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Rumble 500 head for sale, $350 shipped (not mine)
http://www.talkbass.com/threads/fender-rumble-500-head-as-new.1118759/
http://www.talkbass.com/threads/fender-rumble-500-head-as-new.1118759/
See that's just the thing. You could most likely get that very same deal brand new if you call and ask you favorite e-tailer.
Oh no, not by any means. The Fender Rumble 350 2x10 Combo is a totally bitchen-assed combo by any standard.
My V3 200 arrived today and I am pleased. Only got to play a little in bedroom in our small frame house. Wife said walls were rattling! Had gain full up,master about a quarter up. Tried all settings but chose contour engaged,bass knob at a quarter up,low and high mid and treble all at noon. plenty loud and clean sound with horn off. Used mid 80s Japan Fender P with rounds and fingerstyle. Also hooked up my 12 inch GK 8ohm speaker without changing anything and was noticeably louder to me { and my wife } ! Ive used a GK mb 200 head with various speaker cabs for last few years and it just now started giving me problems with both its mic and quarter inch line out,so the Rumble is here just in time! Playing this Saturday in a club at Malone ,Texas so Ill get to run her thru the paces then and cant wait!
I'd run it just the opposite. Master 2/3rds to 3/4 up and then add gain to taste. Enjoy!
Thanks,Linnin ! Il try that. I was jus turning knobs and listening and got alotta different tones and none were bad ,but i liked some better than others. i tried my inexpensive Rogue bass with flats and man it came alive ! Feel like a kid in a toy store! Thank you and all the others here for your comments. I wouldnt have got this without reading your posts. Bought this with work bonus and its money well spent. Thanks so much!
I've just purchased a new Rumble 200 head and am loving it to bits! Prior to this I was using a GK MB200, I don't play large gigs so the 200 has plenty of grunt for my needs. I love the GK but felt it wasn't giving me the tone I want for Jazz standards and blues. I initially picked up a Rumble 100 combo, mostly because of how light and portable it is, but returned it within 4 days, nothing wrong with it, but felt the 12" speaker wasn't measuring up to my expectations, swapped it for the 200 head and am ecstatic with the results. Combining the Rumble with my GK NEo 2x12. Love the variety of tones I can get out of this thing!
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Thats how I roll too,my master is seems to sit between 10 and noon,depending on venue, and gain can be added for taste if needed. Played a quite few gigs with the gain off,it's not a necessity to use it.
and after months of thrashing this thing now , a simple mute button on the combo is the only feature I seem to find missing, just because I am used to having such a button on all other amps I own/owned.
Be a great addition in future models Fender
There is no way to tell for sure. The Orange 115's are Eminence ceramic magnet drivers rated at 400 watts. They're also $650 a piece!!Figuring this is a best place to ask. How would the older 410 cab compare to a pair of orange 115 cabs in terms of sensitivity? Got only 50w on tap.
The V2 4 ohm Rumble 410 is rated at 500 watts and while not the greatest 10's in the world still sound pretty damn good. The cab has an excellent reputation for superb sound quality and at $300 new sold very well.
I wouldn't think there would be more than a couple of dB difference between the two, so your 50 watts is going to be about as loud with one as the other.
Rumble On!
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Welcome To The Fender Rumble Club, Nightwing!
You are member #294 
Your certainly made a great choice, plus I love the sound of Eminence 12" Neo woofers.
Rumbles Rule! 
I don't know what you were expecting but for a 22lb 100 watt 112 this thing continues to impress me.
Some friends I play with put together a ridiculous arena rock/hair band parody band and had their first gig last week. The bass player is a student of the band leader and didn't have a bass amp. They also didn't have a PA so I volunteered as sound man. The bass player, "Brutus von Dragoste," played through my rig, which is a zoom b3 direct to the board with svt sim also feeding the v3 rumble 100 through the effects return.
