Fender Rumble Club

[G-Dog]

I would think(dangerous as that may be)that "Sunshine" could be done at church. Possibly.

It has been discussed, I assure you, complete with spelling it "Let The Son Shine In" in the bulletin. But definitely not with the "Aquarius" part. Alas I haven't got to play it there, or anywhere, in decades. But some of the CC* music is just as fun!


*Contemporary Christian
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[LetItGrowTone]

Two years ago I bought a Rumble 115, my first bass cab. At that time I was using a small tube amp and the tone was very good but I wasn't happy with low E-G. I now know that there were several interrelated factors affecting this:

-poor speaker damping of the small tube amp (I now have a big tube amp and also a class D)
-neck pickup distance from the neck (I now have basses with pickups at the neck)
-stiff-type flats (switched to more flexible type flats)
-room acoustics (repositioned cabs and learned to recognize it and live with it for now)

But at that time I hadn't sorted those out, and traded away the Rumble 115.

Now, having just about fixed all of the above and being quite happy with multiple 10s, I decided to try a 15" again. Unfortunately, I bought a fancy-name-brand that cost a lot of money. There isn't anything wrong with it, but I guess it's intended for more modern tastes.

Anyway, remembering how nice the Rumble 115 was, I just bought another one:
-Highs are smooth and natural (according to my tastes).
-Lows go deeper.

Rumble 115 low E is clearer. For me, it's "game over, man". Easy decision.

 

[G-Dog]

Two years ago I bought a Rumble 115, my first bass cab. At that time I was using a small tube amp and the tone was very good but I wasn't happy with low E-G. I now know that there were several interrelated factors affecting this:

-poor speaker damping of the small tube amp (I now have a big tube amp and also a class D)
-neck pickup distance from the neck (I now have basses with pickups at the neck)
-stiff-type flats (switched to more flexible type flats)
-room acoustics (repositioned cabs and learned to recognize it and live with it for now)

But at that time I hadn't sorted those out, and traded away the Rumble 115.

Now, having just about fixed all of the above and being quite happy with multiple 10s, I decided to try a 15" again. Unfortunately, I bought a fancy-name-brand that cost a lot of money. There isn't anything wrong with it, but I guess it's intended for more modern tastes.

Anyway, remembering how nice the Rumble 115 was, I just bought another one:
-Highs are smooth and natural (according to my tastes).
-Lows go deeper.

Rumble 115 low E is clearer. For me, it's "game over, man". Easy decision.

Welcome back to The Club, Toney! Show us a pic of your Rumble and get a free official membership.
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[GonePlaid]

Two years ago I bought a Rumble 115, my first bass cab. At that time I was using a small tube amp and the tone was very good but I wasn't happy with low E-G. I now know that there were several interrelated factors affecting this:

-poor speaker damping of the small tube amp (I now have a big tube amp and also a class D)
-neck pickup distance from the neck (I now have basses with pickups at the neck)
-stiff-type flats (switched to more flexible type flats)
-room acoustics (repositioned cabs and learned to recognize it and live with it for now)

But at that time I hadn't sorted those out, and traded away the Rumble 115.

Now, having just about fixed all of the above and being quite happy with multiple 10s, I decided to try a 15" again. Unfortunately, I bought a fancy-name-brand that cost a lot of money. There isn't anything wrong with it, but I guess it's intended for more modern tastes.

Anyway, remembering how nice the Rumble 115 was, I just bought another one:
-Highs are smooth and natural (according to my tastes).
-Lows go deeper.

Rumble 115 low E is clearer. For me, it's "game over, man". Easy decision.

And that's it. The Rumble series does what I want. I've owned other well-known(and expensive-r)amps that many people love. And I didn't. Luckily for us, there are a ship(sp?) load of choices in heads, cabs, combos, preamps, et al available for the bass player of today.

 

[EatS1stBassist]

Two years ago I bought a Rumble 115, my first bass cab. At that time I was using a small tube amp and the tone was very good but I wasn't happy with low E-G. I now know that there were several interrelated factors affecting this:

-poor speaker damping of the small tube amp (I now have a big tube amp and also a class D)
-neck pickup distance from the neck (I now have basses with pickups at the neck)
-stiff-type flats (switched to more flexible type flats)
-room acoustics (repositioned cabs and learned to recognize it and live with it for now)

But at that time I hadn't sorted those out, and traded away the Rumble 115.

