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Location: Chicagoland | A
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Location: Omaha, NE | Looking at all the switches and knobs, I'm reminded of Michael Jackson. Another example of not knowing when enough was enough.
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Location: Western, North Carolina | Wonder how it sounds unplugged. :-) |
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Location: Southern California | It's like a six-string McNugget... parts is parts! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Houston, we got a problem. |
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Location: Evansville,IN | What were they thinking! :( |
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Location: SE Michigan | It kind of reminds me of the old telephone switch-board systems from the 1950s. It looks like it could process a fair number of phone calls. I wonder if you win the auction, does it come with a training class or at least a comprehensive manual? |
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Location: NJ | look at any early phil lesh or jack cassady bass that was wired by alembic and you will get it. Personally I never got it, too much to remember too many switches. I still can't figure out a gretsch white falcon or a bc rich |
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Location: Las Vegas | All it's missing is the auxilliary AC jack to plug your amp's power cord into....
Les |
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Location: Keller, TX | From the ad: " I will include a switching diagram to help the new owner with the various options."
I would hope so! |
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Location: Michigan | its stupid. he ripped the things soul out. i never did understand why people would modify a guitar more than changing pickups. why buy something if you dont like its sound? who needs that many tone options anyway? the great guitarists of the world carry most of there tone in there hands. |
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Location: Michigan | not to say that i am one of the above though :p |
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Location: Utah | "i never did understand why people would modify a guitar more than changing pickups. why buy something if you dont like its sound?"
Back when I was about 16 I used all my savings to buy an Ibanez Strat copy. Then I put in a DiMarzio pickup. Then I decided that I could put some electronics on board. It wasn't that I didn't like the sound of the guitar, it was that I loved the sound of the effects I could add. So I hollowed out some more wood under the pickguard and built some of my own design electronics. Of course that required some switches and knobs be added to the pickguard!
Hey, to a 16 yr old it was COOL! I like to think I was ahead of my time, because by the late '70s there were a lot of guitars with built in electronics right from the factory.
Nowadays I wouldn't do those things to a good guitar. But then I wouldn't wear a pale blue tux again, either! (No, there will be no postings of my senior prom pictures). |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Some people like having sonic options. But as FlySig said, when you're 16, this kind of thing is the bomb, now, I don't need it. My Electric has just one pickup and one volume knob. That's it. The second knob gives me japanese distortion, but I never use it. |
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Location: North Texas | You need a pilot license to play it. Contact! |
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Location: Orange County, California | From the aution:
"These were the top of the line in the Ovation Breadwinner series and VERY rare. Less then 500 were made."
Far fewer exist in the original configuration.
If I could score one cheap without the original active electronics, I would just put a simple EMG setup (volume, tone, maybe the push-pull overdrive) in it and be done with it. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | ...of course the natural progession is to whind up playing an acoustic ;) |
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Wow...way to ruin a guitar.