, so find the amp to be great just clean.
I haven't yet tried my DI box, the Behringer Bass Driver, which admittedly has some nice tube emulation. But as it is, I really like the sound the Fender makes all by itself. The bass I have is passive, typical J configuration with one volume and one tone knob per pickup.
Unfortunately, due to my daughter's anxiety, I don't get to play the amp "open" often enough, usually through headphones. Considering renting space to park my gear, but space I could walk to on my own any time ... and space I could practice in freely.
The tone possibilities are really quite good with the cab that comes with the 100 I have.
Anyay, kind of cool discovering yet another set of tones to play with. Like someone else on here said, the Rumbles really do have a lot of tonal diversity available right on the amp itself.
The only effects I'm using right now is the Old Blood Noise Procession reverb pedal usually set to a slow tremolo with the depth at 80%. But until recently, I never used effects at all, so find the amp to be great just clean.
I haven't yet tried my DI box, the Behringer Bass Driver, which admittedly has some nice tube emulation. But as it is, I really like the sound the Fender makes all by itself. The bass I have is passive, typical J configuration with one volume and one tone knob per pickup.
Unfortunately, due to my daughter's anxiety, I don't get to play the amp "open" often enough, usually through headphones. Considering renting space to park my gear, but space I could walk to on my own any time ... and space I could practice in freely.
The tone possibilities are really quite good with the cab that comes with the 100 I have.
Have you tried the Rumble 500 v3 head into two 210 cabinets? Also it may not be an apples to apples comparison, I did a quick check and the 610HLF is over twice the cost on the Rumble 410.
I bought my 3rd Rumble yesterday a 40, I already own the 500 and a 100.
My 100 is stuck in the pit for a little show that I'm doing and I needed another small, lightweight amp for low volume, holiday jazz trio gigs. I used the 40 last night and it sounded amazing.
We played Xmas jazz and dinner music for about 100 people and even played some rock and roll.
I actually had to turn it down, it sounds much louder than a 40 watt amp and it has good headroom.
The master was at 12:00 and the gain at about 9:00, the EQ was flat with a little treble roll off and I wasn't using any of the voicing switches. The 40 handled the low B string, on my Ibanez SR Single cut with Nordstrand Big Splits, like a champ and sounded very balanced. The amp has excellent dispersion and the further away I got from it, the bigger and better it sounded. The best part, is that it was one trip from the car to the venue, a private club on top of an office building. Right into the elevator, no loading dock BS. The Rumble 40 is a total keeper.
My 100 is stuck in the pit for a little show that I'm doing and I needed another small, lightweight amp for low volume, holiday jazz trio gigs. I used the 40 last night and it sounded amazing.
We played Xmas jazz and dinner music for about 100 people and even played some rock and roll.
I actually had to turn it down, it sounds much louder than a 40 watt amp and it has good headroom.
The master was at 12:00 and the gain at about 9:00, the EQ was flat with a little treble roll off and I wasn't using any of the voicing switches. The 40 handled the low B string, on my Ibanez SR Single cut with Nordstrand Big Splits, like a champ and sounded very balanced. The amp has excellent dispersion and the further away I got from it, the bigger and better it sounded. The best part, is that it was one trip from the car to the venue, a private club on top of an office building. Right into the elevator, no loading dock BS. The Rumble 40 is a total keeper.
^^^I Want One!^^^ I don't actually need one, but I want one.
