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Location: Texas | Based on all the discussion about all models throughout the years, I though it would be important (fun) to do a thoroughly unscientific "tone" test from members that have been able to own and test all these different 6 string models:
Adamas, Elite, Custom Legend, Legend, Glen Campbell, Custom Balladeer, Balladeer, Artist and Folklore.
Yes, we can hear that there are differences, but, can you tell which is which, (Fender)?
Does the Ovation company (Fender) have a legit reason to stop producing all these different models that we have loved for all these years?
* Adamas and Elite- looks, balls, volume, tone
* Custom Legend - top of the line looks, volume , tone
* Legend and Glen Campbell- the ultimate Ovation look, plus tone galore
* Custom Baladeer and Balladeer - perfect road warriors
* Artist - "The lead" Ovation guitar"...just ask Glen...
* Folklore - are you kidding? classic looks, tone, Cat Stevens...etc...
And I have not even talked about 12 strings, nylon strings and collector series.
Check out the catalog "Guitars of the Stars" for a big lesson on all models and to get you on a quest to try to own each one at least once.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Guitars of the Stars |
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Location: Jet City | And that list was only through '76. It's missing so many more including names like Page, Lennon, McCartney, Nancy W, etc...
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Location: south east Michigan | I'm as dissappointed as anyone.
Makes me wish I would have been able (or maybe more willing?)... to purchase new. But even if everyone who posts here purchased a new guitar every year I don't think it would have kept all the production in New Hartford.
Maybe we should blame the internet. Look how easy it is to move very desirable guitars back and forth just between us. Fifteen years ago you'd never know about some nice guitar for sale in some far off exotic place like say.... Boise.
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What I find hard to beleive is that someone is buying all the Guilds that are being made. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I've found that string type and size can also make a difference in the way a guitar sounds and plays also, even on the same guitar.(also picked or fingerstyle playing) So for me, it could be difficult to distinguish one guitar from another by ear. There are however certain guitars that would be easier, such as the single-side eppi 1581(booming bottom end) and the 1537(very warm and mellow). I wish I could get my hands on the OFC guitars and the 47RI to play and hear them also. If anyone is feeling sorry that I don't have those, let me know and I'll send my mailing address (:
As far as production is concerned, I can understand why they would narrow out the choices they provide. I think there are a LOT of people on this site who can sympathise about the financial crisis, having to make a lot of difficult choices over the recent years in thinning out their own collections. As much as I love the idea that new Adamas and Ovations are still being produced(and I have bought some, I am VERY happy that there are still a lot of quality used guitar deals out there. I am also VERY happy that the mothership continues in their outstanding service department... There IS no equal. |
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Location: Jet City | At least this isn't the "Tacoma Fan Club"
Things could be worse. And we can still have anything we want, just now we have to pay big boy prices for the big boy guitars. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Serge is getting all sentimental on us. Fender is just eliminating some overlapping product lines and the Guilds are a much better woodbox than the Fender acoustics ever were. I was hoping they'd focus on the uniqueness of the Ovation brand, but I'm not a marketing guru or bean counter.
As far as this exotic location, Boise had 3 of the 50 2010 Collectors last I knew. One guy had two of them and was trying to sell one. The other is mine. There was a Country Artist that Serge and I missed on Craigslist last week for $100. There's been a Viper on CL for 3 weeks. Even with the internet, sales are slow and most of the guitar geeks in town don't know that Fender bought Ovation. Shipping by Pony Express to a far off exotic place is pretty expensive. |
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Location: Derry NH | Originally posted by Damon67:
And that list was only through '76. It's missing so many more including names like Page, Lennon, McCartney, Nancy W, etc...
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Can You Tell Which is Which? Adamas, Custom Legend, Legend, Elite, Balladeer, etc???
