Good to hear from you, southy! Show us a pic of that venerable V1 Rumble 100, preferably with the red lights flashing, and I'll get you a free Club membership. I love to see those pulsating lights in the ports of the V1 Rumbles!!!
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Good to hear from you, southy! Show us a pic of that venerable V1 Rumble 100, preferably with the red lights flashing, and I'll get you a free Club membership. I love to see those pulsating lights in the ports of the V1 Rumbles!!!
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TBH, I liked 'em too-'til I picked it up!
Just posting to say that I just dusted off my Rumble 410 cabinet (I had mostly been using my 115 recently) and man-oh-man, I forgot how much I like the sound of the 410! The form factor of the 115 made it my default, but it can be so boomy in certain rooms. I think I am going to need to suck it up and schlep the heavier 410 to my summer gigs.
We've been rocking it pretty good in Florida for months and really kicked it staring in January with 11 shows. This month we will be doing 12 shows as we cancelled one ourselves at a new RV park that was by a lake and it was windy. We are booked pretty much every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Last weekend we got back to a VFW that we hadn't played for months due to the pandemic and they booked us once or twice a month for the next few months. We played another bar last weekend we hadn't played in over a year. And, Earl's Hideaway in Sebastian wants to book us again and a restaurant/bar in Winter Haven is booking us after we did our first gig there about 2 months ago.
This weekend we did a show Friday at a bar we hadn't played in over three years. They have a new name and maybe new owners and we had a gig Saturday and just finished a show today.
For those of you familiar with Florida, our Friday show was in Dundee in Polk County where apparently one time a drummer didn't pay his tab, as you can see in the photo.
Wow!! Good for you and your band, @Marc valero. You guys must be really good. I'm glad life has returned to normal there, or at least started to.
We almost had a disaster at Friday's gig in the bar we hadn't played in three years.
In the middle of the first song our female singer eased herself down to the floor of the stage and she sang the rest of the song sitting on the floor. she complained of it being hot up on the stage and wanted to move down to the floor. On the next song she was still struggling. She went went outside where she was sick to her stomach. Our drummer/BL said we might as well pack up, but I knew we wouldn't have to do that because the 2 guitar players and myself sing so we could have done the show. After clearing her stomach she was OK. Moral of the story, don't order the greasy fish at a bar that does food on the side.
On a lighter side, the next night we start a song the female singer supposed to sing and there is no singing at the beginning of the song. I look over and in between songs she had her wireless mic in her left hand and a water bottle in her right hand, when the band started playing, she raised up her right arm and started singing into the water bottle. You just have to focus sometimes.
In the middle of the first song our female singer eased herself down to the floor of the stage and she sang the rest of the song sitting on the floor. she complained of it being hot up on the stage and wanted to move down to the floor. On the next song she was still struggling. She went went outside where she was sick to her stomach. Our drummer/BL said we might as well pack up, but I knew we wouldn't have to do that because the 2 guitar players and myself sing so we could have done the show. After clearing her stomach she was OK. Moral of the story, don't order the greasy fish at a bar that does food on the side.
On a lighter side, the next night we start a song the female singer supposed to sing and there is no singing at the beginning of the song. I look over and in between songs she had her wireless mic in her left hand and a water bottle in her right hand, when the band started playing, she raised up her right arm and started singing into the water bottle. You just have to focus sometimes.
Sounds like fun times...maybe it's just as well that I am not gigging right now...
I can relate to your singer, though I wish I just needed to clear out some bad fish!
The past couple days I've taken the attitude of I could stand and spend an hour trying not to focus on how much my body hates being alive, or I can go sit down and enjoy some bass. And then I'll completely forget that I was going to play!
Good to know I'd still fit in in the band scene.
I should mention our show we had today (Sunday) at the local VFW, where I had an impromptu bass solo.
This VFW usually doesn't hire full bands.
Both our guitar players were unavailable (one flew to N.Y. Sunday morning, the other's wife was having surgery out of town) so we had a former guitar player fill in who retired from playing full-time. He left the band about 14 months ago.
I hooked up my Boss OC-5 for a higher octave during guitar solos. The guitar player has a big pedal board so sometimes something will short out, which happened during "Feeling Alright."
We were in the middle of the guitar solo and then I couldn't hear the guitar. It is already a busy bass part so I played it up higher and juiced it up a bit and then the female singer says on the mic, "Oh, a bass solo."
