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I have several guitars about half acoustic, 2 of them being Ovations The first got used in the early 80's; is a 12 string Deep back and traditional round sound hole, And the absolutely the best easy playing 12 string neck I've ever played, Indeed the slippery rounded back took some getting used to While sitting and plating. (But a little strip of skateboard grip tape cured that) Then about 4 years ago I got a 6 string the same style as yours. I like my ovations a lot and play them often. As far as the folks that bad talk Ovations? Well everyone is entitled to their opinion. hopefully it is an informed opinion? Fortunately the only opinion that matters at all in this area, Is my own. Truly I am not out to impress anyone with my choices of gear. And I don't give a Rats A$$ if anybody else likes my guitar, I'm was past that nonsense.

6/24 just ordered the full dc as well as the TruGlide stabilizer in case it could benefit from straighter string pull. Very excited

I have both amps, but I prefer the Pro Jr....it gets more playing time. I put a Swamp Thang speaker in the Blues Jr, though, and it sounds great. But I still love the Pro Jr

Great demo and a great feature for a great guitar.

How does the 620 compare with a Telecaster as far as being comfortable playing sitting down?

Worked for Charlie Kaman for 20 years. Own couple of 92 ovations and '80 which I gave to my nephew. Employees used to get discounts. Charlie also created Gibraltar drums

Hating stuff is boring. If you don’t like pedals, don’t criticize people who do. Hating stuff is boring. Stop being boring.

Music. Is. Not. A. Sport! And here a spicy take: I’ve never heard good original music from anyone who acts like playing guitar IS a sport - even if they can “shred” Also - for the record: Amplifiers and speakers modify tone too! (With natural compression, EQ, and distortion). Purists that insist otherwise should use a DI box into a PA and tell us how good that sounds.

I got old 😁The Super is a very heavy amp. I sold mine. I now play a Blues Deluxe and a Blues Jr. Both of these amps work for most every gig I play. Both of my amps are made in the USA. Los Angeles

I agree. I think it's definitely the best Fender amp ever made. There's no doubt that this amp will bring out the true potential of a Fender guitar. It expresses the comfortable, powerful, and clear tone of a single coil. Please don't let it disappear from this world.

Pedals are not instrument accessories anymore. They are a huge business. As of January this year there are more brands than all the pedal models we had in the 2010s. It's sickening and musicians aren't buying pedals anymore because they need them they buy them because they're addicted to buying pedals, it's sad.

One of my dream guitars. I have a Sigma replica with a cutaway, and I love it so much... can't imgine how the real thing could be. I love other Martin models like the 00028 or the D28/41, but this one has a special place in my heart. I hope I can get one of these someday, they are not easy to find used at a fair price where I live, and when I find them outside the shipping costs are too much.

Sounds fantastic. Might have to follow suit! Is this after a breaking-in period?

No doubt about it. Nothing beats a well-engineered overdrive into a tube pre-amp. This is especially true when the pre-amp gain is cranked up.

SD '59 or Gibson Custombucker for the neck, is hard to beat. Bridge pickups can be more finicky to chose, depending on the guitar. Gibson Burstbucker 3 is my standard do everything Les Paul choice. But for shred friendly guitars that you want some more punch out of. My current favorite is this new overwound Custombucker that I'm using out of my "The Berserker" custom art edition, from the Epiphone Adam Jones collection. I paired it with the standard Custombucker in the neck, and wow is it killer! It's the best matched pickup set I have. They both have excellent clarity and string definition, with just enough punch to get you into crunch territory. This overwound Custombucker is in its own league.

They both sounded great, but for Mr, the Blues Jr.

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Even if you are getting all your dirt through the amp you still need a delay pedal if you’re playing lead. I get not wanting to use a pedal for dirt but I didn’t realize people were against all pedals.

