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The Duck The Duck
Published on 10/25/08 at 06:07
Made in the USA, 24 frets, 3 single coil pickups brand Ovation (he is the Viper III). Ovation bridge specifiers. Rglage volume (1) of Tone (1) and 3 switches for each pickup slectionner sparment, which provides, unlike a stratum, all possible combinations, and which, too, cut all the microphones.

UTILIZATION

Handle very strait (caractristique own guitars ovation), but very pleasant and very easy to use, fast enough. BMOL small, the narrowness of the neck makes it difficult to agree on the top games of round, by which pleasure cons for bars.

CASC is sumptuous to acute (two octaves UNESCORecords on the handle).

The ergonomics are excellent, but this guitar is as heavy as a Gibson Les Paul, which is saying something.

Very easy to adjust and, thanks to its numerous possibilities of choosing pickups, you get excellent sound. This guitar is extremely versatile with sounds very Fender Stratocaster oriented architecture (3 single coils requires) and is perfect for funky sounds, country and pop 70s, 80. Thanks to good qualities in overdrive, it can also hook the sound of Deep Purple (Blackmore PERIOD).

SOUNDS

Being given to my prdilection sounds blues, pop, rock and roll and rock, this guitar fills me. Plugs into an amp Peavey VK212, makes it extremely well in the sound of the amp clean, but also in the lead channel sounds.

OVERALL OPINION

I availing oneself of this guitar now for 27 years and I do not think I ever spares me as she does once a purchase of heart and that love affair continues.

Normment I enjoy the ease of the handle and the CASC Aiges (quoiqu'tant mostly rhythm guitar, this aspect is less important). Other caractristique I have never found on any other guitar that I like: the three switches to activate or disable the microphone separately.

When buying, I test a Rickenbacker 325 and a Fender Stratocaster, and if I have, from time to time, nostalgia for Rick, I have never regretted my choice. In the era I was looking for a versatile guitar and Ovation largely silent over the other two that level.

Having bought this guitar in 1981 to 600 (value 1981) instead of 1200 (liquidation and bankruptcy of the store for Minimizing of 50% over the stock) is, recess, a quality report incomparable and unbeatable price.

I would do without hesitating, the same choice, even if today we find in world production of guitars equally, if not more, effective.

This guitar is very rare dj finish 2 single coils, but according to my research in version 3 single coils only 19 models were sold in Europe does, making it, given its qualities manufacturing, an invaluable tool in the Argus.