Colin...I have the same CC67 in natural. Have lived it since I purchased it when I was 15. Just had the top 8 refretted, and fingerboard resurfaced...oh my, just like day 1. What a great workhorse of an instrument. Survived a fire that nearly took me. It has been a life-long companion. My first strap was also a rainbow strap too...lol! Many happy years to you sir.
Hi , Colin , I have the Same Celebrity than you and I would like to record it in Cubase , But the Problem is like there is no Battery The Signal is Too Weak , Have you met the problem , and What is the solution, do i Need a Preamp? thanks a lor for Your answer - Kish
Yes, the signal is very low level compared to a guitar with built in preamp, like the modern Ovations. I don’t think I’ve ever recorded the signal direct to a computer but I’m sure I’d need to set the gain to max to make it even near usable. So yes, ideally you need some kind of preamp or clean boost pedal before going into the interface on your computer. To be honest, I think you’d get better sound using a mic and plugging that in to the computer though.
I think you are right. It still looks an feels like a form ofplastic though :-) I even had someone ask me once if I couldn't afford a proper guitar and could only get this plastic one.
I bought an Ovation Ultra 1512 mid-80s, maybe marginally higher in the range than yours in that it was fully branded, labelled and sold as an Ovation albeit at the lower end of the scale. Kept it until 2019 when I traded it in for a new "lifetime" acoustic - a top-end Rainsong (look 'em up!) - which I expect to outlast me 😁. Anyway, was always a very pleasant sounding and playable instrument. Two notable differences. 1) Mine had no tone control, just volume. 2) and more relevant.. a much fatter fully intonated saddle (piezo transducer under it was probably wider than yours too) which meant that the intonation was spot on across all strings with 12s (but it would have been harder to reduce the saddle height so Ovation fitted removable mica shims underneath it to compensate for that).
I looked up Rainsong. They sound good from what I hear in the video’s. And I get the concept of the stability etc. But I’ve got to admit I need to get used to the look. Maybe I’ll go try one somewhere.
@@ColinLPrice I have a WS1000 "Black Ice" - so the soundboard is an "artistic" jumble of carbon fibre segments in random directions unlike the models which used the carbon fibre stripes as "grain". Anyway, mine at least is a fantastic sounding guitar, played it against some very expensive (£4K+) OM / OOO size top brands and it holds its own very well. Better to my ear, clearer and more balanced than, for example, a Martin 000-28EC. Wonderful tone. So I hope it holds up over the years to come, and reading the tales from the Rainsong owners groups / forums I've no reason to think it won't. Not cheap, but one of the key features of the Ovation, to me, was the stability and resilience - an everyday guitar built to take some abuse - and I think / hope the Rainsong is likely the same with knobs on, not an expensive case queen!
Colin...I have the same CC67 in natural. Have lived it since I purchased it when I was 15. Just had the top 8 refretted, and fingerboard resurfaced...oh my, just like day 1. What a great workhorse of an instrument. Survived a fire that nearly took me. It has been a life-long companion. My first strap was also a rainbow strap too...lol! Many happy years to you sir.
Thanks for sharing that 🙂This is what I love about TH-cam.
Thks Col for that walk down memory lane. I bought a Celebrity copy if an Ovation becos of the one u had. haha. It's hiding in the loft.
Good to hear that someone was inspired by me :-)
Go get that guitar out of the loft and get playing it !
Hi , Colin , I have the Same Celebrity than you and I would like to record it in Cubase , But the Problem is like there is no Battery The Signal is Too Weak , Have you met the problem , and What is the solution, do i Need a Preamp? thanks a lor for Your answer - Kish
Yes, the signal is very low level compared to a guitar with built in preamp, like the modern Ovations. I don’t think I’ve ever recorded the signal direct to a computer but I’m sure I’d need to set the gain to max to make it even near usable. So yes, ideally you need some kind of preamp or clean boost pedal before going into the interface on your computer.
To be honest, I think you’d get better sound using a mic and plugging that in to the computer though.
@@ColinLPrice Thanks a lot Colin ! it's very nice from you ! Musically Kish
It’s not plastic- it’s ”lyrachord” I believe, a space age composite , invented for use on helicopters.
I think you are right. It still looks an feels like a form ofplastic though :-)
I even had someone ask me once if I couldn't afford a proper guitar and could only get this plastic one.
I bought an Ovation Ultra 1512 mid-80s, maybe marginally higher in the range than yours in that it was fully branded, labelled and sold as an Ovation albeit at the lower end of the scale. Kept it until 2019 when I traded it in for a new "lifetime" acoustic - a top-end Rainsong (look 'em up!) - which I expect to outlast me 😁. Anyway, was always a very pleasant sounding and playable instrument.
Two notable differences. 1) Mine had no tone control, just volume. 2) and more relevant.. a much fatter fully intonated saddle (piezo transducer under it was probably wider than yours too) which meant that the intonation was spot on across all strings with 12s (but it would have been harder to reduce the saddle height so Ovation fitted removable mica shims underneath it to compensate for that).
I looked up Rainsong. They sound good from what I hear in the video’s. And I get the concept of the stability etc. But I’ve got to admit I need to get used to the look. Maybe I’ll go try one somewhere.
@@ColinLPrice I have a WS1000 "Black Ice" - so the soundboard is an "artistic" jumble of carbon fibre segments in random directions unlike the models which used the carbon fibre stripes as "grain". Anyway, mine at least is a fantastic sounding guitar, played it against some very expensive (£4K+) OM / OOO size top brands and it holds its own very well. Better to my ear, clearer and more balanced than, for example, a Martin 000-28EC. Wonderful tone. So I hope it holds up over the years to come, and reading the tales from the Rainsong owners groups / forums I've no reason to think it won't. Not cheap, but one of the key features of the Ovation, to me, was the stability and resilience - an everyday guitar built to take some abuse - and I think / hope the Rainsong is likely the same with knobs on, not an expensive case queen!
Those strings!!! Eeek. Get them changed lol
Plenty of life in them yet :-)
Just wait, I have a ‘barn-find’ video on the way.