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Location: Massachusetts | Now what do I do with them? How can I post for everyone to see? I took the high res 3.2mp images do I need to shrink em down or can I put them on the pc and upload them to the sight somewhere?
I'm sure everyone would enjoy seeing them.
I still haven't played my friends Adamas he won. He says it sounds great through the Marshall acoustic amp. I'm dying to hear it cause it sure sounded great unplugged, not Ovationy at all. LOL. |
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Location: the Netherlands | Create an album in the photo gallery to show your pic's. I like to see them. It was a little bit too far away from home for me to visit the tour..so I'm longong to see some smooth pictures. |
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Location: south east Michigan | There is probably many other ways to do it but I use Adobe Photoshop to convert the hi-res files out of the camera to 5 x 6 size jpg format. At that point they are easy to handle and can be e-mailed or downloaded to the OFC gallery. Of course I do keep the "big" files saved. |
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Location: New Orleans | LoL...What's "Ovationy" sound like? |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Corvairfan:
I'm dying to hear it cause it sure sounded great unplugged, not Ovationy at all. LOL. LOL, indeed. That's because it sounds Adamasy. And we're all very happy for him. :mad: Except for Moody, cause Woz told him 'the fix was in'.
Heck, if you don't have any photo software, just open them in Paint, click on Image/Stretch-Skew and reduce it till the width is around 500 pixels. Be sure to reduce the width and height by the same percentage, and MAKE SURE YOU SAVE IT AS A DIFFERENT FILENAME. Otherwise you'll overwrite your original image.
Then click on the 'member access' link to your left <<, click on 'click here to continue', then on 'photo gallery'. Then the 'gallery utility' button should get you going. |
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| So why won't it work for me? |
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Location: closely held secret | You're in the UK. |
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Location: closely held secret | Your time zone is later than the server. Therefore any photos you post would be in the future.
Basic physics, Einsteinien relativity theory and local speed laws in many small counties prohibit this. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Actually,
There is NO fundamental physical law that prevents time travel (except those in small counties). In fact, phyisics, given current laws, can not distinguish between, past, present and future. |
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| This makes me the greatest physicist since Newton. (Whose birthplace incidentally is in the smallest county in Britain.) |
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Location: closely held secret | He's the reason they wrote those laws. A dangerous mind. Good cookies, though.
I refuse to be lectured on physics by someone named 'Bongo Boy'. |
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Location: Massachusetts | Thought I'd define Ovationy. LOL.
I love my s771 but Ovations do have an artificial dare I say plasticy sound and tends to be more noticeable in the "b" string. That's to my bad ears anyway. The LX line is a vast improvement and only when you go head to head with say my rosewood Gibson does the artificialness stand out. But not head to head the new LX line sounds great.
My friends new Adamas is very very bassy, warm with no plasticy B string at all. I was impressed and I am dying to hear more of it. My initial reaction is it is probably the best Ovation/Adamas I have ever heard. I'm sure the deep bowl has something to do with it.
Ok, if I think of it I'll bring my memory card to work and see if I can upload the photos tomorrow after sizing them in photoshop. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Waskel:
I refuse to be lectured on physics by someone named 'Bongo Boy'. Please allow me to reference wave theory as applies to Bongos... |
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Location: Phoenix, AZ | Originally posted by Corvairfan:
Thought I'd define Ovationy. LOL.
I love my s771 but Ovations do have an artificial dare I say plasticy sound and tends to be more noticeable in the "b" string. That's to my bad ears anyway. The LX line is a vast improvement and only when you go head to head with say my rosewood Gibson does the artificialness stand out. But not head to head the new LX line sounds great. I have heard this kind of comment for years from people, and I must admit I've never understood it. (And, I never really expected to see it here in the OFC.) I have never really heard this "plasticy" sound at all, and I bought my first Ovation, a Deluxe Balladeer, in the spring of 1969.
About 15 years ago, I was playing it for a friend of mine. Now, my friend learned to play violin and piano as a young child. In fact, he was a child prodigy on the violin, and played with the LA Symphony at the Hollywood Bowl when he was 5 years old. His piano teacher was Artur Rubinstein, his next door neighbor. (His father was a famous screen writer.) And Rubinstein enlisted Jascha Heifetz to teach him violin. So, not only was he very well trained and versed in classical music, he was also well versed in bebop/jazz, having played piano professionally in Vegas and LA for a number of years. Also, his brother owns a number of radio stations and they use his ears to set their mastering specs.
I think his background and credentials for hearing music are about as good as one could find. Now, when I would play my Deluxe Balladeer and then my old Gibson Hummingbird, he would always comment how he could hear "more" out of the Ovation. The round back just simply projects more music, like an orchestra shell, to a listener. You might not hear it when you're playing. And, you might not be used to, or like, hearing more. But, the bottom line is the Ovation round back reproduces more of the music than a traditional box guitar.
I'd love to hear the comments from someone whose first introduction to accoustic guitar was to an Ovation, rather than from someone who first heard an Ovation after hearing traditional box guitars (and believing the traditional box guitar sound was the standard against which everything should be judged). Maybe we should judge box guitars against O's, instead of the other way around. |
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Location: Tampa, FL | My first guitar was an Ovation, probably a Balladeer in 1972. I bought it from a fellow sailor just before heading out to sea. I most remember the volume of this guitar, compared to other guitars I was exposed to. This guitar tragically succumbed to a north atlantic storm, oh well. I wasn't until substantially later (a year or two) that I found out what a mistake I made in purchasing a round back. A mistake I am happily continuing to make. I did stumble in the early eighties and bought a mid-life-crisis Martin. I still own Ovations but my Martin is dearly departed to it's next m-l-c home. Oddly, in the ensemble I play in and among other 'church' musicians I have run into, Ovations are highly regarded. It seems that if you are interested in playing comfort, fit 'n finish, versatility and, yes, quality of sound, Ovations seem to have a large following. I'm liking mine. |
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Location: Chapin SC | The only guitar I have ever played is my 1537.
I've heard other more acomplished muscians play
Yamaha's, Ibenez, Gibson, and some other brands I'm not familiar with and the tone to my Ovation has always been cleaner, fuller, and due to the shape, the sound waves don't get broken like the
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| There are 2 ways to answer that criticism. One is Mr Kozak's full and interesting one, or the one that just uses the two words. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | My first acoustic was an Ovation 1112-4 I got back in 1973. My best friend at the time had a Martin. I always thoght my O sounded and played better. I did't buy another acoustic until 1986, when I got a Guild f-45 CE. Nice guitar, don't have it anymore. Still have that old Ovation though... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Is it back from the factory?? |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Jeff,
Still haven't sent it! I played around with the truss rod a little, but the neck still has "issues". I could live with the crack on the top if I could get the neck straightened out.
I did actually call the factory last week, but everybody was busy with some tour thing...
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Shawn,
How is it that the only guitar you ever played was your 1537? And some of us have never even seen one. You are spoiled. I was playing around with my "collection" last night and the guitar that puts out the most sound and stays in tune for ever is my 76 Matrix that we bought just before we got married.
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I took like 20 photos of the tour and....
