Jean-Luc Pickguard

Mediahuman audioconverter works well for me & is free to use. I use the MacOS version, but a windows version is also available. https://www.mediahuman.com/audio-converter/

£600! It looks like a toy that would cost a few tenners from Wilko at xmas

I have an Epiphone thunderbird pro five string but don't play it much. The B string does work as a nice thumbrest though.

I used to have an HB Kahuna - I used the 1/2 size guitar case (case 2) which fitted it perfectly. The bass is a bit bigger than the Kala u-bass I have now so I doubt it'd fit in the baritone uke bag.

The strings La Bella make specifically for danelectros might also work for a Dan Armstrong. I have a set of flats on my (30" scale) Longhorn & they have the small 'guitar-style' ball ends rather than the usual chunky bass ones.

My JMJ mustang came with Fender 9050 flats (.045 - .100 long scale) with green silks as standard. Normally I'd change the stock strings to my usual favorites as soon as I get any new bass, but the the 9050s were just perfect in terms of tone, tension & feel so I kept them on & I've bought a set for my MIJ mustang plus another spare set.

Certain colours seem to suit some basses more than others. Blue is my favourite colour for short scales like my daphne blue '72 musicmaster & JMJ mustang, and my blueburst danelectro longhorn, but I'm not so keen on blue long scale basses which look better in sunburst or candy-apple red.

Here's my small pedalboard which contains everything I need [sfx] Micro Thumpinator TC Electronic Spectracomp Tech 21 VT Bass TC Electronic Spark mini booster powered from a caline CP-02

I'd try stringing each bass with both flats & rounds in turn to see whether I had a preference.

Looks like that nut was cut with a cheese grater

The Tech 21 VT Bass pedal works for me

I saw one of these in the Sutton (Surrey) Trash Converters for £100 today - looks pretty good for a beginner's bass

I used to have a couple of ashborys which are lined fretless and tiny - you get used to playing them. Also violin players seem to manage without frets.

The only real lemon I bought was a Harley Benton uke bass which I really wanted to like and tried to get on with, but compared to the ubass I have now it was a piece of junk. Thomann exchanged it twice due to manufacturing defects but the third one wasn't much better than the others; it was difficult to get a decent tone and it was not much fun to play so I sold it on and upgraded to a Kala.

Here's mine - recorded using my epiphone thunderbird vintage pro bass, Eastwood Warren Ellis tenor guitar & logic pro.

Ikea do a set for £8 https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/tools-fittings/tool-sets-accessories/rill-castor-grey-art-96671300/

The fifth hole is for ajusting the micro-tilt thingy with an allen key instead of using card to shim the neck.

ok - Well the zoom h2n is used for every rehearsal & gig while I’m playing bass & practicing to the recordings seems to improve my playing. If I have to pick one ‘best’ purchase It’d have to be my wonderful JMJ mustang bass which is pretty much my ideal instrument. The hipshot lollypop tuners & the Seymour duncan pickup are particularly good. You can tell that when JMJ was designing it with Fender everything about the bass was considered in great detail.

best - in no specific order: Zoom H2n recorder - a great upgrade from my trusty old H1, TC spectracomp, Epiphone vintage pro thunderbird, JMJ mustang, My new favourite strings: La Bella white nylon flatwounds - a short scale set on my '72 musicmaster & a long scale set on the thunderbird which sound & feel amazing. most disappointing - EHX B9 organ pedal - bought out of curiosity & sold on very quickly & a medium scale set of the La Bella white nylon flatwounds which didn't seem to work as well on the mustang as the stock Fender flats.

30" short scale strings should fit - it looks like a similar layout to a squier jaguar SS or Fender musicmaster. 32" medium scale might also work, but theres a chance that the wound part of the E might end up going around the tuner a little and the silks will start a short way up from the nut.

It just needs a good old sideways twack from a mallet on the headstock.

before breaking out the soldering iron I'd try a squirt of contact cleaner in the pots. I've successfully cured scratchy crackling pots in my CIJ tele thinline with this stuff: https://www.amazon.co.uk/WD40-Drying-Contact-Cleaner-250ml/dp/B00KPUBO2S

Not quite twins - my 1972 Musicmaster & brand new JMJ mustang