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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | My eBay purchase arrived yesterday, it's a fantastic instrument.
I had it shipped to my workplace and of course the afternoon it got here I was out of the office, so the mailrooom guys locked it up in a secure room for me and I opened it this morning!
I learned some patience waiting for it's arrival, I asked the seller to delay shipping for one week (as I was in Baltimore week before last) and then the seller was delayed getting home from Labor Day weekend for one day. Anyway, it's here and I'm here and now I just want to go home and play it!!!
I'll get pics posted in the gallery soon
~~Anybody have recommendations on strings???
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Location: SoCal | Paul,
How's the condition?
My Viper bass was supposed to arrive yesterday but the UPS driver must have been brain dead. Checked the USP.com tracking - 4:01pm claim bad address, yet still hadn't called me to verify last evening. Took about 20min to get through the automated menus and talk to a live person. We had a UPS delivery down the street but then the UPS truck took off like a stray cat chased by a dog...sure, will be delivered this afternoon - after sitting in a hot truck for yesterday and today.
Shows the need to get the tracking number from the shipping party. Can't get an "unable to deliver" slip if they don't make it to the address, even one where we get a number of FedEx and UPS deliveries. AND, in the future, I will insist on FedEx from the seller, even if I have to use my FedEx account. |
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | Tony,
The conditon is excellent, looks almost new, see one small dink on the headstock. I need to polish the tuning keys.
Mine was shipped FedEx and the seller (Lighthouse Sound in Ohio) e-mailed me the tracking number. Looks like it was on the truck for just one day.
Mine was in the case (nice case, too, just a couple of scratches) and in a "Gibson" box with some packing plastic around it.
Hope it gets to you today and is OK! |
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Location: SoCal | Finally got the Viper bass tonight - if the tags were still on it, I could be suckered into believing it was new.
Think the battery came lose inside. Guess I'll have to go exploring. Assume one of the panels in the back.
Not a bass person so this is a new experience. However, I can tell the crew at Ovation did a great job (as usual.) Now if I can figure out how to play the 6-str CL, the 12-str CL, the bass, an archtop w/Bigsby, and my banjo AT THE SAME TIME... |
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Location: NJ | I hate you |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | Bass strings come in different scale lengths, so be careful to get the right length. Measure from the end of the ball to the nut. That's the scale length that you need. Different string companies use different reference points for their Short, Medium, Long & Super Long scale lengths, so use the inches instead. D'Addario, Elixir & Rotosound are the types that I usually use on my basses, although they're all electric. |
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | Thanks, BruDev, I'm going to run it over to our local Ovation dealer to make sure and get the right scale, a gauge I'm happy with etc., etc.
Got band rehearsal tomorrow night where I can run it through a bass amp my bandmate has..... |
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | I gave my new bass a good workout last night at band rehearsal - sounds fantastic and plays wonderfully! I put some D'Addario Slowound SW1000 long scale strings on her. I'm not so sure that I need to get a set-up done. The strings seem to "rattle" on the frets when playing on the first three or so frets, but I'm not so sure I need to work on finger strength, or maybe lighter gauge strings.....
Of course, plugged in the "rattling" isn't heard through the amplifier.
At first I was getting a kind of "metal" sound through the amp, I played around with the equalizer and got a nice rich sound going. I did have to replace the battery after the first song, opened the back and all.
We listened back to some trial recordings we were messing with and I was amazing my own self at what I was hearing.....
Everyone from my 4 year old daughter to my 52 year old bandmate has this to exclaim when they fist set eyes on her:
"Wow, that's pretty!"
Question on the serial number - the only thing I see that could be a serial number is on the inside sticker, says Model Number: EAB68-CCE (I think it's CCE, don't have it here to look at, but it is three letters CC*), there is no number on the headstock. Is CCE the serial number?? |
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Hooray! Viper Bass has arrived
