Ovation Coming Back?

[idsnowdog]

In the old days your only options were to mic a guitar, use a magnetic soundhole pickup or modify a guitar to take a piezo. Putting a mic on a guitar was awkward because the sensitivity of the microphones caused feedback issues onstage. Magnetic soundhole pickups were awkward because you had a cable running out of the soundhole which reduced mobility. Lastly modifying a guitar to take a piezo wasn't the greatest solution because you often didn't have room for an oboard preamp and you would get a weak low fi signal that was hard to amplify. The Ovations addressed a lot of these problems, but to an extent they have been technically superseded and there are plenty of guitars today that have superior acoustic properties and have built in electronics.