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I play a stagg electric mandolin which is a starter model but it is very good and sounds great.I lowered the action by filing down the bridge and changed the strings to 9s which made it a whole lot easier to play .it's quite stable and stays in tune we'll costs about 65 pounds on amazon .

where's   the  venue ?

Maybe one day I'll get to California Dino .

Dave  you  say  about  confidence ,don't  worry    you  are  doing  this  for  you , when you  perform just do  it  for  you  and  enjoy  it ,your  enjoyment  will  transfer  to  the  audience  ,this  will  help  with  confidence .

Sadly here in Crete the artist can also get a hefty fine if the bar is unlicensed luckily it doesn't happen mutch

Amy the 57 is mainly for instruments .as a rule of thumb I say backing singers about 6 inch away lead singer up the Mic as close as it takes

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I have  always tended  to  shy  away  from big brand  names although  I  have some   reasonably  expensive  guitars  in my  collection I  find  that   the cheaper   brands  can often be  as  good . A  case  in example  is  when I  wanted  a semi  acoustic ES 335  type  I  chose  3   similar  guitars  the  Gibson es335  the  epiphone  dot 335  and  the  vintage vs535 I  spent  an  afternoon  with the  3   in the  shop  and  came  away  with  the  Vintage  which was  considerably   cheaper  than the  others   ,Why   .... because  it  played  better  ,sounded  better  and  was  cheaper  ,had  the  Gibson  been better   I  would  have bought  that despite  the  huge  price  difference ,

this  has  happened  3 or 4  times  lately ,I  have  a  pretty good    connection here  in Crete  via  satellite  every  thing  else  worked  fine .I  have  also  noticed  the  amount  of  spam on the  forum has  gone  stupid  today .

Amy   for  what  its  worth we  use  2 acoustic instruments  in our  set  Brian has a mandolin  with  a  contact   pickup ,and  I  use an Ovation acoustic  with an under bridge  Fishman pick up  both  of  these  we  just connect  into  the  PA with  Di  boxes   this  is  the  best  way  we  have  found , sure   the  sound  can get  a  little  colored  but its  live and  you  wont  ever  get  it  as  good  as  in the  studio , its  something  you  have  get  used  to . Ive seen so many  bands  prat  about  with  sound  checks  trying  to replicate  studio  sound . we  spent  6 hours  last  year   waiting  for  one  lot  to get  off stage .As long  as  you  can hear  what  you  are  playing  and  singing and  what  your    other  band members  are  doing  then   go  with  it . Your  on stage  sound  wont    be  what  the   audience  hear  .Our  sound  guy  Vassilis  always  gets  the mix  that  the  audience  here  good  so  if  you  have  a  good  guy  on the  desk  trust  him to  do  his  job ,it  takes  away  a lot of  the  stress  of  performing  live .

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