I Walk The Line Johnny Cash Solo Acoustic By Ivan Katz

!±8± I Walk The Line Johnny Cash Solo Acoustic By Ivan Katz

I Walk The Line Johnny Cash Solo Acoustic By Ivan Katz on an Ovation Custom Balladeer. Check out my other cover and original songs and Look for my CD with 23 original songs on Itunes. Ivan Also Writes About Sports Cars: www.examiner.com

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Cover - Heard It In A Love Song - Marsall Tucker

!±8± Cover - Heard It In A Love Song - Marsall Tucker

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Frets99 plays his Ovation Matrix Electric Acoustic Guitar

!±8± Frets99 plays his Ovation Matrix Electric Acoustic Guitar

Pulled out my Flea Market cheapie Ovation Matrix from the 80's. Played me some blues on her.

Frets99 plays his Ovation Matrix Electric Acoustic Guitar

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The Ovation Guitar - The Origin of the Revolutionary Ovation Guitar

!±8± The Ovation Guitar - The Origin of the Revolutionary Ovation Guitar

The Ovation guitar was a revolution in the history of guitar making. Its innovations include the use of synthetic materials in guitar construction, the mathematically designed "bowl back", the use of onboard preamps and piezoelectric pickups, and the offset soundholes of the Adamas series. This article provides a glimpse into the origins of this American original, and its lower priced cousin the Applause guitar.

Charles Kaman, an aeronautical engineer and amateur guitar player, was born in 1917. He played the guitar from an early age, and studied aeronautical engineering in college. After college he worked in helicopter design. At some point, Charlie entered a national guitar competition and made it to the finals. As a result, he got the opportunity to play guitar with the Tommy Dorsey orchestra. Dorsey offered him a job in the band, but Kaman was committed to aeronautics and turned it down.

In 1945, Charlie founded his own helicopter design company, Kaman Aircraft. The company was quite successful and grew steadily until the early 1960s, when the commercial flight division failed. As a result, Kaman was looking to diversify outside of the aircraft and defense related business.

At around this time, Charlie took his warped Martin guitar to the Martin factory for repair. He toured the plant, and was shocked that Martin was building guitars by hand with hammers, animal glue, and clothespins. He offered to buy the company and modernize their manufacturing, but C.F. Martin refused, wanting to keep Martin a family business.

Kaman decided to start his own guitar manufacturing business. He assembled a team of aeronautics engineers to design the ideal acoustic guitar. The result was the Ovation "bowlback", a rounded back made of a fiberglass composite similar to materials used in aircraft construction. The unique shape of the back as designed to focus the soundwaves inside the guitar to maximize the sound transmission.

The first Ovation guitar, the Balladeer, was introduced in 1967. In 1971, Ovation pioneered the acoustic-electric guitar, adding piezo-electric pickups, onboard preamps, and equalizers to some of their guitars. By the 1980s, Ovations had caught on with professional guitar players and were used onstage extensively. Guitarists using Ovations onstage included Glen Campbell, Al DiMeola, Jimmy Page, and many others.

If Charlie Kaman hadn't played the guitar, or hadn't studied aeronautics, or if his Martin hadn't needed a repair at the same time that Kaman Industries needed to diversify, we wouldn't have the Ovation guitar or the Applause guitar today.

The Ovation Guitar - The Origin of the Revolutionary Ovation Guitar

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Making guitars might not be rocket science, but Charlie Kaman applied aerospace and aeronautical science to the manufacturing of the Ovation guitar. Kaman, an aerospace engineer, was a long-time guitarist and wanted to diversify his aerospace company. When he took his Martin guitar to be repaired for a warped neck, he was offered a tour of the factory. He was surprised to find the luthiers there using hand tools, animal glues, and low-tech approaches to guitar making.
Interestingly he offered to buy the Martin guitar company, but was refused -- twice. So he decided to expand his company into guitar production. Like most engineers he approached the problem of making a guitar with engineering precision. He formed a team of people who analyzed problems, formed solutions, and tested them. The Ovation Balladeer was the result of their efforts.

Body

One of the first things people notice about the Ovation guitars is the round back. This was one of those engineering discoveries that Kaman's group made. According to their research, the regular guitar's flat back actually hindered the sound projection. So they chose a round back. In addition they made the back out of a synthetic material -- a composite plastic that Kaman was familiar with due to his experience manufacturing helicopter roto blades. This was another interesting innovation in guitar manufacturing.

Pickups

The acoustic guitars of the day suffered greatly from feedback when guitarists attempted to amplify them. The Ovation guitar was an early adopter of preamps, onboard equalization and piezo pickups. This provided a fantastic improvement in the reduction of feedback. And the sound of Ovation was far more realistic and adjustable than what had been available for standard acoustic guitars. The piezo pickups were another Kaman innovation for the Ovation that was developed through engineering and manufacturing techniques that were standard in the aviation industry.
I am sure the engineers knowledge of aviation electronics helped too.

Celebrity Endorsements

Celebrity endorsements are common in the music industry. Guitar manufacturers feature the celebrities in advertising and often the celebrity's name may appear on a special model guitar in the manufacturer's line. Glen Campbell, a popular entertainer in the 60s who was known for his guitar playing, endorsed the Ovation guitar and frequently played the Ovation on his variety show.
This contributed to Ovation's early success.

