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Love my practice amp tone, can i pair it with a cab?

I've seen two different versions of the Rumble 25. One has the classic Fender grill cloth and the other has the metal grill guard. If you have the grill cloth version, your Rumble 25 doesn't have an effects loop and you will you have to get a pedal or A/B/AB switch to get that sound into a higher powered amp and run that into the effects-in of the second amp.

If yours is the black Rumble 25 (newer I presume) then you don't need any stomp-box or external switch because it has a built-in effects loop. Presuming you prefer the tone you get out of your Rumble 25, what you want to do is run the signal from the preamp of your Rumble 25 into the power section of another amp or combo. That is easily done by running an instrument cable out of your "preamp out" jack in the front into the "effects-in" of another amp. This is called "slaving" an amp. It bypasses the preamp of the slave amp and hooks the master amp's preamp into the power section of the slave amp. Then any EQ changes made in the master amp (your Rumble) will also come through the slave amp. The only thing you need to do with your slave amp is adjust the master volume so you get the balance of sound you want between your two amps. If you change your volume on the master, you will still need to adjust the volume on the slave but EQ is carried over because you're using the preamp from your Rumble 25 for both amps.

Now, If you want to run both amps at once you may need a simple 1/4" Y connector (female ends all around). Most amps that you run a preamp-out (usually called effects-out) won't continue the signal to the power section of your master amp unless you plug the preamp-out back into the effects-in of your amp. Some will continue it to your first amp without interruption. So just try it and see which yours does. If your Rumble 25 speaker goes silent when you slave the other amp, just use a Y cord on the preamp-out and run one cord to the effects-in of the other amp and the second cord into your the effects-in of your Rumble 25. Then you'll have sound coming out of both amps.

I used to slave a GK250BL form an Eden Nemesis RS400. Was pretty cool to hear the Eden tone I liked coming out of that entry level GK (IMO not up to the higher quality GK gear) running a separate speaker cab. One of the cool things that most Eden amps would do was slave an amp by running a line out of the headphones jack into the effects-in of the slave (none of the Eden WTX series class D amps can do that). The neat thing about running it out of the headphones was that it gave a hotter signal to the slave PLUS, when you turned the volume up on the headphones, it also turned the volume up on the slave amp. So you set it up and balance the volume mix once and then everything is controlled with the master amp including volume. I don't see anything on the manual for your Rumble 25 that says you can do that, so I wouldn't recommend trying it until you spoke to someone at Fender about it, just to be safe.
 
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when you get a bigger amp ... you really won't need to mess with your small practice amp ..! save it for practice ...

150-200 watts should keep up with a drummer ... maybe ..!?!? you might want to look for an amp that has an External speaker output ...!! that way , you can ad another cabinet later for more volume ..!!


many stereo power amps can be ' bridged ' ... turning the stereo amp into a single more powerful mono amp ...
most often used for PA gear ..
 
What do you mean "roughly" loud enough?? I use a 150w 15" solid state combo in rehearsals and have the master volume at 2 against the guitarists 100w valve Marshall head and a hard hitting drummer!

500w is lots :p
It really does depend on the amp. Also looks are more important than tone. If you have to bend down to adjust your volume you are doing it wrong (joke, of course.) but really, I saw a rippin band last week and the bass player was using a 1x12. I wanted to pinch his cheeks, it was so cute.
 
It really does depend on the amp. Also looks are more important than tone. If you have to bend down to adjust your volume you are doing it wrong (joke, of course.) but really, I saw a rippin band last week and the bass player was using a 1x12. I wanted to pinch his cheeks, it was so cute.

I assure you - you are the only one that found the bass player's rig "cute". To the original poster: looks don't matter when it comes to bass rigs on the weekend-warrior/hobby world. Pro-level gigs are a different story.

Also, your double combo idea will work, but I highly suggest you ditch the idea and look away from combos for your situation.
 
Get a bigger (louder) amp. I'd suggest a separate head and cab to give you more flexibility, but could just get a bigger Rumble as well.
There is very little, if anything to be gained by trying to use your combo in conjunction with a second one to get noticeably louder. If you've got the older one with the metal grill, and you get a second identical one, you could slave it to the first one using the effects loop. However, I don't think I'd bother with it for the minimal gain.
 
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I assure you - you are the only one that found the bass player's rig "cute". To the original poster: looks don't matter when it comes to bass rigs on the weekend-warrior/hobby world. Pro-level gigs are a different story.

Also, your double combo idea will work, but I highly suggest you ditch the idea and look away from combos for your situation.
Oh you were there? You didn't think that little yellow markbass amp was cute? What kind of amp do you use on your pro-level gig?
To the OP, when you are ready to get something a bit bigger, check out some threads on GK 1x15 or 2x12 combos, they get really loud and push through the mix nicely do to the lo/hi mid knobs.
 
So im hearing that most of you are saying to keep it as a practice amp and dont try to pair it with a louder one. I think i will get a bugger rumble some where 200+ watts.

But since looks are everything what do you guys think the best looking amp is?;)

Get a bigger (louder) amp. I'd suggest a separate head and cab to give you more flexibility, but could just get a bigger Rumble as well.

This is what im going to save up for.

Rip Van Dan, thanks for everything really helped me out with getting a slave set up until i can get a bigger rig!