James’ Ukulele
A Brunswick ukulele sampled using an SM58 with a Mackie Onyx Artist 1.2
ByJames Blunsdon
The story
This is a fun sample of my Brunswick ukulele being plucked. I received this instrument as a gift from my good friend Judith who I used to work with when I was a gap student at Beachborough School. We would teach ukulele to the kids together playing 4 chord songs such as Bob Marley – ‘Three Little Birds’ (we only knew 4 chords!)
Slap some reverb on and this can sound lovely. There is just one velocity layer. When the notes are stretched and played in it’s lower registers it has an interesting harp like quality.
This was recorded using an SM58 with a Mackie Onyx Artist 1.2
Reviews
Well-rounded Ukulele with a guitar range
This is now my go to Ukulele, but I definitely write with it much more like a nylon string guitar. The low end is fantastic! At times I would say it almost sounds harp like, which is really neat. I have gotten a really nice authentic ukulele sound from it, so this is perfect for anyone needing that for a project. But, if you are looking for some interesting guitar-like sounds, I'd highly recommend this! The only issue I have found, is that a few of the high end notes have that harsh 'ping' sound which is inherent with ukuleles but I had to manually turn down a select few notes that sounded harsher/louder than surrounding notes. Easy to fix and maybe it's just my personal taste and not an actual issue with recording.
Awesome
Love the crisp and the beautiful sound that this Ukulele have