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#60,761
Hi everyone, greetings from the heart of Scotland. After a warm welcome over on the Rumble modelling sub-tread, I've received my Rumble Studio 40 which I've paired with a Squier Classic Vibe 70s jazz bass. After tinkering with guitar for years I've decided to take the plunge and make the leap to bass which I'm loving straight off the bat. I'd hit a bit of a wall with guitar, but for some reason the possibilities seem endless down the bass highway!

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For anyone who has a Rumble modelling amp, we've set up a new spreadsheet on the Rumble Club Wiki page right under the Droopy_TX Preset Experience section where we've started to list suggested stock presets to play our favourite styles, bands and songs.

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Click here to go direct to the spreadsheet, to check it out and please feel free to any anything new!
 
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g-mca said:
Hi everyone, greetings from the heart of Scotland. After a warm welcome over on the Rumble modelling sub-tread, I've received my Rumble Studio 40 which I've paired with a Squier Classic Vibe 70s jazz bass. After tinkering with guitar for years I've decided to take the plunge and make the leap to bass which I'm loving straight off the bat. I'd hit a bit of a wall with guitar, but for some reason the possibilities seem endless down the bass highway!

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'Bout time, g! @g-mca, you are now member #1892 in the Fender Rumble Club. Congratulations and welcome. 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.

g, I want to thank you most sincerely for your contribution to The Club of your "Legends of Bass" Presets List in the LT25, Studio 40 & Stage 800 sub-thread. No doubt it'll get more use now you've got your Studio 40 to play with!

So, g, how about telling us here a bit more about yourself, such as your bass experience in general and your Rumble journey in particular? You've already begun fitting right in! But, as you may know, we all love to ... ... ...

Rumble On!​
 
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Hello all, it's been a few years since I posted, but have been an active lurker(I moved from New England to FL last year for the good weather ;)). I've been without a band for about a year and a half, not actively looking for a new group as I was not interested in a startup/project and have been active playing tuba in my local community band. I was contacted via my Bandmix page and invited to audition for a touring tribute band, and Voila, I'm back in a band.

I started out playing again about 5 years ago, and accumulated a Rumble 500c, 210 cabinet,Rumble 350 head, and a Markbass CMD102P. Later, I added a Rumble 200 Blonde Special Edition that I used for the country band I was in. When I moved, I sold everything but the 200, as a) I didn't have the space for that much gear in the new house, and b) I didn't anticipate playing again with a band (or bands) that would require different gear. Well, with the new band I decided I "needed" a new 5 string bass well . . . just because . . . along with a new amp for the larger venues we play (everything goes to FOH, I really didn't need one :).

So here's the Rumble lineup (the Rumble 40 is going to my grandson who wants to learn how to play guitar), along with a pic of the new Ibanez 5 string. I have to say I love the neck and action of this guitar compared to the previous 5 string I had, a Fender (MIM) Jazz that weighed a ton.

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My first bass amp, the Ashdown Studio 8 (was $99.99 MF SDOTD) with the Rumble 25 I picked up yesterday.

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This Rumble will be the project for recovering. It's looking like I'm going to go with the Fender Smooth Blonde with the Wheat grill cloth and brown plastic strap handle. I most likely wont get started until the after the new year, as I should be recovered from the holidays. I only need the tolex and handle.

In the mean time I might get started on the grill cloth and get the measurements of the cabinet and port. I also have an Eminence Alpha-8A, but I may not bother with a speaker swap, the stock one sounds pretty good as is.
 
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If you put on the grill cloth on a new frame, I can't imagine how you would lose warranty because of that.

As for casters, that's a good question. I can't imagine any company selling a genuine part for self installation, when said installation requires drilling for the wheel wells and attaching them using the provided screws, and then laugh in your face and say that you voided the warranty by installing them.
I just don't see how they could get away with it legally. Of course, this only applies if the installation was done properly using the right diameter drill in the right place, cutting through the tolex first so that it doesn't catch on the drill, etc.
 
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toughluck said:
If you put on the grill cloth on a new frame, I can't imagine how you would lose warranty because of that.

As for casters, that's a good question. I can't imagine any company selling a genuine part for self installation, when said installation requires drilling for the wheel wells and attaching them using the provided screws, and then laugh in your face and say that you voided the warranty by installing them.
I just don't see how they could get away with it legally. Of course, this only applies if the installation was done properly using the right diameter drill in the right place, cutting through the tolex first so that it doesn't catch on the drill, etc.
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I'll contact Fender and see what they say.
 
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G-Dog said:
'Bout time, g! @g-mca, you are now member #1892 in the Fender Rumble Club. Congratulations and welcome. 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.
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Thanks @G-Dog for the welcome. Very happy to have found the group!

