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Fender Rumble Club

#5,765
slap2much said:
Just acquired a V3 Rumble 100, like the tone & the weight a lot! I'm feeling like the 2x10 Rumble 500 might be where I eventually end up after moving my current 'big & heavy' cab...for anyone who has used both the 200 and 500, do you feel they are comparable in terms of 'luggability' -- carrying, transport, etc.?
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The 500 and the 200 are the same size and the 500 only weighs two pounds more, I doubt you would notice any difference lugging one vs the other. I'm sure the 500 packs a bigger punch and you already have a 100 for practice and such, so why not skip the 200 and get the whole enchilada?
 
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#5,767
slap2much said:
Just acquired a V3 Rumble 100, like the tone & the weight a lot! I'm feeling like the 2x10 Rumble 500 might be where I eventually end up after moving my current 'big & heavy' cab...for anyone who has used both the 200 and 500, do you feel they are comparable in terms of 'luggability' -- carrying, transport, etc.?
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OK you slap happy enchilada, welcome to the Fender Rumble Club :woot: You are member #440 :hyper:
:bassist: Rumble Love Abounds! :bassist:
 
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lowsideonacurve said:
Was looking through the Fender Bass Cab owners manual, (not much there BTW) and found it odd that they recommended removing casters so the cab would couple with the floor and extend the cabs response......I just went through hell trying to get a heavy Acoustic combo and extension cab Decoupled from the floor to stifle some boomieness that sounded horrible in our practice space.

It may be possible to improve sound by coupling, but I doubt I'll ever play Carnagie Hall where the stage is designed to be part of the acoustics.
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I understand that this may sound flippant. It is not meant to be. However, since different cabinets will probably react differently to placement and other factors, why not try your cab on it's side if you want to hear how it might sound without the casters? You could even try it upside down.

In my past life as a stereo nut, I experimented with placing speakers in as well as away from corners to hear if it made a difference in bass response. Once, I even aimed them at the back wall. This was before home theater and subwoofers, but there was quad. If you don't know about quad, don't ask. Seriously, don't ask. Or google. I mean it.
 
#5,769
doc540 said:
Was looking for a lightweight practice amp and stumbled onto a Rumble today.

Snagged the Rumble 40 for $79.95 plus tax.

Should work fine for geezer practice.

Good lows and super light weight.
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Unless this amp was abused, you're gonna find out that it's good for way more than "geezer practice". Try it in a coffee house. I have not played mine with a drummer or percussionist. I would not expect it to work in that situation, but it might be worth a try. Usually if I am in a group with a percussionist, I am the percussionist. Hence, I have not played my Rumble 40 with one.
 
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Orangeclawhammr said:
I understand that this may sound flippant. It is not meant to be. However, since different cabinets will probably react differently to placement and other factors, why not try your cab on it's side if you want to hear how it might sound without the casters? You could even try it upside down.

In my past life as a stereo nut, I experimented with placing speakers in as well as away from corners to hear if it made a difference in bass response. Once, I even aimed them at the back wall. This was before home theater and subwoofers, but there was quad. If you don't know about quad, don't ask. Seriously, don't ask. Or google. I mean it.
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I wouldn't say you sound flippant, maybe a bit condescending, but not flippant. Now I'm the one who is going to sound flippant, but it's not meant to be.

I am familiar with Stereo before Home Theater and having played bass since 1973, I've plugged into a pretty wide variety of rigs and rooms. Though I've heard of people doing so, I've never had to couple a bass cab to the floor to extend it's response.

In the last few years however, I've been experiencing a lot of boomieness particularly from an Acoustic combo and a Peavey combo, both sporting single 15's and a lot of heft. Something about boomieness that comes from coupling is the fact that it makes some notes stand out in a really bad way and some notes sound dead depending on the frequency response of the room. I've not only tried several ways of placing the amp, I've rearranged the room to the point of making bandmates a bit unhappy. There are a few threads here on TB about boomieness and many have posted their praise of Auralex Gramma isolation riser. Decoupling was the light at the end of the tunnel for my old heavy amps, but now the light weight Rumble 500w combo and 112 cab don't have a problem with boomieness like the other heavy amps and have taken their place.

So there you have it, why I find it odd that Fender recommends coupling.
 
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#5,771
two 210 cabs or two 115 cabs?

Hey, everybody. Sorry if this has been asked before, but I haven't been able to find the answer from sifting through the almost 290 pages of this thread.

I'm putting a rig together. I'm planning to use an Ampeg Portaflex 500 head (500 watts into two cabs and 300 into one) and want to get identical cabs. I'm planning to go with the Rumble cabs and am thinking either

two of the 210 cabs which would give me the option of 300 watts into one 210 cab or 500 watts into two 210 cabs

or

two of the 115 cabs which would give me the option of 300 watts into one 115 cab or 500 watts into two 115 cabs

Anyone have any insights as to the pros and cons of these two setups?

Thanks in advance!
 
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Bodeanly said:
Maybe he wants a 115 cab that's the same size as the 500 combo? I could justify that, my being OCD and all.
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Yeah, I thought that might be his plan and it would be nice if all of the V3 extension cabs matched the size of the combos., (A little OCD myself. ;)) I probably wouldn't like my 1-12 cab as much if it didn't fit nicely under the combo.
Cabinet design is pretty complex and I imagine Fender had to make the 1-15 cab to work around the driver in order to sound right, it does handle more than the speaker and enclosure of the 200 combo. Removing the amp from the combo would mean plugging the area where the amp was and wiring the speaker as an extension, might sound right.... might not.
 
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I had GC order a Rumble 500 combo yesterday. Probably get it in a week. I got 30 days to return it if I don't like it. But after reading so much about it I'm sure I will love it. Anyway, does any 1/4" foot switch work with it? I have one for my Traynor YCV-40 that I could use instead of buying a fender box. GC was stocking about 4 different Rumbles but not the 500. So I almost bought the 200 they had but I went back and forth and figured I'd probably want more watts at some point down the road.
 
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todd0864 said:
I had GC order a Rumble 500 combo yesterday. Probably get it in a week. I got 30 days to return it if I don't like it. But after reading so much about it I'm sure I will love it. Anyway, does any 1/4" foot switch work with it? I have one for my Traynor YCV-40 that I could use instead of buying a fender box. GC was stocking about 4 different Rumbles but not the 500. So I almost bought the 200 they had but I went back and forth and figured I'd probably want more watts at some point down the road.
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Yes, any single button foot switch with a 1/4" jack will do the trick!!
 
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todd0864 said:
I had GC order a Rumble 500 combo yesterday. Probably get it in a week. I got 30 days to return it if I don't like it. But after reading so much about it I'm sure I will love it. Anyway, does any 1/4" foot switch work with it? I have one for my Traynor YCV-40 that I could use instead of buying a fender box. GC was stocking about 4 different Rumbles but not the 500. So I almost bought the 200 they had but I went back and forth and figured I'd probably want more watts at some point down the road.
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Welcome to the Fender Rumble Club, todd0864! :woot: You are member #441 :hyper:
:laugh: Rumbles Rock! :smug:
 
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At long last--- photographic evidence of my Rumble 500. Pro Audio Land had it on back order for ages; seems Fender is selling these babies far faster than they can make them. I've had it for a couple weeks now, just never posted a photo. You can check out my avatar for the happy couple.
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