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When I was shopping archtop ovals, I tried the new hybrids and the old traditional tubby sounding ones and went with the traditional sound. Tubby is the common phrase, but I would also use the terms...

Pressing too hard will bend sharp, but typically is more pronounced near the nut where the frets are farther apart.

Try fretting just behind the fret and see if that helps, heavier strings and...

Never learned it before, now that I have a tenor, it seems like a thing to do. I feel like I should have a Martin though. :-)

This latest craze is inspired by my niece singing along to "Dust in...

Congrats! Enjoy.

Awesome! Welcome to the club! I recut nuts on several of my instruments to narrow the courses and give more space between them. It can take a frustrating instrument and turn it into a dream.
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OK you made me do some work to get an mp3 posted. :-)

I had a Schertler resocoil pickup installed, which has worked well for me with mandolins, but for an OM it is surprisingly awful, I hadn't...

18 month wait, worth every minute.

This is the first truly irreplaceable instrument I have owned, not priceless, but priceless to me.

It is an 18" scale OM, it's basically his 18" flattop...

I have both 305 (and 604 which is a blinged up 304), and the 604 is my main player due to the music styles I prefer (classical and gospel).
Your description of the 305 sounds just like I would...

Interesting thread. Only contribution I can make is I like a wound A (in GDAE) on a tenor, it sounds a lot better to me than a PS A when strumming chords.

Means I have to buy custom strings...

Fantastic! I played a Pava oval hole once, blond satin, I remember it as the one I should have bought but didn't.

Let me suggest a completely different route, and the one I actually use when I need to bang out a quick recording with no vocals.

For reference I am an amateur sound engineer, own a 2i2, multiple...

Starting this as a companion thread to the "why mandolin" thread.

I started mando as an easier guitar with a unique voice, but over the years have had many unexpected and pleasant surprises about...

Over a year ago I commissioned a custom Davy Stuart build, it's larger bodied version of his 18" scale flat-top mandola, intended to be strung as a 4-stringer. Basically a super-short-scale tenor...

For jam sessions there is software that delays things by a fixed number of measures. The assumption is the measures repeat, like a blues progression, so you jam over what everybody else played 8 (or...

Been a while since I did a substantive post, so I though I would post my adventures playing mandola/tenor guitar over the last six months.

I got into this whole mandolin thing 5 years ago so I...

For me, mandola was a gateway to tenor guitar.

Here is the end of the story: bought a new pickup, put it on, clicked the same, sounded worse, put the OEM pickup back on, in lowered position it is ok, the end. :-)

You mean the artist works one?

I am a subscriber.

While has some intro material, it pretty much assumes you can read music and have some facility with mandolin already.

It's strengths...

My plan is to use it to temporarily get an acoustic tenor guitar sound from my electric, while I wait 7 months for my acoustic to be built.

Replaced the cover today, no difference, old cover was not magnetic after all.

Not sure what it is now, pickup is set low so I don't hit it often, maybe that's enough.

How is a fully potted...

Played my electric 4-string (CGDA) in our worship band this morning. Did mostly basic lead-guitar-style stuff, and it wasn't terrible.

I used a PRS Archon Clean amp sim in the HX Stomp to get the...

I have an electric (Eastwood Airline Mandola, 18" scale), that I converted to a tenor GDAE, strings are 13.5p, 22w, 33w, 52w (thats about 15 lbs per string). It is everything I could have hoped for...

So I have two eastwood airline mandolas, which came with what I learned are called 'microphonic' pickups. This is a new term for me, never knew what it was until I got one by accident. Basically,...

I like it. :-)

Did the fret height change? Altering string height can change tone, and some instruments are more sensitive to this than others. Low frets in particular can mute or darken the tone slightly...