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Ovation 1778T Elite T Acoustic Electric Guitar in Purple Trible Flames with Hardshell Case
The Elite T`s Wild Looks And Warm Tone Are A Seductive Paradox You Can’t Resist!
If you are looking for a professional grade acoustic/electric, American made Ovations are among the very best for the price.
Ovation’s 1778T Elite T Purple Tribal Flame Top finished guitar features a mid-depth bowl and a beautiful textured enamel finish, The Lyrachord GS™ body uses revolutionary Glass Microsphere technology to increase projection and strength while reducing weight.
A lightweight dual-action truss rod Advanced Neck System makes precision adjustments simple. Carbon fiber stabilizers keep the fingerboard perfectly aligned at the neck/body joint.
The new Op-Pro Preamp is voiced to give you arena-sized sound with a minimum of EQ gymnastics. Designed in collaboration with Al DiMeola and Melissa Etheridge, the new OP-PRO combines state-of-the-art audio quality with guitarist-friendly features for a preamp that should please even the most discriminating player.
Six separate elements in the Ovation Patented Pickup sense both string and top vibration, giving you a better string-to-string balance, no matter what string type or guage you use Prepare to be impressed by the hugeness of the acoustic sound. Deeper, and richer but with the legendary Ovation balance and clarity.
Play With Fire!
Features:
Mid-Depth Cutaway Body Type w/ Purple Tribal Flame Painted Finish and matching headstock
Ovation LX Bracing
Solid Spruce Top
Maple Neck
Dual-Action Truss Rod Advanced Neck System
Scale Length: 25 1/4"
Ebony Fretboard w/ 23 fret extension
Position Markers on edge of Fretboard (no Inlays)
Pinless Ebony Bridge w/ compensated saddle
Single Epaulet Multi Soundhole 11 hole configuration - bass side
OP-PRO Preamp w/ Pre-EQ Shape, 3-Band EQ, Gain Control, Tuner
Ovation Slimline Pickup
Nutwidth: 1 11/16"
Ovation Black Sealed Tuning Machines
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Ovation History:
Acoustic Becomes Electric.
Ovation guitars first captured the interest of professional musicians who wanted an acoustic guitar with greater projection on stage. The most visible of these guitarists in the late `60s was Glen Campbell. Every week Glen and his Ovation were welcomed into millions of homes around the country, as America tuned into The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour.
DURING THIS CLOSE ASSOCIATION WITH OVATION, Glen asked for an instrument with a built-in pickup so that he could come out from behind a microphone when he played.
There had been a number of attempts to make a pick-up for the acoustic guitar, but each attempt had flaws. Glen`s guitar-playing friend, Jerry Reed had a classical guitar with an under-saddle pickup that didn`t sound half bad.
The concept of the pickup was right - piezo crystals under the bridge saddle - but it was made for a nylon string guitar and suffered from tonal and string imbalance problems, accentuated when used on a steel string.
OVATION ENGINEERS STUDIED THIS GUITAR and then set about creating a new pickup of their own. Up until then, playing acoustic on stage either meant standing in front of a microphone, using a magnetic pickup mounted in the soundhole, or using a stick-on bug on the soundboard.
None of these worked very well particularly if there were drums or electric instruments in the band.
The engineers saw that a successful pickup would have to have the right balance sensing top vibration and string vibration. Getting the balance right would give the best acoustic tone and the greatest volume.
Their solution became part of the first professionally accepted acoustic/electric guitar ever made. That pickup is still in use today on the acoustic/electric Ovations. The sound is well balanced, the output is very high and the saddle is properly shaped for accurate intonation.
Piezo pickups have a very high impedance, which means that the sound can change over long cable runs. In order to prevent this, Ovation designed a buffered preamp that lowered the impedance, preserved the tone and controlled the output.
This was the beginning of the acoustic/electric guitar. Bill Kaman recalls, "Our first preamp was a very clean design. It had two contour filters to enhance the "acousticness" of the sound, and combined with bringing the impedance into the right range, the guitar sounded very rich and full. The first preamps were volume only. Later we added a tone control to the circuit as well as offering a stereo preamp."
