Jack Tottle-"Bluegrass Mandolin"

**rico mando** · Apr-12-2012, 9:00pm

Originally Posted by Tim2723

Wow! That book and Mal Bay's Fun With the Mandolin were the only two mandolin books I ever owned. Ah, memories....

ya was the same here with me

**Jester** · Jun-20-2012, 9:33am

Before I found these postings I put the STEREO soundsheet on an old turntable,
digitized, pitch corrected, and cleaned up the pops and clicks for the entire
soundsheet from the Bluegrass Mandolin book by Tottle.

They're very clean and have no clips. They're normalized to -1.5db.

Since it's a pain to "pan" the tracks because there's no "balance" control on most computer sound systems without going to the mixer controls, I also created Mono Files for each of the 14 song tracks with just Guitar backing, or Mandolin Lead.

So, there are three full length .WAV files for each of the 14 tunes and one file for the two instructional tracks, Tuning, Picking Single Strings, etc, and Picking Double Strings.

In all it's 338MB of Files. It took quite a while to do it right, so I thought I should share it with other players.

I will also have MP3s ripped shortly and will create .zip files for the WAV files and the MP3s

I emailed Pete Braccio and I hope he'll post them on his downloadable page.

If you send me your email address and I'll send you the zip files via www.sizeablesend.com

Jester

**Pete Braccio** · Jun-21-2012, 12:19pm

It's gonna be a bit before I can post these. Apple's public file access space that I've had all these bits stored on is going away next week. I just bought a domain and will set up a simple web site to host all these files at shortly.

Pete

**Jester** · Jul-22-2012, 7:36pm

I newly digitized the Tottle Bluegrass Book's soundsheet, pitch corrected them with a digital tuner using the tuning tracks
with my high end sound editor, and manually de-popped the worst sections. email and I'll send you a zip file with all the tracks in MP3 format at 256k data rate. I use Sizeable Send.com to send links to large files I put on their server. The links expire
so email for a set. Pete Braccio also has my new files but needs to set up a new download page. Either of us will send 'em.
Jester

**Pete Braccio** · Jul-22-2012, 10:17pm

Hi all,

I've got the bare bones of a site put together and have Jester's MP3 files posted. I kept on trying to post the WAV files (among some other things) and kept on timing out. Seems I was hitting my file size limit already.

Anyway, I've got the update request in to expand the site's storage capacity. Once that goes through, I'll add the WAV files and all the rest of the stuff.

Pete

P.S. The site address is in my signature

**Pete Braccio** · Jul-23-2012, 12:42pm

The WAV files are now online as well.

I also posted the old pitch corrected files and the straight recordings of the record (for nostalgia's sake). The BBC Virtual Session page is also up.

The Session Books, bluegrass area, and O'Neill's pages are going to have to wait until I have a bit more time. Till then, enjoy.

Pete

**Pete Braccio** · Jul-25-2012, 12:00am

Weird. I've forgotten how to edit my old posts.

Doesn't matter. Bunch o' session tune books have now been added to my site. Address is in my signature below. Still more work to be done.

Pete

**montana** · Jul-25-2012, 10:56am

What am I doing wrong? I keep getting 'mobile me closed'

**Pete Braccio** · Jul-25-2012, 9:05pm

Are you going to the new site? It's address is http://www.braccio.me which just LOOKS like the old Apple MobileMe type address.

Pete

**tokriver** · Dec-15-2012, 10:32am

CANCEL THE EMAIL REQUEST I was able to download the files. Could you please send the file to tokriver@msn.com

Originally Posted by Jester

Before I found these postings I put the STEREO soundsheet on an old turntable,
digitized, pitch corrected, and cleaned up the pops and clicks for the entire
soundsheet from the Bluegrass Mandolin book by Tottle.

They're very clean and have no clips. They're normalized to -1.5db.

Since it's a pain to "pan" the tracks because there's no "balance" control on most computer sound systems without going to the mixer controls, I also created Mono Files for each of the 14 song tracks with just Guitar backing, or Mandolin Lead.

So, there are three full length .WAV files for each of the 14 tunes and one file for the two instructional tracks, Tuning, Picking Single Strings, etc, and Picking Double Strings.

In all it's 338MB of Files. It took quite a while to do it right, so I thought I should share it with other players.

I will also have MP3s ripped shortly and will create .zip files for the WAV files and the MP3s

I emailed Pete Braccio and I hope he'll post them on his downloadable page.

If you send me your email address and I'll send you the zip files via www.sizeablesend.com

Jester