I was the lucky recipient of a CT55 Bluechip for Xmas this year. I love the way it plays, I can do execute some tricky string-changing passages with it that always got blurry when I used my Wegen TF140 (although I love the tone of that Wegen...).
However...
I took it to a jam today, and couldn't help but feel that it seemed a bit quiet. Is this the pick, or just me, or just all mandolins in general? I'm playing a Collings MT, which I understand is supposed to be pretty decently loud mandolin, with newish strings. At one point, though, I was playing with a bass player and he said he couldn't hear me from, like, literally three feet away. Is this just something that's going to happen at every big jam? Was the guy partially deaf? (I should note that this was a lot of people indoors in a big, echoing school cafeteria.)
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