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Welcome to the Fender Rumble Club @RikkiSixx!
@Gravedigger Dav is the master of the membership roster and official dispenser of the numbers. Tune in Monday. 
Rumble On! 
Well, over here in The Netherlands we are having the first spring day of the year: 16C and pretty sunny, nice.That sunburst looks great Linninwould love more of that sunshine though, not so warm here in the UK at the moment
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Downside: no Rumble quality time...yet
Your sunburst still looks great Linnin
I was wondering: do you strap it on the fence every time or did you just take a lot of pictures the one time you did?
I have a Rumble 200 and I notice there is a very slight "thump" coming from it about every second. Not noticeable when playing or there is any other noise in the room. I can only hear it when everything is very quiet. Am wondering if it comes from some sort of oscillator counting the 60 cycles of the electric system, just a guess of course. Has anyone else noticed this?
Thanks,
Jack
Thanks,
Jack
No Jack, I have not. My Rumble 200 combo is very nearly dead quiet. When you take your amp to another house or bar is it still there?
Do you have any effects connected? If so try removing them.
Do you also get the thump from the phones or DI outputs? or only through the speaker?
Does the lead/bass pick up any interference?
My first thought is this might be coming from an outside source.
Thanks everyone for your responses. At this point it appears to be coming from the TC Electronic Wiretap pedal (thanks ReadyBass). Don't know why that is but when I unplug it the "thumping" stops. This isn't a noise that you can readily hear, you almost have to be listening for it. I just happened to hear it one day right after I turned my amp on. I only have two other pedals so I'll have to fool around and see if putting some where else in the chain makes a difference. Dels I have a 1 Spot power supply but looking at the Donner DP-1 it's pretty impressive.
Thanks again everyone.
Jack
Thanks again everyone.
Jack
That's pretty funny, rancid bodies. But the concept of them having more necks and bodies than they needed for a particular production run, OR the change in 1995 to through body stringing on basses came when there were a bunch of bodies not drilled out for ferrules and other possible slight changes. Since that happened in 1994/1995 for the big 1995 upgrades/changes to the american standard line. That could be our smoking gun right there, since the instruments I am referring to were around 95-96 or so.
Surplus does not mean expired by the way, so I still stand on that one. Bodies and necks with the old specs left over after the 95 changes, they can't use them for the USA line, so ship em down across the border.
Could very well be the case.
Well look what I started with just a mention of my Fender Precision being the mid 90's hybrid as I know it. That is what I like to see but maybe we should move most of that convo over to the precision page or maybe we should start an investigative section just to actually get the definitive answer from Fender.
