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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | When gigging with a compliment of amps, monitors and a house PA, I think it is hard to beat a qgood quality super shallow bowl. Yesterday, I played the Adamas wood topped SSB proto for the service. Not sure, but this could’ve been one of the experiments for the 1537 (wood topped epaulet configuration) which came out a year or two later with a deep bowl. In any event, it was the first time out in public with the proto and I had a number of folks come up to me afterwards and report that this guitar sounded absolutely wonderful. It is reported that the SSBs don’t ring out in the low end like their big bellied brothers in an acoustic-only setting, but when plugged in, there doesn’t appear to be any difference.
Also just received the 1881 SSB. After some clean-up, new strings and a fresh battery, it sounds just great. This one has been played and is well-broken in, which is perfect for me. The case has the light blue lining, my first in this color scheme. I need to do an A/B comparo between the proto and the 1881. |
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Location: Tidal Mudflats of Virginia | Prof,
You'll love the 1881, it's got a great neck and really holds tone past the 12th fret. I parted with mine the year before last to Ovationboy so he could gig with it...that was the same one Fugot helped me get in CT. Boy, do I miss her.
That proto ssb is sweet too, really like to know why it didn't make it into production..production cost?? Beal, have any insite??
Tim |
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Posts: 1817
Location: Minden, Nebraska | I play an #1869 most Sundays, and an #1867 on the others. It's EQ'd to have well balanced bass through the system, and love these guitars.
The Custom Legend sounds decent unplugged, too. |
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Posts: 4413
| Totally agree, including about the unplugged 1869 where the lack of bass sustain makes for a really sweet well balanced sound.
Ovation just make so many really cool guitars. |
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Posts: 4239
Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Actually, I love the balance of my 1868 Elite even when it's not plugged in. It's a lovely, even tone that doesn't dominate the room, so it's the perfect guitar to play after my small kids have gone to bed and I just want to sit quietly, relax, and play a tune or two. Instead of sounding "thin", it sounds like I've just turned the stereo down a little. :) :cool: |
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Posts: 1330
Location: ms | 1868 my fave.... |
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Posts: 430
Location: Lebanon, TN | 1984 collectors....hmmm the "bidness"!!! |
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March 2005
Posts: 5567
Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | I used a 1868-5 for nearly 10 years on the road...I found a recording made in 1988 a while back: it was a gig I did w/ a piano player friend...I was blown away with how good the Elite SSB sounded...I always liked it but playing from behind and hearing from the front could be different situations: but not the 1868...one seriously sweet guitar: and then there is my TS-01-5 Snakeskin...it sounded great at last years tour Jam...I was impressed with how great a job the Mothership had done in giving it the spa treatment!
Schroeder nailed it: "Ovation just makes so many really cool guitars".
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Posts: 1017
Location: Budd Lake, NJ | My C868LX has more than enough bass; I've got the bass EQ all the way down when I run her through the system on Sunday. I just love her,
and am thankful for her thinness--she saves my shoulder a lot of grief. (And she gets lots of compliments on her beauty, too--people are intrigued by the epaulets.)
--Karen |
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Loving the SSBs