Now, having just about fixed all of the above and being quite happy with multiple 10s, I decided to try a 15" again. Unfortunately, I bought a fancy-name-brand that cost a lot of money. There isn't anything wrong with it, but I guess it's intended for more modern tastes.

Anyway, remembering how nice the Rumble 115 was, I just bought another one:
-Highs are smooth and natural (according to my tastes).
-Lows go deeper.

Rumble 115 low E is clearer. For me, it's "game over, man". Easy decision.

I have the 200c w/15 + 210 cab! Wow heaven!

 

[Deleted member 268085]

I have the 200c w/15 + 210 cab! Wow heaven!

My #1 choice. I have to sell my 200c and 40c because they're not multi-voltage. When I replace them with 220v models, I'm going straight to the 200c+210 Max Combo (brought to you by Max Headroom).

 

[GonePlaid]

My #1 choice. I have to sell my 200c and 40c because they're not multi-voltage. When I replace them with 220v models, I'm going straight to the 200c+210 Max Combo (brought to you by Max Headroom).

So you'll be like Max-a-million.

 

[G-Dog]

My #1 choice. I have to sell my 200c and 40c because they're not multi-voltage. When I replace them with 220v models, I'm going straight to the 200c+210 Max Combo (brought to you by Max Headroom).

Just a thought, Maarty, (that I bet Goner will agree with) you may wanna consider just getting two Rumble 200 combos to start with and daisy chain them together for bigger venues & louder gigs. That would give you 280 watts available into the identical, vertically arrayed, 15" speakers, thus creating that acoustic coupling that is highly touted here for tone enhancement. And one amp totally controls the other for convenience.

It would also be very prudent for amp backup and, if even more power or SPL is ever needed, then you could add a 210 cab, or two, for a total of 400 watts thru two 15"s and four 10"s with both columns acoustically coupled!!!

Just a thought.
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[mcrawfordmusic]

Welcome back, mack! But, as far as we're concerned, you never left. You may have let your first Rumble go, but we knew you'd probably be back. Most do! Just go ahead and put your member number #841 in your TB Signature, like a permanent tattoo.


You know, Goner's got a good point there. If any of those borrowed backline 500s ever haven't quite been enough for the gig, which probably wasn't often, but chaining two of them together will most assuredly get you there at any venue!
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Thanks for the warm welcome (back)!

I'd love to hear two of them daisy chained, that would be monstrous! I doubt I would ever need that much power, though I am tempted to grab a 210 or 112 extension cab

My 500c will have its first gig this Friday night

Matt

 

[BBassBassington]

I would totally love it if Fender added a Rumble model to this. The studio preamp setting does the job real well, but it would be sweet to have a Rumble V3 in there instead. Still totally cool though, and if they make a Fender Rumble Studio Micro I'll be buying that the second it comes in stock too.

 

[GonePlaid]

I would totally love it if Fender added a Rumble model to this. The studio preamp setting does the job real well, but it would be sweet to have a Rumble V3 in there instead. Still totally cool though, and if they make a Fender Rumble Studio Micro I'll be buying that the second it comes in stock too.

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Probably not enuff call for them to make it. Besides, us bassists are almost always low man on the totem.(sigh)

 

[BBassBassington]

Probably not enuff call for them to make it. Besides, us bassists are almost always low man on the totem.(sigh)

Indeed. That's why I'd love it if they just added a Rumble to the Mustang Micro. Then they can market it to us bassists too and make even more money.

 

[GonePlaid]

Indeed. That's why I'd love it if they just added a Rumble to the Mustang Micro. Then they can market it to us bassists too and make even more money.

But that would make way too much sense.

 

[BBassBassington]

But that would make way too much sense.

Good point. Oh well, that's what active basses are for I guess!

 

[EatS1stBassist]

Thanks for the warm welcome (back)!

