≫Ovation iDea Guitar with Built-in MP3 Recorder and Player, Satin Platinum Finish

List Price: $429.00

• Mid-Depth Cutaway
• Spruce Top
• Multi-soundhole

Ovation iDea Acoustic Electric Guitar; The First guitar with a built in mp3 recorder! Never lose another iDea again. The iDea Acoustic Electric guitar is the perfect practice guitar for writers and beginners. Boasting the ability to both Record and Play mp3 files, you can use this guitar to record and save musical inspiration at any moment or jam along to files saved into the guitar to aid in learning songs. Learn Songs at your own speed, iDea's built in preamp features a pitch-stable speed adjustment allowing you to slow down the mp3 files without changing the key. Get Free PDF lessons & Jamtrack mp3s at ovationidea.com! Play or Record mp3 files Uploading and downloading MP3 files to your computer is a breeze. The iDea features an on-board USB connection so you can connect to your computer and store recorded files or recall files for practicing Licks from your favorite artists. Using the 1/8 inch stereo input jack on your guitar you can connect a CD, mp3 or other stereo (or mono) source directly to the iDea making it perfect for players without a computer. Use this input to record and store your favorite backing tracks or other play-along material. Connect any line-level player or mixer and record your tracks into the straight into iDea's memory using this convenient AUX input. Ovation iDea Acoustic Electric Features Stereo Headphone Output USB Connector Display Window Master Volume Control Bass, Midrange and Treble EQ Preamp Release Latch (to access battery on preamp rear) Built-in Microphone Built-in Tuner Play/Stop, Repeat/Loop & Record Controls Navigational Joystick (Menu Navigation Control) Preamp Mounting Receptacle The Ovation iDea contains analog circuits in its preamp that activ

The Ovation iDea is the Newest iDea for Acoustic Guitars

The Ovation iDea is the first and only guitar of its kind, featuring a built-in MP3 recorder/player. The digital recorder is part of the on-board Ovation preamp. A simple and direct recording control makes it esay to record entire songs or fragments, even vocal and commentary. The patented technology makes possible a list of features never before available on any guitar--acoustic or electric.

The Ovation iDea guitar makes it easy to record your ideas.

Capture your songwriting ideas with the Ovation iDea.

Record Your Ideas the Easy Way with Ovation iDea
Songwriters have always wanted a simple, convenient way to record song ideas, hooks, melodies, and lyrics. With the iDea, players who write on guitar will have an instantly accessible high-quality digital recorder with them wherever they go. The simple and direct recording control makes it easy to record entire songs or fragments, even vocals and commentary.

The iDea can record from the guitar alone, simultaneously from the guitar and built-in microphone and from an auxiliary input. Any audio signal fed into the auxilary input is converted to an MP3 file and stored in the iDea memroy.

Learn with the Ovation iDea
The iDea is also a learning tool, with audio lessons pre-installed in the memory, and more lessons available to download online.

Guitarists who enjoy jamming will find a tireless band mate in the iDea. Several "Jam Tracks" are pre-installed in the instrument, and others are available online.

Downloading files from a computer or the internet is easy via USB. Files in the iDea can be renamed, deleted, and rearranged right on the computer desktop. Mixes from recording software, rhythm tracks, even songs the player wants to learn can be downloaded and played either through the guitar output or headphones.

The Power of the Ovation iDea
You've heard about capturing lightning in a bottle. Well, here's a guitar that can capture your musical lightning as it strikes--the Ovation iDea. There's nothing like it--a completely portable recording studio built right into your guitar. All those fleeting musical ideas, hooks and melodies are now yours forever.

• Record guitar and vocals simultaneously through pickup and built-in microphone.
• Store over 100 minutes of MP3 files.
• Playback through headphones or amp.
  
• Download tracks from a computer.
• Change playback tempo without changing pitch.
  
  CREATE 
• Inspiration comes at any time…capture it EVERY time!
  
• Easily record song ideas, licks, hooks and rhythms. 
• Use Aux input to record backing tracks for solo performance.
• Upload songs to recording software to edit and expand.
  
  LEARN 
• Download lessons and backing tracks at www.OvationiDea.com.
• Record songs or solos from MP3 sources, slow them down and learn note- for-note.