Decent little practice amp

I have owned the Fender Rumble 100 V3 for roughly 4 years, and I have had mostly a mostly positive experience using it. I have used it in my bedroom, in a band rehearsal setting, and I have even gigged with it to a crowd of roughly 1000 people (with help from a very nice PA system).

My background: I bought this amp when i started to become serious about about bass playing. I needed something that was light, portable, reliable, cheap, and could keep up within a band setting, it met this criteria at the time. However, as i have started to play more big shows, i have reached the limits of what this amp can do.

Home Practice: The Fender Rumble 100 V3 is a fantastic combo amp for home practice, it’s compact enough to fit into a small bedroom. I love the fact that it has an auxiliary input and a headphone out, which makes it perfect for quiet home practice sessions.

Rehearsals: It started to show its weaknesses in a band setting, the speaker started to fart out and distort past roughly 60-70% volume. It was just about able to to keep up with everyone else. The speaker makes a strange smell whenever i turn it up, most likely due to the voice-coil burning out. I haven’t had it die on me though. It still coped well considering we have are a loud 6 piece band.

Shows: Almost all of the shows i have played have nice PA systems, this means that i only use the amp for stage volume. I always have a Mackie thump 12 1000w PA speaker on top of the Rumble 100, just to help me hear myself better. I am heavily considering replacing it, as it just quite keep up.

Tone: The tone this amp produces isn’t too bad, it leans on the warmer side with emphasis on the low mids. The low-end isn’t super deep, but that’s to be expected in this category. The overdrive isn’t to my taste, its fizzy and bright. The tone shaping buttons are useful for shaping the tone quickly, but the 4 band eq is much more practical for dealing in your sound.

Build quality The build quality is decent, it fell out the back of a van once, and that didn’t do much damage, apart from some cosmetic dings. The amp is lightweight, and i am surprised the build quality is as good is being so light.

Pros: 1. Very small and lightweight, making it easy to transport and carry 2. The built in D.I is very convenient and handy to have 3. Nice tone 4. Loud enough 5. very easy to use 6. great for practicing

Cons: 1. Doesn’t push enough air 2. overdrive is unpleasant 3. compressor would be more useful than an overdrive 4. The D.I and the speaker share the same volume knob

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incredible, best bass lil' combo amp right now

Lightest amp I've ever owned, 100% giggable, sounds punchy and alive. The EQ section is super-responsive (4 parameters and 3 stackable sounds (bright/contour/vintage). Clean and dirty channels with separate gain levels. XLR out, obviously.

I discovered this when I played with my band somewhere and they had half a rig for us to use. I was immediately surprised by how loud this was, I had it on half and I was asked to turn it down. We were on a big stage, outside.

I'm a bit worried it will fail on me because being it so light is probably made of crackers, but so far it rulez.

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Solid Amp

I mainly use this for practice. Gigs when I need it. My high school had one and I would use it for school shows and pep rallies and it would really pump through. It really kicks out strong bass and will make the room shake. I like the Low, Low-Mid, High-Mid, and High EQ settings on it because that only makes for better sound versatility. I normally leave the contour and vintage buttons off except for the bright button so the highs and tones cut through more because let me tell you again, the bass will KICK. The overdrive feature is fine but I don't like it all that much. It's doesn't so much distortion with it as it does does punch out much deeper and stronger sound to boost. But it's not a distortion feature. It's an overdrive haha. Overall, great and solid amp.

The top of a Combo Bass Amp

I bought this one almost a year ago, I was playing trough my first amp (a Wenstone BE-200) but when I was about to start playing shows I realize that the wenstone amp doesn't work to do that, I've to sell my Squier Affinity P-Bass and work a lot to buy this amp. The new Fender Rumble Series is really light and very powerfull, this combo has a 4 band eq (low, low-mid, high-mid, high), a Overdrive channel with 2 eq (Drive and Level) and 3 effects (Bright: this one for the high notes is perfect, gives you a really high tone and sounds like hell. Contour: enhance mid and treble, my favourite effect of this three, if you're a playing with a pick or doing some slapping, this is perfect. and Vintage: this one gives you a really deep tone). For me, this thing is very similar to the new Fender Super Bassman, but in a combo amp.

Perfect for home / studio

Amp sounds great, and has enough punch for home use and studio. I use a mic and the DI to record with and I am getting a great sound!

Quite possibly the best home practice bass combo amp

Fender has really hit it out of the park with their new V3 Rumble line. When looking for a practice amp, I was immediately drawn to the classic aesthetic, incredible tone, and super light weight of the Rumble amps. Nothing else in this price range even compares. And although I probably would've been satisfied with one of the smaller Rumbles, the Rumble 100 is a serious amp, perfectly capable as a small-gig workhorse or "rehearsal space" amp, but still almost laughably light and easy to move at home or jamming with a friend.

Unbeatable at its price-point.

Easy to use and lightweight. Enough power for small gigs / gigs with drum-shields (or quiet drummers) Small con: XLR out is useless, do not use it, because the EQ/gain/masterlevel affects the XLR signal.

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Superb

The Fender Rumble 100 is so punchy and it works well for performances or just practicing, its really diverse with its tones and straightforward to use, even a child could work it, highly recommended.