I'd love to hear two of them daisy chained, that would be monstrous! I doubt I would ever need that much power, though I am tempted to grab a 210 or 112 extension cab

My 500c will have its first gig this Friday night

Matt

Grab the 210!

 

[Deleted member 268085]

Just a thought, Maarty, (that I bet Goner will agree with) you may wanna consider just getting two Rumble 200 combos to start with and daisy chain them together for bigger venues & louder gigs. That would give you 280 watts available into the identical, vertically arrayed, 15" speakers, thus creating that acoustic coupling that is highly touted here for tone enhancement. And one amp totally controls the other for convenience.

It would also be very prudent for amp backup and, if even more power or SPL is ever needed, then you could add a 210 cab, or two, for a total of 400 watts thru two 15"s and four 10"s with both columns acoustically coupled!!!

Just a thought.
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That's a really good thought. Let's see if I have any money left over after building my new house on the land my niece is subdividing from her property (ex not paying child support). Right now, the exchange rate ($ to €) sucks.

This is very close to what I'm building. My architect in France is working with the home builder in Romania to modify it from 112 m2 to 105m2 and 3 bedrooms to 2. The master bedroom will be oversized, so I can put my studio on the far wall.

 

[Droopy_TX]

I would totally love it if Fender added a Rumble model to this. The studio preamp setting does the job real well, but it would be sweet to have a Rumble V3 in there instead. Still totally cool though, and if they make a Fender Rumble Studio Micro I'll be buying that the second it comes in stock too.

I sent one of these (via Sweetwater) as a gift to my guitarist brother in the New Orleans area. I told him to enjoy it on the guitar, but let me know how it does with his P bass. He said it works pretty well. He mentioned using the studio preamp as well, but said some amps sound good too.

For practice, I usually play through my DAW so I can use either my R800 Stage or my HX Stomp, and play along with the songs I am practicing. I think the Micro would be nice to use sitting on the back porch or the couch, and streaming the tracks via BlueTooth with minimal hardware and application requirements.

Also, the Mustang Micro thread on TGP talks about some folks experiencing “sizzle” in the audio. The last I read, I think they determined (anecdotally) that the issue might be related to certain guitars/pickups. My brother hasn’t experienced that over a range of Fender Strats, Squier Teles, a PRS, and a Gibson Les Paul.

 

[Steve-D]

Welcome, jd, to another unusual Rumble control. Your expectation may be how some other amps work, but not the Rumbles. When you plug a preamp into the FX Return it's up to your preamp to set the volume, as the power amp is wide open already.

As GonePlaid said, that's why chaining 2 Rumbles from FX Send to FX Return gives total control to the first Rumble. The second Rumble is like a powered speaker, with none of its controls working at all. HTH

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You answered a question I had about daisy chaining my Rumbles 100 and a 25. Knew it was possible just where to connect them eluded my brain. Thanks

 

[BBassBassington]

I sent one of these (via Sweetwater) as a gift to my guitarist brother in the New Orleans area. I told him to enjoy it on the guitar, but let me know how it does with his P bass. He said it works pretty well. He mentioned using the studio preamp as well, but said some amps sound good too.

For practice, I usually play through my DAW so I can use either my R800 Stage or my HX Stomp, and play along with the songs I am practicing. I think the Micro would be nice to use sitting on the back porch or the couch, and streaming the tracks via BlueTooth with minimal hardware and application requirements.

Also, the Mustang Micro thread on TGP talks about some folks experiencing “sizzle” in the audio. The last I read, I think they determined (anecdotally) that the issue might be related to certain guitars/pickups. My brother hasn’t experienced that over a range of Fender Strats, Squier Teles, a PRS, and a Gibson Les Paul.

That's nice of you! I've only used it with my Dimension so far and I found all the guitar amps to either be too harsh in the highs or they had this really weird thing going on in the mids. I'll try out other basses over time and report back though!

Mine had no issues. I just got a new Tele today so we'll see how that goes.

 

[green3101]

is the D.I. out post effects loop on the rumbles?

And has anyone had any experience placing an envelope filter pedal and/or compressor pedal in the effects loop?