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Location: kansas | at this site:
http://www.raccs.com/html/acoustic_guitar.html
there's an 'ovation replacement' pickup shown:
SH 066-9, or SH 069-P.
Has anyone tried these pickups and are they any better that the original Ovation pickup?
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | My Deutsche is rather rusty, but it looks like a distribution company. Somebody like Alpep would need to get hold of them, as a retailer/reseller. |
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Location: kansas | after some google'ing I found out what the
SH 066-9 is:
http://www.shadow-electronics.com/viewpro.html?id=24
I also found out the price: $169.
but is would it be worth it vs the original Ovation pickup? |
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Location: Warren,Pa. | Everything in the description says it's the same as the Ovation p/u, and that's more $$ than what you'd pay for an Ovation p/u.
Why would anybody buy this? |
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| Probably buys 'em direct from CT then sells re-sells 'em at 2X cost. Capitalism at its best! |
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Location: Tychy, Poland | Shadows are weak.
I've had three shadow pickups and neither one was good. Every of them were worse than those installed in my '79 legend. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Look for TV Jones Mini's. |
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Location: Scotland | The Shadows are excellent pickups. At some point Ovation were using Shadow for OEM |
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Location: big island | "shadows" do great in ukuleles. that is my only experience with them. inexpensive but very good. |
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Location: Tychy, Poland | i'vr had 2x SH-91 and SH-66. in SH 66 there was a lot of quacking - maybe bad unit?
SH-91 i've had in my Crafter guitars (they were installed there as OEM) and lack of intonation compensation was problematic. |
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Location: kansas | couldn't find TV Jones Mini's at their site:
http://tvjones.com/
I'm working on a TUSQ saddle as an improvement from the original delrin saddle.
So far, the Tusq saddle(made from a 1/4" wide blank) adds to the tone with brightness and the overall acoustic volume is increased.
Just having a small change in volume (decreased) when plugged in...
especially with the hi-E string(all strings except the E-string create a steady green-lite when in tune; E-string kinda of flickers...)
I could still re-install the original Ovation saddle, but I rarely plug-in.
I may try a modification to the saddle to try and add to the string volume balance by adding a slot between each string and see if that helps. |
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Ovation Pickup Replacement
