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Ovation Guitars VIP-5 Virtual Image Preamp User Manual

2026 International 20 pages

This is a multilingual user manual for the Ovation VIP-5 (Virtual Image Processing) preamp system, covering operation, controls, battery replacement, and technical specifications. The manual is published in English, German, Czech, French, Spanish, Hungarian, Romanian, Polish, and Italian, indicating international distribution. The VIP-5 uses DSP technology to process the piezo saddle pickup signal through approximately 1000 filters to create an acoustic 'image' modeled from recordings made with professional studio microphones on specific Ovation guitar models.

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