I don't want to throw water on your parade - but that information is awfully basic. In just my own narrow experience I've found that increasing the tightness of the banjo neck to the body with heavy hardware on the dowel stick (at both ends of the head) will increase volume and fullness of tone on any banjo (any banjo with a dowel stick that is. Higher bridges also give higher volume and angling the neck back to keep the action reasonable allows for a higher bridge. A tailpiece that puts considerable downward pressure on the strings will tighten up the tone of the instrument and again increase volume. These are just the things that are true of any banjo - from there there are things that are more variable in their effect. On some banjos a damper (like a rag) placed on the inside directly under the strings about 1-3rd of the distance between the bridge and the rim will produce a "ping" on high notes that seems to carry for about a mile - nice for jamming - bad for miking.

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