Styled in a ruby red finish, Ovation's Applause Elite AE44II 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.
- Shape: Mid-depth cutaway
- Bracing: Quarter-sawn scalloped "X"
- Back: Ovation Lyrachord contour cutaway
- Top Finish: Transparent ruby red
- Epaulet: Multi-soundholes, bass side only
- Body Top: Spruce
- Body Binding: Ivory
- 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: Applause by Ovation CE304T with three-band EQ and built-in tuner
- Pickup: Ovation undersaddle piezo
- Bridge: Rosewood
- Tuners: Die-cast sealed tuners
- Hardware Finish: Black chrome