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Uh Oh! Perhaps we should withhold publication of the names of winners, lest they become besieged by hitherto unknown close friends, relatives and hard luck stories?
Sorry my mistake. Curse that dreaded fine print....gets me everytime.The judges send this fine print excerpt in reply [emphasis added]:
___________________________________________________And you have been severely misinformed of any consolation prize, lest everyone purposely so enter.
Decisions of the judges are final. Entries not valid where void or prohibited. Please remember not to phrase your answer in the form of a question! Answers so formed will be null, void and pointless, . . . . .
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The cabinets are integral to the amp model, and you have to go into the amp to change cabs. Changing cabinets can make some huge differences. It surely sends it to the speaker and the headphones out. It would most certainly send it to the DI. It would absolutely have to go to the FX sends too.
I don't think so. The Eminence drivers in the Rumbles are too colored (in a good way). The single 10 in my Studio 40 is very Hi-Fi. It has to be in order to take on the different colors of the various cabinet simulations. Does a damn good job of it too. That is something @tombowlus could ask Fender for us. I also think that is why there will be a special Stage 210 cabinet and why there aren't going to be any heads.
The Fender Rumble Club Trivia! board has met in executive session and an internal investigation has determined that a certain weaselly underling is responsible for this unfortunate situation and they have been summarily terminated. (Some just wanted them fired, but nO-o-o-o, termination it was!) Anyways, the board wishes to assure the Rumble Faithful that this shall not happen again!! They pledge more transparency of your favorite pastime in the future and trust that all will continue to enjoy the fun in the spirit in which it is intended.Sorry my mistake. Curse that dreaded fine print....gets me everytime.
Long Live Linnin and Rumblers everywhere!
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I am certainly no acoustic engineer, nor software guru, (I don't even play either one on TV!) but surely the software could be made to take into account voicing, or coloring, of regular Rumble speakers, both internally and in order to give the proper simulations of amps, cabs and effects when used with the existing mass of Rumble extension cabs?
Any special speakers needed for extension of the Stage 800 should have been developed and released with the amp. Not a shrewd business move if the existing mass of Rumble extension cabs don't reproduce the Stage sounds accurately; especially since the Stage can use two extensions at a time, which could easily overshadow the sound of the internal speakers.
Since the "special Stage 210 cabinet" is lagging the release of the amp, it should just be a cosmetic change from the regular V3 210, IMHO.
@tombowlus has been a refreshing wellspring of Stage & Studio inside information, and I thank him for that.
I think that's just a matter of limited production capacity. Same reason the Rumble 210 had to wait a year to be introduced. Reality is a stern taskmaster.
I do too. He has the inside track and can be trusted.
If this is true, then those of us considering the use of a Studio 40 as a Preamp Out (FX Send) to the Preamp In (FX Return) of a Rumble 200 or 500, or two for stereo!, might have to think twice!! We certainly wouldn't want our sound reinforcement ruining the tone & effects of our carefully crafted settings.
Also any, perhaps, premium price for special hi-fi speakers in the "special Stage 210" cab(s) could be a bit of a disincentive for those already familiar with Rumble cabs. It would beg the question, "Why aren't the Stage & Studio just V2 Broncos, instead of trying to be identified with the value-laden Rumble line."
Say it ain't so, Fender! Say it ain't so!
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- Editor-in-Chief, Bass Gear Magazine
But none of the effects sent out are "under control of the specially voiced driver inside the box" unless, or until, they are sent back into the box. By that reasoning none of the effects should be sent out of box, including reverb and everything. Is that what you were originally thinking? I can see it now.
In general, it seems to make sense to use special hi-fi, or FRFR, speakers for modeling, when the signal stays contained, or "controlled" (as it were), by those special speakers.
For the Studio 40 it may even be halfway reasonable to expect the FX Send to come back, most of the time, to the FX Return; thus remaining with the special speakers.
But, for the Stage 800, which requires extension cab(s) to reach the namesake 800 watts, it's unreasonable to expect that only matching special speakers will be used in those extensions, especially when they aren't even available yet! While it's quite reasonable to expect that any current production Rumble extension cabs will give very similar results as the internal speakers in these new Rumbles!
At least, that's the way I see it. Am I alone?
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Just wishing now I hadn't included that little caveat about cab sims 
Contracts Rule #1: The large print giveth.Sorry my mistake. Curse that dreaded fine print....gets me everytime.
Contracts Rule #2: The small print taketh away.
Welcome Rumbler #917! I don't know the answer to your question, but I'll bet @Linnin will chime in on that one. Rumble on!
That's a secret that only Fender Principal Engineer Dave Lewis knows. He's smart enough to design all of the Fender Bass Amplification, so he's smart enough to set the HPF. Rest assured that it is optimal.
See, I didn't say he would know, I just said he would chime in.
