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Location: Germany | Visited the Frankfurt "musikmesse" yesterday. No really news from Ovation (they didn't even show the new Adamas Custom Shop), except they officially presented the new VXT guitar. They had five specimen, three in sunburst and two in black. Matt played it all day long at the Ovation booth and everybody could play it through headphones.
It sounded great both through the PA and headphones. To me the acoustic emulation sounded very authentic. Exceptional playability.
As it was officially presented (even one of the US Ovation representatives there helped me with the pics) I see no problem to publish these pics here. If this should not be in-line with the board rules please let me know.
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Location: Phoenix AZ | The VXT seems like a great idea. More of an electric guitar than the T5, so I'm sure there's a place in the world for both of them. Of course the VXT being $1000. cheaper doesn't hurt. I like the slight Nike contour on the back! I can't think of a reason in the world I would need to own one of these, but I'm not the target audience they are going after. 30 years ago I'd be all over it. Now what the NEED to do is get it in the hands of the right endorsees. Dave |
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Location: NJ | If (and I repeat IF) they were "smart", they'd try getting one of these into the hands of Mike Rutherford and/or Darryl Streumer of Genesis.
They're about to (or already have started) touring, and the ability to A/B between acoustic/electric on some of the (especially EARLY) Genesis tunes'd would fit the niche nicely (and get a HELL of a lot of visibility when they're all OVER the media on the up coming US Summer/Fall Tour . . . |
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Location: NJ | oh, and . . .
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Location: Le Havre (France) | Danke schön für diese sehr gut fotos Karl !
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Location: NJ | How COOL is it t'see an electric guitar with an Ovation headstock on it again?!?!?!
. . . a bass model'd be cool . . . |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Great Pictures. Thanks Karl! That's a pretty interesting wooden roundback too. Whats the story on that one? |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | And they still do n`t make a JUMBO...I wish I had known about that MESSE...would `ve liked to meet Matt Smith I R L.. :)
Vic :cool: |
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Location: Germany | The wooden roundback is made by a south-tyrolian (Italy) luthier, see Bachmann guitars . He not only copied the roundback and the small soundholes in the upper bouts but also the quintad bracing of the Adamas guitars. You can find some pics of it on his website.
Due to it's rustic look the original Adamas guitars are loved by artists performing the traditional as well as the popular music of the German-speaking alpine region (South Germany, Austria, Switzerland, North Italy). These Bachmann copies are obviously designed for this market.
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Location: 6 String Ranch | The only good thing about Frankfort is going to Bassler Eck and having schwine hocks. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I'm curious, is the switch a five way, or three way, with the acoustic always on and then blended? |
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Location: NJ | Kinda' hard to tel from the pics, but it looks like it's a "sweep" blend . . . |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I think so too. |
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Location: nyc area | hello from germany... the guitar is KILLER!!! the 3 knobs are Master volume for elec and acoustic, tone for elec, and blend knob between all acoustic and all electric..the acoustic sound sounds great... only one sound and its a great one... the electric sound is hamer... toü notch... the build quality is top notch--- the is a switch on the back for stereo or mono operation... in mono. both sounds feed into one amp... in stereo, you use a stereo splitter or Y
cable into 2 amps or elec amp and pa... I was Blown away by this things... through the genz shenendoah and the black pearl it was the beees kneeeeeees!!! |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | The spec page should list out the swtiching capabilities. When it's in stereo how does it split, does it feed one amp acoustic tone, and one amp electric tone? Or something else? |
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Location: south east Michigan | Hey Matt!!!
Thanks for checking in!
I watched the class that you gave at the tour last year on my lunch break today. I'm still looking out for that "cool note". |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Matt, good to hear from you. How was Basseler Eck? |
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Location: nyc area | hey all...you know Bill... nothing like a big hunk o pork and a frosty pils! The guitar can either be run mono via the switch on the back, where acoustic and electric signals can be blended in one amp, or the switch on the back can be set to stereo... which allows use of a Y chord, one side to an acoustic amp or PA and the other side to the electric amp... again... the VXT gets my highest endorsement!!!
And Brad, aint no note cooler than you!!! |
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Location: nyc area | Oh Yeah... the switch on the front is a standard 3 way pickup select. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | That sounds cool. Standard 3 way switch, plus blender, mono plus blending if you want it, then stereo splitting, one channel for acoustic if you want, and another for electric. Nicely done.
OK, enough questions from me, all I gotta do now is get one of these into my mitts. |
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