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| Anyone care to voice their experience in describing any noticable differences between the celebrity longneck and the usa elite longneck? Are the electronics all there really is?
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Location: Scotland | Exactly the same differences with any other import versus domestic Ovation: materials, production methods, quality control, warranty etc etc. It's certainly not just down to the electronics, which are actually pretty similar. The imports have the thinline pickup, which has been used on some USA guitars, but the preamps are pretty much common to both depending on model. The Celebs are great for the money, but you get what you pay for. The differences bettwen the imports & USA guitars have been discussed at length in the past, try seaching the archives. |
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | Can someone elucidate on playing a "longneck" guitar as opposed to a regular (folk) style guitar. I'm pretty sure I've never seen one, or played one. Is it just personal preference? Is there an advantage that suites a particular style? |
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Location: Scotland | Also called a "D" guitar it basically has a longer scale length and an extra 2 frets so standard tuning is a tone lower - DGCFAD. Stick a capo on fret 2 and it's a regular guitar. With heavier strings you can go lower, certainly down to B, maybe even A. It's almost a baritone guitar. Basically you can use low tunings but maintain a similar feel & tension to regular tuning |
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| Paul, thanks, I appreciate your advice; can you suggest a specific archive where I may find more of the specific differences? |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I'm pretty sure that Stevie Ray Vaughn tuned his guiter down to a "D", and put on fatter strings, hence making the sound chunkier. (Though he didn't play with a long neck strat) In my opinion, it suits the kind of blues played by Vaughn very well. You can tune your current guitar flat and get an idea of how a long neck will sound. For me, the idea behind a longer neck is to get a fatter sound without the string flap. |
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Location: New York, NY | If I'm stating the obvious, forgive me, but check www.ovationguitars.com (guitars->longneck) for specs on Celebrity DCS247S and Elite DS778 longnecks.
Besides the pre-amps, they appear to have different necks (the Elite has a 5 piece neck, I don't think the Celebrity does), fretboards (ebony vs. rosewood) and pickups (high output vs. thinline). |
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Location: Scotland | SRV tuned to E-flat, mostly to reduce the tension on the monster string guages he used, which if memory serves were 13-56. Those gauges played havoc with his fingers so he'd superglue his left-hand fingertips to his right fore-arm and rip himself a new layer of fingertip skin every night. |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | I read in one of the guitar magazines that he was using 18-72 for awhile. |
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