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I placed an order earlier this week from Guitar Center for a Fender Rumble 800, it should arrive tomorrow! I'm very excited.
Hi-yo! @Eric Mull, you are now member #1798 in the Fender Rumble Club. Congratulations and welcome. Put that number in your TalkBass Signature for safe keeping. Then make yourself at home here and on your Rumble Club Wiki page, the repository of all Rumbling wisdom and knowledge.
Eric, I see you have had a Rumble 500 combo and I think that's a good introduction to the Rumble sound, though the Stage 800 can do considerably many more sounds. I'd like to request that you please post any Rumble modeling discussions to the Rumble LT25, Studio 40 & Stage 800 sub-thread of this Club, and help keep this main Club thread more non-modeling oriented, OK?
So, how's about telling us a bit about yourself, Eric, such as your bass experience in general and your Rumble journey in particular? You'll fit right in here since we have all kinds. But we all love to ... ... ...
Rumble On!
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I had some of those same knobs laying around the house doing nothing - saw your awesome pic & thought I'd see how it looked on my Rumble 800HD head.
I kinda like it!
I have a gig Saturday, so I thought I'd not do the EQ band knobs just yet, just all the Gain knobs. I usually never touch any of my gain knobs after getting levels set at soundcheck, but lower lighting might make it hard (for me) to quickly see the EQ settings.Sometimes I need to make minor EQ adjustments to the room tone once the gig gets going. If I turn around and see all those speed knobs, it might take me too long to get my bearings & make my adjustments. So for now, I'm taking a quick-visual, hybrid approach. I may replace them all after getting used to the speed dial knobs I've already swapped in.
Thanks for the inspiration & Rumble On!
I just ordered a Fender Rumble 500 V3 from Amazon this morning. I read reviews and decided to buy it after reading them. Later, I might buy a cabinet to accompany it. What size of speakers do you guys recommend for that?
Bon jour! @Figbassist75, you are now member #1799 in the Fender Rumble Club. Congratulations and welcome! Put that number in your TalkBass Signature for safe keeping. Then make yourself at home here and on your Rumble Club Wiki page, the repository of all Rumbling wisdom and knowledge.
I, and many others here, would recommend the Rumble 210 extension cab, with the identical matching speakers, to take advantage of the "speaker coupling effect" for enhanced tone.
So, Figgy, how about telling us a bit about yourself, such as your bass experience in general and your Rumble journey in particular? You'll fit right in here since we have all kinds. But we all love to ... ... ...
Rumble On!
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Played an indoor gig this weekend - decided to take a quick pic right after sound check. Sorry for the low lighting conditions.
I used both my Rumble 115 cabs and the Rumble 800HD head. It was a Halloween-theme bar gig & was lot's of fun with lots of crowd participation, many of them dressed in costumes. Fun night!
Slightly better lighting:
I used both my Rumble 115 cabs and the Rumble 800HD head. It was a Halloween-theme bar gig & was lot's of fun with lots of crowd participation, many of them dressed in costumes. Fun night!
Slightly better lighting:
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Your grill cloth is like the Matrix but more pleasing to the eye.
I really like custom grills.Played an indoor gig this weekend - decided to take a quick pic right after sound check. Sorry for the low lighting conditions.
I used both my Rumble 115 cabs and the Rumble 800HD head. It was a Halloween-theme bar gig & was lot's of fun with lots of crowd participation, many of them dressed in costumes. Fun night!
Slightly better lighting:
It depends on what you want. Any of the Rumble V3 cabs are designed and tuned to work with each other.
If you like a punchy tone, more responsive feel, then the Rumble 210 V3 is the way to go. As G-Dog said it has the same speakers as the Rumble 500 has and couple nicely with the combo. This has a little more of a modern feel. Five string basses respond a little better with this cab, as the 15 can struggle if you push too much of the lower end notes.
If you want a warmer, fuller sound, then the Rumble 115 V3 is the way to go. I like the 210 & 115 combination of cabs, as it's a great mix of frequencies. I use a Rumble 200 V3 Head (same as the Rumble 200 combo in head form, but discontinued) with both the 115 and 210. I get a great mix of the punch of the 210 and the fullness/warmth of the 115. You can use a fiver with this cab, but you will need to dial back the lows/low mids to keep from flubbing out. If you're a four string player and want a bigger sound, this would be the cab to use. I play fours 96.8% of the time (
) and the added fullness works great with them.Either way you go, you will get a louder, bigger sound. It just depends on where your taste lean to more.
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A 210/15 strikes a good natural balance of punch and warmth. I used that speaker blend for many years. It works very well.
With the Rumble cabs, I decided to go with dual 15's (despite being a 5-string player) For me, I always employ a compressor in case I get a little overzealous, and an HPF filter for speaker protection and for adding punch & tightening up my tone to fit difficult/boomy rooms. Inversely, I can lower my HPF roll-off frequency and start to tap into more generous amounts of warmth from the dual 15's.
However, without an HPF, I would probably prefer the 210/15 setup. I definitely agree - no matter one's favorite flavor mix of 10's vs 15's, moving more air is always a good thing!
A 210/15 strikes a good natural balance of punch and warmth. I used that speaker blend for many years. It works very well.
