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Location: Reno, NV | Not really Ovation related.
I have a Highway One strat that is a bit more twangy than I prefer. I kinda despise country twang. (maybe shouldn't have bought a strat?)
However, many great bands use strats and don't have the twang. I don't know were to start to get the twang to a minimum. Pickups maybe? Strings? Anyone have a suggestion? |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | Single coil pups sound twangy. Perhaps you'd prefer a strat with a humbucker at the bridge. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | AKA Fat Strat
On my list of want-to-haves.
I couldn't bring myself to buy anything non-Ovation before, but now that Fender owns Ovation, I guess there's really no reason not to have one. |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | Duncan makes several humbuckers in single coil size with a variety of sonic signatures. If you browse the Seymour Duncan website you will find descriptions of the different options. All can probably be found used on eBay, so you can even experiment with some different ones though it gets expensive if you don't do your own soldering. |
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Location: NJ | buy something with a humbucker
seems like your guitar is doing what it was designed to do |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I prefer the twang, and take it out with effects when necessary. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | The only thing you can do is put one of those small humbuckers in the bridge pick up. Don't mess around too much, it ain't worth it. Believe me, been there done that. |
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Location: Minden, Nebraska | I like Tele's for twang and Strats for quack in the 2 and 4 positions. Humbuckers are humbuckers. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | That about covers it.
Maybe use heavier guage strings? |
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Location: Scotland | It's in the amps gain structure and EQ. Countless players use Strats with standard pickup config without sounding overtly country or twangy. |
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Location: SoCal | I haven't noticed Clapton sounding twangy in the least..... |
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Location: Houston, Texas | Use the neck and middle pickups more for a warmer sound and heavier strings will help. Experiment with picks as well. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Every time I see a thread like this, or hear the comments I wonder why the Ovation Ultra GS w/H-S-S configuration didn't sell better. The Humbucker was a dual-sound DP101, or in English, Parallel and single-coil operation with mini-switch. The singles were DP108 VS-1's. Best of all worlds.
go figure. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It's cause it didn't say F on the peg head. |
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Location: SoCal | If they built it now it would.... |
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Location: Scotland | Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
I haven't noticed Clapton sounding twangy in the least..... I haven't noticed Clapton sounding anything but tired and lame lately |
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Location: CT | All those years of rockin out, and this is how it ends.. Ouch! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Get the Twang OUT?
I don't understand the problem..... |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Originally posted by Mauvais Beal:
It's cause it didn't say F on the peg head. I have heard this before, and I used to believe it, but lately I wonder. I have been watching a LOT of VH-1 Classic at night lately. Now I realize our musical tastes vary, but for that period of the early 80's, at least what made it to video, I see ESP, BC Rich, Hamer and Ibanez as the definitive leaders with some Gibsons thrown in also but not so much the LP as the Firebird and Flying V, some SG's When these same acts turn the volume down, they were found playing Ovations.
I did not realize how popular ESP was then.. not sure when Jackson got in the mix... Seems like that time was ripe to market a Strat Clone that already had all the mods people were doing to all the other clones anyway. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Lessons with a good elocutionist?? Or a visit with a good ear, nose and throat doctor?? :D ;) :D
--Karen
(Sorry, all, I just couldn't resist.....) |
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Location: Flushing, MI | Turn the treble down... |
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How to get the TWANG out?
