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Thanks a ton! I can only pluck strings, I don’t know much beyond that haha
Can I get membership now please? 
You can, Mr, but you might not want to. The Rumble 115 cabs are 8 ohms each rated for 300 watts continuous, while the Rumble 800 HD head is rated 400 watts continuous at 8 ohms (one cab) and 800 watts continuous at 4 ohms (two cabs). Do you see the problem, yet? You will have to turn way down to keep from overpowering, and damaging, the speakers! You can try setting the Impedance Switch on the back of the amp to 2 ohms, which will reduce the power, but it may still cause damage if turned way up. Bottom line is, you can't use the 800 head to its best potential with the 15s. Get two Rumble 210 cabs and learn to love 'em. They are your friends and faithful servants for such high powered use. I know, [0]=289525&c[thread]=1118826']I was once a 15" snob myself!
Can I get membership now please?
Yes, indeed, Mr. Anderson. You and Mr Dalton may both join us now! Step right this way.
@Mr Dalton, you are now member #1617 in the Fender Rumble Club. @MAnderson, you are now member #1618 in the Fender Rumble Club. Gentlemen, please put those numbers in your TalkBass Signatures for safe keeping. Then make yourself at home here and on your Rumble Club Wiki page, the repository of all Rumbling wisdom and knowledge.
Would you both please tell us a bit about yourselves, such as your bass experience in general and your Rumble journey in particular? You'll find that you are among many like yourselves, whatever that may be, because we have all kinds here. But we all love to ... ... ...
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Lotsa new members this week! Welcome all!!!
I get it. I was a 15 snob(actually 2x12)so I bought a R200c-which I still use-in 2015. Part of my reasoning was my dissatisfaction with the 'Peg 810 I owned in the early 80s. I don't regret my decision, but I use my R100 for most of our fairly low volume gigs. Not this Friday, however. Back to the 200c.
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Although the "wisdom" on TB says mixing speaker sizes is a mortal sin, the best sound I ever got was a 1x15 and a 2x10 running together.
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There's an awful lot of wisdumb out there. Caveat emptor.
The 2 best sounds I got outta Rumbles were (A) my R200c over my R112[tweeters off], and (2) 2xR100s(not mine).
My favorite mixed-speaker bass tone is a 100 sitting on top of a 200, daisy-chained for a total of 240 watts. I also have the option of running two 100s, but I liked the 100&200 better.
I've done that one(100/200c)also, but there's no place we play that warrants that much 'oomph'. Or me schlepping both. I just use the 200c at the 2 venues where I need more than the 100.
Yes, I can't believe lots of the common misinformed advice on the 'net. I've heard plenty of mixed speaker sized cabs over the decades that almost always sounded great! I have no idea where that myth came from; maybe some overly-esoteric acoustical analysis describing less-than-perfect distribution of wave nodes, or some such BS?
My 15" snob days were simply my lack of experience with any decent 10" bass speakers. But the R500c cured me of that! AND the R500c with my Bassman 115 neo cab is like "angel trumpets and devil trombones!!!" [to coin a phrase]
Some practice earlier with the Rumble 200c. Got it used in 2019 and it still works and sounds good
It was my understanding that 10” speakers deliver more clarity and punch while 15” carries the bottom end better. So why not have the best of both worlds.
A 15 with a 2x10 or 4x10 is an often used combo.
Some people listen with oscilloscopes. The rest of us use our ears.
A few years ago there were some very heated threads about mixing speaker sizes. I ignored them because I had used mixed sized and was happy with my sound.
