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Location: Jet City | Larrivee is the only wood box I seem to get along with. I have an LV-09 |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | "Composite Acoustics guitars are the brainchild of a proverbial rocket scientist: a former aerospace engineer and guitar aficionado with a vision and a lot of experience with composites."
Hmm...I think it was almost 50 years ago that the ORIGINAL composite guitar was born to an aerospace engineerand guitar adicionado. But hey, what do I know? |
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Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota | CanterburyStrings - 2015-08-01 11:28 AM
"Composite Acoustics guitars are the brainchild of a proverbial rocket scientist: a former aerospace engineer and guitar aficionado with a vision and a lot of experience with composites."
Hmm...I think it was almost 50 years ago that the ORIGINAL composite guitar was born to an aerospace engineerand guitar adicionado. But hey, what do I know?
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Yeah, Ovation never gets the respect it deserves, ..........I heard that somewhere |
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Location: Wayne, NJ | naellis58 - 2015-08-01 12:30 PM CanterburyStrings - 2015-08-01 11:28 AM "Composite Acoustics guitars are the brainchild of a proverbial rocket scientist: a former aerospace engineer and guitar aficionado with a vision and a lot of experience with composites." Hmm...I think it was almost 50 years ago that the ORIGINAL composite guitar was born to an aerospace engineerand guitar adicionado. But hey, what do I know? +1 Exactly my point. But they seem to highly thought of around here. I'm going to have to find one to play. |
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Location: Jet City | jondr72 - 2015-08-01 11:13 AM Exactly my point. But they seem to highly thought of around here. I'm going to have to find one to play. They're nice, but they're not in the same league as a textured top Adamas.
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Location: Wayne, NJ | damon67 - 2015-08-01 6:11 PM jondr72 - 2015-08-01 11:13 AM Exactly my point. But they seem to highly thought of around here. I'm going to have to find one to play. They're nice, but they're not in the same league as a textured top Adamas. I'm sure just that's the case. Being the new guy, I only recently played my first Adamas (when I saw Al at the Philly guitar show). It was really nice. It just didn't have time to sink in, though. And, being the curious person I am, I like to try new 'things". I'll be in the city (NYC) on Tuesday, so hopefully I can find one in stock there. |
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Location: Indiana | Just to add a few more thoughts... I didn't buy the Cargo because it was CF. I broke my left hand last spring and the short scale was really helpful in the rehab. Still, as I said, it has a big, resonant voice... something I never heard in any Rainsong, and I've played quite a few. And, unlike other short scales, it can be a serious working guitar. The Baggs system sounds great plugged in for shows. And I've done some recording with it.
I've also taken it camping twice
What I don't like is the chunky C neck profile. Too many decades playing Ovation V's. And, no, there's no comparison to a textured top Adamas. |
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| Same here Arthur, I'm not sure if mine is a pre or post Peavey. I will say that the workmanship is very good. The tuners on my Cargo have the nicest feel of any guitar that I own even though they're on the small side. They're smooth and accurate. Intonation is also quite good. I wasn't sure when I bought it if I was going to like the shorter scale but I got used to it pretty quickly. Overall, the guitar is pretty easy to play.
I went to a dealer and played on a Rainsong 6 string and 12 string. Their base was better than the Cargo as you would expect and I thought they were pretty nice guitars. But I still think the sound of the guitar strummed isn't as sweet as I'm used to with wood or even an Adamas.
I could see Ovation designing a guitar with a composite neck and bowl and an Adamas sandwiched type top. Not quite impervious to the elements but pretty close and the sound might be better for strumming than a 100% composite. |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | Belated jumping in on this, but I've owned three Rainsongs. I liked the way they played and sounded, but simply did not justify the price difference from one of my good Ovations. Caveat emptor: I received a Rainsong that had gotten hot and the neck warped. When a graphite neck warps, it warps, and there is no fixing one of these. The factory was no help at all.
David Wilcox, a great player, has toured with a Rainsong when he doesn't take his Olson out on the road. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | My biggest issue with the "Other" CF guitars is that for the most part they are attempting to sound like a wood box guitar. I think that is the their flaw. Guitars started out with ROUND BACKS !!!! Look it up. I think it was someone in Spain who came up with what has been programmed to the masses as the "standard" box shape mainly because it's easier to make. Then came other materials like CF and Plastic and FiberGlass and Ovation put it all together as a Proper guitar which is... if you read your history... a ROUND back !!!! and by the way... rather than having a "wood" tone, which I never saw as a compliment, it had it's OWN balanced tone... Like a Piano. Low lows, high highs and even volume up and down the scale.
Sorry, it may sound pompous, but a proper guitar has a ROUND back, consistent volume all along the scale, and doesn't have a nasal sounding wood tone. |
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