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Location: Brisbane,Australia | What's the best yourve played then? :) |
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| Best Ovation - Q #10 or Slothead #35
Best overall - Beal's pre-war Martin |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | At the moment, none of the Ovations that live here sound like any of the others (and, no, not because the strings are all off of all of them. ;) ) All of them are different models, different depths, the two different pegheads, but almost all natural finishes. They really do all sound different...and I love their differences, too. There's a guitar for every mood...
Playing bluegrass, you get to hear a ton of Martins with a sprinkling of the other brands. A Martin dread strung with 13s and being hammered with an extra heavy pick will definitely blow my super-shallow Jewel out of the water--but that Martin neck will feel clunky and uncomfortable to me. But...same strings, same pick and my Gertrude, completely different ballgame--and when they play her, you can just see the light turn on. ("Wow, is this ever easy to play...where'd you say you got this?")
I call them my "stealth" guitars, because sometimes, they just don't see it coming.
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Location: Utah | Originally posted by RomanS:
What's the best yourve played then? :) Best wood topped O - 2007 Collector's Edition
Best Adamas - U681T-SJ
Best Electric - Hamer Newport
But the others all are great guitars in their own way. The 2080 with the cutaway deep contour bowl is a delight to play and matches my style better than the Ute, which is 12 frets non-cutaway. The Viper has some killer tones in it. The 6778LX has the easiest playing action of any guitar I've ever played.
They're all good in their own way. Best depends on a lot of personal preferences. |
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Location: Illinois | Originally posted by cholloway:
Most people who try out an Ovation in a music store are actually playing a Celebrity with "Ovation" on the headstock.
Celebs are good for their price range, but they can't compete with a higher-end Ovation. I don't necessarily buy into that....My Celebrity sounds just as good as my USA Ovations, especially plugged in. I don't know if it's the solid top or the X bracing or what, but it's the guitar I play when I gig... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by RomanS:
What's the best yourve played then? :) Best Ovations - Slothead #57, OFC2, Q8/10
Favorite Ovations - Longneck 2080D 6 & 12 string
Favorite Guitar - Collings OM2MGSSCUTSB
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Location: Brisbane,Australia | You have an Original Slothead like AJ does! You lucky Duck! :) How many years of hard labour would I need to buy one of those? |
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Location: Brisbane,Australia | You have an Original Slothead like AJ does! You lucky Duck! :) How many years of hard labour would I need to buy one of those? |
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Finding one will be the hard part..........not to mention probably $15k+
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Location: Brisbane,Australia | Yeah I can that you would have a really hard time getting someone to part with one and also the price! I could raise the money but I think that maybe the 47RI or the ofc reissue would probably be the best bet for me . But that Original must be a pleasure to play! Did Charlie Kaman make yours AJ ? |
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Location: Omaha, NE | I've been working on a studio project for the last few weeks. The engineer keeps going on and on about how much he loves the sound of my Ovation.
To record it, he puts a couple of mic's in front of me and feeds them into one stereo channel, and also mixes in some of the pickup output into another. I have the VIP, and we run it at about 40% "Image".
The result sounds pretty good to me, and him, and everyone who is hanging around the studio.
Plus it looks really cool. Last week we had a videographer there making a video, and she loved it. Got lots of shots of the guitar to use.
Hopefully I'll be able to share some of that stuff in the near future.
In the mean time, here\'s a vid I threw up onto the \'Tube last night . |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by RomanS:
I could raise the money but I think that maybe the 47RI or the ofc reissue would probably be the best bet for me. If you want the 1-3/4 wideneck version OFC #8 drop me a PM.
The 47RI and the OFC guitar sound pretty close to the original. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | The OFC1 guitars came with the most original and cool case ever made for an Ovation. All Graphite and just a beauty to look at.
The 1 3/4" version of the guitar is even more rare. I think only 3 of the 12 had that neck.
RomanS if you are looking for the closest you will probably ever get to an original slothead, here is your wish come true.... like low hanging fruit from a tree! I'm betting if Gallerinski did not have an original slothead he would NEVER CONSIDER letting this one go. |
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Location: Colorado | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
Originally posted by Gallerinski:
My motto: If you can't dazzle them with your talent, then at least impress them with how nice of a guitar you own. I cannot play my guitar, but I do look good holding it. :cool: |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by RomanS:
What's the best yourve played then? :) UKII...
Which sounds nothing like my 1537 |
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Location: Chicago | Like the anatomical stupidity of "all women are the same"
A dude who promotes that view has erectile dysfunction, for sure! |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Best guitar I've ever played is the Hamer Improv. However, because its sound is limited to jazz, it has only limited application for me.
Next to the Improv, and a whole lot more versatile, is my 1187 SSB Custom. However, for pure tone and sustain, it has to be Mark's No. 43. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | "Best Guitar" will depend on a lot of stuff that has nothing to do with the guitar. My current "favorite guitar" for example would absolutely suck for live work because it has no electronics. Does that make it a bad guitar? |
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Location: Flahdaw | My best guitar sounds different from one day to the next. Seems every couple of days I like a different one of my guitars better. |
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Location: Indiana | If they hire you to do a session, they'll mic up what ever you bring to the date. I have never had a producer dismiss me because of the instrument I brought. I've had an engineer or two cast a skeptical eye initially... especially if they've never been exposed to an Adamas. Still, if you show up straight, on time, and do what you were hired to do, it's a non issue.
As for O's all sounding the same, I'm a believer that a large chunk of what an instrument sounds like is in the players fingers, not the guitar.
2 cents from Gnashville... |
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Location: Tennessee | Originally posted by RomanS:
What's the best yourve played then? :) Define "best" ... |
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Location: closely held secret | Come on, Bobbo... You know - like the "best" strings. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | If Ovations are as under appreciated as some of us navel gazers think, how come the company has been as successful as it is? hmmm?
Can't be the history. O's history is a great combination of punk innovation and sophisticated player acceptance. I fail to see the problem. (though greatly enjoy the jostling and slagging as much as anyone)
As far as catfights and getting along?...bite me. Bland universal acceptance is highly overrated. Creative differences is where y'wanna be!
(oops. looks like I posted a page late. responding to stuff on page 2.....I'm in another country, time zone, and reality...y'know.) |
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All Ovations sound the same...
