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  1. Re: Audio-Technica microphones on oval-hole mandolins - magnets!

    I'm playing mostly Irish Trad guitar these days, and I'm very satisfied with my amplified sound (a mix of an LR Baggs Session DI and a Line Audio CM4 compressor mic), but not very satisfied with how...
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    Thanks, yes, a Rigel, one of a batch of eight birdseye maple CT 110 bodies that they had made and set aside for custom orders.

    Twenty-four frets, no Florida – Pete bolted the neck on through a...
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    Rummaging through some old hard disks recently and came across this mandolin-&-guitar arrangement of Calace's Moto perpetuo, recorded in 2007 in a Shanghai hotel lounge:

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  4. Re: Amp suggestions for an 18" scale 5 string?

    Any amp can be a quiet practice amp – how loud do you need a gigging amp to be?

    Sounds like you're in the Fender-ish camp, but why not head out to your local guitar shop and try some amps, see...
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    Re: AI chat for music, is it any good? ChatGPT?

    combining ignorance with faith in technology :) sorry
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    Re: AI chat for music, is it any good? ChatGPT?

    My piano teacher, the late great Olga Von Till, taught me how to phrase music. She wasn't as technical as I'm about to get, but it was basically a few overlapping grids: there was the rhythmic...
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    Re: Amp simulator pedals

    I've used the Tech 21 Liverpool (I even used it in Liverpool!) with satisfactory results.
  8. Re: Would this be a good invention, or is there another solution?

    I've been playing mostly Irish Trad guitar these days with my whistle-playing wife, who not only is excellent, but pretty much the only other player locally. Since I practise a lot more than she does...
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    Re: Help on counting this phrase

    1 + 2 + a 3 + a 4 + a 1 + a 2 + 3...
  10. Re: D'Addario Micro Headstock vs Micro Clip Free tuners

    Don't remember if I installed a micro clip-free tuner on a mandolin (only played a couple of gigs on mandolin in 2022, and none since), but I use one all the time on the instrument that's getting 90%...
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    Re: Phantom power DI box?

    I'm happy with the Session DI. It's not really "baked-in EQ tuned specifically for acoustic guitars", it's multiband compression tuned specifically for acoustic guitars – it won't try to eq out a low...
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    Re: Mando (and why to quit callin it that...)g

    A retronym is a term invented for something that already exists, but now needs a clearer name because of a new invention. "Acoustic guitar" is a classic example.

    Please excuse my signature :)
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    Re: R.I.P. Jimmy Buffett

    Back in the turn-of-the-century snail-mail days, I was on the hunt for a touring music director position. I found about a hundred and fifty mailing addresses of famous singers on the internet, and...
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    Re: Tube preamp for direct e mando recording?

    I once tried using a rack-mounted Chandler Tube Driver as a recording preamp – the distortion was unusably harsh, and certainly not what you're looking for.

    My feeling is that any level of tube...
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    Re: Sobell 5 course mandolin

    I'd be inclined to go along with Dagger's gauges. :-P

    I always found mine to be too light, but Stefan told me not to put medium-gauge strings on these old cedar-top 10-strings, that he didn't know...
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    Re: Sobell 5 course mandolin

    I believe (it's what I have written down, anyway) that my 40+ year old cedar top Sobell is strung 10-15-23-35-52.
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    Re: John Paul Jones and Paul Gilbert

    I saw the last show of that tour, in Osaka, and I remember being hit with the epiphany as I left the concert hall that "That's the reason that I play mandolin, that's the guy that planted the seed."
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    Re: Stereo. Oh dear...

    As you plow that furrow, keep in mind that some pedals invert the phase of the signal.

    For example, if you split the signal, run one side into an overdriven amp and the other through a compressor...
  19. Re: How often should my mandolin need to be tuned?

    Ya, what everyone else said, but...

    It doesn't "need" tuning, it's not like "how often should I change my car's motor oil?" :)

    When you pick it up in the morning after a cold night, it will...
  20. Re: Why are some songs not written in the key they are in?

    Some 25–30 years ago, the band I was in backed up Bobby Rydell (Volare). We had lots of horns, 'cuz that's how he rolled, and hand-written big band-style charts.

    One medley had a standard key-of-C...
  21. Re: Why are some songs not written in the key they are in?

    Lots of Irish Trad tunes are hard to pin down when it comes to saying what key they're in because they don't "commit". A tune in "A" might have as many G sharps as it has G naturals, and/or as many C...
  22. Re: Why are some songs not written in the key they are in?

    There are enough other mistakes on this page to betray the inexperience of the transcriber.

    I'm sure that there's no on-purpose "why", no intentional reason for the lack of a key signature.
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    Re: Information on Fender Mandocasters

    Fender never used nor protected the word "Mandocaster", but that's what everybody called them.

    Eastwood started using it, and legally protected their right to do so. I had a converstation with...
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    Re: Information on Fender Mandocasters

    I've owned five of the old ones (counting a strange Seafoam Green Korean reissue) – the best one is one of the later ones, a '66 or so (but I did upgrade it a little by installing a '50s anodized...
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    Re: Do you insure your instruments?

    No.

    And at this point in my career, what I've saved would easily cover the theft of two or three instruments.

    Ya can't beat the house. ;)
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