For my last "real" gig, I used a Mann 5-string electric. Everyone (and eventually, me too) referred to it as a guitar (there was no real electric guitar in the show).
I went with it, but always...
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For my last "real" gig, I used a Mann 5-string electric. Everyone (and eventually, me too) referred to it as a guitar (there was no real electric guitar in the show).
I went with it, but always...
I can't wait 'til this can of worms gets opened... :popcorn:
Did they not ask you if you'd like to lead a set?
I know that my approach is not one adopted by the majority, but I play the triplets up-down-up. My philosophy (also not one adopted by the majority) is that, instead of thinking of the mandolin as a...
Our Irish Trad band's most boring set is The Butterfly–Hardiman the Fiddler. It's not working because the melody of Hardiman is too low for a last tune. We once heard a recording of a reel that had...
A devil's advocate position, if I may, simply for the sake of promoting an enjoyable discourse:
While I pretty much agree with everything that has been said here, I think that it's healthy to keep...
I could say that it's because it sounds good, but lots of instruments sound good.
Maybe the real reason is because I sound good. :cool: :mandosmiley: :)
I'm playing mostly Irish Trad guitar these days, and I'm very satisfied with my amplified sound (a mix of an LR Baggs Session DI and a Line Audio CM4 compressor mic), but not very satisfied with how...
Thanks, yes, a Rigel, one of a batch of eight birdseye maple CT 110 bodies that they had made and set aside for custom orders.
Twenty-four frets, no Florida – Pete bolted the neck on through a...
Rummaging through some old hard disks recently and came across this mandolin-&-guitar arrangement of Calace's Moto perpetuo, recorded in 2007 in a Shanghai hotel lounge:
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Any amp can be a quiet practice amp – how loud do you need a gigging amp to be?
Sounds like you're in the Fender-ish camp, but why not head out to your local guitar shop and try some amps, see...
combining ignorance with faith in technology :) sorry
My piano teacher, the late great Olga Von Till, taught me how to phrase music. She wasn't as technical as I'm about to get, but it was basically a few overlapping grids: there was the rhythmic...
I've used the Tech 21 Liverpool (I even used it in Liverpool!) with satisfactory results.
I've been playing mostly Irish Trad guitar these days with my whistle-playing wife, who not only is excellent, but pretty much the only other player locally. Since I practise a lot more than she does...
1 + 2 + a 3 + a 4 + a 1 + a 2 + 3...
Don't remember if I installed a micro clip-free tuner on a mandolin (only played a couple of gigs on mandolin in 2022, and none since), but I use one all the time on the instrument that's getting 90%...
I'm happy with the Session DI. It's not really "baked-in EQ tuned specifically for acoustic guitars", it's multiband compression tuned specifically for acoustic guitars – it won't try to eq out a low...
A retronym is a term invented for something that already exists, but now needs a clearer name because of a new invention. "Acoustic guitar" is a classic example.
Please excuse my signature :)
Back in the turn-of-the-century snail-mail days, I was on the hunt for a touring music director position. I found about a hundred and fifty mailing addresses of famous singers on the internet, and...
I once tried using a rack-mounted Chandler Tube Driver as a recording preamp – the distortion was unusably harsh, and certainly not what you're looking for.
My feeling is that any level of tube...
I'd be inclined to go along with Dagger's gauges. :-P
I always found mine to be too light, but Stefan told me not to put medium-gauge strings on these old cedar-top 10-strings, that he didn't know...
I believe (it's what I have written down, anyway) that my 40+ year old cedar top Sobell is strung 10-15-23-35-52.
I saw the last show of that tour, in Osaka, and I remember being hit with the epiphany as I left the concert hall that "That's the reason that I play mandolin, that's the guy that planted the seed."
As you plow that furrow, keep in mind that some pedals invert the phase of the signal.
For example, if you split the signal, run one side into an overdriven amp and the other through a compressor...