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| Here's one called Rare Commute. It's a trance thing.
No bass track on this one; just drum presets and mandolas with octave effect.
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Below:
Celtic influenced Rock tune with bass and drums composed on laptop. Solid-body Mukudo tuned as mandola (tenor) through multi-effects, output through PA (flat), and recorded through the camcorder's mic.
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What follows is a set of analog videos shot in the 1980's, then transferred to camcorder and uploaded to YouTube in a more recent year. This is one of my earliest solid-body mandolas. A radical yet obvious precursor in style to what would follow, it has a Washburn vibrato, long out of production.
The captions are as posted on YouTube.
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The louder, the better.
Come on, now!
The song starts out high and ends very gently.
Jimmy tilted the camera;
I guess I'll get over it.
J.John MixSon, electric mandola
Jimmy Millsaps, drums
Ali Che'Ree, bass
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Volume can make a difference! Crank it up!
We're beginning to get an idea of how it should go. I spend a little more time playing with the lead breaks than in the final version, and this is not exactly what that ends up sounding like.
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Is the volume up? Stop now and check!
An obscure session caught on video. This isn't presented as a polished performance, just to reveal the electric mandola in a 3-piece setting.
It's in the early stages of putting the song together; Jimmy was fairly familiar with it, but it was very new to Ali.
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Here is the first video showcasing Mukudo. I've tuned this one to standard guitar: strings 1-4 eBGD.
Multiple effects, such as compressor, reverb, and amp simulator, are used throughout.
The bass, flute, tin whistle, and drums were composed on my laptop.
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In this video, the instrument is tuned to Tenor Ukulele: GCEa.
No effects are applied to the signal; it runs through a PA with all flat EQ. Mukudo's tone knob is at about "4".
Again, laptop accompaniment - bass, drums, flute.
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| Norak, Bubinga, 8-String |
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| Norak, Maple, 4-string |
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