Fender Rumble Club

[BlueShox]

Looks like I'm rumbling for a second time. I've been enjoying the 2x10 extension cab for the last year or so, but lately I've been in the market for a solid practice amp. I have a toddler in the house, so anything musical of values stays safely in the closet where my daughter can't get her sticky little hands on everything. I needed something small that I could whisk out, plug in and play on for 20 or 30 minutes and then put up without too much headache; I really thought any cheap and crummy practice amp would do, but after browsing the usual used gear sites (guitar center, music go round etc) anything that was affordable had a $30 shipping charge added to it. I was super close to just pulling the trigger on getting a Rumble 15 new, when I found this Rumble 25 at a pawn shop with tags still on it for $60.00 cash. Let's just say that it has a new home now!

It's a solid practice amp, the tone is decent and it gets plenty loud at 70 watts. I can think of a few different gig scenarios that I have pop up every so often in which I would be totally fine taking the Rumble 25 instead of my 2x10 cab and BH500 head. I'm not a huge fan of the overdrive switch, I wish there was a knob to adjust the amount of gain when it's engaged, but I understand they had to cut corners somewhere. Headphone plug-in and Aux input work great.

I know we all like pics: the new combo with it's big brother

And how it all fits in the closet with three bases, a keyboard, an acoustic guitar, a dolly and a cabinet full of cables and other stuff. And all my clothes...

 

[Brio]

instead of my 2x10 cab and BH500 head.

How do you like the BH paired with the rumble? I have an RH450 (replaced my BH) paired with an Ampeg PF210he but the weight is getting to me. It looks like the Rumble cabs are about 10lbs lighter.

 

[ubernator]

I found this Rumble 25 at a pawn shop with tags still on it for $60.00 cash. Let's just say that it has a new home now!

It's a solid practice amp, the tone is decent and it gets plenty loud at 70 watts. I can think of a few different gig scenarios that I have pop up every so often in which I would be totally fine taking the Rumble 25 instead

Sorry to be a bubble burster but it is indeed a 25w amp. Being class AB, the power requirements are roughly 3x the output power. 70w 120v AC 60hz on the back is input not output. I'm only saying this because for 25 years of being gear savvy, I constantly see for sale ads for 100w solid state amps, and the guy always says 300w. Even on the peaveys that have the input power AND amp output on the back they always go with the bigger number. A phd I see on a regular basis is a hobbyist guitar player who was active in the 90s, and was telling me about his 300w crate halfstack. He showed me pix and it turned out to be 60w. So you are not alone, and in fact I am in the minority it seems, in being in the know about such things since I was a teenager. Also I want to give more fuel to a growing contingency on talkbass who see me as elitist

Now with class D some amps can put out more than they take in, so that makes things more confusing.

I really miss my 900watt swr Bass350. It was 350w. But that is 900w on Craigslist!

 

[Linnin]

Sorry to be a bubble burster but it is indeed a 25w amp. Being class AB, the power requirements are roughly 3x the output power. 70w 120v AC 60hz on the back is input not output.

^^^Correctamundo!^^^

 

[ubernator]

I was going through a bag of old strings, taking stock for when I am soon to join the ranks of the alcohol string soakers. Some of these strings are OLD, from the 90s with rust evidence from my old boiling days, others looked much better, few sets missing a string I would try to match from some strays or other sets, but lo and behold, in there is a set of chromes from my 2001 flats experiment. These showed evidence of being on my american standard jazz (2 bends from through body bridge). I wonder how they got mixed up in the "crap" bag?!?!?!? Pleasant surprise to find. And I still have 2 fresh sets left from when I bought them back in 01.

Now the question remains, what to do with them? I think the best use would be to save them for my plywood squier II asat/fly fretless p bass project. I even found the can of green marble textured "rock/stone" spray paint I was going to use for that. I wonder how long that stuff lasts unused?

 

[John B jr]

I was going through a bag of old strings, ...

My old strings go into a bag as well. Then, the bag goes out to the curb and in the early morning hours, a really loud and smelly truck rolls up and takes them away. I remember as a young Mustanger, I was trying to reload some RotoSounds, and one of the strings broke with a violent "twang". The recoil almost slapped me in the face and I've never tried that again.

 

[BadExample]

I can't believe my father didn't take out one of our eyes tuning pianos, especially when he was starting out. He did pop me in the eye with a large old type rubber bungee strap while securing the trunk of a 68 Chrystler Newport Custom. See avatar.

 

[Linnin]

Now the question remains, what to do with them?

My old strings go into a bag as well. Then, the bag goes out to the curb and in the early morning hours, a really loud and smelly truck rolls up and takes them away.

Recycle those old strings! That high grade steel is too good to just go to the dump, or sit around in drawer. D'Addario has a new recycling program. Also many music stores are serving as collection points for the program. It's a good and easy thing to do.