With the Rumble cabs, I decided to go with dual 15's (despite being a 5-string player) For me, I always employ a compressor in case I get a little overzealous, and an HPF filter for speaker protection and for adding punch & tightening up my tone to fit difficult/boomy rooms. Inversely, I can lower my HPF roll-off frequency and start to tap into more generous amounts of warmth from the dual 15's.
However, without an HPF, I would probably prefer the 210/15 setup. I definitely agree - no matter one's favorite flavor mix of 10's vs 15's, moving more air is always a good thing!
The 210 extension cab is the same size, so looks great stacked under the 500 combo. The 115 cab is wider, so looks better if you stack two of those under a separate head.
Or you can daisy chain two combos. The 200 and 500 are same size, and the 200 combo costs the same as the 210 cab anyway. I just bought the 500 to go with my 200. More punchier and modern, but the the 200 is warmer and full. I daisy chained them for fun. Seem to go well together. No decent reason why I'd need that power, but waited until family was put before "activating". Bwaahaha!!!
Another consideration is that a 115 beams more than a 210. If you move off centre at close range you loose treble and upper mids. Those frequencies tend to "lighthouse" out in a tighter beam than smaller speakers. That's the main reason I added the 500. Better in my living room, two options to choose, and they go nicely together. That's what I'm telling myself anyway.
Real reason is wish fulfillment of my stack fantasy... Pics coming.
@Figbassist75, you can also see what the various stacks look like in the Extension Cabs section of your Rumble Club Wiki page.
I also have the 200c and 500c and daisy chain them. Not for more volume, no need in our rehearsal place, but for a bigger sound.
Well, it just arrived. I don't have time to play with it right now as I have errands to run first. I also have a new set of good headphones coming in today as well. Maybe they will be here when I get back. I live in a condo, so I have to use headphones when practicing. But it's all good. I get to play my bass and not disturb my downstairs or across the hall neighbors.
Let us know how you like it, after you've had a chance to get to know it.
So far, I'm loving the Rumble 500. I have only tested it through the use of headphones though because I live in a condo. It sounds great, especially with my 5-string Ibanez 405. Since I haven't played in a band for a while, I am hooking it up to my laptop to play along with a few songs from Nightwish's 2013 Wacken Open Air concert (Their best show to date IMHO). I have chosen four songs to learn at first because Nightwish is a handful due to fast note changes and ever flucuating time signatures within measures.
Most Nightwish songs from that concert are either in D Standard or Drop C tuning on bass depending on the song. That said, I'm mostly using the B and E strings, which sound great because Nightwish's music doesn't sound good with higher note registers. On the bridge of Bless The Child, I do utilize some of the A string when it is just drums, bass, and the incredible Floor Jansen singing. I love a 5-string because for the most part you don't have to downtune and I can keep up with Marko Hietala's lines pretty good. I plan to eventually learn all of the bass lines from that concert as their sound is the kind of sound I want in a band in the future.
I'm using the Chordify website as opposed to user-created YouTube videos to practice. A lot of YouTube bassists do a great job of covering the songs but also tend to muck up the music by putting in accents and fills that Marko doesn't utilize in the concert recording. Chord structures for the 2013 Wacken concert are not overly complicated but its the BPM and time signatures that get you if you are not prepared. BPMs can be as high as 158 or higher. But the Rumble 500 along with my SR-405 comes through nicely. Though I do have to use lower volume setting to keep from drowning out the music though. This amp is a beast on it's own. I can't wait to hear it playing out live, especially when I eventually combine it with a separate Fender 210 cabinet.
Most Nightwish songs from that concert are either in D Standard or Drop C tuning on bass depending on the song. That said, I'm mostly using the B and E strings, which sound great because Nightwish's music doesn't sound good with higher note registers. On the bridge of Bless The Child, I do utilize some of the A string when it is just drums, bass, and the incredible Floor Jansen singing. I love a 5-string because for the most part you don't have to downtune and I can keep up with Marko Hietala's lines pretty good. I plan to eventually learn all of the bass lines from that concert as their sound is the kind of sound I want in a band in the future.
I'm using the Chordify website as opposed to user-created YouTube videos to practice. A lot of YouTube bassists do a great job of covering the songs but also tend to muck up the music by putting in accents and fills that Marko doesn't utilize in the concert recording. Chord structures for the 2013 Wacken concert are not overly complicated but its the BPM and time signatures that get you if you are not prepared. BPMs can be as high as 158 or higher. But the Rumble 500 along with my SR-405 comes through nicely. Though I do have to use lower volume setting to keep from drowning out the music though. This amp is a beast on it's own. I can't wait to hear it playing out live, especially when I eventually combine it with a separate Fender 210 cabinet.
Excellent that you're happy with it. I had one for years and it was a great sounding and reliable amp. I downsized to a Rumble 100 after leaving a "loud" band and eventually sold it. Since we are 3 pc with cajon and not drums it was alot more amp than I needed. But I'll admit I miss it sometimes.
Enjoy the gigs with it.
Sounds like our group (of seniors). Plugged in acoustic guitar, cajon with "quiet symbol and quiet hi hat, and some combination of 1-6 vocalists. We did have a KB player for a while but he moved out of the area. Also a second guitar player for a couple of gigs. But he is too busy right now to rehearse. In any case the Rumble 100 was plenty loud enough!
Terry
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