Due to the nature of the music I wasn't sure how it would do. These guys were way louder than I ever play. They also used an acoustic drum kit (my bands use vdrums) and the dude was hitting hard, so hard I only had kick in the PA. And the obligatory 412 guitar cab.
The combo handled the gig with no problem. At one point I pulled the bass down all the way in the PA and could still hear it on the floor.
Combo on the stage:
There doesn't seem to be many guys using the Rumble heads with other cabs. Going back to posts dated 11/1 in this thread, nearly everyone is using the rumble combo.
I picked up a demo v3 Rumble 500 head from Full Compass yesterday. Last night I did some playing through my 4ohm Acme Low B2 and my Lakland Skyline Glaub. I was impressed. Loud and tweakable, though the tonal variations aren't extreme. Which I like. I seemed to like a setting with no presets engaged, bass at 12:30-1, low and high mids at 1:00, highs at 1:00. Despite not having the vintage preset engaged, it was a nice sound, slightly punchy, very "P" bassy, bordering-on-tube-sound, and loud. I find the overdrive circuit unuseable as it seems to be instant fuzz and nothing else, even at it's lowest settings. Can't dial in a harsh slightly overdriven sound. Just fuzzy distortion and more fuzzy distortion. I've got a gig on Friday and will run it through my 4ohm Berg AE212 without sound support (small room). It's missing several things I wish it had that my other heads have such as mute, tuner out and DI output control, but I got such a good deal on it, I can't complain. It looks cool. I hope the cheap plastic knobs hold up. Where's this thing made?
I picked up a demo v3 Rumble 500 head from Full Compass yesterday. Last night I did some playing through my 4ohm Acme Low B2 and my Lakland Skyline Glaub. I was impressed. Loud and tweakable, though the tonal variations aren't extreme. Which I like. I seemed to like a setting with no presets engaged, bass at 12:30-1, low and high mids at 1:00, highs at 1:00. Despite not having the vintage preset engaged, it was a nice sound, slightly punchy, very "P" bassy, bordering-on-tube-sound, and loud. I find the overdrive circuit unuseable as it seems to be instant fuzz and nothing else, even at it's lowest settings. Can't dial in a harsh slightly overdriven sound. Just fuzzy distortion and more fuzzy distortion. I've got a gig on Friday and will run it through my 4ohm Berg AE212 without sound support (small room). It's missing several things I wish it had that my other heads have such as mute, tuner out and DI output control, but I got such a good deal on it, I can't complain. It looks cool. I hope the cheap plastic knobs hold up. Where's this thing made?
You'll see where it's made if you read the back of the amp. It's clearly marked. You're overdrive must be defective in your demo. It's very easy to dial in just a hint for a warm tube vibe. It is the very best overdrive on the market and just happens to come with a fabulous Fender Rumble bass amp. The overdrive also comes in an all tube version with the Bassman 100t or the Super Bassman.
The overdrive also comes in an all tube version with the Bassman 100t or the Super Bassman.
Perhaps you have the Gain up?
The gain knob is not a normal front-end gain trim, like you're probably used to on most amps. With it all the way down, you will still have lots of volume. I treat it like a built-in boost pedal. As you turn it up, so the tone gets fatter, a little compressed, and adds a bit of "hair" on the note.
The OD, on the other hand, is pretty hot. If you're looking for on-the-edge-of-breakup sounds, you may only need the Drive knob at around 8-9 o'clock, with the Level knob cranked pretty high to balance the output level.
High Gain levels combined with a medium amount of overdrive puts my basses well into fuzz bass territory, which is not my cup of tea. That's with a passive P bass and a passive Dingwall. If you run active basses and a lot of onboard EQ, you'll have to be careful about input levels.
The other thing to be mindful of, is that it this price point you don't get a separate set of tone controls for the overdrive circuit, so if you dial up a grindy distortion tone with the OD, you may need to reach over and adjust the 4-band EQ when you kick the OD off.
