![]() you get better tone further away from the bridge (i.e., nearer the fretboard). If I ever re-record this, next time I won't pick so close to the bridge, the tone is a little thin there. " Down By The Brazos", one mandolin track + MIDI backing-app track." The Birdfeeder Waltz", mandolin melody + mandolin harmony + CGDAE mini classical guitar 'bass' line, for MandolinCafe Song-a-Week 455 (original melody composed by MandolinCafe member John Kelly).A Rogue can be a serviceable instrument when set up correctly, mostly a matter of adjustments rather than buying new parts. Good advice for all brands, including Rogue. Rob Meldrum's ebook is a good one for mandolin setup. ![]() ![]() (However, I did not like the glossy finish on the instrument itself, so I worked it over a little bit with some 0000 steel wool, yup totally the wrong way to achieve a 'satin' finish, but at $2 for a box of steel wool it was sure cheaper than the alternatives.) You might or might not like the appearance of the Rogue 'chrome'-plastic buttons on the tuners. The Rogue does have a cheap plastic nut which IMO can bind or 'grab' the strings more than a harder material, but you can help that along by rubbing graphite (I use regular oldfashioned pencil lead) into the nut slots underneath the strings. IMPORTANT: As you might already know - particularly for new instruments, many issues perceived to be caused by tuners, are actually caused by strings binding in the nut slots (or sometimes the bridge saddle). So I know how discouraging it can be to have a bad set of tuners.īut I don't think you'll have to worry about that on the Rogue, at least if the one I received is any indication. The cheap Kay mandolin I started out with as a kid, had similarly awful tuners that were nearly impossible to turn. My ancient Favilla mandolin has tuners so hard to use that some of them require pliers to turn them - neither teflon nor oil did anything to improve the situation, they're bent & binding somehow. I've seen my share of useless junk tuners on *other* instruments I've had over the decades though, nearly always some old "vintage" thing that resists attempts at resurrection. They turn very smoothly, they hold and don't slip, the gear ratio seems about right, no complaints. I bought a new Rogue RM-100A a little over 2 years ago, and the tuners work great.
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