After 15 years with my Ovation round back guitar I am looking at buying a new one. I actually have been looking for a while. Saturday, I sat down at a shop here in Indianapolis and played about a dozen guitars before I picked up an Ibanez Montage. The guitar has a few different modes from pure acoustic using the Piezo pickup to a clean electric using the magnetic pickup and a blend of both but it also has onboard DSP for distortion, chorus and reverb as well as phase canceling, dual notch filter and tuner. I know some of you who aren’t guitar players or musicians are surely saying, “Huh?” Sorry about that. I’ll just say, it is a really cool guitar. It is also very affordable (in the $600 category). I feel pretty confident that I will secure one of these by the fall. Now I just need to decide on a color. Keep in mind that my Ovation is black.