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g, I want to thank you most sincerely for your contribution to The Club of your "Legends of Bass" Presets List in the LT25, Studio 40 & Stage 800 sub-thread. No doubt it'll get more use now you've got your Studio 40 to play with!
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Thanks, I appreciate the encouragement to get involved, and I'm glad to have (hopefully!) added some value in the long run.

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So, g, how about telling us here a bit more about yourself, such as your bass experience in general and your Rumble journey in particular? You've already begun fitting right in! But, as you may know, we all love to ... ... ...
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I was 16 in '92 and I instantly fell in love with guitar when I saw Jimmy Page's live performance of The Song Remains The Same, then fell into an full scale Metallica obsession for the next 2 years! During this time I had a Squier strat and a piece of sh*t mini amp, but I loved it and I learned the rhythm guitar to the first 5 Metallica albums. Well, I used the term "learned" loosely as I never ventured out of my bedroom to join a band. I eventually sold it in '94 when I went off to university and discovered pastures new, but returned to guitar in 2005 when I bought a beautiful Schecter Diamond Series S-1 Elite for old time's sake and started a G.A.S. phase which seemed to be compensating for the fact that I wasn't playing anything other that some of the random Metallica riffs that I could remember. I did also buy a small Fender tube amp but I don't remember what it was, but it looked like the Rumble pictures so who knew that I could have been a Rumbler 20 years ago! Not me by the sounds of it! :laugh:

Around 2015 I finally got a few guitar lessons and my mind was blown that heaven forbid there was actually a structure to it! At the most surface level, all of a sudden I saw that there was a world of possibilities relating to scales/modes/keys for those dedicated to mastering the craft. It later fascinated me hearing Joe Satriani talking about all this and realising that he was so far beyond understanding it all, that you can vaguely comprehend the freedom that he experiences to be able to instantly move amongst the infinite web of musical avenues.

So I ended up messing around with pedal point exercises after hearing JS talking about it, and I really enjoyed using that to tinker with the different modes, but never got much further. This started an anti-G.A.S. phase when I started decluttering my redundant collection, and every 6 months or so dusting down whatever I had left to play 5 minutes of pedal point exercises to then file it away again. I'd finally lost interest and I didn't really know why, and a few years ago I sold my last guitar, the Schecter from 2005 that I said I'd never sell, and bid farewell to that phase.

For reasons incomprehensible to mankind, in recent months I've discovering music in a way that I've never done before. I never used to give some music a chance, but now I'm welcoming stuff into my world I never thought I would have ever dream of, e.g. Elvis' Polk Salad Annie and the Tony Joe White original, what a groove! This has largely lead me to rediscovering my initial love of Led Zeppelin and really noticing how much I love and appreciate bass. Phew, turns out I was actually going somewhere with this ramble! :laugh:

So now I'm zoning into bass of all sorts, rock/jazz/blues/funk and loving it. I also realised that as I was more interested in pedal point exercises on the guitar, it dawned on me that the kind of things I was playing was probably more aligned to bass than guitar. So I ended up falling into a giraffe-guitar rabbit hole, and after settling on a jazz bass, I discovered that amps were a whole minefield of their own. With my nearest guitar show an hour and a half's drive away I didn't have much opportunity to go and try some out. So YouTube research it had to be, when the Rumble LT25 was mentioned. That led me to discovered the Studio 40 and the TalkBass.com sub-thread. I really appreciated being able to ask real people, as apposed to sale people, some of the lingering questions I had. I loved the idea of having all the modelling possibilities which I'd experienced with my Line 6 Helix LT I previously had for the guitar.

So now I've finally taken the plunge, have my set up, and now the hard work starts! All I can say is I feel like I'm starting a new journey with more of a sense of direction and purpose that I did with the guitar.
 
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fourstringbliss said:
I talked to someone from Fender and they said the warranty is on both the cabinet and the electronics. Installing casters and new grill voids the cabinet warranty but not the electronics warranty.
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That's crazy.

I get why. It makes sense in that they can't be responsible if you drill in the wrong place*, with an incorrect drill**, drill too deep*** or at an angle****. But if you drill in the right place, into the right depth, etc., I'd still try to get warranty service on the cab if the plywood delaminated, warped or if it unglued itself.

*) I only have a 115 which came with caster wells preinstalled. Does the 210 (and other cabs/combos) have the locations for casters marked?
**/***) I'm not sure how deep you're supposed to go. Caster wells seem to be deeper than specified wall thickness, which means you possibly drill into the cab cavity?
****) This would be a skill issue and it's the one reason why I'd deny cab warranty over improper installation. But I wouldn't say that you'd lose the warranty regardless of how skilled you are. That's ripe for abuse by Fender.
 
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