That's what's cool about my rumble studio 40..I use the built in compressor pedals
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It does look cool. I think I'm I am a very lucky person to own it. There's history in that thing.
Well, seems my switches are somewhere in a USPS loop.
However, today I joined TDPRI just to message a fellow who (last year) had a thread about his blown power amp. He says he'll sell me the preamp board for super cheap.
However, today I joined TDPRI just to message a fellow who (last year) had a thread about his blown power amp. He says he'll sell me the preamp board for super cheap.
Well, seems my switches are somewhere in a USPS loop.
However, today I joined TDPRI just to message a fellow who (last year) had a thread about his blown power amp. He says he'll sell me the preamp board for super cheap.
Thanks fir the update, 'Cuda. Terrific news about the preamp.
Sorry about the switches. 
Please keep us informed as it progresses. This is exciting!
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Gigs Thursday and Friday nights. Both went well. R40 on Thursday, R100 on Friday(bigger room). Next gigs 3/4 (R40)and 3/7(R100).
GP, much like @G-Dog's hopeful optimism for the future, I really enjoy hearing about your gigs. I am glad to see that you're keeping at it. I can't wait to resume playing live again.
In fact, I'm working up a solo act to increase my options (in addition to my blues-rock trio). In addition to bass, I also sing and play guitar. I've put together a couple of sets of acoustic music ranging from Dobie Gray to Lyle Lovett to Tim McGraw. I hope to start performing in some local restaurants and micro-breweries in the very near future. (Just FYI, since it's kinda hard to tell: my avatar pic is me playing my acoustic-electric bass, not my six-string.)
I'm also heading down toward your way in a couple of weeks. We're visiting my wife's cousin in the Lake Okeechobee area for a few days, then spending a week up in Destin. It'll be nice to get out and about for a while; warm up, and let the crazy subside.
Take care, and keep up the updates.
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There ya go. Fixed it for you. (If I'm recalling the same posts.)
ps: Good luck with the solo act! Man, that's great!! You da MAN!!!
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You did fix it for me! Thanks, G.There ya go. Fixed it for you. (If I'm recalling the same posts.)
ps: Good luck with the solo act! Man, that's great!! You da MAN!!!
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Nicely done, GP. What kind of venues were these (last Thursday and Friday)?
I played in Okeechobee last night. We used play in Okeechobee a lot before covid, in Avon Park now and have 3 days/shows in Clewiston next week, I have 2 1/2 sets of solo stuff worked up, but the band is pretty busy so the solo is almost unnecessary, but still working on guitar and singing.
Thursday's was the(usually)jazz gig at a place called "Notes" in Stuart, FL. It's a converted house with the living room being the live music room. Fairly tight quarters. There may be pics(BIL was there). We did a more 60's rock thing which went over well so the owner wants more of that.
Friday's gig was a dinner dance at an Elks Lodge in Port St. Lucie, FL, pretty good sized room-even has a(small) stage(!)-a rarity around these parts. Small-ish crowd, but they enjoyed our repertoire of dinner music, dance numbers, and a bit of rock. Our audiences are usually 55+ so, thankfully, we don't get any hip-hop requests. More likely to get doo-wop requests.
Next 2 gigs are 3/4 @ "Notes" and at a local restaurant/bar called "Harry and the Natives" for breakfast/brunch on 3/7 from 9(AM)
to noon. I should be awake by 10:30-ish.
AFA doing solo work, my piano playing is incredibly rusty. Wasn't all that good to start. AFA guitar, my 'ability' is best described as "I've got A and E and I'm workin' on D".
I do sing-harmony and some leads-but I'm not a "lead singer".
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Coupla pics from Thursday's gig. I was using the short scale 'cos of uncertainty of how we were gonna set up. Shoulda tooken the TBird. Next time.Thursday's was the(usually)jazz gig at a place called "Notes" in Stuart, FL. It's a converted house with the living room being the live music room. Fairly tight quarters. There may be pics(BIL was there). We did a more 60's rock thing which went over well so the owner wants more of that.
Friday's gig was a dinner dance at an Elks Lodge in Port St. Lucie, FL, pretty good sized room-even has a(small) stage(!)-a rarity around these parts. Small-ish crowd, but they enjoyed our repertoire of dinner music, dance numbers, and a bit of rock. Our audiences are usually 55+ so, thankfully, we don't get any hip-hop requests. More likely to get doo-wop requests.
Next 2 gigs are 3/4 @ "Notes" and at a local restaurant/bar called "Harry and the Natives" for breakfast/brunch on 3/7 from 9(AM)
AFA doing solo work, my piano playing is incredibly rusty. Wasn't all that good to start. AFA guitar, my 'ability' is best described as "I've got A and E and I'm workin' on D".
I do sing-harmony and some leads-but I'm not a "lead singer".
Front of the place. Was a 3 bedroom/2 bath house.
Us at work.
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Cozy place, Plaid man. And Wow! what a roomy stage!!
Just the trio, eh? You coulda done your Townshend-ish aerial windmill moves! 
Keep the awesome Rumblings!!! .
That was the living room. Not our regular guitar man-a guy we used to work with a few years ago. And our regular 4th guy doesn't play any indoor gigs. Fear of(you know).Cozy place, Plaid man. And Wow! what a roomy stage!!
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VERY nice, GP. I am still having vicarious fun from hearing about your gigs. Keep ‘em coming!
At our recent band practice, I got there and realized I had pulled out my GK MB200 bass head a few weeks earlier for a gig and it was still at home. So I got my Rumble 100 from my drummer's house, which is near our practice room. While on break, I dialed in a little overdrive (which I never used before), just enough to give some edge, without really going into distortion and then continued practicing and used it that way for my two gigs this weekend and I like the way is sounds.
Also, I got the 10-band MXR graphic a couple of years ago mainly to add some 125 hz to fatten the D and G on my Musicman Stingray (and tweak some other areas). Recently I nudged the 63 hz up to about plus 3 or 4, which is just enough to give the R100 a more solid low end. I line out to the PA so its just give me a fuller tone on stage.
Our Saturday gig was in a bar that always booms on the low A. The band has been running my bass pretty loud in the PA and I try to pull back a bit if I sound too loud. With the A note, I was plucking it a little lighter and also using palm muting. Near the end of the night when we were playing Summer of 69, I remembered another technique I rarely use. I fretted the A with my middle finger and rested my ring finger on the string in the Bb position to allow the string to continue to ring but not swell up in volume.
Here is a photo of my settings from Saturday night. No presets. I turned the overdrive off for the photo to cut the glare from the LED.
Also, I got the 10-band MXR graphic a couple of years ago mainly to add some 125 hz to fatten the D and G on my Musicman Stingray (and tweak some other areas). Recently I nudged the 63 hz up to about plus 3 or 4, which is just enough to give the R100 a more solid low end. I line out to the PA so its just give me a fuller tone on stage.
Our Saturday gig was in a bar that always booms on the low A. The band has been running my bass pretty loud in the PA and I try to pull back a bit if I sound too loud. With the A note, I was plucking it a little lighter and also using palm muting. Near the end of the night when we were playing Summer of 69, I remembered another technique I rarely use. I fretted the A with my middle finger and rested my ring finger on the string in the Bb position to allow the string to continue to ring but not swell up in volume.
Here is a photo of my settings from Saturday night. No presets. I turned the overdrive off for the photo to cut the glare from the LED.
Maybe post a few of your upcoming public gigs? Some of us in FL can make the drive-especially Okeechobee ain't that far from Stuart.
