keith.rogers
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Well, yes. Just audio (you're welcome) this time, though this is essentially the track from a video (posted on a FB group), with a quick rinse through the RX de-click because when I turned it up I heard a bit more pick clickety-clack than I liked.
For reference song was written by Nancy Blake, but AFAIK, only recorded by Norman Blake (mandolin) and Tony Rice (guitar) on the Blake & Rice 2 album. (On there, it goes at a significantly faster pace, which we geezers are not going to get to, it seems.) In the original, the mandolin is a little brighter and the guitar a bit less bright, but we were stuck with the instruments and fingers we had.
Mandolin, at least how I play it, is a bear to control. Compared to a fiddle, say, it has a limited dynamic range, but it still is a very percussive, "poppy" (prone) little thing. So far, I have to put a bit of compression on to knock down the stray hits that just come out a bit too much for my ear. Otherwise, it's a work in progress, and getting less problematic at mix time. I could probably back off the mics a bit more, but I've got outside lawn equipment and overhead hobby pilots to worry about, so still keeping the mics relatively close, within a foot or so.
Recorded in our home's larger, fairly open family room space with a couple Soyuz 013 FET mics into the Zoom F8n. Logic Pro with minimal EQ and compression, a bit of LP's "space designer" reverb.
For reference song was written by Nancy Blake, but AFAIK, only recorded by Norman Blake (mandolin) and Tony Rice (guitar) on the Blake & Rice 2 album. (On there, it goes at a significantly faster pace, which we geezers are not going to get to, it seems.) In the original, the mandolin is a little brighter and the guitar a bit less bright, but we were stuck with the instruments and fingers we had.
Mandolin, at least how I play it, is a bear to control. Compared to a fiddle, say, it has a limited dynamic range, but it still is a very percussive, "poppy" (prone) little thing. So far, I have to put a bit of compression on to knock down the stray hits that just come out a bit too much for my ear. Otherwise, it's a work in progress, and getting less problematic at mix time. I could probably back off the mics a bit more, but I've got outside lawn equipment and overhead hobby pilots to worry about, so still keeping the mics relatively close, within a foot or so.
Recorded in our home's larger, fairly open family room space with a couple Soyuz 013 FET mics into the Zoom F8n. Logic Pro with minimal EQ and compression, a bit of LP's "space designer" reverb.
But, yeah, one of the traits of those "masters" is the control of dynamics. I think (hope!) some of that will comes with time, and I've been only poking around with this thing for a tiny bit over a year. The high tension and short scale on those 8 strings is a lot different than a guitar, though I have several more years of playing that.