Ovation Legend eats Larrivee for lunch...

[Roman]

Come on guys... Just let this topic die already. You take yourselves and your guitars too seriously.

Please . . . it's fun.  Keep it up guys!

[unclrob]

Cowgirlie....I resemble that remark.......... :GRN>

[danijoe]

Well, I've done it. Based on the wise thoughts on this thread, I've traded my 4 Larrivee's on a used beat up Ovation. I only had to put up another $400 on top of the trade value of my 4 Larrivees but what a sound the Ovation makes. Reminds me - well it reminds me of the Ovation I overpaid for new in 1975. Why did I buy one? Well, everyone else of any stature in the biz was playing one. It almost broke my heart when I traded it a few years later for a Takamine (but, hey, everyone of any stature in the biz was playing a Tak.) Then I saw an ad in my local buy and sell mag which changed my life. For sale - Larrivee 12 string. I always wanted a 12 string so I bought it. Thus began my 16 year love affair with, what I now know to be a sadly inferior guitar. Thanks to all of you who said nice things about Ovation  - you helped me do what was necessary - get rid of the well crafted, great sounding, great looking hunks of firewood. I'll be seeing other like minded Larrivee owners over in the Ovation forum. Again thanks to all for your wisdom.

Joe

[danijoe]

                                                                                                               NOT!!!   :GRN> :GRN>
         

Just Kidding!

Joe

[jeremy3220]

                                                                                                               NOT!!!   :GRN> :GRN>
         

Just Kidding!

Joe

You're not foolin us! Well if it was something like a Taylor we might have believed it.

[Jackwr]

Proving once again that most people listen with their eyes and not their ears!

:rolleyes:You should try it, it would be an improvement for you since you obviously have a tin ear! :rolleyes:

[Cowgirlie]

There is a kind of insect in the south that listens with it's eyes.....

And by the way Glen Campbell may have played aa Ovation...but look who he dated, and look at his rrest record. Toxic plastic fumes must have fried his brain. 

Unclrob, my apologies....maybe you ought to shave the goatee. :GRN>

[unclrob]

cowgirlie LOL.If I shaved my chin hair then I'd have muten chops.that would make me a lamb not and old goat. :GRN>

[roknroll]

Bats can technically see with their ears.  Sonar baby!

[jeremy3220]

Unclrob, my apologies....maybe you ought to shave the goatee. :GRN>

Go with a big Fu Manchu! That would be pimp  :mellow:

[wyodeb]

I'm with Cowgirlie. While you guys are on the bridge playing with trolls, we're having a nice picnic on the green grass on the other side of the bridge, watching you guys, playing our guitars, and ROTFL!

Deb

[Calvin]

This thread is funny.

I am almost tempted to trade in all my Larrivee and Martins for an Ovation.  LoL.  and I "wont forget to visit the OVATION FORUM" hahahaha... yeah right. :rolleyes:  Well it has been the busiest thread in a while though, lol.

[bing4sons]

I bought an Ovation Legend in 1979 for somewhere around $600.  At the time I could have gotten a Martin for about the same amount of money.  At the time, Ovation was state of the art for plugged in sound.  It had a truss rod to adjust the neck, again state of the art.  It sounded good, both plugged in and unplugged.  It had a 1 5/8" neck, which felt like an electric and which fit my small hands to a "T".  This guitar was my one and only guitar for 18 years, until I bought my Taylor in 1997. 

The Ovation rarely gets played these days.  If I go camping or I'm playing in hot/cold temperatures, I'll take my Ovation with me.  I still have it, for sentimental reasons and because I couldn't get enough money for it to make it worth selling.

I never heard of Larrivee or Taylor in 1979, but if I had, I bet it would be worth more now than it was back then.

I have played some Larrivees that had a compressed sound.  I've played others that sounded open and rang like a bell.  The good ones beat the Ovation hands down acoustically.  Electronics have advanced SO much since I bought my Ovation.  It can't hang with any of my other guitar plugged in.  My other guitars can all be upgraded, as electronics improved.  My Ovation can not.

[tragocaster]

Have you tried the new Ovations LX? X-scalloped braced, contour bowl! How about the Adamas reissue? These are the BEST guitars for the money on the market today! Give them a try.

[Calvin]

I tried lighting one on fire .  HAHAHAHA.

[Sordello]

Beware everyone:   Ovationfanclub  is actually DaVinci Code spelled sideways. It's an Opus Dei plot to make people sell their guitars by French sounding luthiers for DADGAD (Dei God !?) friendly plastic-back guitars that can float on water.
Please, ALL Larrivee owners: keep the faith alive!  :POL>

[dbirchett]

Well, this is certainly the most negative thread we've had for awhile. I'd just like to add or second a couple of points.

1. Ovations are nice guitars. They certainly have their place in the guitar world. Haven't played one in a long while but they were the only thing out there for a long time for an electro-acoustic. Heaed and shoulders above anything else. Acoustically, they do not sound like a solid wood guitar but they sound pretty good in their own right. Some people may even prefer them to the sound of a solid wood guitar. Its possible. After all, some people say that they prefer the sound of Taylors. (Ooooh, I didn't really say that, did I?) 

2. As difficult as it may be to believe, there may be Larrivees out there that for whatever reason do not sound like the superlative instrument we have come to know and love.  :mellow: The guitar may have something that is keeping it from reaching its full potential.

3. When your ear is accustomed to a certain sound, departures from that standard may sound inferior. Different strokes for different ...

I had an Ovation for a while. An Ovation Anniversary. Nice guitar. Played smooth as silk. That model had deluxe inlays, herringbone binding, red, white and blue soundhole purfling, carved walnut bridge and a tinted top. Played great sounded OK. It filled a niche. Bought it about 1983-4 for $225 through a want-ad in the local paper. Traded it off in 1988 for the Mossman 12, paying less than $150. Don't remember exactly. Anyway, that was one I remember fondly but would not really care whether I had it back or not, in contrast to most of the other guitars I have gone through. So it served its purpose very well.

Anyway, that's my $.02.

[tragocaster]

Thanks dbirchett! This is what I am talking about!

[ronmac]

Well said Don.

I really don't see why so many members want to thrash away at tragocaster. Bad manners; insecurity; Ovation envy?  :WNK>

[bob_d]

Well said Don.

I really don't see why so many members want to thrash away at tragocaster. Bad manners; insecurity; Ovation envy?  :WNK>

Maybe because Tragocaster decided to come over here to the Larivvee Forum and for his FIRST POST copy his own Ovation fan-boy post from the Ovation Fan Club, inconspicuously titled "Ovation Legend eats Larrivee for lunch"?

All things being fair, if plywood ear hears it that way that's just fine but how can anyone come into someone else's "house" and expect anything other than animosity with a first post like that? Tragocaster came looking for trouble. He's a troll. Period. He's insecure in the knowledge that he has a plastic and plywood guitar so he needed to come here looking for trouble to make himself feel superior.  :rolleyes:

I don't need to feel superior. I don't need to go over to the Ovation Forum to start a pi$$ing contest. All I need to do is play my OM-03R. If Tragocaster felt the same way about his Legend he wouldn't have had to come here trolling for recognition, and that's the most telling aspect of his first post. He came here and posted this nonsense not to convince us but because he needed to convince himself.