Banjo And Mandolin

Excellent for tuning your Banjo

This is my go to tuner for acoustic guitar, banjo and fiddle. Reliable and accurate.

I am using this for recording violin, acoustic guitar, mandolin, and piano, and all sound great. I already own the mk4 and love it, but wanted something a little more directional that can reject some of the room noise, since I am not recording in a totally isolated environment. The mk41 sounds just as good as the mk4 and definitely cuts down on any background noise. Only downside is that I have less leeway to move around when recording, whereas with the mk4, which has a wider capture, it's a little more forgiving. But I got the mk41 specifically for this purpose to just focus on what's directly in front of it, and it's doing the job even better than expected without any loss of quality or musicality in the tone. Love it! And plus one for B+H's amazing customer service. They were extremely helpful.

Couldn't wait to get this pedal so I would have more personal control of the volume when playing my mandolin on stage. It works as advertised and I am very pleased with the purchase. I just have to get into the habit of using it!! I would definitely recommend this product to anyone needing a volume control pedal.

The C411pp produces a reasonably accurate reproduction of the sound of my O-hole mandolin and classical guitar. The signal is strong (I set the guitar below unity), giving me plenty of headroom on my mixer. The pickup goes on easily and comes off easily. I wish the putty was a little less sticky; you have to be careful to get if all off the surface of the instrument.

This tuner has done a great job of getting my mandolin, mandola and guitar into tune. If you also use harmonics, you can see if your instrument's bridge is placed correctly. It will help you make sure that you are playing in tune as you use the whole fretboard.

I had to order this last minute because the mandolin I ordered elsewhere canceled out on me. It was a Christmas present for my sister-in-law. This mandolin was shipped immediately and I received it in time - great service. The mandolin in very nice too. I have not played it myself, but my sister-in-law really likes it.

I am using this lav mic to amplify a 5 string banjo. I had been using a generic electret battery driven lav mic (think radio shack) for that purpose, replacing the mini-plug with a female 1/4 inch, then using a standard guitar cord, plugging into a Baggs Para DI, then into the board of the sound system with an xlr mic line. That was OK, but I had lots of thin wire to coil, a fragile battery pod and the nusiance of dead watch batteries if I forgot to switch the thing off. The SM11 of course needs no batteries and the wiring is much more robust than the cheap lav mic. I can go direct into a mixing board and the sound is quite nice. The banjo doesn't really need a lot of high end amplification, and doesn't produce deep lows -- all of which the dynamic mic doesn't pick up. So the result is a nice warm sound, and much more full-spectrum than the electret mic to my ear. Probably because the diaphragm is larger, I guess. I don't need to hide this rather large (thumb size)lav canister in clothing, like a video person would. It rides in the backside of the banjo. The included tie clip worked fine, clipped to a little jig I sometimes use. But instead I wrapped the body in some dense memory foam, and made my own mount that also acts as a tone regulator behind the head -- it's an open-back banjo thing. Looks like this product is robust and should work for years. Works fine going straight into the mixing board. But when I run it through the Baggs Para DI (which is a preamp as well as a DI) I have to use a transformer to change the signal to HI-Z for the 1/4 inch input. Then the output from the Bagg's male xlr (lo-z again) is too hot for the mixing board, so I use a 20db attenuator between the DI out and the board mic-line in. Works fine that way.

I had an older Snark and it worked well. But this works way better. I play the banjo and it is very hard to tune because of all the harmonics going on this tuner seems to get right too the center harmonics right away.

I needed a quick way to record some quality acoustic music for my dad's family trip DVD, and the Snowball did the job. Plug-n-play, used Audacity, and recorded a few crisp old-time banjo parts for the video (I know what you're thinking--deliverance, but that's BLUEGRASS banjo). Sound was very clean, a perfect alternative to the noisy racket recorded when using my laptop's internal speaker. Used the second setting, I thought it wasn't going to record hot enough but it gave me plenty of volume for what I needed. Great produce, would recommend.