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First gig report with the 'new' rig....
As you may have read, I owned a 500 combo, and 115 cab. However, I could no longer fit both in my new-to-me car. It also coincided with my curiosity of separates, having always run a combo/cab. Good time to change.
Loving the Rumbles (also own a 40 as practice amp) I sold the combo, and went for the 112 cab, and 500 head.
First gig with it last night.....amazing. I personally heard a massive difference to my old set-up. Was it the 112? The head? The separates? Whatever it was, it sounded massive. A much clearer and defined bottom, with far less of trebly bite than the 2x10 gave me.
Even our band leader, never a big fan of my Ricky 4001 tone commented how much he liked it. Even the bottom end, which he always claimed was missing from my tone.
So a big thumbs up for the new rig. Some great help on here along the way on the ohms, etc., as always. Couldn't have done it without the Rumble club!
Have to include a couple of shots. One of the head/cabs alone, and one with my main bass, a Feb '74 4001. Together, they just give bags of 'the' tone.
The 500 combo is an amazing piece of gear.
I tried it with a Precision and it was sublime. It's only as a space issue - and that a bigger speaker seemingly suits my old Ricky's - that I changed (and seperates curiousty).
I moved from Mark bass to Fender early last year, best decision I ever made. The tone of these are something else , I believe, is something I've not heard from any competitor. Even my 40 is by far the best 'small' amp I've had, it can really recreate the big stuff at home.
I tried it with a Precision and it was sublime. It's only as a space issue - and that a bigger speaker seemingly suits my old Ricky's - that I changed (and seperates curiousty).
I moved from Mark bass to Fender early last year, best decision I ever made. The tone of these are something else , I believe, is something I've not heard from any competitor. Even my 40 is by far the best 'small' amp I've had, it can really recreate the big stuff at home.
Ok, another gig tonight. Same venue, but different band. More rock based. Way more busy bass lines. Probably going to use the Jazz again. But may take my main P Bass with me. It is 1995 in my avatar, but now sports a tort pick guard and Fralin 5% over wound pickup in it. Nervous about using it, just put on fresh roundwounds on it(I hate freash rounds!). It was sporting flats for a long while, but they sounded to bassy/thumpy/dead ish and way too much bottom for tonight.
I may bring a milk crate to put the amp up on tonight to de-couple it from the stage floor. I need to have way less boom tonight or I will just sound like mud.
I may bring a milk crate to put the amp up on tonight to de-couple it from the stage floor. I need to have way less boom tonight or I will just sound like mud.
That's the coupling effect of stacked identical cabinets. Plus even at the very same volume level in dB, you are still moving twice as much air. Psycho-acoustically you sound louder even if you're not.
I don't know how I didn't notice this one before, since I had been searching. Since my $150 went to the 112, maybe someone from here can grab this 115 for the same price.
Orange county California. Also see a 500 head for $250. Never mind the douche trying to get $450 for his 200 combo, or another one farther north trying to get $550 for his 500, though there was one for $400, and a smoking deal on a v3 25 for $45 in Glendale. I just searched for rumble in the music instr section.
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Orange county California. Also see a 500 head for $250. Never mind the douche trying to get $450 for his 200 combo, or another one farther north trying to get $550 for his 500, though there was one for $400, and a smoking deal on a v3 25 for $45 in Glendale. I just searched for rumble in the music instr section.
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I'd be all over that 500 head for $250 if it were local to me, but it's on the other side of the country and cash only. Dangit!
I'd be all over it if I had CASH. I am not even going to chase that $45 r25 because I don't "need" a practice amp. (And the most traffic congestion in the country lies between me and it)
I just hope someone snags that 115 soon. Its killing me. Ironically it is in the same city that HIC and I met in the middle, for the 112 exchange at the same price. Not that I wanted the 115 more than the 112 (that distinction went to the 210), but I was also not expecting to see one locally for a good price like that. Had I noticed it I probably would have jumped. And then be having the same feelings seeing the 112 right after. So I guess its the same either way.
Someone buy these things please! So they don't rub in the fact that I can't afford them!
Someone buy these things please! So they don't rub in the fact that I can't afford them!
G'day to you as well Red!
The 115, to me, sounds a tiny bit deeper....brings out the bottom end in a big way. Given that my 4001's are quite middy and trebly, it really helps reinforce the low stuff.
The 112 sounds less harsh and biting than the 2x10...just takes the edge off a little. It's got a nice counter to the 15, they really do seem to compliment each other well.
I also guess it depends what bass you're plugging in. A full Fender P, or a modern bass would I'm sure give different results to my 42 year old clank monsters!
Hope this helps a bit!
