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Fender Rumble Club

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Steadfast said:
Indeed. I am using mine to drive beats so both horns are needed. But yes you are spot on. I am using an Acoustic 360 as my bass amp. The fender 500 combos sound awesome on beats, sax and keys. AWESOME!!! Better than a Bose tower I have. .... and great on bass as well.
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That Acoustic 360 rig looks pretty amazing!
Used to play tenor sax BITD, this fretted instrument thing is a whole new ballgame, but I’m enjoying the challenge. Thx for the help!
 
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ShawnG said:
Newbie here, so testing the “there is no dumb question” concept.
Is it possible to drive a 2nd combo from another combo, effectively using the 2nd as an expansion cab?
I’ve got a Stage 800 and have been considering trying to find a V3 2x10 expansion cab and a compact head (Trace Elliott ELF or similar) so that I’d have a usable backup to the Stage (also thinking 800 watts through two 2x10s should pretty much be all I’d ever need).
But if I can drive a used V3 Rumble 500 through the Stage, this would be a significantly less expensive way to accomplish the same thing (two 2x10s and a backup amp).
Thx.

SPG
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Excellent question, Shawn! Attaway to think outside the box.
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Steadfast said:
great question and not dumb by any means. Yes you can connect two combos together via the send and return effects loop. The amp that is the “send” will control all parameters of the second combo... except the horn. If you are using the horn then both should be set to the on position.
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Would that it were so, Steadly, but I'm afraid that's not true for the Studio and Stage amps' FX Send, like it is for the non-modeling combos. See the Connecting Combos Together section of the Rumble Club Wiki page, specifically the link Chaining Stage or Studio to Another Rumble Works Differently.
Connect the Stage or Studio's FX Send to the second combo's instrument input and control them separately.

I dunno why this is the case, but "whoop, there it is". :confused: Shawn, we'd love to hear your confirmation or rebuttal to this observation, especially in the Rumble LT25, Studio 40 & Stage 800 club sub-thread. :thumbsup:
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G-Dog said:
Excellent question, Shawn! Attaway to think outside the box.
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Would that it were so, Steadly, but I'm afraid that's not true for the Studio and Stage amps' FX Send, like it is for the non-modeling combos. See the Connecting Combos Together section of the Rumble Club Wiki page, specifically the link Chaining Stage or Studio to Another Rumble Works Differently.
Connect the Stage or Studio's FX Send to the second combo's instrument input and control them separately.

I dunno why this is the case, but "whoop, there it is". :confused: Shawn, we'd love to hear your confirmation or rebuttal to this observation, especially in the Rumble LT25, Studio 40 & Stage 800 club sub-thread. :thumbsup:
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good to know! I only have experience with the 500 combos.
 
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G-Dog said:
Would that it were so, Steadly, but I'm afraid that's not true for the Studio and Stage amps' FX Send, like it is for the non-modeling combos. See the Connecting Combos Together section of the Rumble Club Wiki page, specifically the link Chaining Stage or Studio to Another Rumble Works Differently.
Connect the Stage or Studio's FX Send to the second combo's instrument input and control them separately.
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Thanks, G-Dog! I should’ve known there was an answer in the Wiki!
 
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NHM said:
just thinking about adding an extension speaker to my R500c. Before I splash out, what are folks' thoughts on the Neo range. Is it worth spending the extra - can you hear the upgrade (other than the cash till ker-ching)?
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Identical drivers do the best job, IMHO. A Rumble 210 cab will work the best and cost the least. YMM, as always, V.
 
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Jawaba said:
More of a general question, but does anyone use headphones to practice with their rumble?

If so which headphones would you recommend and are there any cons of practicing with headphones?
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I did until I broke the cord to the headphones. Pros- great sound quality with no room acoustics problems, no booming to bother friends a family or neighbors, backing tracks are in stereo (pod, phone, etc).
Cons- none I can think of other than most headphone cords are short so you need an extension, AMHIK..and you need to be careful not to crank your Rumble too much.
I had a mid-low priced set that came bundled with a mic and FocusRite 2-1. I have a higher end ‘isolating’ set on order. Any decent set will work for practice, IMO.
 
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Jawaba said:
More of a general question, but does anyone use headphones to practice with their rumble?

If so which headphones would you recommend and are there any cons of practicing with headphones?
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I practice with headphones most of the time, and use Beyerdynamic DT770s. They sound great, and the cord is quite long, so you won’t need an extension. No real downsides to headphone practice that I know of.
 
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JakobT said:
I practice with headphones most of the time, and use Beyerdynamic DT770s. They sound great, and the cord is quite long, so you won’t need an extension. No real downsides to headphone practice that I know of.
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Unless you're clumsy like me. Every time I play bass with headphones, the headphone cord gets stuck in between my body and the bass, and it ends up either yanking the headphones off of my head, or the cord breaks. So I don't do it any more. I'm sure there's a way to do it, but I'm too dumb to have figured it out.
 
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John Stephen said:
Unless you're clumsy like me. Every time I play bass with headphones, the headphone cord gets stuck in between my body and the bass, and it ends up either yanking the headphones off of my head, or the cord breaks. So I don't do it any more. I'm sure there's a way to do it, but I'm too dumb to have figured it out.
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Put the amp behind you so the cord just hangs off your back.
 
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Jawaba said:
More of a general question, but does anyone use headphones to practice with their rumble?

If so which headphones would you recommend and are there any cons of practicing with headphones?
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I use earphones because I am hard of hearing and my boss (better half) does not like loud bass. If you have good hearing you will probably be ok with 32 ohms as spec'd by Fender. If you have hearing problems or using higher resistance phones, you may need a ear/headphone amp. The best thing is to try before you buy. That is the way to avoid the rabbit hole I went down :rollno:.
 
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Jawaba said:
More of a general question, but does anyone use headphones to practice with their rumble?

If so which headphones would you recommend and are there any cons of practicing with headphones?
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No serious downsides to headphone practice, although the tone is of course thinner just due to the headphones themselves. What I like is that headphones are great for picking up very slight differences in your attack so you can work on maintaining a consistent plucking or picking technique.
 
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