Summary

Since the company's inception Ovation guitars have exhibited innovative engineering and design.
From its beginning and continuing to the present, it has created guitars that are still some of the most sought after and desirable acoustic/electrics in the world.

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Field Test: Boss RC-3 Loop Station thru Roland Cube Street

!±8± Field Test: Boss RC-3 Loop Station thru Roland Cube Street

Battery powered looper and amp test in Darby Metro Park. Playing the Ovation Balladeer thru the Boss RC-3 Loop Station (uses one 9-volt) and Roland Cube Street amp (using six AA batteries) Volume on the Guitar is set at Full Volume on the RC-3 is set at about 3/4 (knob at approx 2 o'clock) On the Instrumental Channel of the Cube Street, the Master Volume is at approx 4.5 (11 o'clock) and the Channel Gain is at approx. 3 (10 o'clock) First click on the RC-3 starts recording. The next click stops recording and immediately engages playback and a quick additional click engages overdub recording of the second layer (guitar lead one). When the phrase starts the thrid time, the RC-3 is still in record mode and the thrid layer (guitar lead two) is added without clicking the pedal. When the song is complete two quick clicks will stop the pedal - although on this song, I use the pedal volume control to do a manual fade. I am using the Kodak Zi8 video camera and the on-camera microphone which is about 20 feet away. I am playing the instrumental section of my song "On Life and Living" from my CD "Solo Sojourn Live" available at cdbaby.com All Rights Reserved ~ Posted by Authors and Content Owners

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Ovation 1861 AX Standard Balladeer Super Shallow Acoustic Electric Guitar, Black

!±8±Ovation 1861 AX Standard Balladeer Super Shallow Acoustic Electric Guitar, Black

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This standard balladeer features a hand-selected, deluxe aa solid-spruce top with scalloped bracing, and a super-shallow composite body. its slim bowl is preferred by many stage performers and amplified acoustic guitarists because it feels similar to an electric, yet it retains all the benefits and acoustic properties of ovation’s proven roundback design. a cutaway offers full access to the satin-finished, 5-piece mahogany/maple neck, and a traditional center soundhole is inlaid with an oak-leaf rosette and adorned with mother-of-pearl. the balladeer’s op-pro preamp and ocp-1k pickup produce uncompromising plugged-in performance.

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Young Cardinals (Acoustic) - Alexisonfire

!±8± Young Cardinals (Acoustic) - Alexisonfire

Having fun playing "Young Cardinals" from Alexisonfire with acoustic guitars.

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this song had some dope parts, but in my opinion the piece as a whole didn't do them justice.. so i added some licks, moved some parts, and changed the tempo and feel of it - just for kicks. : ) -jms

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Guitars - Ovation

!±8± Guitars - Ovation

The year was 1966. Guitars had already been around for some time. People expected them to be more or less of a certain type and design. There weren't any real radical innovations in the manufacture of the guitar. And then came along a company by the name of Ovation. They weren't going to just make another guitar. They were going to come out with something completely different. So in 1966, when they broke out into the scene, they came out with their very unique round back guitar, thanks to a guy by the name of Charlie Kaman. The pro musicians of the time absolutely loved the guitar. The guitar purists were not quite as enthused. They just didn't get it.

The odd part of how this guitar actually came to be had nothing to do with guitar manufacture at all. Kaman's knowledge of helicopters and more specifically, helicopter blades, game him a really good understanding of vibration and applied this principal to the making of his new guitar model.

Kaman said that he didn't want to just make another guitar. He said that we had the technology to make something truly different and not only different, but better. So Kaman chose a team of engineers and technicians from the aerospace industry to work on his new project. It didn't hurt that many of these guys had taken up woodworking as a hobby.

What these scientists had come up with was that the common flat body of the guitar was actually not a help but a hindrance to the sound of the guitar. So the first thing they did was break the first rule of making a guitar. They chucked the idea of the flat body completely and made the round body. This design actually gave the guitar a more consistent sound from the bass end to the treble end. They also made the guitar stronger and more sturdy.

Today, Ovation makes a large number of guitar models including the LX Series Standard Balladeer. This guitar is a 6 string acoustic/electric. Its body is a mid depth bowl type. It has a bound rosewood fretboard, rosewood bridge and original patented pickups. The Standard Balladeer is one of Ovations most popular guitar models.

Then of course you have the Custom Legend guitar series. The 1779 USA model has a painted American Flag on the body that is just breathtaking. It also has a mid depth body, bound ebony fretboard and ebony bridge. Even if you don't play the guitar, this is one show piece that just having around the house is going to bring up lots of discussions.

The Elite series has a mid depth cutaway body type. The fretboard is bound ebony with an ebony bridge. It comes with an Ovation Hi-Output pickup which is really loud. This is one guitar that you won't have any trouble hearing even in a large hall.

These models only scratch the surface of the Ovation guitar line, all featuring their round body.

Whatever the critics might think, these guitars sound like none other on the planet.

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