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So today is my birfday and my wife took me to the guitar store. I'm not gonna lie, I was hoping for a new guitar - I was crushing on some Mexican Jaguars, but they they didn't really have a good color, and my finance committee (i.e. wife) wasn't really into spending that much. So I walked around and looked at stuff for over an hour and finally she was ready to just get out of there.
Last Sunday I was helping a friend out with a music video - I was pretending to play bass. Some people there thought I must be a bass player (even though I'm primarily a guitar player) and told me I should check out the Fender Rumble 100.
So anyway, as chance would have it, I sort of needed a new bass amp for small gigs (I know a few really good bass players, and it's much easier to con them into standing in if I can bring the equipment), and so I just basically grabbed the one they had at the store and bought it so we could go. It's a 1x15 combo as far as I can tell (edit - it's a 1x12 - weird). This must be the new "Class D" amplifier technology.
Not the most inspiring new amp day post, I know, but this is my story.
Anyway, I gotta say I'm impressed - in a way it's wasted on me because I'm not a bass player, but it's really light, like 20 pounds (just a third the weight of just the head of my Orange guitar amp), really loud, sounds good to me - although I'm know I'm not the best judge of a good bass sound, and has a bunch of I/O (foot pedal for the built in overdrive effect, effects loop, headphones, aux in). And cheap - like 300 bucks new.
I feel weird saying this - when it comes to amps and other audio signal processing stuff, I'm pretty much an old technology bigot, but I guess this is an instance where new tech is really tangibly beneficial?
Any comments on these? Are they "gig worthy"? My other bass amp is an old Rickenbacker - I like it, but it blew a fuse at my last gig and the bass player had to go DI to the board after that - very embarrassing. I'm hoping the Fender is really reliable.
Last Sunday I was helping a friend out with a music video - I was pretending to play bass. Some people there thought I must be a bass player (even though I'm primarily a guitar player) and told me I should check out the Fender Rumble 100.
So anyway, as chance would have it, I sort of needed a new bass amp for small gigs (I know a few really good bass players, and it's much easier to con them into standing in if I can bring the equipment), and so I just basically grabbed the one they had at the store and bought it so we could go. It's a 1x15 combo as far as I can tell (edit - it's a 1x12 - weird). This must be the new "Class D" amplifier technology.
Not the most inspiring new amp day post, I know, but this is my story.
Anyway, I gotta say I'm impressed - in a way it's wasted on me because I'm not a bass player, but it's really light, like 20 pounds (just a third the weight of just the head of my Orange guitar amp), really loud, sounds good to me - although I'm know I'm not the best judge of a good bass sound, and has a bunch of I/O (foot pedal for the built in overdrive effect, effects loop, headphones, aux in). And cheap - like 300 bucks new.
I feel weird saying this - when it comes to amps and other audio signal processing stuff, I'm pretty much an old technology bigot, but I guess this is an instance where new tech is really tangibly beneficial?
Any comments on these? Are they "gig worthy"? My other bass amp is an old Rickenbacker - I like it, but it blew a fuse at my last gig and the bass player had to go DI to the board after that - very embarrassing. I'm hoping the Fender is really reliable.
