Spoiler alert: I just suck. Perfect example of why I call myself “intermediate” level. I can make it through my songs, but it’s not always great the first time. I don’t think it’s super awful, but I do think it could be much, much, MUCH better. It’s actually pretty difficult to jump between tenor and baritone scale, at least for where I’m at right now. I have less than a year of experience with baritone, and most of that has been focused on fingerstyle, so I’m really exploring new waters here. I thought it would be natural for me to swap back to tenor, but well, here we are. You can judge for yourself:
Truth be told, I would not play these songs this way on my acoustic uke. I just used the same effects as I did with the electric to emphasize the difference between the two instruments. Ideally you would sculpt your effects to really take advantage of your magnetic or piezo pickup. Having only had the electric for a week, I’ve just been using what I already had set up for my acoustic-electric. So in that regard, these effects should probably sound a bit more appropriate in this context, as they were mostly initially designed for this ukulele.
Regardless, I don’t really like to drown my acoustic ukes in effects like this, so I would probably just play it on my basic “acoustic” setting which actually has a bit of delay and reverb to help thicken up the sound. It’s hard for me to use proper acoustic microphones because I’m stuck in bed and it’s kind of a nightmare to manage that, a vocal mic, and a camera all at the same time. And because I don’t use a DAW, I can’t really do noise reduction or add non-destructive efx in post. Just gotta do it live!
Actually, recording a stripped down set like that is probably tomorrow’s project, hence this being part 1. I was having so much fun it seems I’ve overextended myself and have a major migraine coming on, so I’m going to have to put any more music work aside for the time being.