Description
Styled in a vintage gloss varnish finish, Ovation’s Applause Elite AE44II-4 is an acoustic/electric guitar featuring a mid-depth Lyrachord body with a single contoured cutaway, a spruce top, and quarter-sawn, scalloped “X” bracing. If projection on a stage is your primary goal, then this acoustic/electric guitar is more than up for the task: Its rounded-back body, bass-side soundholes, and resonant top facilitate a clear, balanced, and complex tone. A rosewood bridge rounds out the body. Its nato mahogany neck has a 25.25″ scale and a 20-fret rosewood fingerboard with a 10″ radius, demarcated by abalone dot inlays. A set of die-cast sealed tuners secure the strings at the headstock.
Turn your attention this guitar’s built-in electronics, and you’ll notice a CE304T preamp with a three-band EQ, a volume control, and an onboard tuner to boot. This preamp works in conjunction with an undersaddle piezo pickup.
Body
• Shape: Mid-depth cutaway
• Bracing: Quarter-sawn scalloped “X”
• Back: Ovation Lyrachord contour cutaway
• Top Finish: Vintage Varnish (Gloss)
• Epaulet: Multi-soundholes, bass side only
• Body Top: Spruce
• Body Binding: Ivory
Neck
• Fingerboard: Rosewood
• Fingerboard Radius: 10″ / 254mm
• Neck: Nato mahogany
• Neck Finish: Satin natural
• Frets: 20 fully accessible frets (23 for high E string)
• Position Inlays: Pearloid dots
• Scale: 25.25″ / 641mm
• Nut Material: ABS, 1.69″ / 43mm
Electronics
• Electronics: Applause by Ovation CE304T with three-band EQ and built-in tuner
• Pickup: Ovation undersaddle piezo
Hardware
• Bridge: Rosewood
• Tuners: Die-cast sealed tuners
• Hardware Finish: Black chrome