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Location: new jersey | Hi Everyone first what a great board for a new Ovation fan learned a lot reading the old posts.
I Just got my Ovation Ultra gs at a local music store. I am a beginner and bought a package deal
one of the other brands and the guitar was ok but I was having a hard time with chords. But I Picked up the Ovation JUST LOOKING and it fit prefect and well the rest is history. What a great playing guitar. It seems the Ovation
strings have a little more spread at the nut and this makes it easyer to play at least for me.
Is this true or is it just the one I bought and
is the gs and gp the same in this string spread
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Location: Canada | Viking,
Congratulations on buying an awesome guitar!!
Just a few questions:
What model Ultra GS do you have? What pickup configuration is it and what kind of tremolo does it come with?? Just curious.
The Ultra GSs weren't the greatest quality guitars but are awesome player guitars. I personally find I play my GSs a lot over many other "pricey" guitars I have.
As for string spread (I'm assuming you mean the spread at the first fret), I don't find it particularly more spread out than any other guitars I have including other Ovation Electrics. Anyone have other thoughts?
What I do know that it may be easier to play because you can get the action pretty low on these puppies without the buzz (on my GSs, I have Kahler Trems, not too sure about the Wilkinsons). |
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Location: new jersey | Well its a two pickup and a humbucker at the bridge. the tremolo seems to be of standard type.
6 screw type as for model of the guitar not quite sure.
These guitar's are the best kept secret going
I looked at guitar's from $200 to $3000 many different brands and could not find one that felt as good in my hands. Now I have to learn how to play. |
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Location: Canada | Don,
Just out of curiosity how much did you pay for your GS and what kind of condition was it in when you got it?
Check out one of my GSs in the member gallery (under links/member gallery/rory). |
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Location: new jersey | Rory
I would say it's in good condition everything
works fine the pick guard has scratches in it
as well as the guitar normal wear
the only thing wrong was I thought the one of the pickup springs was missing but when I took it apart it was on the magnet. the cover for the humbucker is missing.
I paid $135 and he tossed in a set of strings
I think it was a fair price I bought it, before I
found this board. Had no idea there was a following for these guitars |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Out of curiousity... you wrote that your GS had two pickups, with a Humbucker on the bridge. On the 2 pickup models both pickups were humbuckers, is yours? Also, only the single coil pickups (which were on the 3 pickup models) had covers. The humbucker did not have covers on any of the models. Of course, this is just based on the ones I have and have seen. As we have learned, almost anything is possible, or someone could have modified it.
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Location: Canada | I'm assuming a S-S-H config? I've never seen one of those either. Don, post a picture for us. The ones I've seen with three pickups are usually all single coil and resemble the "strat" look with the pickguard.
Yes, like Miles said, the stock humbuckers were Dimarzios which have no covers (personally I like the look not to mention sound of the EMG better than the Dimarzio. I installed one of these puppies into one of my GSs). |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Rory,
I've only seen s-s-h on the 3 pickup models, never s-s-s. Not saying it hasn't happened, but I am curious about it. Seems like there should have been an s-s-s. |
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Location: new jersey | I am learning as read here
It is a s-s-h as Mr. Ovation stated.
mounted in the pick guard
two knobs, a 5 position switch and a toggle
switch which all look as that's the way it was made.
I will post a picture what is the format used for the pictures.
Thanks for your help |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Just go to LINKS (on the left) and use the "beta" version of the Gallery. jpg or gif is fine. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I just visited the gallery for the first time. GREAT feature, I hope many more figure out how to post to it. The board gets better all the time. |
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