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We're recording an episode next week with multi-award winning British folk rock band Mumford & Sons and musician and producer Aaron Dessner. If you have a question you'd like us to put to them on the show, fire away below!

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Jon Norman

How have their production tastes changed from Sigh No More and later records? 2009 was a big resurgence in folk music that has since largely been moved on from.

Michael Eilers

to Aaron: For me, the solo guitar on Eucalyptus is the best-sounding guitar of recent years. Do you have any advice on recording electric guitars? Which amps, pedals, or maybe even plugins do you use?

William Card

For Marcus, has your approach to recording your vocal changed over the years? Do you do a quick one-take, or punch in? Especially between a solo records, features on other artist’s project, and the Mumford project, I’d love to learn if your approach has changed?

Joel Skoda

In our studio, we don't want to lose the feeling of a live performance of a duo, but struggle with live micing a drum set with an acoustic guitar. Do you just accept some level of bleed through, or do you have tips for capturing that live feeling without sacrificing control over the final mix? A direct in works, but a pickup on an acoustic will never be a substitute for that condenser mic.

Black Bear (Sam Beebe)

For both the band and Aaron: Restraint and patience are central to so many of your songs, but they still always open up wide, riding thoughtfulness to catharsis and back. What are the keys to a killer slow build, and shaping songs that carry both spareness and fullness in one journey?