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My Bass Rig

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I've been waiting until I had my rig sorted out before photographing. Had the Fender Rumble 500 delivered yesterday. Sounds fantastic. The guitar is an early 80's Ibanez with a great neck, low action and a slightly vintage oriented pickup. Although it does pack a decent wallop. The rig owes me $500. Yes, the guitar does smell slightly.

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Nice. James can probably sort that headstock out for you.
Loving it so far

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$555 once you've replaced that knob

https://m.ebay.com/itm/1-Vintage-Ibanez ... 3510709925

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Nice, be good to try it out :)
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JHorner wrote:$555 once you've replaced that knob

https://m.ebay.com/itm/1-Vintage-Ibanez ... 3510709925
I think I’ll make do....
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StratMatt wrote:Nice. James can probably sort that headstock out for you.
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That's a cool bass right there.

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What are those amp like? Bassist in my new band is playing a Peavey 10 watt pracitce amp and needs something gig worthy, he was talking about one of these.

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bbrunskill wrote:What are those amp like? Bassist in my new band is playing a Peavey 10 watt pracitce amp and needs something gig worthy, he was talking about one of these.
Well, only a quick fang tonight but I think it sounds damn good. It’s got way more punch than I was expecting. Super light too. 9/10.
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Cool as... I learnt to play on one of those ibanezes.

One of those rumble 500s will be my go-to if I ever have a need for a bass rig again. right mix of grunty and portable

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Fwiw I way prefer the early Roadsters with flatwounds and my assumption is it's likely due to where the pick up placement is

The Rumble combo has a heap of positive praise on reliability, weight and simplicity.

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Roadster! does it weight a ton?

I like the rumble combos, never tried the 500W versions. the lower wattages with single speakers seemed to fart out at higher volumes.

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It’s like having Kim Dotcom hanging from your neck.

I think the body might be mahogany. But yeah, heavy.
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Those Fender bass amps are grunty aye..? There is a BXR200 at home that will blow the windows out at half power no probs. Hate to think what 5 hundys will do.
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GrantB wrote:It’s like having Kim Dotcom hanging from your neck.
Not sure how that feels like, but feel free to elaborate :mrgreen:

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