THE best electro acoustic guitar!

Advantages: Sound, build, playability
Disadvantages: Rounded back can be awkward at first.

...If you have read some of my other guitar reviews, you will know im a bit of a collector of guitars. In fact, you could almost say its an obsession. Therfore no collection would be complete without an axe from one of the world's finest and best known acoustic producers. Ovation. I own the Ovation Celebrity Deluxe which i believe is the finest looking in the Ovation range. However, you will also know that from my other reviews, Im left handed with the guitar which narrows your choice in colour. For a Right hander, the choices include, Black, Natural, Wine, Green and a sunburst effect top and also available in vasious mapel finishes. Im afraid to say my only choice was Black. Still it does look rather fetching and contrasts well with the Marquetry effect leaves around the multiple sound holes. Being an Ovation, it does come...

andycharger 31.10.2007 · Read review
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Review of Ovation Celebrity Deluxe CS257-RRB Acoustic Electric Guitar

female folk guitarist?buy ovation custom elite!

Advantages: well crafted,digital tuner tunes in open or non standard. beautiful sounding, round back
Disadvantages: only case i could purchase for the model was very large and hard to transport.

...When I saw this guitar, there was no two ways about it, I had to have it. My father took me to a music shop on my 14th birthday to help me pick my first acoustic guitar, after playing a basic electric learners guitar. The fact was I had begun to start song writing and I was coming out with pure folk melodies and tunes. I wanted to have a guitar that fitted the music I was writing. When I saw the Ovation custom elite model, CE768, and played it for the first time, I new this guitar not only looked beautiful, but sounded so too. I can just give my simple and personal view on it. I hope this is appreciated. At gigs the guitar gets recognised as being significantly "folk?. The detail and decoration are noticeable, of the Ovation oak leaf pattern. In my opinion I feel that this guitar is...

natty91 18.07.2007 · Read review
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Review of Ovation Custom Elite CE768 Acoustic Electric Guitar

ADAMAS 1687 by Ovation

Advantages: Powerful sound both unplugged and plugged. It makes a difference!
Disadvantages: Not a wooden guitar. It lacks the "rings and bells" of a wooden guitar.

...Features: 10 THE TOP: Called a Fibronic Soundboard, the Adamas top is really a composite structure built with two .005" carbon-graphite outer layers with a .035" birch veneer sandwiched in the center, all bonded together at 250 degrees F. Extremely rigid, yet uniquely thin membrane, one-third the thickness of a typical spruce top (Ovation claims that since the very first prototype Adamas was built in 1973, no Fibronic top has ever cracked!). TOP BRACING: Adamas Fan, engineered specifically for the Fibronic Soundboard to achieve the design objective of + or - 3db change over the entire playing range of the guitar. BODY: 6-1/16" deep Ovation Lyrachord bowl. BODY BINDING: Carved Fiberglass Ring. NECK: Kaman Bar, unique neck reinforcing system. AESTHETICS: The scroll-like design of the peghead (Acanthus leaf) gives...

Elias 02.12.2002 (12.04.2003) · Read review
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Review of Ovation Adamas 1687 Acoustic Electric Guitar

Ovation Elite

Advantages: superb quality, plays well
Disadvantages: costly little number

...The Ovation Elite is my newest guitar and i have had it for about 6 months. At over £1100 pounds it was not cheap but has become my No 1 instrument in that time The build quality is excellent and hard to fault. It is the standard Ovation round back and has small holes for the sound box in the top right of the body. These are surrounded by coloured wood and look very impressive. the hardware is well made and fitted It is an acoustic guitear with built in ickups for amplified playing and the elctronics give a warcm and textured sound. this is probably the real main use for this model and live It would sound superb. you have a recessed set of controls i the top of the guitar for the electronics and they allow subtle changes of sound easily. The action is low and very responsive but with no buzzs of any kind. The cost is...

rowemg 25.08.2000 · Read review
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Review of Ovation - Elite

Ovation Country Artist Classical Electric

Advantages: Price, playability, craftmanship, live and recorded sound
Disadvantages: average acoutic sound, round back guitar

...The Ovation Country Artist classical guitar is what one would expect from and American made Ovation. It is equally at home on the stage or in the studio. The acoustic sound is unbalanced, as the wound strings over power the nylon/gut strings, but plug it in and this guitar shines. Each string has an idividual peizo transducer which is coupled with a pre-amp that has a four band EQ and a notch filter to elimenate feed-back during live performances. In the studio, the signal has no noticable noise to muddy up a recording. This guitar is well made. The seka spruce top has a flawless clear finish; the head stock has side mounted ornate slot tuners which are beatiful to look at and a pleasure to use; the neck is wide and thin and very easy to finger with ample room between strings; fret work is imaculate; the intonation of the ebony...

