Fender Rumble Club

[THRobinson]

I still have and regularly use my college HP15C, the 16C doesn’t get much use today but it’s still working fine. Also have emulators for the 15C on my phone and computers. Never expected to see a calculator discussion in talk bass.
View attachment 4683927

This was my first calculator... Hand-me-down from my Dad who had two his company bought for him. Always remember him saying that if the company didn't buy them he wouldn't have because of the price but no idea how much they were new.

 

[MrB64]

Just got home from playing bass with a band outside downtown. Their bass player cancelled late, and I got a text asking if I could fill in. I put my Rumble 100 up on the high drum riser facing across the stage so the drummer, two guitarists, two vocalists, and the keyboard player could hear the bass. Then I daisy chained that to the regular input on my Rumble 200 which was off the side of the drum riser behind me facing the crowd. The XLR on the 100 ran to the board. It was just my 78 Musicmaster into a Barber Tone Press compressor. I had a great time, and the Rumbles really came through for me.

Hey fellow Missourian! That sounds really fun, I hope you get to play out a lot more soon!

 

[GonePlaid]

Did a gig tonight at the American Legion, PSL, FL. Used the usual rig: 67 NR TBird>R100.
(old-ish pic)

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I started with a U. S. Robotics* 14.4kbps modem and upgraded to 28.8!

Before that I upgraded an Intel 80286 processor motherboard to a 80386 processor motherboard. Not a lot of speed improvement, but with Quarterdeck's QEMM386 software I could use the full 1mb of RAM, instead of just 640kb, and multi-task several DOS programs all at once!!! Woo hoo! That was even better'n Windows 1.0 & 2.0. MS didn't even begin to get it right until Windows 3.01, then 3.11.

Don't get me started on early PC evolution! ... ... ...



*the real U.S. Robotics company, not the one in the "I, Robot" movie.
.

I started on 269 and 029 punch cards. The 110 baud acoustic coupled modem was an upgrade. Then on to 300 baud and eventually 1200. I thought I was in computer heaven dialing into work with that. Huge box with an attached phone.

You do realize that the original U. S. Robotics was the company in the books that inspired the movie, and the modem company took its name from there, right? Right?

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I miss old school calculators. Brown and beige Texas Instruments with those red LED displays that killed the batteries.

I couldn’t afford one (much les an HP). When Casio came out with a scientific calculator for (IIRC) $24.95, I was all over it. Still have it, and occasionally use it. I also still pull out the slide rule from time to time, so I can use it after civilization collapses.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

You were lucky your prof let you use the calculator. In my college days, they didn't let any students use calculators on exams because not all the students could afford them. It was seen as an unfair advantage.

Loved that photo of the HP! I remember them well.....

My friends and I were all using slide rules that first semester of college, while the rich kids whipped out their several hundred dollar HPs and the one guy with the first day it was released TI.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Thanks for the warm welcome. As for my previous foray into the bass, I never thought I could play an instrument as a kid so I did other things. Then in my late 30s I figured I'd have a go and started lessons. I advanced OK but life happened and I put it aside. Now I've told life to get lost and picked it up again this year. There is the issue of GAS, and that I tinker with EVERYTHING (the HP calculator above probably already gave that away), but I'll work on those issues later as I'm too busy learning all over again. It's a journey and I feel no need to go fast, just take it as it comes and enjoy.

As for the Studio 40, I'm sure it's just me and learning. The little Ampeg BA-108 I sold told get the Rumble sounds a bit better (sacrilege, I know, hopefully I don't get banned on my first day), but I've tried a few things I read on the LT25/S40/S800 thread and it's getting there very quickly. Part of it is that I play at low volumes (apartment) and the S40 moves so much more air that the reduced volume loses the highs but the floor still vibrates, lol. During the day tomorrow I can crank it a bit more and get a better feel of the tone as the store was noisy and big so I had it turned up a bit to hear it well. Let's say it's me and I'll learn

Get that amp up off the floor! Amp stand, books, milk crate, whatever. Even just something toangle the front up will help. You’re wasting energy and changing tone vibrating the floor boards!

 

[JakobT]

I couldn’t afford one (much les an HP). When Casio came out with a scientific calculator for (IIRC) $24.95, I was all over it. Still have it, and occasionally use it. I also still pull out the slide rule from time to time, so I can use it after civilization collapses.

The Texas Instruments TI-30 was my first calculator, mostly because it was cheap. About $25 when it first came out, I think.

 

[pilmat]

Get that amp up off the floor! Amp stand, books, milk crate, whatever. Even just something toangle the front up will help. You’re wasting energy and changing tone vibrating the floor boards!

