Last night I've tracked down a two parts guitar for a friend's tune and I played two mandolin-like lines.
adding some long tailed reverb, it ended to sound like a washed string pad, with some character, even with two single notes at once...
I tried to repeat it at home, passing my gibson sg through a LePou amp simulation (dont remember which cab I used, tho), being the original played through my vox amp.
It's a collection of some (badly) played sample with a bit of reverb added, but you can apply it more as you like.
assembled as shortcircuit file.
hope it helps someway
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22514025/ele...20mandolin.rar