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Fender Rumble Club

#27,341
Flippy said:
Go ahead, it's going to be fabulous :hyper:

One thing to keep in mind is that effect out may be hotter than your bass output, so you might need to adjust your distortions, compressors, etc.
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Thanks! On the lookout for another 500C then.

On another note - did anyone notice the Rumbles (or other amps for that matter) sounding better over time?
I just got back from a tour with my trusty 500C + 210 cab, so it's been used for 40+ gigs and for rehearsals during 18 months. On this tour, we played a gig with a friend band from Switzerland and the last time we shared backline (10 months and lots of gigs ago) the bassplayer complained that my rig "lacked balls" :) On this gig, he just chuckled and loved the sound and punch. Was it just him or the venue that had changed, or do amps significantly improve their sound with time and use?
 
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Danne Palm said:
I just got back from a tour with my trusty 500C + 210 cab, so it's been used for 40+ gigs and for rehearsals during 18 months. On this tour, we played a gig with a friend band from Switzerland and the last time we shared backline (10 months and lots of gigs ago) the bassplayer complained that my rig "lacked balls" :) On this gig, he just chuckled and loved the sound and punch. Was it just him or the venue that had changed, or do amps significantly improve their sound with time and use?
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As brand new woofers are exercised and broken in by playing they do improve somewhat, but that doesn't take very long. Your Rumble rig was just as good sounding, and punchy, and ballsy the first time your friend played them.
 
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Linnin said:
As brand new woofers are exercised and broken in by playing they do improve somewhat, but that doesn't take very long. Your Rumble rig was just as good sounding, and punchy, and ballsy the first time your friend played them.
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It's what I thought and hoped for :D It was another venue too, so obviously the rooms would react to the sound differently. Still, it made the hauling of his all-tube Ampeg with the 810 quite unnecessary...
 
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Linnin said:
Once your voice coil gets out of alignment with the magnet it will only get worse. I don't know what you are doing for this to be happening over and over again with such consistency, but find out what it is and stop it! But for right now you've got to slap a couple hundred dollars worth of woofers in your cab.
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It could be how the amp is transported. The amp should be laid on it's back with the speaker facing up. First you want the voice coil to respond to bumps by moving in it's natural travel. Second, the speaker is mounted from the front, so the frame of the speaker is resting on the front panel, not hanging from it. I have no way of knowing if this is the issue, but it can't hurt to baby your cabs even when they aren't being played.
 
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Linnin said:
As brand new woofers are exercised and broken in by playing they do improve somewhat, but that doesn't take very long. Your Rumble rig was just as good sounding, and punchy, and ballsy the first time your friend played them.
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I understand how he feels, though - every time I break out my 500c/210 stack, I’m ready to swear it sounds even more awesome than last time. :)
 
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to today's installment of

Fender Rumble Club Trivia!

[cue gameshow musical score]

Today's Fender Rumble Club Trivia question, for one shmillion shmackeroons, is:

"When were solid state Fender Rumble heads first introduced?"

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Don't forget to read this fine print: 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, not unlike the so-called prizes, which are for grins and giggles only, and are intended for the sole enjoyment of our audience only and not to be copied, borrowed, purloined nor otherwise appropriated nor exhibited in any manner unbecoming of the owners, shareholders, investors and their successors and assigns, be it foreign or domestic, as in: "no place like home", even if the heels of ruby slippers be clicked, or not. This shall in no way compel, contract, bind or enfetter said "Club" nor any members, visitors, fans or detractors of such, nor ever inure to the benefit of anyone, at any place, or at any time. Forever and ever, amen. Copyrights belong to there respective owners and are not used with permission, nor malice aforethought, nor any real, or imagined, thought at all, for that matter. Such matter being of no matter, substance, or intelligence in life or limb, being pure superfluousness by all accounts.​
 
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randini said:
Rumble 350 and 150 heads were officially announced on Jan 13, 2011
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DING! DING! DING! DING! We have a winner, ladies and gentlemen! We have a winner!

Congratulations, @randini! And enjoy your shmillion shmackeroons, which should be delivered by armoured car in a hermetically sealed Mason jar staight from Funk & Wagnall's front porch. (Don't ask how they get an armoured car inside a Mason jar.)

Thanks to all our Fender Rumble Club Trivia players. We hope you will continue to play in the future, when you could win one shmillion shmackeroons!!

@randini, would you be so kind as to tell us where you found the correct answer, and so quickly, too?!?!?
 
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randini said:
Funny you mention it. I already PM'd Linnin to let him know that I found it in the Fender Forums. It was in a post Linnin made 4 years ago about the release history of the Rumble models.
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SO, . . . you were just randomly perusing the forums on the Fender website and just happened to run across what would become the answer to this week's question??? And remembered it??? Hmmmmm, how convenient!

Had you not had this fortuitous sequence of events, is there any way you could think of to find such specific info on demand?
 
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G-Dog said:
Had you not had this fortuitous sequence of events, is there any way you could think of to find such specific info on demand?
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Sorry if I stepped on your toes.
If you are asking me, does "found"="result of google search and digging through a few hits until I discovered a quote from Linnin that the exact info I was looking for"?
The answer in this case is yes.
 
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randini said:
Sorry if I stepped on your toes.
If you are asking me, does "found"="result of google search and digging through a few hits until I discovered a quote from Linnin that the exact info I was looking for"?
The answer in this case is yes.
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Not at all, sir. The rules do not, as yet, prohibit Google searches. It was a clever tactic, and done so quickly! Exactly what is to be expected of the above-average intelligence of our Rumble Club members, especially the Club's first Rumble Stage 800 owner, like yourself. Why, you must fly thru the Stage's menus at warp speed by now.

Congratulations, again, sir! Please do Rumble On!

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randini said:
Funny you mention it. I already PM'd Linnin to let him know that I found it in the Fender Forums. It was in a post Linnin made 4 years ago about the release history of the Rumble models.
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I think that the History of Fender Rumble would have been the among the first of the now famous 'Rumble Talks'. We could most certainly use a new History as that one stopped with the introduction of the V3 Rumbles, but said nothing about them as they were brand new.
 
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Blue Dragon said:
Heard a good one today. A lady that works in my office heard i play bass. Her husband does too. I just happened to have 2 of mine in the car so I brought em up. In the course of the discussion, she asked what I play through. "Rumble 500 combo". "Say, do you know anyone that might be interested in an SVT? My husband..."

I laughed. Heartily.
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I will join you :laugh: :roflmao: :laugh: :roflmao: :laugh: :D
 
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