Sounds like Robin got the kinks worked out..... General rules of thumb I've read about or experienced and mostly agree with:
Less EQ is better; if you have to EQ so much then maybe you need to look at the source. A compromise must be reached for acoustic instruments; i.e. shooting for tons of low AND tons of high is unrealistic and would probably muddy the mix anyway....instead maybe we need to pick our voice in the entire mix; our sonic slice of the pie if you will....similar to the way Gilchrist might voice his mando to occupy that upper mid range in a trad. bluegrass band. Boosting the lows on a typical board EQ does not really help the mando; I've found that that low frequency is generally irrelevant to a mandolin and will only introduce unwanted noise or unnatural tone. For plug in gigs I use a carbon fiber Mix Mandolin; which has a built- in Schertler pick-up. I run that into a ToneBone Pre-Z pre-amp (made by Radial) with almost no EQ adjustment except the low pass filter engaged. I'm very happy with the sound; it's not perfect and it's not pure acoustic but's workable. The Scherlter repsonds well to right hand dynamics unlike some other pick-ups I've owned. If available having a mic to capture some overtones coming off the mandolin would be a major plus. p.s. You can "hear" my set-up if you check out the YouTube link I posted under "IMovie Mac Help" subject on this site. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