Uglybro 11.06.2003 · Read review
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Review of Ovation Country Artist 6773 Classical Guitar

Wii Can All Play Guitar Now

Advantages: Ability to choose any combination of instrument to play with your friends.
Disadvantages: You must have additional instrument controllers to play the game. The downloadable tracks are rela

...Despite that over the years I have amassed a sizeable collection of video games for various games consoles; very few of those games have had me more anxious to purchase them than ?Guitar Hero 5?. Even though it has only been a short time since the release of their best of game ?Guitar Hero: Smash Hits? the wait for the games was next to unbearable for me. Finally the release date of 11th September rolled around and my then newly purchased Rock Band: Beatles found its self taking a backseat even though I had only just purchased it two days beforehand on ?Beatles Day?. How to Rock So for all of you who have never experienced this fantastic gaming series and genre here is a brief explanation as to what it?s all about. Basically the game revolves around you press various buttons in time to a pattern of dots that move along...

HarryKgh 02.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Guitar Hero 5 (Wii)

From guitar zero to Guitar Hero

Advantages: Portable, new songs
Disadvantages: Awkward to press all the buttons, bruises your hand!

...Being an avid fan of the previous Guitar Hero games, my name was one of the first on the pre-order list. My little bundle of joy arrived through my letter box yesterday morning (the day after the release date) delivered from HMV.com with free delivery, totalling £26.99 (with student discount). In the box, you get the add-on part with the coloured buttons that you insert into the GameBoy Advance slot on your DS, a seperate attachement that you have to use if you are using an old style DS, a plectrum stylus, the game catridge, a game case, two sticker sheets and the instructions - though don't ask me what they say, I figured I would work everything out along the way. The add-on part comes with an adjustable velcro strap so that every size of hand will fit. When you have connected it to the DS, put the game in and turned on the DS...

Luvlylana 20.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of Guitar Hero: On Tour (Nintendo DS)

Time to Break Out the Guitar

Advantages: Rocking out to the greatest songs of all time | Great graphics for those watching
Disadvantages: Could use some more songs | More unlockable / purchasble content

...Difficulty: Medium Learning Curve: 30 - 60 minutes Who would of thought it, a game where you could play as a lead guitarist be so ridiculously addictive and fun? Guitar Hero hits this game right on the gaming industry nail. Even such an idea of a game must of made them think this would be an instant hit, who needs the thrill of their garage band and trying to make it big with their friends when they can just play this? Guitar Hero allows you to play several famous songs, including Ace of Spades, I Love Rock and Roll, I Wanna Be Sedated, Iron Man, More Then a Feeling and even the legendary Ziggy Stardust! How you play this rocking game? You will need to purchase a guitar hero guitar (which you can get in a bundle with the game itself), with this, you plug it in a rock out to the tunes. You use five frets, a strum bar...

DBZKing 19.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Guitar Hero (PS2)

Guitar Hero or Zero????

Advantages: Great for guitarists or complete begginers
Disadvantages: No upgrade shop on easy mode

...Guitar hero is the first of 2 games in the series by red octane. It is for the PS2 and is rated 12+. It's a 1 or 2 player game and can be played with the guitar controller or a normal PS2 analogue controller. The guitar controller is supplied in most packages for this game and the second in the series. I love this game and when I got it for Christmas I was so happy and couldn't wait to get it fired up and start rocking. Being some one who doesn't play the Play station that much my parents were kind of surprised that I had asked for a game for Christmas but now even they have a shot of it!!! The game is sponsored by Gibson, a major guitar company, So all of the guitars in game are Gibson's and the Guitar controller is modelled on the Gibson SG. - The Box- The box for the package is about a meter long and 30cm wide (approx...

ILIKEMONEY 07.03.2007 · Read review
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Review of Guitar Hero (PS2)

Rock out with Guitar Hero III, wirelessly.

Advantages: Enjoyable, Easy to learn, Play on multiple levels, hours of play time.
Disadvantages: That you must complete a certain level to acess some songs.

...Years ago my friend, Henri, introduced me to Guitar Hero and I was hooked. Unfortunatally I only had a PC so I had just admire Guitar Hero from afar. Then when my house bought a Wii I just new that I had to get Guitar Hero and I was even luckier because HMV was selling it for £35 compared to the original and expensive £70. I have also seen it in CEX (The second hand electronic store), but it was expensive there as well at £60. For my £35 pounds I got: 1x Wireless Guitar, 1X Wii Game Disc (Legends of rock), 1X sheet of stickers to personalise the guitar. "Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock" is a sequeal in the Guitar Hero (GH) series. Others include GH Metallica, GH ... The game disc is compatible with Guitar Hero Wii Guitars and so could be purchased separatly as just an addition to your GH collection. The best place to buy the game...

LoolooMe 06.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Wii)