Audience perception of the stereo effect will be minimal to none unless you play a large venue with a wide stage.
Audience perception of the stereo effect will be minimal to none unless you play a large venue with a wide stage.
29 years since I bought my '93 Flatiron Performer F, and the only mandolin I have MAS for is one of the Apitius J models. The Flatiron isn't the loudest instrument, probably due to the neck support...
Find some recorded music you like and listen to the same recording on you r PC speakers, in your car , and then find someone who is audiophile with expensive speakers or just another musician who's...
At the beginning of the pandemic I bought a cheap HH Squire ($160), figuring I might have a little fun. I have since repalced everything but the neck, and a new one is on order. Now all the big...
No, with one exception. My '71 Precision bass was named Humphrey when I was still in college (45 years ago), and old friends still ask after it by name. It was my first quality instrument. As I...
Not and add-on musician in general, but I did add an arm rest to my Flatiron a few years ago when the finish started showing wear. Banjos need armrests, all that metal really digs into the arm...
Buying my '93 Performer F was a huge upgrade for me. I still get the itch for another mandolin from time to time, but I haven't succumb, yet. I've had it refretted and replaced the bride and the...
So, Jack would have lived if he had a mandolin on the Titanic?
Actually, Tim, I thought this one was better for demonstration of tone:
https://www.facebook.com/steve.lavelle.90/videos/10215311062681086/?t=0
I've been using the Stark TI on my Flatiron F for the last 10 years. When I was playing gigs regularly, I would get compliments on the amplified tone regularly, which was probably a combination of...
Steve Goodman's "Between the Lines"
https://www.facebook.com/steve.lavelle.90/videos/10215375095001854/?t=183
And here's another recent FB post from my quarantine video series. BR-549's "Chains of This Town". I love the double stop lead!:
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Put this up in the "Live from Home" thread yesterday for Richard Thompson's 71st Birthday, but this thread is more mandolin centered, so:
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What I posted (One Door Opens) to celebrate Richard THompson's birthday:
https://www.facebook.com/steve.lavelle.90/videos/10215446678551398/?t=0
I've been working on fiber optic data transmission for over 30 years. When I started the transmission rate was 1.544 Mb/s, our current product does 800Gb/s per wavelength. the speed of light is the...
A somewhat sloppy, short, solo EMD:
https://www.facebook.com/steve.lavelle.90/videos/10215346319402482/?t=79
Since it's his birthday ("Dawg's Groove" written by his wife, Tracy):
https://www.facebook.com/steve.lavelle.90/videos/10215311062681086/?t=0
Eastwood sells hard shell cases for $189, it was $99 when I bought my Mandocaster soon after they came out.. They provide gig bags with the Mandocaster, but I didn't see that item separately on...
I have the Eastwood version. Replaced the bridge with one that adjustable saddles for each string to improve intonation because I went with a custom string gauge setup., Replaced the neck pup with a...
Welcome to the cafe, Norm. Just to be clear guitar tuning is wacky, mandolin tuning is logical.
Started working on this and was relieved to find this video online:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-mpP76q0bs
I'm back in my home state of NJ for a visit and I hooked up with on old band mate to play a few at the open mic at The Dublin Pub in Morristown. He told me to make sure I got there early so we could...
Guidance on the correct musical teminology:
Transposing is not the correct term for what you want to do. To transpose is "write or play (music) in a different key from the original".
What you want...
Br1ck-
It was totally on me that it fell, and I wasn't expecting it to be a warranty issue, but they made that call, in writing, twice. The point of my post was that it got sent back to me twice...
Trying again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS4kK48RAmk&feature=youtu.be