It was a fun day - a good crowd with some familiar faces from people who follow the band, only three sets, about 1/4 mile from my house, $2 hamburgers with chips, and the acoustics are really good. (the night before was the worst acoustics out of all the places we play - booming A note and everything else really blah sounding, concrete floor and kind of a square room)
The band received a lot of compliments and a guy came up to me after the show and complimented my playing.
This VFW usually doesn't hire full bands.
Both our guitar players were unavailable (one flew to N.Y. Sunday morning, the other's wife was having surgery out of town) so we had a former guitar player fill in who retired from playing full-time. He left the band about 14 months ago.
I hooked up my Boss OC-5 for a higher octave during guitar solos. The guitar player has a big pedal board so sometimes something will short out, which happened during "Feeling Alright."
We were in the middle of the guitar solo and then I couldn't hear the guitar. It is already a busy bass part so I played it up higher and juiced it up a bit and then the female singer says on the mic, "Oh, a bass solo."
It was a fun day - a good crowd with some familiar faces from people who follow the band, only three sets, about 1/4 mile from my house, $2 hamburgers with chips, and the acoustics are really good. (the night before was the worst acoustics out of all the places we play - booming A note and everything else really blah sounding, concrete floor and kind of a square room)
The band received a lot of compliments and a guy came up to me after the show and complimented my playing.
Ah, the joys of live performance, eh? Great stories about the female singer, the guitarists not being available, etc. But for me, the kicker was.....$2 HAMBURGERS?????? In California that's illegal. I'd move to Florida for that alone.
Thanks all for your advice. I went with GonePlaid's "but wait - try this" option and it worked great.
Added another Rumble 100 to the inventory (got it new for $269 inc tax) and daisychained.
First outdoor show yesterday ( and my first gig playing bass since 1988 - sheesh). Gain at 9 oclock, Master at 12 Noon, EQ all at 12 Noon worked a treat plus love love love the ability to walk 2 blocks with bass and pedalboard, leads, cables etc on back and 22lbs in each hand. 1 trip up and down stairs - no issues.
Needs to be longer. Sounded great. With 2(maximum allowed)bad knees, it'd be 2 trips, but, yeah.
Been recording with reaper and after figuring it out a bit more I have learned that my playing was way too agressive for recording without any clacking. Yeah, that kinda sucks because it feels as if I have to re strain myself while playing. Not sure how I feel about that. But, my rumble 100 seems to be working just perfect woth an xlr cable. So that's good.
If you have a copy of the Fender Rumble 500 service manual with schematics and BOM I'd appreciate a copy. Thanks!
Here is a link to the Fender website. You can download a PDF of the manual, which includes the schematics.
Fender® Bass Amplifier Owner's Manuals (Current)
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I used to have this problem too. Ultimately I've just restrained myself but that had more to do with pain than anything.
EQ can help. I think the clacking happens around 2kHz but I'm not sure on that. So a software option is to just pull down the smallest bit of the spectrum possible which has the clacking. That will allow you to burry it in the mix.
Increased string tension and/or flats helps too (but when flats are clacky it does sound sort of square so that's a thing). You can also raise your action a bit, or play closer to the bridge. As well as use more of the "finger pulp" as one Chinese translation puts it to soften your tone. We try and keep our strings within 2mm of our frets so even the slightest mitigation of downward force into the board will reduce string noise further.
The joys of self-recording. Where all of your technique gets displayed for you to pick apart!
I used to have this problem too. Ultimately I've just restrained myself but that had more to do with pain than anything.
EQ can help. I think the clacking happens around 2kHz but I'm not sure on that. So a software option is to just pull down the smallest bit of the spectrum possible which has the clacking. That will allow you to burry it in the mix.
Increased string tension and/or flats helps too (but when flats are clacky it does sound sort of square so that's a thing). You can also raise your action a bit, or play closer to the bridge. As well as use more of the "finger pulp" as one Chinese translation puts it to soften your tone. We try and keep our strings within 2mm of our frets so even the slightest mitigation of downward force into the board will reduce string noise further.
The joys of self-recording. Where all of your technique gets displayed for you to pick apart!
Yeah so a few things - my setup is low but I like it like that. Not sure about string tension but when I'm in tune and I do not dig in too hard, it sounds fine. I play a lot of harder music and I just want to dig into the bass but I guess that's not gonna be a thing haha.
I do play closer to the bridge when I'm playikg this kind of harder music because 1 it growls more and 2 it clanks less.
I figured reaper out for what I need though so that's cool,now I just need to practice and record and put it together. Thanks!
