Successfully Amplifying Mandolin

[fat_fleet]

So so far you're doing this in 'a tiny room'- and five feet' away -both not logical nor representative of a real or appropriate setup.

Just curious, how big is a 'tiny room'?

 

[fat_fleet]

You know, having discussed this here, I suppose it may be time to ask why are you playing through an amp anyway?

I want to put it through a fuzz pedal and a wah.

 

[fat_fleet]

Gee, yeah that's nice.


But where do the Twin Reverbs go?

It is the thought that counts.

 

[Farview]

I want to put it through a fuzz pedal and a wah.

A fuzz pedal and wah is a recipe for feedback. A fuzz makes things louder and more compressed (creating feedback) and a wah boosts and sweeps the midrange. (creating more feedback)

Those two things will have a tendency to make a solid body electric guitar feedback, much less an acoustic instrument. Your only hope is isolation, or getting an electric mando.

 

[mixsit]

A fuzz pedal and wah is a recipe for feedback. A fuzz makes things louder and more compressed (creating feedback) and a wah boosts and sweeps the midrange. (creating more feedback)

Those two things will have a tendency to make a solid body electric guitar feedback, much less an acoustic instrument. Your only hope is isolation, or getting an electric mando.

+10'ish

 

[mixsit]

Just curious, how big is a 'tiny room'?

I'dknow. It's a technical term I guess - It was a spec used by the OP

 

[fat_fleet]

I'dknow. It's a technical term I guess - It was a spec used by the OP

Let me put it this way, how much smaller is a 'tiny room' than one which allows a 'reasonable setup'?

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electric mando.

HOW did I not know about those??

 

[mixsit]

Let me put it this way, how much smaller is a 'tiny room' than one which allows a 'reasonable setup'?

Shoot, that's just to say, or build on the idea that if the a amp is to get some real volume going- being close to it makes for quite a restriction.

So I guess it's more first what are the conditions?
Then what would be some of the workable solutions?

In a room' or not, the more you can keep a mic' away from the speaker, the better.