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Fender Rumble Club

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A representative from Pro Audio Land called me at work today to let me know the Rumble 500 combo I ordered late last night is on back order and won't be delivered for a month or so. Wish I could remember his name, but let me say he was helpful and informative. I appreciate the prompt heads-up instead of waiting a week or two then sending me an email to let me know. I have a feeling these guys will be hearing from me again next time I need something. He asked if I wanted to cancel the order or wait. I told him that I'll wait. Boston looks like the planet Hoth anyway so hopefully a thaw will take place and I will have saved the UPS man the hassle of carrying this thing around snow banks and over ice. Plus there was no way I was going to willingly let that thing go after the savings I got.
 
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2 things happen when I tilt the amp back: I lose bass from decreased floor coupling, and if I am under one of those damned tiki hut roofs the bass will boom enormously. Not saying don't do, just saying it has been problematic for me. ON the other hand, I gave the amp wedge to my guitarist, who likes it, and has turned down quite a bit because he can now hear himself. so I guess it's a win.
 
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I have discovered the Auralex Gramma a few years ago and love it. Now I always decouple from the floor, any floor, and every floor. I have better tone control that way. I also stay away from walls and corners. I like a taut well defined bottom and punch/attack like Chuck Norris when he was kick-boxing champ of the world.

What I want to experiment with now is raising my Rumble 112 stack. I am thinking of a used wooden solo piano bench to give me something like 20" of height. Auralex Gramma on top of the bench. Other mods as required.
Stay tuned.
 
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Linnin said:
I have discovered the Auralex Gramma a few years ago and love it. Now I always decouple from the floor, any floor, and every floor. I have better tone control that way. I also stay away from walls and corners. I like a taut well defined bottom and punch/attack like Chuck Norris when he was kick-boxing champ of the world.

What I want to experiment with now is raising my Rumble 112 stack. I am thinking of a used wooden solo piano bench to give me something like 20" of height. Auralex Gramma on top of the bench. Other mods as required.
Stay tuned.
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I've been thinking about picking up one of those Auralex Gramma platforms. And, you are the only person I know of that would compare his tone to Chuck Norris LOL
 
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Belizaire said:
A representative from Pro Audio Land called me at work today to let me know the Rumble 500 combo I ordered late last night is on back order and won't be delivered for a month or so. Wish I could remember his name, but let me say he was helpful and informative. I appreciate the prompt heads-up instead of waiting a week or two then sending me an email to let me know. I have a feeling these guys will be hearing from me again next time I need something. He asked if I wanted to cancel the order or wait. I told him that I'll wait. Boston looks like the planet Hoth anyway so hopefully a thaw will take place and I will have saved the UPS man the hassle of carrying this thing around snow banks and over ice. Plus there was no way I was going to willingly let that thing go after the savings I got.
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Since we cant get rumble pictures at least oblige us with pictures of your home planet Hoth!
 
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Hi, I've been the proud owner of a Rumble 500 v3 combo for a few months now, and also a recent 40 v3. I play a Jaguar SS. and a Yamaha RBX170 setup for Drop B. <3

I usually rehearse with the 40... there's no reason to practice any louder, even as a rock band. Nice backup too with the XLR out, stage monitor + speaker sim Balanced out... that's save the gig kind of tech. ;-)
 
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Linnin said:
If you're tilted back under a tiki-hut with the plaid one, I'd order another drink. Make that two.
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Problem with tilting the amp back as a means to discourage drink-setting, is that the drink then slides right into the amp.
And it's been my experience that people will try to balance a drink on anything. Another place we play on our Tiki-hut tour has the problem regarding a railing on their deck. They installed a railing cap that is angled. So help me, I saw people still try to put drinks on it. Potato heads living in a floating-drink dimension.
 
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Brand new Rumble owner here...the 100 watt V3 has made it so easy to find the tone that I'm looking for!
 
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Im thinking about picking up a V3 500 2x10 combo and replacing the drivers with eminence S2010 drivers for a 4 ohm load, tonal improvement and even lower weight. Could anyone give me the numbers off the stock drivers so I can get the ts parameters from eminence to compare with the S2010's ? Anybody know rough internal volume and what the porting is? I played this fender and really liked it.
 
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kringle77 said:
Im thinking about picking up a V3 500 2x10 combo and replacing the drivers with eminence S2010 drivers for a 4 ohm load, tonal improvement and even lower weight. Could anyone give me the numbers off the stock drivers so I can get the ts parameters from eminence to compare with the S2010's ? Anybody know rough internal volume and what the porting is? I played this fender and really liked it.
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First off the Eminence woofers are custom designs strictly for this application, and they're very good as you well know. The closest off the shelf driver would be the Eminence Legend B102. Fender purposely doesn't publish that data. You could call or email Eminence and they might tell, but I tend to doubt it.
Secondly as good as the S2010 Basslites are they can't handle that kind of power and you'd need to kick it up to the Deltalites. I do seem to recall Lakland Player also going to do the that same mod, and I haven't heard a thing since. So I'd see if he's still around and ask him about it.
Thirdly, you'll be voiding your warranty. My Fender friend had also advised against it.
 

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