My home practice setup is quite elaborate, more so than I would like it to be, but I’m kind of an obsessive tone freak, and running small practice amps in an apartment usually means sacrificing a full, rich, big tone. The kind of tones like you would have you were playing somewhere where you could just plug straight into something like a Twin Reverb or a Marshall pushed to their sweet spot. So I use pedals and other stuff to get those kinds of tones from a small apartment friendly setup. My main home amp, is an old 25 watt solid state fender combo with a 10” speaker. On its own it’s “okay”. But it’s small sounding, with that typical boxy midrange of a small combo. So (for my basic foundation amp tone), I run into a multi effects pedal for EQ and/or compression (and some modulation fx), then into Fender-voiced preamp pedal, then into another of the same multi effects pedal for added post-gain EQ capability (and different modulation fx), then into an old Tascam 4 track (that I mainly use to split the signal to two amps, but it also colours the tone a bit like the preamp pedal does), then into both the guitar amp *and* a 25 watt Ampeg bass amp (because the Fender lacks bass at apartment volumes). This isn’t set up for a stereo setup - both amps are side by side as if they are one full frequency amp. This is just for the basic foundation sound - there are of course also delay and fuzz in the chain (and overdrives, but the overdrives are just there after the fuzz to smooth it out - I never use them on their own). With this smallish but elaborate setup, I can get a full, rich, larger-than-it-looks sound, at literally conversation volume. I can do a good emulation of Fender Blackface, Brownface and Tweed Deluxe, as well as half decent Hendrix Marshall sounds. One plus is that it’s all analog amp tones. I tried messing around with digital amp models for a while, but it just resulted in me tweaking settings more than playing, and the analog “modelled” tones I created actually sound better. Btw, I do have a number of vintage tube amps, including a 1966 Princeton, all of which would sound great for guitar-straight-into-amp sounds, except that they all now need proper maintenance, and it would be just to damned expensive to fix them all now that I’m retired.

Those sound great clean 😲

in general not a fan of the stacked idea, but really loved the sounds here!

Maybe I have just become habituated to the humbuckers on the 2 guitars I have used for 30+ years (1968 Les Paul Custom & 1992 Sadowsky NYC HSH) but these just sound altogether 'too much' for me - they seem to lack subtlety - altho I suppose that's the point in a way? Full on, loud , in your face etc? Clearly I'm not an expert of underspun or overwound so just first impressions. I have been considering ordering some Monty's Underwound PAFs to put in my Epi '59 LP' to replace the Gibsons it came with because I was under the impression they might offer a bright but warmer sound which would suit my (mainly clean, chordal arpeggiated) playing and your comments actually have helped steer me in that direction! Maybe when I grow up I'll be ready for overwounds 🤣 Thanks for the demo!

It's pure and simple snobbery. Another reason for someone to feel superior to others.

I love my Charvel DK24 for fingerstyle jazz- sold my Princeton 68 RI because the pickups would make it overdrive at a fairly low volume- I needed the ability to get a loud clean sound! Thats the only drawback I can think of. Of course there are ways of solving this- volume knob on guitar (lol), change the speaker, change the pickups.

Excellent demo - thanks.

I put Seymour Duncan vintage hot stack plus in my strat and it sounds fantastic

My preferred humbuckers usually count as somewhat hot. I love the Duncan Custom SH-5, but my current favorite is the Mighty Mite 1400, which is a hot PAF type wind (about 9k) but with a huge ceramic magnet. Cleans are sparkly and driven tones are just the perfect, open, crunchy, raunch. Can’t believe how good the 1400 is.

If headroom is your drug of choice than pedals are definitely dangerous. It takes a lot of work to integrate them tastefully. From your hands to your ears there waits a slew of circuits, both a minefield and a candy store. I relish the challenge.

that's funny, I actually paid extra from Gibson for "under wound" PAF's... I like to play a clean tone and the extra winds just means more gain, not less..

People are always searching for something to hate. They will hate the guitar strap and the car that the pedal board was transported in. 😎🤓

Great video

Where do you come across all this hatred and anger? I seem to be in a pedal love bubble here on YT.

I own a 1978 Electric Balladeer. Back then there was no alternative if you wanted to play an acoustic guitar in a loud electric band. The pickup is very quacky, but with good EQing it worked out in a band context. 20 years ago I switched to electrified Taylors and Takamines, and the Ovation took a sleep in it's case for decades. Just two weeks back now I have changed strings, did minor setup fixes and played it for the first time in almost 20 years in order to test it with my new impulse response preamp (NUX Optima Air). I was quite surprised as the playability and acoustic sound were far better than I had remembered. Electric use with with Taylor, Gibson and Martin IR profiles brings an overwhelming enhancement of sound quality which will make it a very decent backup guitar I will take for gigging now.

