Product: Applause AE-36
Price Paid: UNKNOWN
Submitted
11/03/2008
at
08:33am
by
Mike
Features
:
7
A very playable guitar. I've had one for over 20 years.Neck is great. The only complaint I have is that the B string sounded out. I installed a compensated bridge and this cured the problem. I was told by an engineer that it was one of the best RECORDING guitars he had heard.
Mike Arsenault
Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada
Sound
:
5
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
10
Action was superb!
Reliability/Durability
:
9
Customer Support
:
10
Overall Rating
:
8
I own a Fender Sonoran, A Fender Mustang, A Dan Armstrong, A cheap Silvertone (my first guitar), and a Guild. I've been playing for 37 years, some professionally. My style is mostly Eagles, Clapton, Pink Floyd stuff.
I've gotten alot of use from my Applause. An acoustic that plays like an electric.
nuff said.
Product: Applause AE-36
Price Paid: 150 (Canadian) used
Submitted
03/15/2001
at
10:35am
by
Peter Fraser
Email: peteman<at>beer dot com
Features
:
7
This Acoustic was made, by a company called applause which is to Ovation what Epiphone is to Gibson. I can't tell how old it is, but I guess early ninties late eighties. It was made in Korea, and has 21 frets with a cutaway. It has a solid lamenated top. It has one Volume, one Tone, for the Peizo pickup. All the electronics are passive. It has a Lyrachord body (Roudback) and Oval inlays on the fretboard. The fingerboard is rose wood and the top is maple with a natural finish. It has a much thinner neck than I am acustomed to on an acoustic. I bought it used with a Hardshell case, strap, etc. the usual.
Sound
:
9
It sounds great, it has a warm soft sound, but at the same time twangy, and when I play it through my Roland GS-480 it sounds amazing. It suits the Pop songs I play very nicely, and picks up where my strat leaves off.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
8
I bought it used, but it is set up reasonably well. The bridge may need to be filed down, but thats for a later date. the only flaw in this guitar is a crack in the finish below the bridge.
Reliability/Durability
:
10
this thing is pretty heavy duty, and well made, the bottom strap button, is a little loose, but no big deal. It definitly does not need a backup.
Customer Support
:
8
Never dealt with em
Overall Rating
:
10
I have been playig for 8 years, and I own a Samick Bass, a Fender Bullet bass, strat, classical. I have a Ampeg SVT, a Roland GS-480. If this were stolen I'd climb on top of a tall building and kill all the suspicious people, then Bo buy a real Ovtion.
