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I'm one of the foreign legion of TB fact-checkers but I prefer chessAnd where was the legion of TB fact-checkers?
I plead dain bramage.
... ... ... And where was the legion of TB fact-checkers?
I plead dain bramage.
I prefer "cookie-checkers" (AKA "bisquit-checkers" in some countries) where you get to eat the ones you jump. Incentive!
My first Rumble, the 25, is a recent acquisition for low volume jam sessions. I’m pleased with it.
My first Rumble, the 25, is a recent acquisition for low volume jam sessions. I’m pleased with it.
Glad to hear it, Playb. You're in the right place to sing the paises of your Rumble! @Playbyear, you are now member #1466 in the Fender Rumble Club. Congratulations and welcome. Please put that number in your TalkBass Signature for safe keeping. Then make yourself at home here and on your Rumble Club Wiki page, the repository of all Rumbling wisdom and knowledge.
Howza 'bout telling us a bit about yourself, Mr. year, such as your bass experience in general and your Rumble journey in particular? Whatever your situation, you're going to fit right in here 'cause we have all kinds. But we all love to ... ... ...
Rumble On!
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I share the OD/mute button pain. Mine requires replacement. as a shot of contact cleaner had zip effect. Luckily, I have moved into my own house without a nagging (soon to be) ex wife and can crank the R150 at will. Thus, the R25 isn't getting much air time.
Bass experience? Approximately forty years. Started with punk rock and then became an Americana specialist. Played semi-professional (part time for $) for a number of years.
Currently jam with friends. I may occasionally play a charity gig or an open mic.
The Rumble 25 fills a need. I leave an amp and a bass at a friends house for a weekly jam session. It’s just two guitar players and myself. We keep the volume down.
The amp I’d been using died and I wasn’t going to repair it.
I’d read that the Rumble 25 had a pleasing sound so I bought one. It’s performing the task quite well. I’m happy with the performance, size, weight and price. It’s a good value IMHO.
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Thanks for this. I checked right away. Now I know my SpeakOn cable is the real thing.
Whew.
Ran my Rumble 500 Combo with a Subway 115 as an extension speaker. O....M....G. Wow. If I ever need that much, I certainly have it. Really clean and punchy.
Sorry I was late. I read your post (the one where you blinked and missed Liechtenstein) and immediately knew what was off. But by that time, you'd corrected yourself.
Trop tard de nouveau!
Looking for some guidance here. At home I have a Rumble 40 on a carpeted floor which gives me a great sound. In my local church, I have a Rumble 100 on a concrete ground and it doesn't sound anything like as good (it just doesn't have the same deep rich sound). I suspect that may be partly due to the acoustics of the building, but I wondered if putting the amplifier on a stand might help. Anyone got any thoughts/suggestions please?
Any time I play in a situation like that, whether it be guitar or bass, I put my amp on an Auralex Gramma Pad. It helps a lot.
I have one. It really does work well.
That difference in tone may also be due to floor structure, too. A wooden floor (with or without carpet) on wooden joists can "enhance" bass tones, unlike a concrete floor. My church has a very big, layered, wooden altar/choir platform that tends to boom-ify* bass notes. And the house sub-woofer was at the top, middle of that platform when I started there and the soundman put my signal into it!
We tried a few layers of very thick carpet under my amp on the platform, and that helped a bit. But we finally got the sub moved to the carpeted concrete floor under the Communion table out front of the altar/platform and I got a stand for my amp to finally relieve all the boominess.
But, to counter your concrete church floor stealing your rich lows, you might try strategic placement near a wall or corner per the "Boundary Reinforcement - The Allison Effect" link in the Rumble Talks section of your Rumble Club Wiki page.
*boom-ify is not copyrighted and is suitable for anyone to use
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Same here. I managed to fit mine into my goods shipment when relocating to France. It took 6 months to get here, but it made it, along with my 4 basses and 1 guitar. Finally bought a Studio 40 last week. It's sitting on the GRAMMA 2 now! [pic previously posted; just to point out the Auralex pad; not really needed with this setup, but it's gotta go somewhere, right?
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Think my beloved 500 Head isn’t long for this world….
Sometimes when I fire it up, works as it should. Other times it lights up but no sound. I have move the master volume back and forth a bunch of times real quick to get it to come alive. And seems like it takes longer each time it acts up this way…
will be a sad day
Sometimes when I fire it up, works as it should. Other times it lights up but no sound. I have move the master volume back and forth a bunch of times real quick to get it to come alive. And seems like it takes longer each time it acts up this way…
will be a sad day
Not really. It would cost more than it’s worth and Fender doesn’t offer parts. In fact they don’t fix them, just replace them. But that’s not an option as the head isn’t in production anymore and the 5 year warranty I had is long gone.
Probably will replace it with the 800
Run an instrument cable from FX Send to FX Return. If that helps, then run the FX Return plug in & out several times to knock corrosion off the cut-off switch there. Then a little contact cleaner on a swab.
Hope this helps.
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