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Adamas

2080-NWT

The World’s Most Advanced Acoustic Guitar

Representing the ultimate craftsmanship from Ovation’s flagship workshop in New Hartford, Connecticut, the Adamas 1687 features a unidirectional carbon-graphite suspended soundboard with Quintad bracing, which provide a bold, clear voice and lightning-fast response. The non-cutaway Deep Bowl composite body delivers maximum acoustic output, and the guitar’s detailed ornamentation—including a carved peghead scroll, carved walnut bridge, and elaborately decorated soundholes—make a striking visual statement. Designed to reduce hum and line noise, the onboard FET preamp delivers stunning stereo output, and waist-mounted individual volume and tone controls are quick and easy to adjust while performing.

Contour Bowl

Made from glass-microsphere impregnated Lyrachord composite, Ovation’s Contour Bowl is designed to provide maximum acoustic response with the feel of a small-body instrument. Sculpted to fit the contour of the player’s anatomy, the lightweight Lyrachord GS body is a joy to hold, whether sitting or standing. A Contour Bowl body has the acoustic projection, midrange punch, and huge bottom end of a traditional jumbo-style instrument, yet offers the playing comfort of Ovation’s Super-Shallow body. With its tough-as-nails construction, this body shape represents the latest evolution of Ovation’s pioneering roundback design.

VIP-5

Featuring Ovation’s advanced Virtual Image Processing (VIP) technology, the VIP-5 preamp replicates the sound of high-end microphones used in professional recording studios. Using spectrographic analysis, the VIP-5 compares a guitar’s saddle pickup output to stored audio “images” of a guitar recorded with a studio condenser microphone. The pickup signal is then processed using approximately 1,000 filters and shaped to match the recorded sound image. With this compact, rugged, and easy-to-operate digital preamp, guitarists can finally enjoy stellar studio sound on stage. The VIP-5 also offers 3-band EQ, a battery status light, and a chromatic tuner.

VIP-5 pre-amp

Adamas

2080-NWT

Specs

Description:: 6 String Acoustic/Electric
Top:: Woven Carbon Graphite
Bracing:: LX Scalloped Bracing
Scale Length:: 25 1/4"
Fretboard:: Deluxe Grade Ebony
Fret Inlay:: Pearl 12th Fret Contour Inlay

Sound Hole:: Aluminum Tear Drop
Pickup:: Ovation High Output
Preamp:: VIP-5
Bridge:: Deluxe Grade Ebony
Nutwidth:: 1 11/16"
Machines:: Satin Chrome w/Black Buttons

Adamas

2080-NWT

The World’s Most Advanced Acoustic Guitar

Introduced in 1976, the Adamas was born of the same innovative spirit that developed the shape, design, and function of the Ovation roundback. Today, more than three decades after its introduction, the Adamas remains the most advanced acoustic guitar ever made.

Adamas is the Latin word for diamond in its native form—carbon. Kaman Aerospace used carbon fiber to make cutting-edge components for satellites and supersonic aircrafts. Realizing that carbon fiber had the potential to create a pure and balanced soundboard for his guitars, Charlie Kaman and his engineers began lab trials to create a carbon-fiber top for the Ovation. They discovered that when properly engineered, carbon fiber—or graphite—behaves very much like wood.

The Adamas soundboard is made from long fibers of aerospace-grade graphite designed to resonate and respond like spruce. At one-third the weight of a spruce top, the Adamas soundboard has a bold and clear voice, quicker response, and vibrates longer than a traditional spruce top. Adamas models feature Ovation’s pioneering Mid-Depth or Deep Bowl composite bodies.

More than 30 years since the first Adamas prototypes were introduced to the world and stage, Ovation engineers continue their R&D on this groundbreaking instrument and Charlie’s visionary concept. With its space-age materials and meticulous construction, the Adamas represents the perfect blend of art and science.