 

[wilder]

This is an interesting discussion. Fender's prices do not help because they are all over the place

200 Combo 1x15 $450 140 Watts $3.20 per watt
200 Combo 1x15 $450 +1x15 Cab $300= $750 200 Watts $3.75 per watt
500 Combo 2x10 $600 350 Watts $1.71 per watt
500 Combo 2x10 $600 + 2x10 Cab $350=$950 500 Watts $1.90 per watt
500 Combo 2x10 $600 + 1x15 Cab $300=$900 500 Watts $1.80 per watt
500 Combo 2x10 $600 + 1x12 Cab $300=$900 500 Watts $1.80 per watt
500 Head $400 + 4x10 Cab $400=$800 350 Watts $2.28 per Watt
500 Head $400 + 2x10 Cab $350=$750 350 Watts $2.14 per watt
500 Head $400 + 1x15 Cab $300=$700 - 350 Watts $2.00 per watt
500 Head $400 + 2x(2x10) Cab $700= $1200 500 Watts $2.40 per watt
500 Head $400 + 2x(1x15) Cab $600= $1000 500 Watts $2.00 Per watt
500 Head $400 + 2x10 Cab $350+1x15 Cab $300=$1050 500 Watts $2.10 Per watt

2 x 500 Combos $1200 - 700Watts $1.72 per watt. It seems to me that value for money rather than a combo and ext Cab. For an extra $250 an extra 200 watts @1.25 per watt

Happy to be corrected

Exactly the same conclusion I reached. I did find a sweet sale on the combos to make a more compelling case. You can probably get 15% off any time from Musicians Friend or similar by calling them.

 

[Bent77]

Recycle those old strings! That high grade steel is too good to just go to the dump, or sit around in drawer. D'Addario has a new recycling program. Also many music stores are serving as collection points for the program. It's a good and easy thing to do.

Is that the program that sends them to schools in areas where they can't afford them. I use to donate all my stuff to them

 

[wilder]

I see you are in Denton. I'm just a few miles south in North Fort Worth. My BL is in Krum and we practice there.

Krum is just up the road as I recall. My band is playing at Riprocks tonight, but I'm probably only bringing half the Rumble 500 stack for the show. We occasionally play Ft Worth as well. You guys ever play Denton?

 

[Bent77]

Krum is just up the road as I recall. My band is playing at Riprocks tonight, but I'm probably only bringing half the Rumble 500 stack for the show. We occasionally play Ft Worth as well. You guys ever play Denton?

Are you bringing a CV Jazz bass?

 

[wilder]

Are you bringing a CV Jazz bass?

Lol...I did just get a nice one. We shall see.

 

[Linnin]

Yeah Baby! Did Billy Joel give you your first bass? A 1969 Precision? Really?

 

[BazzaBass]

Exactly the same conclusion I reached. I did find a sweet sale on the combos to make a more compelling case. You can probably get 15% off any time from Musicians Friend or similar by calling them.

I got the idea from you and then started looking into it. I also like your idea of having a built in redundancy. Thanks

 

[Linnin]

Is that the program that sends them to schools in areas where they can't afford them. I use to donate all my stuff to them

Instrument Strings Recycling Program

 

[BadExample]

No amount of $$$$ spent can make you sound good if you suck.

^^^Why I'm not so spendy sir! Hope to change that.

 

[Scott Truesdell]

If you chain 2000 500s each with an extension, you would be pushing 1,000,000 watts!
You could play a gig in LA from your living room in Lynchburg.

You will need a megawatt power supply and a 2,000 outlet power-strip.

Wouldn't it be nice if you could?
But as soon as you plug into FX RETURN, you disconnect from the pre-amp. And that's where the FX SEND jack is -- at the tail end of the pre-amp.
See where I drew the little red rectangle around the disconnect switch on the FX RETURN jack?

As soon as something gets plugged into FX RETURN, that is the end of the chain.

If you're handy with a soldering iron, don't mind voiding your warranty, and are clever enough to not create a feedback loop or destroy your pre-amp, you could modify the amp to do the infinity chain boogaloo. Start by swapping out the FX RETURN jack for a regular unswitched jack like the FX SEND and insert a SPDT switch in the correct spots.

 

[John B jr]

Recycle those old strings! That high grade steel is too good to just go to the dump, or sit around in drawer. D'Addario has a new recycling program. Also many music stores are serving as collection points for the program. It's a good and easy thing to do.

I'll look into this. Note that Sunnyvale deep in the heart of Northern California recycles nearly everything.

 

[DerekW]

Yeah Baby! Did Billy Joel give you your first bass? A 1969 Precision? Really?

Man that sounded good for just jamming by himself. I always thought Dirnt was either underrated or, at least, under appreciated.
He put solid groove into punk music. And he's got some seriously good chops!

Now I have to google the billy Joel relationship, lol

Edit: Or did he actually say "Billie Joe", as in Green Day's lead singer? Seems more likely, lol