mandolin sound [SOLVED]

[suttlemyre]

what would you suggest as a close mandolin sound( taken from a guitar track) I have sent a sample piece.

[kozikowski]

I'm not sure I get this. It sounds like a big-body guitar to me. Is this part of another posting?
Koz

[Trebor]

what would you suggest as a close mandolin sound( taken from a guitar track) I have sent a sample piece. Attachments sample.mp3 (395.97 KiB)

You wanted a guitar+mandolin combo.

Duplicate the guitar track , (press Ctrl + D).
Apply "Sliding time scale/ pitch shift" , (in "Effects" menu), with settings shown to the duplicated guitar track.

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Voila you have guitar and mandolin (ish) ...

before-after mandolinization.mp3

guitar (before) , then guitar+mandolin

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Applying some randomization to the amplitude and timing would make it sound more like two humans playing,
there are two plugins which randomize ...
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyqui ... Modulation
http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyqui ... Modulation *

[ * Random_Pitch_Modulation applied to a stereo track makes the instrument wander about in the stereo field ].

[Robert J. H.]

I'm not sure I get this. It sounds like a big-body guitar to me. Is this part of another posting?
Koz

He only wants to know what kind of mandolin sound one could super-impose on that riff.
I would probably just double the melody on the treble strings and play with the fingers.

However, Nyquist (the built-in sound language) provides a mandolin-model as well.
The following code for the Nyquist prompt (effect menu, with a duplicate of the guitar selected) produces a straight randomized melody around D major (listen to the attached file)

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(setf indiv-dur (/ (1- (get-duration 1)) 32.0)) 
(setf notes '(a3 d3 a4 d4 fs4 g4 a4 d5 fs5 g5 a5 d6 e6 fs6)) 
(extract 0 1
   (scale-db -15
      (simrep (i 32)
         (prog2 (setf current 
            (eval (nth (truncate (real-random 0 (length notes))) notes)))
            (scale (real-random 0.1 1.0)(at-abs   (* i indiv-dur)  (mandolin current 1.0 3)))))))

The dual-mono track is furthermore treated with the random-pitch modulation plug-in from the Wiki with a depth of 0.01 to give more spaceness and less artificial character.

mandolin_sample.mp3

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It is clear that writing a whole song is labour-intensive in that fashion.

[suttlemyre]

that is what I was looking for thanks