Subj : revert to Ovation smack
To   : Steve Kemp
From : Richard Webb
Date : Sat May 08 2010 02:03 pm

HI Steve,

On Sat 2038-May-08 02:58, Steve Kemp (1:123/789) wrote to Richard Webb:

 RW>> Anybody who read this echo back in the heyday can remember
 RW>> that our friendly echo mod at the time said that flaming an
 RW>> Ovation guitar was quite appropriate for this echo, in fact
 RW>> real flames and ovation guitars were a good match <g>.
<snippety dooh dah>
 RW> THe whole point of the Ovation was the pickups, and if it
 RW> didn't have supposedly that round back heped it project
 RW> better.

SK> It's all hype over "blow".

SK> In a real hardcore stage setting an Ovation can be kept from feeding
SK> back, is all.

SK> And that's the only reason I'd use one.

YEp, and mine worked well enough for that.  YEt, a friend of mine bought a nice 
Martin, can't recall the pickups he had
installed in it, ah man, name ain't coming to me, but a very popular system 
with the little preamp, etc.  I loved that
system.  AT first I dreaded it when he brought it to gigs
where I was doing sound, but ah there we go, FIshman.  THat
FIshman system was great.  I could get him dialed in, feed
him direct to the board, let him establish his working
position (usually sitting on an inverted bucket) and eq his
monitor a bit.  NIce tone.  I could often suplement the
FIshman system with a sd condenser to get a little more air, especially when he 
was playing sans drummer.  I don't play
out in electric band situations enough to make it worth
installing such a system in my Martin though, but if I were
....


Regards,
           Richard
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