"IN THE BEGINNING ONLY ABOUT 15% OF THE GUITARS we built had pickups. Ten years later, 90% of our guitars were acoustic/electric. The truly amazing thing is that it also took about 10 years before any of our competition began to offer acoustic/electric models as standard in their line."
While the Ovation pickup has remained the same, the electronics have kept pace with the players` needs and sound reinforcement technology. Over the past 25 years, Ovation has maintained its leadership as the dominant acoustic electric guitar in the world.
The Elite T`s Wild Looks And Warm Tone Are A Seductive Paradox You Can’t Resist!
If you are looking for a professional grade acoustic/electric, American made Ovations are among the very best for the price.
Ovation’s 1778T Elite T Purple Tribal Flame Top finished guitar features a mid-depth bowl and a beautiful textured enamel finish, The Lyrachord GS™ body uses revolutionary Glass Microsphere technology to increase projection and strength while reducing weight.
A lightweight dual-action truss rod Advanced Neck System makes precision adjustments simple. Carbon fiber stabilizers keep the fingerboard perfectly aligned at the neck/body joint.
The new Op-Pro Preamp is voiced to give you arena-sized sound with a minimum of EQ gymnastics. Designed in collaboration with Al DiMeola and Melissa Etheridge, the new OP-PRO combines state-of-the-art audio quality with guitarist-friendly features for a preamp that should please even the most discriminating player.
Six separate elements in the Ovation Patented Pickup sense both string and top vibration, giving you a better string-to-string balance, no matter what string type or guage you use Prepare to be impressed by the hugeness of the acoustic sound. Deeper, and richer but with the legendary Ovation balance and clarity.
Play With Fire!
Features:
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Ovation History:
Acoustic Becomes Electric.
Ovation guitars first captured the interest of professional musicians who wanted an acoustic guitar with greater projection on stage. The most visible of these guitarists in the late `60s was Glen Campbell. Every week Glen and his Ovation were welcomed into millions of homes around the country, as America tuned into The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour.
DURING THIS CLOSE ASSOCIATION WITH OVATION, Glen asked for an instrument with a built-in pickup so that he could come out from behind a microphone when he played.
There had been a number of attempts to make a pick-up for the acoustic guitar, but each attempt had flaws. Glen`s guitar-playing friend, Jerry Reed had a classical guitar with an under-saddle pickup that didn`t sound half bad.
The concept of the pickup was right - piezo crystals under the bridge saddle - but it was made for a nylon string guitar and suffered from tonal and string imbalance problems, accentuated when used on a steel string.
OVATION ENGINEERS STUDIED THIS GUITAR and then set about creating a new pickup of their own. Up until then, playing acoustic on stage either meant standing in front of a microphone, using a magnetic pickup mounted in the soundhole, or using a stick-on bug on the soundboard.
None of these worked very well particularly if there were drums or electric instruments in the band.
The engineers saw that a successful pickup would have to have the right balance sensing top vibration and string vibration. Getting the balance right would give the best acoustic tone and the greatest volume.
Their solution became part of the first professionally accepted acoustic/electric guitar ever made. That pickup is still in use today on the acoustic/electric Ovations. The sound is well balanced, the output is very high and the saddle is properly shaped for accurate intonation.
Piezo pickups have a very high impedance, which means that the sound can change over long cable runs. In order to prevent this, Ovation designed a buffered preamp that lowered the impedance, preserved the tone and controlled the output.
This was the beginning of the acoustic/electric guitar. Bill Kaman recalls, "Our first preamp was a very clean design. It had two contour filters to enhance the "acousticness" of the sound, and combined with bringing the impedance into the right range, the guitar sounded very rich and full. The first preamps were volume only. Later we added a tone control to the circuit as well as offering a stereo preamp."
"IN THE BEGINNING ONLY ABOUT 15% OF THE GUITARS we built had pickups. Ten years later, 90% of our guitars were acoustic/electric. The truly amazing thing is that it also took about 10 years before any of our competition began to offer acoustic/electric models as standard in their line."
While the Ovation pickup has remained the same, the electronics have kept pace with the players` needs and sound reinforcement technology. Over the past 25 years, Ovation has maintained its leadership as the dominant acoustic electric guitar in the world.
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