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[QUOTE=foldedpath;1782433]I use a DPA 4099 clip-on mic on my octave mandolin, clipping it on when needed. It's wonderful, has very good feedback rejection. I have it mounted at the lower body facing...

I tried (besides others) a John Bartlett guitar mic and a DPA 4061 and I liked both.

I use a DPA 4099 clip-on mic on my octave mandolin, clipping it on when needed. It's wonderful, has very good feedback rejection. I have it mounted at the lower body facing the F-hole:

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On my guitar I use an Irig Acoustic Stage. It has a soundhole mike and a preamplifier with some modding but best of all, 10 automatic antifeedback filters.

It can also be calibrated to your...

Lovely, Ian!

If part of what's driving your decision is a desire for a pickup, something you might consider as an alternative is a clip-on microphone for your current Weber.

In my experience, that provides a...

If you’re looking for “the big warm sound,” you should probably stay away from maple back and sides, which is what the Sages often (always?) had, and go for walnut or mahogany. Rosewood on an OM...

Thanks MooglePower, the 70s comparison is very welcome!

For anyone else interested we're down to our last dozen physical copies so pretty soon a download purchase will be the only option until (if...

Check out GD Armstrong:

http://www.gdarmstrong.com/index.html

The electric bouzouki Tavy made in his thread a few down below this one is one of the best I've heard, that's where I'd go if I were in the market. As far as just buying one rather than...

Once in a while it pays off for all of that looking; I'll have a few new instruments coming out of this in a while. Out behind the barn past the kudzu from my granddady's uncle's third cousin twice...

Thanks Rob, glad you're having fun, hope your bandmates have recovered from the shock of a fully "Electric Badger" and that no one wielded the axe, Pete Seeger style ;)

BTW, Rob brought a very...

First apology is for the self-promotion... And second is that there is only one track of mandolin on this... Primarily playing melody on tenor banjo but there is a lot of bouzouki on here too. In...

From top to bottom:

* 17 fret 8 string mandolin (vavona / redwood burr).
* Short, 19" scale OM (quilted maple).
* Long scale, 640mm zouk (quilted maple).

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I'm really looking forward...