Absolutely fantastic ❤😊

I don't really get along with pedals. Over my 20 years of playing I've used several boutique, dirt cheap, and everything in between. I occasionally use a compression pedal. I often use a tuning pedal but that one doesn't really count. I recently got an EQ pedal that only gets some use. Other than that I like my amp sounds better. Effects pedals often just sound fake and plastic to me. There are some wild pedals out there that I'd like to get my hands on but they often fall to the back of my want list.

Personally, I am of the school of thought that if it works for you, use it. However, one should take care to not becoming over dependant/reliant on one's gear. Secondly, I believe that in many cases, less is actually more, but only to a point...

Sounds great 👍

This is not an reissue more of a new issue based on the original.. Which really makes it usable... Perfect for home and recording use.. And yes, if you Mike it, you can play a coliseum... ( You would be surprised what's behind those dummy cabs at concerts ) Great little amp. I always wanted reverb on any of my amps.. but that's just me.. Welcome to the 5 watt world...

I actually like medium to the lower end of high output pickups if that makes sense. If they have something I like I don't care about magnets or numbers.

PREACH, Brother Jack!

Less musical ego! It's like asking the sun not to rise - but yes we could do with more people keeping it in it's box. Long live differences.

Porter Pickups... gedoudahere. Pure butta baby!

I love my pedals. I've got more than 20 and I use them all for individual things. A lot of great players use many different pedals. Pedals are for having different colors for your songs, just like a painter uses different colors for a picture. Overused, yeah, they can be annoying. Used right, they can make a boring song exciting. The naysayers probably wouldn't tell David Gilmour or Eddie Van Halen they shouldn't use effects. To each his own but don't slam players for expanding their sound. Pedals Rock!

Agreed. Lower pup heights and add drive at amp or pedal. 👍👍 Magnet types depend on pup placement ie; bridge or neck. For instance my Strat has... Neck pup split AlNiCo 2 & 3. Middle pup is AlNiCo 3. Bridge is AlNiCo 5. Talk about ear fatigue balancing volumes for each😝😊

Yes, Jack, I have a Japanese 58 spec Edwards Les Paul that I have modified to encapsulate the variety of influences of mine, and I have installed a Gibson ceramic 498r (Updated Original Collection) in the neck and a revamped and reprised Gibson Dirty Fingers Humbucker in the bridge (Gibson Original Collection). I had set them both to be low to a particular pitch, with the neck set a notch lower than the bridge so as to enable them to be as harmonically versatile yet gruff in unison with one another. The volume and tones created are sublime! To make matters more interesting about this setup, I had also installed a faber aluminum tune o matic with 3 brass and 3 titanium saddles and an aluminum Gotoh 510 tailpiece for extra uniqueness of tones. The wiring is made as 50s wiring with 15uf Bumble-Bee capacitors for the neck and 22uf Bumble-Bee for the bridge. I can't bring myself to change it after that, at least for that Les paul. It screams, moans, and whispers, who it is that I am quintessentially.

I very much prefer overwound pickups and I raise them as high as I can without hitting any strings when I play the higher frets. In part that's because I usually play hard rock but even if I'm going for a clean sound I like when my tone is a bit more bold.

I’m pedal curious. So far it’s like salt in a recipe, can’t use too much, but a Goldilocks portion is quite tasty. I mostly play classicals and acoustics. Love ‘em. Marvelous tone. Once I pick up something with a pickup, I want to do something altogether different. Why not?

I’m pedal curious. So far it’s like salt in a recipe, can’t use too much, but a Goldilocks portion is quite tasty. I mostly play classicals and acoustics. Love ‘em. Marvelous tone. Once I pick up something with a pickup, I want to do something altogether different. Why not?

Nice topic. Many ways of enjoying tone, and endless discussions. I'd say let it be, let people make music in a way they like to express themselves. With or without pedals. And don't pay too much attention to the online corksniffers who probably never play live with a band. Do your thing and enjoy it. I play different amps and different guitars, sometimes with just a few good pedals, sometimes with lots of em. Gainstacking is fun, and no guitar straight into an amp can provide that versatility..

Honestly, it's whatever gets you to pick up and play. I myself love pedals, but I also adore a plug-in and play setup just as much as I do a pedal platform.