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@Downunderwonder only quoted the first sentence. The second sentence was "Originals bands play venues with in-house PAs and engineers." That sounds pretty absolutist to me (who used to play in originals bands with our own PA).

Yebbut Norn Iron is still in the EU, at least for trading purposes. I've just had the one Musikding order which was post-Brexit and painless. As it was less than £135, presumably Musikding arranged the VAT. I assume that with goods worth more than £135 from a big seller like Thomann, they'd charge the VAT and pre-pay it to the delivery company.

You could try https://www.crimsonguitars.com/

The Neutrik website does have the discontinued ones marked as discontinued, but for extra confusion there's only one range that's fully discontinued and marked as such, the other two (IIRC) ranges which are partially discontinued still have the 8-pole plugs, so you have to delve into the range to find out that most of it is discontinued.

Could you take the frets out and plane the fretboard off, then put a new fretboard on and fret it? Jon Shuker did the planing the board off and replacing it part of that exercise for me to get the original defretted fretboard off my Thumb now-fretless and put an unlined ebony fingerboard onto it.

Is there an internet forum or even email list that behaves differently to this?

NL2s are 2 pole, NL4s are 4 pole. FC has a latch lock (locking ring for the NL2FC). The NL4FX has been discontinued, and so has the NL4FC, so those plugs will become collectors' items. Looks like the ones to get now are the NLT4FXX or NL4FXX.

Makes me sad too. My grandfather had a baby grand in the living room - I suspect that got sold when there was still a market for them. There must have been half a dozen grands in the music building at my old school - no idea whether they got transplanted to the new building when Sir Paul Ruddock decided to splash out some of his earnings on his alma mater and pay for a new performance centre.

Oh, I thought you wanted a dog mating. So, not a sire, a Sire.

I was in a pub band - I replaced the original bassist, then the vocalist went AWOL and Mrs Zero replaced him, then the drummer left and we replaced him, then finally the guitarist (the only original member) left and we replaced him. We subsequently got through another couple of drummers before Mrs Zero decided to call it a day and the rest of us decided that we'd fold the band.

No, just pay a fine. To me.

Not buying a Shure system has already saved me a fortune.

Agreed. Now I've splashed out £12.50 and a packet of wine gums on a PA system, I'd like to know how to use it.

Well, it's the law that you must like Prince and hate Coldplay, and that you should know who Jaco Pastorius is.

Might be worth posting in your 3D printing thread. Looking at it, @YouMa has an Ender 3 v2. I think they're slightly the wrong size for the CR6 SE that I have.

A bit of inspiration for when we do get them:

Baloney and balderdash.

As I haven't bought anything from the new BD website, I'm not in a position to compare it with Am*z*n, except to say that it probably doesn't try to force you into buying Prime/strings/plectrums. There could be some pre-filtering done from drop-downs on the main menu. The filtering is comprehensive, which is good. It's by no means perfect, but it's a far better look than the old website and at least as usable. I used to look at the used 5-string basses - that's handy, I can do exactly that now. It would be an improvement to be able to click on the pictures as well as the names to show the details. I also think that if you use the hierarchy display line to go back a level or two, all the filters should be shown with their current selections.

Why would Amazon pull out of the UK? Even if they paid their fair whack, it would still leave large sums for the bloated parasite Bezos.

Prime would most definitely not pay for itself in my case. Some of us hate using Amazon for assorted reasons to do with tax avoidance and workers' rights.

Because I then have to find and eradicate every twist and turn when they try and sign me up to Prime. In fact, Amazon is a good example of a mixed user experience - search function is so poor you only find things by accident, and when you do buy something, you have to find your way out of them automatically upselling you to Prime. Plus the bastards don't pay tax and [this rant continued p94].

On the home page there's "View latest Pre-owned" and "View latest New", which simply do a filter view for new or used with a sort by latest.

I had a look at the NE5534 specs yesterday as it had happened to be mentioned. The typical output voltage p-p was supply voltage minus 4V, so +/- 15V (30V supply) gave typical 26V p-p. Presumably a 9V (4.5V +/-) supply would result in typically 5V p-p. But the actual output is typically around 150mV p-p so 5V is well more than plenty - more than 0dB line level in fact.

$1049 new https://www.deanguitars.com/product?id=rh12tbk so not a complete bargain.

You could try the Lekato MS-1 plus whatever wired earbuds you want. Around £30 from Aliexpress plus the cost of the earbuds. https://lekatodeal.com/en-uk/products/lekato-ms-1-wireless-in-ear-monitor-system-2-4g-stereo-iem-transmitter-receiver https://www.gigsandguitars.com/lekato-ms-1-iem-review/