Thanks

As I said I'm learning and when I reached to make an adjustment last night with a G still ringing, I was surprised how much more I could feel coming from the floor into my foot than from the speaker into my leg! That triggered and instant Buy Now moment and a riser will be delivered today, lol. So I whole heartedly agree I was NOT helping things at all.

Great community here that just gets it

 

[trseal]

My retired calculator. Not sure if I even remember how to use it...

Tim

 

[John Stephen]

Quaint! I love the "dead reckoning" part.

 

[Hummergeist]

Get that amp up off the floor! Amp stand, books, milk crate, whatever. Even just something toangle the front up will help. You’re wasting energy and changing tone vibrating the floor boards!

I use this stand at home, puts the amp at ear level for seated playing, and nice and solid so far.

 

[G-Dog]

I use this stand at home, puts the amp at ear level for seated playing, and nice and solid so far.

Geez, Hummer! That looks a lot like my old music holder stand, which couldn't even be trusted with a thick binder of tabs & charts, much less an amp! Do you have a photo without the amp on it? I'm curious as to the stability of that stand.


PS: Your Rumble number in your TalkBass Signature is off by one.

Very nice! @Hummergeist, you are now member #1468 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.

Please tell us a bit about yourself, Hummy, such as your bass experience in general and your Rumble journey in particular. You're bound to fit right in here since we have all kinds. But we all love to ... ... ...

Rumble On!
.​

 

[T bass]

Geez, Hummer! That looks a lot like my old music holder stand, which couldn't even be trusted with a thick binder of tabs & charts, much less an amp! Do you have a photo without the amp on it? I'm curious as to the stability of that stand.


PS: Your Rumble number in your TalkBass Signature is off by one.

​

Are there any other options to get some hight on the rumble stack (dubble 210cab+800head)? I've got a camping table @40 centimeters. I'm going to see if a piano bench would do the trick. I need a bid more hight. 50-60 centimeters would be great. Any suggestions?

 

[G-Dog]

Are there any other options to get some hight on the rumble stack (dubble 210cab+800head)? I've got a camping table @40 centimeters. I'm going to see if a piano bench would do the trick. I need a bid more hight. 50-60 centimeters would be great. Any suggestions?

Yeah, T, any stable bench, table or box could work. In the case of a Rumble 800 HD a 3rd speaker cab is always an option, too.

.​

 

[T bass]

Foldable would be nice...

 

[GonePlaid]

Foldable would be nice...

Maybe something like this?
[Invalid or Expired Link Removed]

 

[Hummergeist]

Geez, Hummer! That looks a lot like my old music holder stand, which couldn't even be trusted with a thick binder of tabs & charts, much less an amp! Do you have a photo without the amp on it? I'm curious as to the stability of that stand.


PS: Your Rumble number in your TalkBass Signature is off by one.

​

Thanks for pointing out the number, I've fixed it! As far as that stand goes, it's an InStand (www.instand.com), which is effectively a Gibraltar drum stand with a flat platform on the top. It also has a second smaller platform which can clamp onto the upright. Very heavy duty and folds up too.

 

[Giffro]

I remember the plain old +-×÷ calculators being around $100 somewhere around 1970. As a university engineering major with a slide rule I didn't think it was worth it. Lotta money for a poverty level student back then.

The next year they added a square root key, still around $100. I was tempted but still too poor. Then the Texas Instruments got real popular, with trig functions, for $300+. I got a used square root cheap-o, instead.

Finally, at the beginning of a closed book test, my professor made an example of me for wanting to use my square root calculator and a book of trig tables! He examined the book thoroughly for crib sheets and made a one-time allowance. Mortified, I went to my credit union, with my new good-paying night job, for a loan. For his next test I had my new $200 Hewlett-Packard HP-25C with reverse polish notation and several steps of programmability a-a-an-n-nd continuous memory!!! I had programmed the Hardy Cross Equation and aced that test! And several more in my university career! Don't recall when I finally lost my no longer working HP-25C, but it was decades after it stopped working.

View attachment 4683895
.​

I was with you Prof. G-Doggy till the last paragraph where you lost me half way through that last paragraph..i'm just a simple bass player ya know G lolll I had to google what was a Hardy Cross Equation.
It sounded like something Ollie would say to Stan Laurel lol

 

[Giffro]

I couldn’t afford one (much les an HP). When Casio came out with a scientific calculator for (IIRC) $24.95, I was all over it. Still have it, and occasionally use it. I also still pull out the slide rule from time to time, so I can use it after civilization collapses.

You boys with your toys!