Chords for Ovation MCS148 Celebrity Acoustic-Electric Mandolin Demo

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[A] Welcome back to GearWire.com. This is the Ovation Celebrity mandolin.
It is made
in Korea _ and it's basically the Ovation sort of Adamas guitar construction
shrunk down to mandolin size.
You've got all the tiny sound holes, I think there's
14 all together, _ and the sort of composite scooped back _ and it also does
have a really nice sounding preamp.
We're listening to the preamp right now.
It's an OP 24 plus and let's just go over a couple of the controls on the
preamp _ here.
It is a solid spruce top on this guy, _ not one of
the sort of like carbon fiber composite tops, but there's a overall volume
control, there is a three band EQ.
Right now I've got the mids boosted a little
bit and the treble cut out a little bit to get rid of some of the sort of
inherent quackiness in the P's.
If we bypass the EQ, which we can do with a
simple press here, _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ you can hear there's a little bit of quackiness.
Even then
it's not really so harsh, you really got to kind of like boost the treble for it
to be harsh.
Let's bring the EQ [Am] back in though.
_ There's also a pre-shape control
which is a mid cut, _ _ _ _ [E] which kind of cuts the presence back a little bit.
[G] So you
can actually sort of, you know, if you play both rhythm and lead on the
mandolin, you can kind of switch between two tones using the pre-shape control,
although, you know, navigating these little tiny controls in here might be a
little bit of a challenge, but so like here's a rhythm tone _
_ [D] and _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
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_ this
would be your lead tone. _ _
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_ [G] _ There's also a mid shift here, let's boost the mids a
little bit more.
_ _ _ _ Mid shift, _ _ _ _ _ you can hear a little bit, we'll see that again. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ It [A] just
kind of lowers the mid frequency a little bit, not by much, but just a
slightly different sound.
So there's a couple different, you know, tonal options
on this guy.
_ Let's hear what this, the [Am] Celebrity Mandolin sounds like
unplugged. _
So we've got our trusty 414 set up.
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[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [G] _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [E] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _
So you can hear it's a very bright
tone.
_ It sounds loud right now because, well, there's nothing to compare it to
and it's _ right up against this AKG, but this is actually a relatively quiet
mandolin as mandolins go. _
_ _ You know, it's really designed to be plugged in.
Let me just, that wasn't, it wasn't plugged into anything. _
It is designed to be
plugged in _ _ and probably the sort of the shallow back and the spruce top
probably contribute to the fact that it's not quite as loud as, _ you know,
like a Gibson F4 _ or even like some of the lower price like Epiphone, like
teardrop style mandolins, the A-shape mandolins, _ _ but it plays really well.
This
mandolin retails for a little under $500, so it's not a super cheap mandolin.
It's definitely less expensive than the American-made Ovation mandolin and it
does, I mean, the intonation is pretty nice _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
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[D#] and it's a relatively easy mandolin
to play, especially for this price range and it sounds pretty good. _ _
It's got strap
buttons, which is nice.
Anyway, yeah, there you go.
So that's the Ovation _ Celebrity
mandolin made in Korea.
It retails for, it's about $480, I think, in most places.
You've been watching GearWire.com and I am Owen O'Malley.