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Personally I find the guitar easier. I started on with the mandolin and then after a year started leaning guitar. Maybe it is because I had already learned some stuff and my fingers were starting to...

Persistance and enjoyment. I think this is the key to all instruments.
I personally am big on learning theory. I have had to teach myself mando, or learn what I can from guitar players, since I...

Wow, a beauty!
I can feel it in my hands already. Wonderfull and strange sounds emerging from wood and strings.

Hey, there is a major shortage of emandos (and mandos in general) over here in...

Hey Hannah,

For hardware I am using an IBM laptop with Windows XP Home with M-Audio MobilePre USB preamp/soundcard. The preamp was around 160 Euro (which is less than $200) and has input for 2...

Yep, I have one too, but it is not jazz. So far just 3 Native American stories for kids. 1 story is with mando only, one with mando and guitar and one with just guitar.
Just click on the link in my...

OK, so my reply to this thread is a little old, but I just gotta say that I say Flogging Molly here in Germany last year. Had never heard them before and had no idea that there as a mando in the...

Michele Shocked: Memories of east Texas
Michele Shocked: The L&M don't stop here anymore
Both on the Short, Sharp, Shocked album.

Flogging Molly in almost every song on every album

Good question.

I could already read standard notation, which I learned while learning the flute. However, I find it much more difficult to read standard notation with the mandolin. Not sure why,...

djangolin,

I don't think that you have anything to worry about. Great band, great jams. When is the european tour?

Jaus

Hey all,

Looking for any other mandolin players, jams or just plain mandoliny-kinda-things in the Rhein-Main region here in Deutschland, more specifically in Frankfurt.

Thanks for the feedback. I think that I'm going to take the conservative approach and hold off on buying this one. Not only because of your responses, but also because it is not 100% what I want.
I...

Hey all,

I am currently playing a Fender FM-61SE Electric mandolin on loan from a local music store. This music store is a small hole in the wall, which has a reputation for fair prices. Indeed, I...

arbarnhart,

Thanks for the tip. I've played around with the TefView software a bit, but not much, and never with tabs which were written for guitar. I will make sure to try out what you suggest...

Hey Steff,

I can completely understand. I am living in Germany and have found it hard to find other mandolin players as well as lessons. I have been basically teaching myself. Mostly I hang out...

Hey,

Thanks for the tip.
I had already fiddled around with the internal mike, but to no avail.

I plugged the Mobilepre into another laptop, this one is a newer IBM thinkpad with Windows 2000...

Hey there all,

I am trying to set up a simple at-home (just for fun) recording system using a laptop (Windows XP) and a preamp audio-interface ( M-Audio Mobilepre with USB out). My Mandolin is a...