Ovation MCS148

Welcome aboard 4570!

  OK you have peaked my curiosity.....  for some reason I found several reviews mentioning that the battery is a bear to replace on the OP24 preamp in the MCS148.  Now I don't own one, but I do play an Ovation Celebrity guitar with the OP30, and over the past 7 years have changed batteries at least 5 times (don't drive the preamp very hard and let the floor amp do all the hard work).  It's a breeze, so out of stupidity, I have to ask what's the deal with the Mando?  I couldn't get to a good user's manual on the Ovation site to shed light on the problem, ie: location of the battery hatch or ??

  On mine the entire amp module comes out of it's bezel with the push of a button and the battery compartment is integral. Takes less time to change than tuning!  I'd a thought the good folks at Kaman would have done something similar for the whole group of instruments.

  On the other hand though, if the MCS is anything like the guitars, you will have a good instrument to play with for a long time.
Like Cockroaches.... you can't hardly kill them. A friend fell off stage onto his Balladeer and slightly cracked the back, but it didn't even need a neck adjustment afterwords.  And no, alcohol was not a factor.... spotlight glare and a mis-routed monitor cord, or so he tells it.

Thanks & Take Care;
Doug