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Rumble 500 Combo or 100 Combo for Meet n Greet

Should I take my Rumble 100 or 500 Combo to Meet n Greet

  • Take the 100, Plays it safe.

    Votes: 1 1.9%

  • Take the 500, better to have and not need than need and not have

    Votes: 51 98.1%
  • Total voters
    52
#22
Aceman said:
Always better to have too much and not use it, than not enough and not be able to use it. Taking both is excessive, but if the room is available, go for it.

Drummers have no idea how loud things are out front. Ignore him. Guitarists and singers will have very different opinions when the drummer starts thumping.
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It seems I keep finding this the more I'm playing out. I've been asked to turn up a few times, but that's very few.

I think you're pretty close to nailing it. Everyone is listening to something different. My bass never sounds very loud. Maybe I should be turning to what I and only I think is good. That would be fairly loud BTW but not over the top.

I've heard people bitch about loud guitarists, loud vocalists, I don't want to be one of those guys, but yeah I should be the primary factor in the volume ,(don't have to be the only one), but I can't depend on others to tell me what volume to play at. Listen to the link I stuck in here above, I can be heard (with head phones),but I'm not that loud either...

Thanks
 
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#23
Just a heads up. I took the 500 combo. Everything at noon with the gain button off but the gain dial close to noon. 3eq on my bass at noon.

It sounded good to me. Still new still figuring it out. Then when I wanted a little more oomph I just bumped the volume and bass eq on my bass a little.

The votes are all for taking the 500. That's what I took. I think the 100 wouldn't have worked out so well. Soo much thanks guys. This really should have been a no Brainerd. I'm glad I was awake enough to ask.

Many many many Thank Yous !!!!!
 
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#25
Griendrr said:
Thanks Duke,
After much debate here I went with the 2X10, there was a few reasons. Later that night I went into a slight manic fit and almost went with the 800 head and and a few cabs. I quickly deleted that post and one or two guys talked me down. ( but I'm still contemplating the 800 in secret) The 15 should give you some good thump and a nice blend !!!! Here's a recording of tonight first time I ever heard myself. Not close to perfect but got it done nice I think. Great Bunch of guys, I see a lot of Tuesday nights here in the future we'll polish up...

Note: the sound quality is pretty decent but only on head phones...NSFW

Listen to BAND CAMP 12-28-22 You need headphones to pick this up well. by Chief on #SoundCloud
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I listened to 3 steps and it sounded good and tight. I have never been a fan of the China Boy crash , so I would lose that
But good over all
Duke
 
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#28
Sounds to me like the guy does not realize bass watts are different than guitar watts.

Also, learn 25 songs for a meet and greet for a possible band? That seems like a big ask unless the songs are bonehead simple.

Take the 500, when you said 500 he was probably thinking of some monster rig; also as others have pointed out it has a volume knob. They are also not that large of an amp sizewise.

If they play louder than they think you do and the 100 does not cut it, well they are going to blame the sound on you, not the amp.

Even though I have smaller setups, if it was a first time thing I would bring one of my 2 x 10" cabs and my Ampeg B2-R. It's not an overwhelming rig in terms of size (like showing up with a 1,000 watt stack) but gets the job done for just about any situation.

Analogeezer
 

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