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Location: Yalova/Turkey | After dreaming and planning for more than half a year I finally managed to go to Germany and buy a 12 string Ovation. I had to take the Ovation CSE-445 RB.
Guess it must be a problem with my ears... Although the Ovation 2058 TX-5 has the new deep contour bowl as well as the 2758 AX-NEB Standard Elite, and the last has a 5 piece ANS neck and inlaid epis, I just didn´t like their sound. Theoretically they should have more bass, but they don´t to my ears. Their sound is jangly, but not in a pleasant way, rather tinny... Whereas the CSE-445 RB has a much more present sound, is more bassy (notwithstanding its mid-depth bowl) and to my ears has a much better balanced sound through all strings and fret positions. Maybe the mid-depth bowl has more projection and that might be what I like about it.
Well anyway, I am absolutely happy to be in possession of the long coveted 12 string, it plays like butter... :)
Pix might follow tomorrow.
Wish you all as much happiness as I feel it right now :) | |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Chris, it might have been the strings. All joking aside, to me Elixers sound jangly (tinny) on the trebles, and dead on the basses. I have gotten in some great Ovations that did NOT impress me, but when I put my preferred strings (Martins)on them, suddenly the sound was THERE. Of course you may have a different preference on strings, but if you could have tried that guitar with strings you liked and are used to, it might have, no, WOULD have sounded totally different. | |
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Location: Yalova/Turkey | Dear Alison,
thanks for the tip, but I paid attention, they all had the same strings (though probably some of them newer and others older). Otherwise you are perfectly right, I made the mistake to put some coated Ernie Balls on my Pinnacle, and besides a bad sound even the tuner seems to have a hard time to find out whether they are in tune or not... :) I don´t know, maybe its a different bracing, or, and I prefer this as a guess, the Korean models with deep contour bowls are not produced as good as the ones made in the USA (whatever might be done wrong...). So far all people in here praised the sound of deep contour bowl models like for example the 2058 TX-5 Elite and its six-string version (but all USA-made), but I found the six string 2078 TX as tinny and jangly (with the same strings)as unconvincing as the others (Korean-made models). But maybe I just like the sound of the Pinnacle CU 147 which is my six string Ovation and which really sings for me... The CSE-445 RB might be a newer version of the CU 147 which is also Korean made, has the same bowl (mid-depth) and also Preamp (OP 30) although I am only speaking of the accoustic sound of all these guitars. However, I like it, and I like it even more after having fooled around with it at home now... | |
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So it´s an Ovation CSE-445 RB