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Fender Rumble Club

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GregT said:
One thing about my 200 I have noticed: If it sounds like the speaker is farting out like was mentioned a few posts back, sometimes it is everything around or near the amp that is vibrating. It took me a little while to figure that out. It is just that powerful. The 15 inch speaker moves some air!
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When I first got mine, I took it in to our bedroom (my wife was working in the office). When I first heard the "extra" noise, I thought something was wrong with the amp, but the more I played, I realized I was making stuff in the room vibrate. I knew I had a winner then.
 
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This week, I made a series 1/4 cable for my two 1x10 cabs (Yamaha BBT110s, and acoustic b260, both are 4 ohms), and hooked them up to my Rumble 150.
I know you're supposed to "match" cabs... But the acoustic cab never sounded so good (even when on the Rumble by itself). I actually had to stand outside the doorway of the Hello Kitty Studio with the volume on 4.
I need a 2x10 cab.
 
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Friday night's gig was great with the full 210 stack except that the drummer was being hammered with waves of bass. It was fairly clear sounding to me, but as soon as I leaned in behind the cabs it was a palpable mass of low frequency. Something to be aware of when setting up a stack that's close to a wall.

Saturday I went with the single cab, and though boomy at first, once I tilted it back a bit, the sound in the room was excellent. Vintage engaged, bass at 11, mids both at 2, treble at noon. Worked across a lot of genres.
 

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Got my MDB covers in time for this weekend's gigs, and they fit perfectly. They don't offer any padding, but I didn't want that. They are snugly fitting and will keep basic moisture and dust out while protecting against scratches in the back of my tightly packed car. Michael had missed my website quote request initially but was apologetic when he realized and very professional in the rest of the handling of the order. Excellent communication and fairly quick turnaround.
 

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jumblemind said:
Friday night's gig was great with the full 210 stack except that the drummer was being hammered with waves of bass. It was fairly clear sounding to me, but as soon as I leaned in behind the cabs it was a palpable mass of low frequency. Something to be aware of when setting up a stack that's close to a wall.

Saturday I went with the single cab, and though boomy at first, once I tilted it back a bit, the sound in the room was excellent. Vintage engaged, bass at 11, mids both at 2, treble at noon. Worked across a lot of genres.
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Vintage on and a mid boost? wow you really love your mids.

I love that vintage button.
 
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Have try the Bassman 500 hybrid at GC yesterday. Combination with Rumble 115 cab, play with store Fender American special Pbass.
Also try 500 head+ Rumble 15 cab display set.
Not familiar with Bassman control, just ask SA set flat EQ (without bass & Bright boost)for me.
Honestly, to my ear, it vintage sound like Rumble 500 head (without Vintage Button ON) , with warmer, round & little fat overall sound. Little more produce Lo-mid range.
Everthing start changing when the Overdrive Mode is engage. Really really nice grind tone to my ear.

It is pricey for me too.
 
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SBsoundguy said:
Contour is the mid scoop. Vintage is a mid boost.

So far I only have one complaint and it's that the overdrive channel isn't hot enough. I don't like having to dig to get the grit out.
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Vintage boosts everything but the highs, which get a significant roll off. But yeah, in my main band mids are certainly my friend. Keeps me from a low end room resonance fight with the heavy handed drummer's floor tom and bass drum, not to mention the saturated lows of both guitars.
 
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[URL="http://www.talkbass.com/threads/fender-rumble-club.1118826/page-146#post-16725024"]Fender Rumble Talks [/URL]

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Today’s Rumble Talk puts the spotlight on the version 3’s new Vintage shape filter and also the new Overdrive in all the D-Class Rumbles.

The owner’s manual describes the Vintage tone shaping filter this way: “Creates a dark tone rich with harmonics and some natural compression.” The specifications state: “Dynamic compression (-9dB max) with low pass (-6dB/oct) @ 400Hz”. The Vintage feature on V3 is a newly developed analog circuit that emulates the input/output transfer characteristic of a single vacuum tube amplifier stage. Tubes have a natural compression when driven hard and this circuit mimics that response. Low pass filtering is applied which emphasizes the low notes to give the ‘thickening’ effect you hear.

