Ovation CC245 Celebrity 12 String Cutaway Acoustic Electric Guitar (Honeyburst)
Friday, February 26th, 2010 at
11:56 am
|
User Reviews
Send this to a friend
|
| Ovation CC245 Celebrity 12 String Cutaway Acoustic Electric Guitar (Honeyburst) |
| |
 |
| Manufacturer: Ovation |
| Customer Rating: |
|
| List Price: $629.50 |
| Sale Price: $382.74 |
| Availibility: Usually ships in 1-2 business days |
|
| Buy Now |
|
| |
Product Description |
| The Ovation CC245 Celebrity 12 String Cutaway Acoustic Electric Guitar is the ideal way to get that broad, unique 12 string sound on your stage!Thanks to the Ovation Celebrity line, the sound that made the acoustic guitar a viable electric instrument, is now within everyone's reach. Features include an Ovation Slimline pickup, a center-soundhole, a rosewood fingerboard and gold hardware. Built by Ovation's Pacific-based subsidiary, the Celebrity benefits from the same USA-made Lyrachord body as its more upscale American brothers.Onboard Active PreampThe OP4BT preamp offers +/-12dB control over the bass, midrange, and treble frequencies for great tonal flexibility. It's on-board tuner is easy to use and helps you stay perfectly in-tune, even when using open or non-standard tunings.Ovation GuitarsOvation guitars first captured the interest of professional musicians who wanted an acoustic guitar with greater projection on stage. The most visible of these guitarists in the late '60s was Glen Campbell. Every week Glen and his Ovation were welcomed into millions of homes around the country, as America tuned intoThe Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour.In the beginning only about 15% of the Ovation guitars had pickups. Ten years later, 90% of our guitars were acoustic/electric. The truly amazing thing is that it also took about 10 years before any of our competition began to offer acoustic/electric models as standard in their line.While the Ovation pickup has remained the same, the electronics have kept pace with the players' needs and sound reinforcement technology. Over the past 25 years, Ovation has maintained its leadership as the dominant acoustic electric guitar in the world. |
|
Product Details |
- Body Shape: Mid-Depth Cutaway
- Top: Spruce
- Bracing: Modified X
- Electronics: OP4BT Preamp
- Scale Length: 25 1/4"
|
Video Reviews |
 No video reviews found for this product.
|
Customer Reviews |
 Oh, what a glorious sound! |
| Review Date: January 28, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Kathleen Bergeron, Reston, VA USA |
| I love this guitar -- I purchased one of these Ovation Celebrity 12-strings about a year and a half ago. I also have an electric solid body guitar and a small 6-string acoustic, but this is the one with the most beautiful voice. It's just on a different plain from six string guitars, much like hearing a singing duet harmonizing. A concern I had before I bought it was tuning. How was I going to make sure all those strings were in tune, and, wasn't the tuning situation for 12-strings different? Not to worry, this thing has a built in electronic tuner. You just pop in a battery, push a button, and then whenever you hit a string, the device gives you the note you're closest to, as well as an arrow showing whether you're too high or too low. You just adjust the tension of the string accordingly. I would recommend getting Ovation's hard body case. It's an additional cost, and it's not cheap, but it gives you so much protection. There are "gig bags" as they call them that can be purchased for this, but they're pretty flimsy. This guitar, like all Ovations, looks unusual, although you cannot see it in the photo, you'd need a side shot for that. The bodies are made of a special high-tech plastic and the guitars have a rounded bottom, much different from other guitars. But there's a reason for that: It's an ideal shape, but not something you could easily accomplish with wood. When you hear "plastic," don't think that means they're cheaply made. Not so; this is a fine quality instrument. And when you hear the wonderful tone, you wonder how they could sell them for such a relatively low price. Perhaps the only drawback is that it has such a full-bodied sound -- as do most all 12-strings -- it may not be a good idea for those living in apartments or condos, unless you're very discreet in your playing. |
|
Tagged with: acoustic • cc245 • celebrity • cutaway • electric • guitar • honeyburst • ovation • string
Filed under:
12 String Guitars
Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more!
Leave a Reply