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Practice amp for a small room

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in 4x4 meters you can fit a whole drum kit and a 8x10 for a bass.

considering your price range, I'd step up just a bit for a Warwick BC40.

I had a BC80 and a Rumble 100, the BC80 was great in everything except being a tad heavy and low-powered. please also note that it's a clean-only amp, so if you need overdrive, you'll need a pedal.
 
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Aloe said:
in 4x4 meters you can fit a whole drum kit and a 8x10 for a bass.

considering your price range, I'd step up just a bit for a Warwick BC40.

I had a BC80 and a Rumble 100, the BC80 was great in everything except being a tad heavy and low-powered. please also note that it's a clean-only amp, so if you need overdrive, you'll need a pedal.
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This room is not just for my music instruments :)
 
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gganebnyi said:
This room is not just for my music instruments :)
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for some time I had at least a two-person bed, a wardrobe, a dresser, a computer desk, a bass rig, a guitar rig in a 4x5 room, so I see, where you're heading.

this said, the room size itself doesn't tell us, 'how loud you need to be'. while a 40W amp might be plenty to play with noone around, having some other instruments around playing might need more power. my experience of a living room amp wasn't enough loud is when a single unamplified violinist got invited and my poor 40W 1x10 amp was just drowned.

one last advice: buy used, so it's cheaper and you can sell it later at the same price. you'll probably want a more powerful amp down the road anyway (if you don't own in already).
 
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I have the ampeg BA08 and love it, and have also enjoyed the Rumble 25 when demoing basses in stores.
I think the ampeg is sturdier and more versatile, but the rumble has a really nice baked-in warm tone, which the ampeg doesn't really have, to my ears.
 
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Aloe said:
in 4x4 meters you can fit a whole drum kit and a 8x10 for a bass.

considering your price range, I'd step up just a bit for a Warwick BC40.

I had a BC80 and a Rumble 100, the BC80 was great in everything except being a tad heavy and low-powered. please also note that it's a clean-only amp, so if you need overdrive, you'll need a pedal.
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Just bought Warwick BC40. Found it B-stock on Thomann under 150eur to avoid taxes.
 
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I would recommend the Ampeg BA110, not much bigger than the 108 probably better low end. A Rumble 40 is surprisingly decent sounding too but the Ampegs are better and tilt back which is useful from a furniture design perspective, later it can be a live monitor. I don't know the others, but Hartke makes good larger stuff.
 
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For the average "basement bassist", I would get the Rumble LT-25.
It's the same as the Rumble 25, but with some built-in effects. It also has a built-in tuner.

(edit) I also have the Rumble LT-40. I like the 25 better. The 40 has too many different sounds and effects, IMO. Yes, the 40 is louder. But the 25 is still definitely loud enough to get your wife to yell at you from the other room.
 
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Rumble 25, re-port that, a little dampening inside and change the speaker. There's a thread on TB somewhere and this guy had the correct info for both the 25 and 40 Rumble amps. I changed both of mine and for approx $100 more for each amp, very little work, and these amps sound WAY better then how Fender releases them. Search and enjoy!
 
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I'm on the side of:

1) If you have a more powerful amp, you can always turn it down.
2) If you're a beginner, anticipate that you may soon want to play out, requiring a louder amp.
3) Buy once instead of twice - get it right the first time.

Based on the above and the fact that at least in the Fender Rumble series there is very little difference in the physical size of the amp, I'd suggest buying a Rumble 100. You're talking about only 3 to 4 inches larger in each dimension (I checked) and that amp has enough power to use it for years, including performing in small venues.
 
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They're probably all good. In the US the Rumbles are among the least expensive alternatives: the Rumble 25 sells here for US $126 before tax (which for me would be ~ US $137 with tax + free shipping).

I just ordered an RB-110 because I slightly preferred the sound to the Rumble 40 (and I got a sale price that wasn't far from the Rumble), so I'd probably lean towards the RB-108. But I don't think you'd go wrong with any of your choices.
 
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I recommend a barefaced cab of your choice. A one10 or one10T would be great. But if you want something more neutral sounding, get a super mini or super compact. These would sound great and be enough for rehearsals or many gigs. They’re small and light.

Pair with a quilter head and you’d have a powerhouse in a tiny package.
 
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gganebnyi said:
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LowWay said:
I recommend a barefaced cab of your choice. A one10 or one10T would be great.
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