Similar circuitry is cascaded together to generate the Overdrive on the V3, which is totally different than on V2, and is more harmonically rich without sacrificing any low end. The compression effect of both the Vintage and Overdrive is completely independent of the Delta-Comp power amp limiter, in fact the peak signal reduction from compression in the preamp tends to reduce activation of the limiter.

Rumble V3 includes an adaptation of this new tube emulating circuit with the traditional Delta-Comp limiter to give a more tube like response- initial compression followed by gentle easing into rounding of the signal without actually generating hard clipping. The result is that the harder you drive the signal; it tends to get a little ‘gritty’ but plays louder than just the original Delta-Comp limiter." ~ Linnin
 
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I dont really find the vintage to be much of a mid boost at all, definitely seems like a low boost, but like the manual states, it is low pass filter -6db per octave, meaning 800hz is cut 6db, 1.6khz -12db, 3.2khz -18db, 6.4khz -24db and so on, perhaps it may seem like a mid boost if 800hz is cut 6db and 12.8khz is cut 30db, so relative to treble maybe, but this circuit was meant to emulate lower fidelity bass heavy tube amps of the early days when bass players just wanted phat lows and no treble, certainly not finger/pick noise or fret buzz. Tone pots turned down and everything. Think jamerson and carol Kaye, early 60's late 50's, when the amps had a "bass instrument" input or channel that was about as opposite of a bright channel as they could make.

Now I have not tried pushing the vintage for it's compression yet, usually keep it off because it is too boomy for me right now, but will certainly play with it at a later date. If anything the only shape button I use now is bright, playing in a pop punk band and too broke for new strings. Drummer just quit though, so only the "sit in trunk" button is being used
 
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I can definitely attest to the compression. Granted, I was running pyramid flat wounds and a johnk custom FET preamp which each contributed, but I was getting some seriously convincing old skool tube-sounding compression this weekend out of the Rumble. It was quite nice.
 
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jumblemind said:
Do you have the Gain set low? The Drive channel needs the Gain high to get more gnarly.
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+1 there! I myself did not notice that till I was finding my tone before a gig, stumbled on that and was like "ah, gain effects the drive". I was treating it as a 2 channel amp, which it really isn't. I definitely found some extra gnar gnar that night!

Next test will be dimed gain and alot of high mids to see if I can get my "usual" overdrive tone out of the amp, and then kick in the overdrive for when the guitar player solos, while we are also still down a rhythm guitar player. For the style of music he solos too much and too long and it loses something without that rhythm guitar, but I do NOT want to resort to a high gain/fuzz type pedal, he was like "you can use my metalzone"... Um no... I have a boss odb3 and I don't even want to use that. Not to mention a metal muff+top boost. Rather keep it organic, and I don't have funds for any suggested boutique pedals either. KISS, keep it simple. I'm sure I can dial in what I need.
 
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Share my opinion.

With Vintage engage, i did something like what i done on my previous Marshall MB450H before, and found the tone character is different with Gain tweak.

From the marshall's manual, Vintage mode, Voice 1, less gain amount, fatter & warmer tone. More gain, increase the grind & distort. Yes, the Marshall head is tube hybric preamp, and the result is noticeable clearly, especially with Booster button on.

In Rumble V3 200 combo, with Vintage on, gain 9 o'clock , volume 1 o'clock, it produce round and smooth sound.
with fair compare to equal hearing volume amount, tweak the gain to 2 o'clock, volume 10.30 o' clock, without overdrive engage. i can get some attack with little dirt sound. More noticeable in high note.


Maybe my knowledge is limit about the Amplifier, the amp i own with gain knob just Marshall & Rumble V3. After the test, i found the gain is not just replace the V2 -15db input, it coloured the sound quality of the amp , create the Tube-Like sound with solid state preamp.

Pls ,correct me if i am wrong. thank You.
 
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