NUD Flamed Mango Guitalele by Pelem Ukulele

**DownUpDave** · 10-07-2019, 02:20 PM

Congratulations Jim on a fine looking and unique instrument. I found the fingerpicking tone very pleasant, it was warm, mellow and sweet, particularly for A-A tuning.

**apdsqueaky** · 10-07-2019, 04:04 PM

Out of curiosity, Jim, what did you use for recording?

**Jim Hanks** · 10-07-2019, 04:29 PM

Originally Posted by DownUpDave

Congratulations Jim on a fine looking and unique instrument Jim. I found the fingerpicking tone very pleasant, it was warm, mellow and sweet, particularly for A-A tuning.

I agree with the stock strings the strumming sounded a little muddy. I just put on a set of D'Addario EJ45LP tonight so we'll see how those sound in a couple days.

Originally Posted by apdsqueaky

Out of curiosity, Jim, what did you use for recording?

Zoom Q8 video camera with the built stereo mic capsule. Then I edited the audio in Cubasis on the iPad. But minimal processing - the plugin chain was:
Brusfri(room noise reduction) -> Waves Audio Track (just for high pass filter) -> FabFilter L-2 (limiter - to bring level up but no compression except tickling the limiter in loudest spots). (Of course YouTube adds it's own compression but can't get around that.)

**robinboyd** · 10-07-2019, 07:22 PM

I'm interested to hear what strings you recommend for guitalele in general. I currently have Pepe Romero/La Bella strings on mine and they are fine except that they wound strings are ultra-squeaky (although with a bit of time and playing they seem to be settling down a bit).

**Jim Hanks** · 10-07-2019, 07:41 PM

Originally Posted by robinboyd

I'm interested to hear what strings you recommend for guitalele in general. I currently have Pepe Romero/La Bella strings on mine and they are fine except that they wound strings are ultra-squeaky (although with a bit of time and playing they seem to be settling down a bit).

On the baritone scale, I really like the T-I CF127 set in Terz (G to G). They should be good for A to A tuning on tenor scale but I haven't tried them there. I also had a "reentrant Terz" tuning on the tenor Kala that I gave to my daughter. It's nice because you can do it with no wound strings with readily available strings. I think I did reentrant Terz on baritone too but it had at least a couple Southcoast strings no longer available.

I'm glad you mentioned the Romero set as I had thought about that for this one. I was wondering about the squeakiness. That's too bad. Fresh on, the EJ45LP have more squeak than I'd like, but maybe they'll settle down.

**Pirate Jim** · 10-07-2019, 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by Jim Hanks

On the baritone scale, I really like the T-I CF127 set in Terz (G to G). They should be good for A to A tuning on tenor scale but I haven't tried them there. I also had a "reentrant Terz" tuning on the tenor Kala that I gave to my daughter. It's nice because you can do it with no wound strings with readily available strings. I think I did reentrant Terz on baritone too but it had at least a couple Southcoast strings no longer available.

I'm glad you mentioned the Romero set as I had thought about that for this one. I was wondering about the squeakiness. That's too bad. Fresh on, the EJ45LP have more squeak than I'd like, but maybe they'll settle down.

I'm using the CF127 set at A - A on a 17" guitalele. Can recommend!

**Lapyang** · 10-08-2019, 02:16 PM

Congratulations, Jim. Your Mango Guitalele sounded really sweet. I am looking forward to hearing more of your creations played on this special instrument.