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Location: Madison, WI | Originally posted by Standingovation:
Well, I guess it makes it harded to accidently drop your pick inside... I'm sure this was meant in jest but in all seriousness this is another big selling point on the epaulets for me. I used to hate shaking picks out of my guitar! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | No, I was being serious! The multi holes are definately an advantage because it's harder to drop a pick inside. Another secondary benefit is that the smallest of the holes is perfectly sized to hold your cigarette while you sing backups on the chorus parts. I'm sure that design was not by accident. Dave |
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Location: SoCal | Anyone remember the saying that you need to stand in front of a mirror or stand back, having someone play the guitar? The multi-hole, whether wood Ovation or the Adamas projects differently than the center hole.
My wife describes the Adamas as surround sound; the center hole wood top more projected, more as a cone of sound.
Obviously, plugged in alters the audience response based on the speakers and pre-amp settings.
As to AAA spruce, cutaway - I like the Custom Elite over the Al DiMeola II when played as an acoustic.
In addition, good flavor of ice cream. There are a lot of people out there that like the multi-hole. So, give them what they want.
As an aside, I liked the appearance of the 2006 Collectors and the 12-fret CVT Adamas. Don't know if I am ready for the 2080. |
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Location: Wooster, Ohio | The less feedback issue is true. I tryed to play my 97 collectors round hole with my amp at church and it the feed back was terrible. Ended up purchasing a sound hole blocker. Used the 87 Collectors today right in front of the amp: no problems.
Steve |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It started with the X and mover to all the V variants and then A bracing. The Adamas was the Quintad style(the name came years after the first design) and that spread through the Elites. Recently the factory has been moving in the X direction again. (why? 1. they haven't done it in a while 2. the R&D people are more traditionally oriented than their predacessors 3. the customers are moving in a more traditional direction, read X sound 4. it suits the new LX configuration 5. it gives the MPs rhetoric 6. you make something up.....)
The point is that things are always changing and I think that's good. A D-28 hasn't changed much at all over the 50-60 years they've been around, OK that's good too, they're Martin and that's their tradition. Ovation's tradition was always moving forward(even if it looks like backstepping sometimes). I would assume that it's still that.
I hope all this makes some sense, if not chalk it up to some guy who took too long a vacation sniffing jet fuel fumes. |
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Location: SoCal | "too long a vacation sniffing jet fuel fumes"
if the sinuses are starting to clear up, you already have the boots...maybe time to climb back onto the saddle? |
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Elite LX bracing pattern.
