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Fender Rumble Club

#11,927
honeyiscool said:
Slightly off topic but those Fender Bassman Neo cabs look glorious.
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Yes they are actually.
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#11,929
ubernator said:
With the popularity of the rumbles, fender could bowl a 900 series by coming out with a rumble 800 with the addition of a pre/post switch for this di, a tuner out, and possibly an fx blend control thus making the effects loop parallel (which I always used as an aux in for something like a buddies electric drums, or the synth out of a bass synth effect, so the synth sound can be clean and the bass can be overdriven all from one amp)

Even if it was just adding the tuner out, and maybe a pre post for the di, and priced less than the other 800s. It would be a hit, the "pro" rumble.
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Except for the 800 watts, you've just described the Bassman 500 hybrid almost to a "T".
 
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lowplaces said:
I picked up a four pack of these anti-fatigue Mats for 8 bucks at Harbor Freight. Each is quite big enough for a 1x15 cab. Just about right actually. Stacked they are about 2 inches or so thick.

I'm going to try them under my 2 112's. I've turned my living room into a music room and it's a fairly large room with thin carpet. The room sounds pretty boomy at higher practice volumes.

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Label says Resilient Neoprene Rubber. I've got some carpet remnant to put between the mats as well. Gonna try just the mats first.
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Sorry if this has already been covered; I've been in Beer Country for a week and I'm <----- this -----> far behind in reading Fender Rumble Club!

The Auralex Gramma is half foam, half plywood. The plywood distributes the the point-loading of the casters or feet so they don't dig into the foam. If the Auralex guys are like almost every other tinkerer I know, they tried a few different configurations until they hit the current sweet spot of audio isolation. I don't have my Gramma pad here, but it is about 3/4" foam with 3/4" plywood on top. Maybe it's 1" foam with 3/4" plywood.


BassNamedRosie said:
What exactly do you guys mean by "boom" ?
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Every playing space, stage, room, arrangement of walls has one or more frequencies with which it's resonant. You hit that one note and it sounds much louder than the other notes -- sometimes really dramatically so. That would be your "boom."

Even speaker cabinets can have a resonant freq and cabinet manufacturers go to great pains in design and manufacturing to eliminate those. This is why the solution to a boomy cab can be as simple as a few pieces of foam or other sound-deadening material is a few strategic places or adding a brace or two to stiffen up a panel.

Engineers will usually fine-tune the space in recording studios to eliminate hot spots in the audio spectrum but bar stages rarely have that sort of attention applied to the problem. Sometimes moving your amp around on the stage will fix the problem -- sometimes moving only a few inches. Sometimes simply decoupling from the flexy boomy stage with a foam pad is enough. Sometimes you tweak your EQ. Often it's a combination of all three and this, friends, is why we do sound checks.
 
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