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Polar Audio do the replacement Paragon drivers but I don't know whether they've got any in stock. Fair Deal haven't got back to me yet - emailed them on Monday to ask about progress.

Incidentally, there is also a suggestion on the MOD forum that Darkglass Anagram bass effects might appear on the MOD store. That would be nice.

Ah, should have posted in this thread... There's an unofficial MOD Dwarf image now released - https://forum.mod.audio/t/starless-unofficial-dwarf-image-alabs-v3b/12853/71 Must get it loaded up and give it a try.

There's an unofficial MOD Dwarf image now released - https://forum.mod.audio/t/starless-unofficial-dwarf-image-alabs-v3b/12853/71 Must get it loaded up and give it a try.

Works OK for me on Chrome and Firefox, both on Windows.

But then when they see photos of themselves, they demand to know why you didn't tell them...

I'd forgotten just how hideous they are.

Also made a Warwick, er, tribute. I had one that had been defretted. That did me until I got a cheap Thumb and had it defretted and the neck reprofiled to JD Thumb dimensions.

As G&L are purportedly an innovative brand, it could be a route for Fender to bring out its own headless range and enter the latter part of the 20th century.

So when you add a functional extra string, for people like me, the 5er looks fine?

I don't see what's bad about the Sire headstock, except, of course, that there is a headstock. It looks a little more function over form that the fugly Fender monstrosity.

I do quite a few open mics which have featured bands, and 90% of the bassists have 4-string FSOs. Having had both fan-frets and parallel frets, I prefer the parallel. I also prefer 5-strings to 6-strings (and 4-strings). For those reasons, this doesn't interest me except in the sense that I'd like to see if NS comes up with the CF equivalent of the Hohner B2AV or Spirit XT25 (with a nicer neck). It does look like a better thought out body than the symmetrical cricket bat.

Take the ones you don't want to bring back.

I'm in as long as it's not the last weekend in June. Probably.

The Telecaster that he used for the solo on Stairway to Heaven sold an awful lot of Les Pauls.

Friday was with The Bonnevilles at the Gate in Sutton Coldfield. It's a pub on two levels - last time I played there we were at bar level, this time (as a few times before) we were at front door level which is a metre or so lower. It's OK for space. All went well, most of the punters stayed there and there were a few dancers in the tiny area available. Fortunately the singer (with the PA) and I managed to get parking close to the door, it's not a great place for access. Sei Flamboyant 5 headless -> Lekato wireless -> Zoom MS-60B+ -> Tecamp Puma 900 -> GR Bass AT212. Caravelle memory foam trainers with socks. Saturday was with Dirty Roses at the Wheatsheaf in Atherstone. There is a reasonable amount of space there (though I should have got them to put the pool table at the side rather than the back). Load in and out is crap, you have to find somewhere close by on the street to leave the car and then get the gear through a narrow passageway leading to the rear of the pub. Gig itself went OK - did seem a bit fraught at one point as two big blokes (I only came up to their shoulders) seemed to be squaring up right in front of us, but someone cooled them down a bit and separated them, and they were back to being besties an hour later. It's one of those transient pubs where people move on, and by the end of the night the audience had dwindled from about 50 to about 20. And I forgot to take my glasses and my phone - fortunately the only small writing I have to make out is MIDI IN and OUT and I could manage that, the other small (and faint) writing is "Transmitter" and "Receiver" on the wireless and that's now labelled with a big "Tx" and "Rx" that I have no problem making out. Same gear and footwear as last night. No phone so no photo from me. David Bailey quality photo from the drummer.

Say you were washing your hair and it couldn't have been you at the gig. Maybe you have a doppelganger. Alternatively, talk to the singer and ask if you could still be friends if you were critical of the band. What you do then depends on the answer.

Are there any open mics or jam nights near you? Would be worth exploring if there are. Also, are there any rehearsal studios around by you? They're worth checking out for adverts and putting your own adverts in. Bassists are generally quite in demand, almost as much as drummers.

Very nice. And, fortunately, sold (not to me).

Basic personal hygiene - bath or shower at some point in the day before going to audition. If you're nominally clean-shaven, shave too. And make sure your clothes are clean. From the "auditioning them" point of view, work out whether they're roughly as competent as you. A bit better is fine, it'll pull you up. A little worse should be OK, especially if you can pull them up. On which subject, work out whether criticism can be given and taken if you can.

Even if it's easy to accidentally release them? I don't know whether it is or not, I'd like to find out. Not that I want one, I've found that I prefer parallel-fret basses.

It took a long time because it's headless and they wanted to make up new ways of it being headless rather than using something that's been around for 40 years, like they do with the headed basses? Not sure about those string clamps - how secure are they against accidental release? And what real advantages do they offer over screw clamps for those of us whose time between string changes can be measured in months or years? Headless basses do seem to have regained popularity, which is nice.

Which is why I said you need to know which way to turn the truss rod - I do have a 2000 Thumb but I don't think I've had to adjust the trussrod on it.

Nine Inch Rails, the well-known model railway company.

I forgot to mention the other potential failure mode, in case anything similar happens again - plugging the receiver into the bass and the transmitter into the amp tends also to produce silence.