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Fender Rumble Club

Taking the plunge myself today, picking up a Rumble 200c after work and putting it right to work at rehearsal with my church praise team tonight. I test drove one at my local instrument store (same price as everywhere else, so buying local) using my Traben Neo Limited 5 string with GhS Precision Flats, on I was blown away at how awesome it sounded. A definite step up from the Crate BX-160 I'm currently playing. I hope to play out in smaller venues soon and I think this amp will deliver nicely. If I need more oompf, will a Rumble 115 be the best add on?
Rumble 112 and even 210 are also options. 112 makes a cute mini stack with the bottom box more square, same width as combo but shorter than the 210 which is the same size as the combo.

People on here use both those options and are happy, I have the 112 but haven't had a chance to use it in a band situation yet. It is really compact, both the combo and ext fit in back of my versa and I can leave one seat up too (usually have to have both folded down)
 
Pics or it didn't happen, right? Here she is, Rumble 200c sitting atop the amp she's replacing, Crate BX-160. The Rumble is just absolutely awesome in every way so far. Tonight at praise team rehearsal I was told 3 times I was too loud. Granted, we weren't in the sanctuary, but in the chorus room, but I barely had the master up at all. I was told I was heard down the hallway...through 3 sets of doors, lol. She's a keeper!

ETA- I got it for $450 out the door from the local shop. Cash in hand talks!
 

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So I called GC and took the deposit off the 200 combo and put a deposit down on the 500 combo! Its just a no brainer at only $50 more, even if I dont need all that power right now. Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it :D
Was it something like $300 they wanted for a used 500c? I don't feel like scrolling up, but from memory it sounds like they were being very in GC like, killer price!
 
Found out I will be getting out of "traffic school" an hour earlier than expected tomorrow, so I contacted a band I was going to audition for next wed, and they are playing till 11 and told me to come on down. By tomorrow night I should have a report on the 500c/112 stack in a loud band situation. 2 guitars, assuming valve half stacks and they say the drummer hits hard and they are loud.

The true litmus test, as the studio is also not one of the fancier acousticly designed ones, from my impression of it the one time I went there a while back.

Not a low tuned band despite the very staind/disturbed style of the band, standard with some songs in drop d. Not my preferred style, but pickins have been slim and they are not super far away.
 
Was it something like $300 they wanted for a used 500c? I don't feel like scrolling up, but from memory it sounds like they were being very in GC like, killer price!

Yea, they want $249 for the 200 combo and $299 for the 500. They just took them in last week and its a 30 day wait but I had a deposit on the 200 but switched it to the 500. Get it in 3 weeks!
 

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