From: Richard Bridge - PM
Date: 09 Aug 09 - 01:54 PM

"But if you want to be a bit more adventurous get a Mandobird or a Mandocaster, put some hotrails humbuckers in in place of the single-pole pickups, and with the aid of a selection of pedals and a Vox or Marshall guitar amp the world is your sound palette."

I don't play solid-body electric mandolin with magnetic pickups, partly because I don't have one, partly 'cause I double on electric guitar anyway, and partly 'cause my mandolin needs tend towards acoustic music and tones. Nonetheless, I dig the suggestion, and am willing to venture down that road sometime. Thanks.

From time to time I've plugged in for a sort of threshold signal, and mic-ed for additional tone, volume, and complexity of timbre. Most everytime I plug in it's into an acoustic amp with a balanced line out to the PA. The Yorkville AM150 works fine for this.

Peace, Mooh.