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I've been playing a fair amount of electric mandolin lately, as well as a lot of lap steel and I'm working my way up to pedal steel. I need a new amp though. And I'm wondering if I could get an amp...

Words. fail. me.

I think its lottery ticket time.

I'm about to get some small lights to help light up our corner (its not exatly a stage) in a dark bar. All I'm going to do is get some small hardware store clamp lights with alu reflectors and a few...

Well, The mandolin was my very first instrument (excepted an EXTREAMELY ill fated violin expeince at 6 years old) oh and a not quite as ill fated bass experience for two months before mandolin.
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Chuck Norris doesn't play tremolo, he just holds his pick while the mandolin shakes in fear.

Oh sorry, I forgot to mention that I DO want to be able to do volume swells and have continously variable volume ala volume knob on an electric instrument. Thanks for the suggestions though.

Hey, I think I'm going to go for a volume pedal for my mandolin to use to control my lead vs rythum volume and am looking for a good volume pedal. I've also been messing around with a wah pedal with...

Charley man, thats not nice. I should not have been allowed to see that. Its way prettier than I imagined it was...

-Ben from NY

(its all good though, our bass player just left so I'm going...

also, allways tune UP to pitch. When your tuning if you go sharp of the pitch your looking for instead of just turing the tuner back a little bit, you have to go back down below the target pitch and...

Don't know the make and model, but its definatly my "go to" axe. Its got a great chop and really cuts through when you need it to. A real banjo killer too.

(sorry, I couldn't resist, its been...

All satire aside, I've been (somewhat) contemplating a variation on this idea for a crazy washtub bass prodject I've been dreaming of. Its just so crazy that it just might work!


Oh and Bill, I...

Ever seen Railroad Earth live? Those guys know what it takes to get a really, really great live sound setup. Each member has their own rack, with preamps, eqs, effects, etc... They have it down...

I think that the basic thing to realize is that ALL the keys are just different versions of the same fundimental logic. All the fundimental musical ideas that you use in C are the same as you would...

I gotta DBX 1231 Dual 31 Band Graphic Eq, and its the big three rackspace one that has the long sliders too! Now my PA is nearly complete!

yeah, I know how to calculate string tension, but I want to feel not calculate it. I have no idea what 23.467 lbs of tension feels like compared to 21.530 lbs of tension, or when a string gets to...

I'm contemplating a longer scale lower tuned electric mandolin, but want to get some idea of what the fingering will be like and how stiff/floppy string guages will be. I was wondering, if I use a...

thats always a great feeling when you can finally get the right stage sound. I never found it with my acoustic, but I now use a solid body electiric, and though I dont like the sound as much, I find...

let us know what he says, because he might very well end up building two because I might want one too. So might others. Adjustable pole peices is one of my requirements as well. Drop in to...

I think an 5 string emando player and a 8 string player would be pretty neat playing together.

I always like the old line, "now I'm going to play you a song that sounds a little somthing like this.... well, actually it sounds exactly like this..."

I dont care about stage banter as long as...

I've learned mandolin while playing in a band that uses some awkward keys a fair amount so I've gotten used to playing in closed position a lot. the problem is that I dont use open strings enough. ...

Oh man. I want that. I'd love to get a adjustable pole peice humbucker in my mandobird VIII. But then I'd still be stuck with that giant uncomfortable neck. If only it wasnt $160, I'd get it right...

Here are a few peices of advice.

Learn your intervals. Understand chord construction. Figure out what notes are the 1, 3 and 5 of all the chords you know. You can play them anywhere on the...

darn, just when I was hopeful that I would be the only one out there playing an emando, its all just a hoax.

Speaking of which, I need to wire some money to an oil tycoon in nigeria so I can make...