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Location: NC | Has anyone bought this guitar yet? More importantly gotten it! Model U681T-5 I believe..........
What do you think of it and I think the pre-amp is the OP-Pro.....is this right?
Future buyer wants to know....... |
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Location: SoCal | It is the OP Pro. Almost all of the people who have played this guitar have fallen in love with it. One of the guitar magazines, last year, did a review of the guitar that was extremely positive. The original two prototypes were both bought by club members. |
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Location: NJ | they have yet to even start making these guitars so the only one was the one at namm and it is sweet |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Is that the right model number for it? If it is they really need to get a new system...... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | That's the model number for new the black 12 fret slothead. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | U681T
Well now that I think about it's totally logical,
U for under, T for Top and the 681 randomly selected by the marketing computer. I feel so stupid, I should have seen that right off. Too many jet fuel fumes I guess...... |
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Location: NJ | t is for textured I guess U is unidirectional? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | T is for Thelma and she can be very unidirectional at times. |
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Location: NC | Music 123 has that model # as the 6 string............Hummmmm
Is there a 12? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | It is 6 sting only. |
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Location: Tampa, FL | I believe we are confusing frets and strings again... One of them is real long and very skinny. |
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Location: There's no place like 127.0.0.1 | Wait... are we talking about Thelma again? |
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Location: East Tennessee | Hi,
I've seen the specs on music 123's web site.
Is the a wide neck, (1 7/8 nut width)??
Looks like a sweet guitar, but then aren't all Ovation. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | The one I played was a std. width neck. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Dave, did you play it at NAMM?
What were your thoughts on it? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I've played three of them. The first two were the non-electric protos (belonging to Woz and Mike). Incredible guitars. The third one was the current model, which has a slightly different top than the protos. I played this at NAMM but could not hear it worth a damn. It's like trying to sit down and play a guitar in the middle of WalMart. Those who have played it in a quiet room rave about it, although they think the new top might not quite be as nice as the proto. |
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Location: NJ | Haven't played the current ones, but played Woz's and one at the Factory . . . . AWESOME guitars!
They sound different from the original SlotHeads, not better/worse, but "different". The sound is a little bit more "rounded" than the original Slot.
What's different on the current tops? |
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Location: SoCal | I've played all three and couldn't tell any difference. That may not say much for either my ability or ear. |
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Location: NJ | Paul;
How would YOU say that they compare to the original? Just curious t'have someone else's opinion (for what opinions are worth :-) |
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Location: SoCal | Cliff, your slothead has a deeper, more mellow tone. The newer slots have a crisper sound while still having a deeper tone than most of Ovation's other guitars.
What you'll like depends upon what you're looking for.... I like both sounds, but if I had to choose, I'd go for the sound of your slothead. Personal preference, but that's why I'm waitng for the OFC guitar.
And having said that, I agree with Dave that a 12 string version of the new slot would be killer. |
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Location: Orange County, California | Originally posted by Standingovation:
The one I played was a std. width neck. And that is?? 1 11/16"? 1 7/8"? at the nut? How was the profile?
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Location: Phoenix AZ | 1-11/16. Soft C profile. If it was 1-3/4 I would have bought it on the spot. I played all three designs and probably like the 2nd generation one the best, but all three are wonderful. |
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Location: Orange County, California | Well, I went to GC and played an Elite LX and C778LX, both with the same 1 11/16" Neck. Both nice, But, because I'm used to my 1763's I-5, six lane hwy for a neck, I felt very cramped on this neck. I was really hoping that this slot head would and least hit the comprimise of the 1 3/4 or better yet (for me), the 1 7/8 from Folklore. I guess I'll just have to be content with the 12 fret slothead I already own.....
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Location: Anchorage, Alaska | bump |
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Location: Orange County, California | what does "bump" mean? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | When you "bump" you are reposting so that it goes to the top of the listing. Many people (self) tend to skim the latest posts by using the "Get Plugged In" button. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Also a great way to reactivate a ggod topic that might have been overlooked the first time through.
I have seen topics that had maybe one or two responses that got bumped and then had another 10-20 responses come in. |
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Location: Keller, TX | Originally posted by Mtnbikerfred:
I guess I'll just have to be content with the 12 fret slothead I already own.....
Fred Famous last words. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I posted this on the "UPS" thread as well...
I tuned down to DADGAD for the first time on the U681T. I only know two tunes in this tuning.
...But good as the guitar sounds in standard tuning, it is even better in DADGAD and I'm not talking about the more melodic sound of the tuning but the way the guitar produces the sound. |
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Location: NJ | Jeff;
My SlotHead's the same way.
As great as it sounds in "standard" tuning,
the thing just comes ALIVE when I tune it DoubleDropD.
Must have something to do with the resonant frequency of the top, but it just becomes an ANIMAL in this tuning (which is how I usually leave it now . . . ). |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I hears ya, Cliff.
It sounds almost like a 12 string (I said *almost*). Unbelievable. I have to learn, more about and songs in, that tuning. It makes the hair on my arms stand up. |
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Location: NJ | I've got a book on AlternateTunings and it lists (by tuning) several popular tunes that were recorded in each particular tuning. I'll check it tonite and post the DADGAD tunes . . . I seem to remember there's a bunch of 'em . . . |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | CLiff, I would like to see that also. Sounds like a good book. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Cliff,
You are both a gentleman and scholar, to be commended for you dedication to the furtherence of the cause. The beer and women are on me. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | But they would rather be both on and with me :p |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Yeah, that's what they keep pleading. Marvelous restaints they make these days with modern composits. |
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| You can get 'em fur lined as well - don't leave marks (or so Camilla told me).
What gauge strings are you guys using when you drop tune? |
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Location: NJ | I just use the reglar ol' D'add PhosBronze EJ16. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | the factory issue D'Addario Exp 12?? I think.
Schoerder,
Be warned. I just received a request to come to Merry Ol' to ply my wares. |
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| Damn, and I'll be out of the country.
(when did you say you were coming?) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | the eleventy third. |
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