I’m working with my mate Charlie, creating a series of ukelele covers on the premise of learn, record, mix and master a new tune within a few hours at my home studio – he brought along a baritone ukelele for that purpose, and I took the opportunity one evening to spend half an hour recording the instrument for the purposes of creating this sample pack.

It’s a clean take – an OPR U87 microphone placed about halfway between the sound hole and where the neck meets the body, through a Universal Audio Neve 1073 Unison preamp, into Pro Tools. Some light EQ, compression, tape saturation, and limiting for some final level matching. There are four round-robins of each note.

Here is a little of how it sounds (along with my Guffland Ukelele sample pack) – in a Brian Eno sort of thing:

And here is how I went about it:

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