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Fender Rumble Club

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Linnin said:
They'll work just fine. They're not as efficient as a neodymium woofer. Since you're using a low wattage head you're not going after volume, but rather tone. You'll just have to try one to see if it has the tone you like.
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Agreed the tone is more of the goal than volume. I assume these cabs have more of a warm vintage sound to them.
Oh a side note I have used this Silvertone head with a Showman 15 tone ring cab with a JBL E140 here at home and it sounded great, but the Showman cab is too big and heavy.
 
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BassGreaser said:
Agreed the tone is more of the goal than volume. I assume these cabs have more of a warm vintage sound to them.
Oh a side note I have used this Silvertone head with a Showman 15 tone ring cab with a JBL E140 here at home and it sounded great, but the Showman cab is too big and heavy.
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They will accurately reproduce what you feed 'em. The custom Eminence designs are among the very best ceramic-ferrite driven woofers ever made by anyone at anytime at any price. The Rumble 112 along with the Rumble 210 are being entirely fabricated at the Eminence factory in China.
 
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Big Hoss said:
You seem to have an issue with MDB covers. Care to elaborate on them? I fully admit I had a problem with one of mine, and MDB was willing to not only fix the issue, but make a design change to prevent the problem from taking place again. Although customer communication was somewhat slow, considering this is a very small company, probably run out of the guys house, I couldn't ask for anything more.
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Many complaints on TB about this place: nondelivery of goods, nonresponsive to complaints forcing TBers to seek solution through Pay Pal etc. Search in amps. You'll find them.
 
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bdplaid said:
There's nothing like being able to audition a cab before sinking money into it. can't do that by adding a speaker to something it wasn't designed for. might work, might not. might sounds like what you want, might not. either way, if you mod it, you have to live with the mod.
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Yes, I understand.
Anyway, I asked Fender and they don't sell the speaker by itself. So I may spend a lot of money to find the good speaker which sounds good and has the same kind of sensitivity, without knowing what I am looking for :)
I'll have to find a regular Rumble external cab if I feel the need for more volume.

Coming back to the Rumble 200 tone, it works very well combined with the Joyo/Harley Benton American Sound. Different tone than the Rumble overdrive. Not better, just different and very good sounding to my ears.
 
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Just wanted to chime back in and let everyone know how completely satisfied I am with the Rumble v3 500 tone for my URB. I'm not an expert, but I've been able to work with my Fishman PlatPro and dial in a very pleasing result. Got the old timey sound I wanted out of my synthetic guts.

Friday night outdoors at a Fall Fest will be a great way to see how it sounds in action....
 
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OK, after a couple of evenings of low-level practice, the problem I described a few pages back regarding the V3 100 cutting out hasn't reappeared. I'm going to chalk it up to an undervoltage situation (I always use a surge strip so a spike wasn't the problem). The only other electronics in the pit that afternoon were an old school Korg synth/piano and the accompanying Roland keyboard amp, equally old school. Mine would have definitely been the most sensitive of the bunch. I'll keep working it out and will report back if I find any more problems. My thanks to all who offered their thoughts on the matter.

Blooz
 
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BloozBass said:
OK, after a couple of evenings of low-level practice, the problem I described a few pages back regarding the V3 100 cutting out hasn't reappeared. I'm going to chalk it up to an undervoltage situation (I always use a surge strip so a spike wasn't the problem). The only other electronics in the pit that afternoon were an old school Korg synth/piano and the accompanying Roland keyboard amp, equally old school. Mine would have definitely been the most sensitive of the bunch. I'll keep working it out and will report back if I find any more problems. My thanks to all who offered their thoughts on the matter.

Blooz
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Under-voltage causes the most ******** problems in equipment. One place I played had a reputation of being haunted (I swear) because of crazy stuff the equipment did. I measured the voltage and it was not only low, but fluctuated. I bought a power conditioner that i keep in the car for just such occasions. NOTE: this is not a power conditioner that is like in an outlet strip... it's a heavy-duty transformer affair that has the capability to increase voltage when the input is low. They ain't cheap, but they don't break the bank either. cheap protection for the gear, though.

Note that many of the clubs all of us play have electrical systems wired by morons, to include the owner himself, or by a buddy, or old uncle earl who's just out of the slammer and needs money. No grounds, mixed up polarity, I've even seen power coming in on the ground wire. It's good to check, because my guess is that more than half the time the electrical work in a club wasn't done by a guy with a license.
 
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