Re: Toning down a bright instrument
I'm thinking you are addicted to the Silverangel sound and want your other mandolin to sound more like your SA. There is only so much you can to to alter the tone of a mandolin. Not suggesting you shouldn't try, but I'd sell a bunch more armrests and have Ken make you an oval hole mandolin.
Silk and steel will help some, as will different picks, but at some point you need to decide if you really like your mandolin. Not that I would want to, but there is nothing I could do to make my A 1 anything other than what it is, or come close to brightening up my SA to resemble my Arches tone. My seat of the pants experience has made all the tinkering in the world result in no more than a 3% variance.
Silverangel A
Arches F style kit
1913 Gibson A-1
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