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Fender Rumble Club

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I liked the 112 with the 500 combo so much I bought another 112. using just the 112 with a 500 head tamed the boomy rehearsal room and got accolades from my drummer, saying he thought it was the best it ever sounded. of course, I had also put on a new roasted maple neck, but ignoring that...

tonight it's the two 112s, with 500 head. will let you know.

in the meantime, suggest a compressor. I've been all over bongomania's site and postings, but still... I sort of like the zoom B3 but the whole pedal muddies the overall tone so it's not useful, don't like the M87, don't like the pigtronix, don't like the EBS... what I'm after:

I'd love to find a pedal that provides ever-increasing compression based on the strength of the input signal - the louder the signal, the higher the comp ratio. light signals = 1:1 or 1:2 or thereabouts, blasting signals = 10:1 or even infinity:1. Never seen one of these.

thanks,

h
 
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bdplaid said:
I liked the 112 with the 500 combo so much I bought another 112. using just the 112 with a 500 head tamed the boomy rehearsal room and got accolades from my drummer, saying he thought it was the best it ever sounded. of course, I had also put on a new roasted maple neck, but ignoring that...

tonight it's the two 112s, with 500 head. will let you know.

in the meantime, suggest a compressor. I've been all over bongomania's site and postings, but still... I sort of like the zoom B3 but the whole pedal muddies the overall tone so it's not useful, don't like the M87, don't like the pigtronix, don't like the EBS... what I'm after:

I'd love to find a pedal that provides ever-increasing compression based on the strength of the input signal - the louder the signal, the higher the comp ratio. light signals = 1:1 or 1:2 or thereabouts, blasting signals = 10:1 or even infinity:1. Never seen one of these.

thanks,

h
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Looking forward to your impressions of the two 112s! I am seriously considering these to go with my new Rumble 500 Head.
 
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hey all you v3 40 owners... well first off, i dont entirely believe anyone would get the same tone out of matching someone's picture of their settings online, but i also believe some people like to try settings that they see online. "I" was able to dial in a tone that i thought was as good as this little amp going to get, and a tone which i'll likely stick with for a while. i realized the tone knobs were all out of wack in my last pic of (is it a "her"?) from a recent project, so here goes an official release of Dash Lashes' setin's for ye olde ltd D-6 (which also has a three band eq and pickup blend:confused:):

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Thundar said:
Looking forward to your impressions of the two 112s! I am seriously considering these to go with my new Rumble 500 Head.
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Just got home from the gig and decompressing. weird one (aren't they all)... guitar player had a bunch of his amps stolen, so the only thing he had to play through was his Soldano 50watt. If you don't know this amp, it is stupid loud. and it seems guitar players would rather have "good tone" and be so loud they wreck the band's mix, rather than just turn down and lump it. To top it off, we had another guy sit in for awhile who was every bit as loud, but his rig was the cheesiest metal sound ever - sounded like a shrill buzzsaw. I said "uncle."

As you can surmise, I was in a volume war tonight. I didn't win, not because the amp wasn't loud enough, but because the guitar and bass were so loud I couldn't hear the drums. And the room is terrible too.

Nevertheless, the two 112s/500 head rig is killin'. Really great even sound, too much bass as always from the V3 head, but it wasn't boomy. Pretty articulate actually. The thing I liked the most about it was that the tone sounded even - especially deep but with good mids, when I could hear them. The low end was really punching through though, so even when I turned the volume down and the others didn't, I could still hear myself with the low end. And the rig was vibrating the floor pretty good before I put my foot down and made everyone turn down.

Other thoughts: the 112 cabs are less efficient than other Rumble cabs, so they kind of soak up power to get them loud. I was at 12 o'clock-and-12'o'clock on the gain and volume. It was loud, but the combo would have been louder.

My experience with 12s is somewhat limited - I've owned a GK 212 NEO and an Avatar 112. Didn't like the GK because it just had no personality to its sound, and the Avatar because it takes a crazy amount of power to get it to a decent volume. The Delta in it has an efficiency spec of 95dB 1W/M, so no wonder. The Rumble 112 V3 is considerably better in both regards, it's not the most efficient cab, but not the worst either. And the sound has a personality that I like - kind of 15" speaker-like, but with less bark and less boom. I guess it's smoother. But I can get a tight sound from it if I want, or a barky sound if I want. And a single cab can handle a med-small room.

In sum, I think the V3 112 is a really nice all-around cab. Too bad stores don't stock them; I'd love for someone to chime in and verify my comments.

In short, this is now my go-to rig. I like the head with either a single cab or double cabs a lot better than the combo, although the combo is still a really strong contender. I just prefer the head/cab arrangement, and like the sound of the 12's better.

And it keeps up with deaf guitarists.
 
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burgundyglo said:
Could someone confirm that the v3 210 combo and v3 210 cabinet are exactly the same dimensions?

The Fender website does not list dimensions for the cab, and some online shops are listing the cab dimensions as bigger than the combo...
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Yes they are the exact same box with the exact same driver.
The Rumble 210 is being built for Fender by Eminence at their factory in China where the woofers are made. The dimensions are identical as are the drivers. It's just that the Chinese plywood is a bit heavier than the very lightweight plywood from Indonesia. The Fender facility in Indonesia is being over taxed making Fender Rumbles and also the super popular Champion line of combos for guitar. A good problem to have.
 
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Linnin said:
Yes they are the exact same box with the exact same driver.
The Rumble 210 is being built for Fender by Eminence at their factory in China where the woofers are made. The dimensions are identical as are the drivers. It's just that the Chinese plywood is a bit heavier than the very lightweight plywood from Indonesia. The Fender facility in Indonesia is being over taxed making Fender Rumbles and also the super popular Champion line of combos for guitar. A good problem to have.
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Thanks, good info.
 
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