Fender E-mail last night introduced the "Bassbreaker" series, but detailed look this morning reveals it's for guitars.
The wait continues....
Cheers,
The wait continues....
Cheers,
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Okay guys, I've got a hypothetical question.
I love the way the amp sounds when I've got the vintage button engaged. I like the light compression and woolly sound it gives off. It can be just a touch boomy and muddy though. So, do you guys think I would be better off leaving the button engaged, and cutting the low mids before the amp (with a DI/preamp/EQ)? Or playing with the button disengaged and boosting the low-mids to a lesser extent at the preamp/EQ?
I love the way the amp sounds when I've got the vintage button engaged. I like the light compression and woolly sound it gives off. It can be just a touch boomy and muddy though. So, do you guys think I would be better off leaving the button engaged, and cutting the low mids before the amp (with a DI/preamp/EQ)? Or playing with the button disengaged and boosting the low-mids to a lesser extent at the preamp/EQ?
There's a 'Rumble Talk' on that to include additional commentary. Run a search and you will find.
Another way may be to boost high mids and highs when vintage knob engaged. It would add some clarity ?
I use my 200c without the vintage knob pressed as I find too boomy for my style but I like what it does too regarding compression with a bit of saturation.
I used the vintage switch when I used the Rumble's preamp. I'm now running the SCR-DI into the effects return so all of the Ampeg character is imparted and none of the Fender. Hey, that's my tone!
If I'm reading teh Rumble Talks posts correctly, I feel like there is a way for us to unlock some of that sound with clever gain structure play. I'll have to test that out when I get home.
I've got a Tonehammer, so your tone is safe for now. I was doing that for a time with the VT bass, but I really just didn't like the tone. I always figured myself as a P bass into an Ampeg kinda guy, but the VT bass didn't do it for me. I've yet to try the SCR-DI though.
Just got my V3 500 head and 115 cabinet in today. 2nd cabinet will be here tomorrow.. Then I'll probably get kicked out of my community for cracking concrete sidewalks and house foundations...lol
The DI and the heaphone out share the same cab sim which has a strong baked in tone, whith a cut in the mids, so maybe the vintage added to the cab sim add too much low mids.
You can see below the curve of the cab sim (I measured it out of the DI with everything flat on my combo and no button pressed down).
On my own, I don't find the tone coming out from the heaphone out as nice as the one coming straight out from the real speaker. The real speaker sounds way clearer to me.
I too didn't get the excpected results with the VT Bass. I don't really like how it acts on the lows when the drive is pushed a bit. It tends to remove all the definition of the low end. However for almost clean tones I could find settings that pleased me more. But with the eq of the Rumble I'm able to get tones with the same feeling, so no need of the VT
Yeah...when using vintage the word "clarity" was the complaint. Without any switches though it does just fine and the bass tone is pretty killer through my IEM's.
I wonder if A1 is covered by the Fender warranty?
I too didn't get the excpected results with the VT Bass. I don't really like how it acts on the lows when the drive is pushed a bit. It tends to remove all the definition of the low end. However for almost clean tones I could find settings that pleased me more. But with the eq of the Rumble I'm able to get tones with the same feeling, so no need of the VT
It was a holdover from the dark ages with the TC BG250. It was naturally boomy and scooped, and I bought the VT bass hoping to warm up and darken the sound. It did (sorta) what I wanted, but it was a very touchy pedal. It was very hard for me to dial in just a touch of added harmonics and bite without the tone getting very clanky and harsh or losing the low end. I get that sound in gobs with the Rumble though.
I sold my VT Bass Deluxe...it just bothered me that I was losing some low end. I guess IMO I have heard other pedals/amps do a better lightly dirty tone. Just my ear of course. Too bad since I alternate with my double and 5 string and need to have different gains/eq. My Zooms B3 takes care of that now and truthfully, I think I like the sansamp setting on it better than what my VT bass could do. Of course, that could be the problem of the user though.
It's funny because I went exactly the same way: bg250 and vt bass replaced happily by the 200c.
The rumble sounds so great by itself !
Can anyone explain why my volume in my headphones increases dramatically when an aux input cable is plugged in to my Rumble 40 V3? My new tablet seems to cause the volume to be normal when playing a video but as soon as the tablet stops sending an audio signal the volume of my bass jumps way up. Getting annoying.
