Quick Guide to Buying Best Ovation Guitars – Buyer’s Guide 2018

Remarkable new scalloped “x” bracing design that borrows from the past and is voiced for the present, with natural tone and optimal response and power. The top also has elegant multi-wood epaulets, black binding, abalone purfling and a beautiful natural gloss finish. For great live sound, the ce44p-fkoa features an ovation slim line pickup and op-4bt preamp system with three-band eq, volume/gain control, onboard tuner and low-battery light. Together, body, top and sound holes create the classic ovation elite sound, resonating with full projection, remarkable note clarity and balance, and nuanced tonal complexity.

Classic mid-depth lyrachord cutaway body with a stunning figured koa top featuring the elite multi-sound hole design, which provides clear highs and focused, balanced bass response.

The new custom legend ax features a hand-selected, premium aaa grade solid-spruce top with lx scalloped bracing. This combination of premium soundboard materials and sonically tuned bracing produces more volume and less dead spots in the audio spectrum. Every note is clear and balanced -no matter where you play on the fingerboard. With its onboard compressor, the op-pro studio preamp enhances strummed chords, fingerpicked arpeggios, and single-note solos. Dual xlr and output jacks connect the custom legend to virtually any sound system, stage amp, or recording console. The custom legend ax guitar also boasts an deluxe grade ebony fret board and bridge, and hand-set abalone body and fret board inlays. The traditional center sound hole has a gorgeous laser-cut oak-leaf and abalone rosette.

The guitar’s contour composite body maximizes acoustic output and is ergonomically designed for comfort in any playing position. A cutaway offers full access to the gloss-finished.5-piece mahogany/maple neck.

Ovation’s pioneering multi-sound hole design enhances string vibration and sustain by improving soundboard efficiency. With its specially designed super-shallow composite body-a favorite of stage performers-ovation’s celebrity double neck combines 6- and 12-string guitars into a single, easy-to-play instrument. With a figured maple top and matched, lightweight bracing that’s designed to enhance punch and projection, this guitar covers all the bases. Both slim necks are easy to play, and twin cutaways insure easy access to the either fret board. The op-24+ preamp has 3-band eq with the option to select 400 hz or 1 khz as the middle-band frequency, and a pre-shape circuit reduces rumble from frequencies below 40 hz that can trigger feedback.

Premium features include a laminated spruce top with elite-style multi-soundholes for clearly articulate tone, and a mid-depth roundback lyrachord body for greater volume and projection, excellent balance and supreme durability. Body body type: mid-depth cutaway: single cutaway top wood: spruce back & sides: lyrachord contour bracing pattern: quartersawn scalloped x body finish: not specifiedorientation: right handed neck neck shape: info not availablenut width: 1.69 in. (43 mm) fingerboard: rosewood neck wood: nato mahoganyscale length: 25.25 in. Number of frets: 23 neck finish: satin naturalelectronics pickup/preamp: yes brand: ovation configuration: undersaddle piezo preamp eq: 3-band feedback filt. The guitar also features fast, comfortable action and an easy-playing neck profile, multi-hardwood epaulettes for the classic elite aesthetic, and an ovation ce304t pickup/preamp system with 3-band eq and built-in tuner for superior amplified tone and performance.