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Location: Foothills of Mt. Rainier | Hey everybody,
What guitar amp do you prefer to play your Ovation with? I am currently using a small Roland Cube 20X and miking it through our church's PA system. It has a nice variety of effects and my 83 Collector Series sounds great with a bit of delay and reverb dialed into it. Since it is miked and run through our sound system it does not need to have much power and it sounds very nice. I would like to hear what other Ovation players are using. Anybody running an Ovation through a Marshall? That would be pretty neat sounding I bet.
all my best,
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Location: North Carolina | All I ever do is go DI to the board and take it back in the monitors. FX through whatever box I have handy, usually Zoom 504. |
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Location: Yorkshire, England | Don't talk to me about playing in Church, Bob!
Well, me and the local Church organist are having a `Battle Royale' at the moment! Took a Marshall 2 x 12 to the gig today, but my lead breaks still can't be heard above his dammed keyboard. One lady came out of the meeting with temporary deafness and her spectacles smashed. (She was sitting way back in the 7th row as well !) It's astonishing though, no matter how loud it is no one complains, they just smile and take it just because what we're playing is religious. They must think the louder it is, the more their sins will be admonished! If it was Hendrix, we'd have had a noise abatement order slapped on us faster than you could say `A collection plate is coming 'round!' I'm gonna keep cranking up the amp power every week until somethin' gives! |
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Location: East Tennessee | I use a Roland AC 60 as a monitor and straight into a Direct Box. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Acoustics through a KUSTOM 300 ( PA )mixer , connected to an ALTEC 418 -8H , ( 1618 through a YAMAHA RA-50 Leslie ) ..Electrics through FENDER G -dec , or LANEY Klipp 40...sold the Dual -Showman..it was too heavey....all over PA set -up..( my own )..I am in the middle of beefing up my PA...recently scored 2 bins , each loaded with , 2 x ALTEC 15" , plus ALTEC 511B horn....yummy !!... :p
Vic
..ye`r keyboard -man would hate my set -up , ..s`okay..I do n`t take too kindly to "them " either..it`s True , They Allways " Turn it Up " .. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Which Amp would I PREFER to play with, or which amp DO I play with?
I have a Roland Micro-Cube that has been running on the same six AA batteries since I got it! (2 months)
It has nice selection of effects, and I guess I could run it through something bigger. I has an Out jack.
I have other small amps, but I fell in love with this one. I have an adapter, but I wanna see how long the batteries will last...
I play it everyday.
[also- Crate GFX-15, Hughes & Kettner Edition Blue 15-R, Ancient Pignose, coupla cheapies] |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | I too have a Micro -Cube , a Sweet Li`ll thing , with Good Usable FX , I bought when it came out , now they`ve dumped the price , it`s a steal for that money ... :)
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I've never heard a Marshall acoustic and only know that when I was looking for a practice amp for my daughter I was told that a regular Marshall would not sound good with an acoustic. I have a little Epiphone 30W acoustic that I use just to see if the batteries still work. I tried the Crate 125D that's used at the local GC and it sounds very clean at as high as I wanted to try it. Trace Elliot used to be the benchmark for acoustic amps, but now it seems to be Genz Benz or the Rolands. |
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Location: Foothills of Mt. Rainier | Hey Everybody,
I ran my Roland 20X direct for a couple of evenings but then the sound guy at church thought it would sound better if he miked it front and back and ran that through the board. I use the Roland as my live amp plus sound through the monitors. Miking gives it real ambiance as if that was really needed. Makes that little amp sound so great...really makes my Ovation 83 Collector Series come alive...bright, fat and full of tone. I can get a nice acoustic sound or get it to growl like a Telecaster or fat like a jazz box. A very versatile guitar for sure. Cant wait to try a newer model Ovation with all the bells and whistles.
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I use a Zoom A2.1u modeling preamp (with a wireless unit) straight into the sound system with a monitor in front of me. That way the sound board guy has the control he wants, and I can have as much in my monitor as I want. It has all the variety of sounds and voice control I could ever want, and I've found there are even preset channels I can use with my viper, if I want to go solid body. I'm still playing around/tweeking the new Line6 Pod XL Live I bought for the Viper, but it is also proving to be unbelievable. That Zoom A2 cost a lot less than an amp and does a LOT more. (even though I do have a few amps available that I use on for occasional road gigs and at home. |
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Location: NJ | trace elliott
but I have a genz shan 60 as a back up |
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Location: big island | i like my marshall AS80R "acoustic soloist" amp. however, i've only owned three amps in my life. i visit the local shops and demo the other acoustic guitar amps but haven't found anything that i like better than the marshall. i recently bought one of the zoom a2.1u pedals so that has opened up another world of options and it works excellent with the marshall, in my opinion. the zoom also features a built in drum machine and connects via usb to the computer for direct recording. sweet! |
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Location: Utah | I usually plug the 6778LX directly into the PA in church. The electric guitar goes through a Toneworks PX4 digital effects/emulation box and then into the PA. Once in a long while the electric runs into a Roland Cube 30, usually through the PX4.
My daughter just got a Crate Acoustic 60W and did her first performance with it today. The sound is great with her 1778T and with my 6778. Mics sound good, too. This amp is going to get a lot of use. |
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Location: Jet City | I'm with Capo guy. Love them Roland AC60s. The bag makes it nice when you're draggin it all over.
Bob, if you're ever coming by Bellevue, let me know. I'd be happy to let you play with it for a bit. |
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Location: GA USA | Keep the ideas coming. If you followed my other post, I didn't like the sound of my Elite T through our church's sound system. So I took the advice of some here and went to Guitar Center, and played their Elite T through a Roland AC-60. It sounded pretty much the same, which leads me to think that I simply may not like the sound of a plugged-in Elite T, which would be a bummer, since I love its unplugged sound. I plugged in a Seagull that was hanging above the amp, and it sounded much better to me.
I think I'll see if my effects pedal, Digitech RP200, has anything that will give me a better sound. Although I don't have high hopes that adding effects will make an acoustic guitar sound "more acoustic". |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | AAD Cub as a monitor off my pedals for most A/E gigs. For the few gigs I use strictly electric, a Fender Deluxe Reverb. For practicing in the bandroom, a Genz Pro for A/E and a Fender Bandmaster stack and '63 reverb unit for electrics. The smaller the better for hauling to gigs. The big stuff stays in the bandroom. |
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Location: Omaha, NE | I've got a Marshall AS50R, but I rarely use it. It sounds fine with my Koala, but was really tinny and brittle sounding with my thinline pickup equipped Adamas 1597.
These days, if I'm playing at church I go straight into the board (XLR cable, no effects).
If I'm playing in my band, I go into my Digitech Vocalist Live 4, and use that to apply a little reverb, then go into the board from there. |
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Which guitar amp do you prefer to play with?
