EBow Electric Bow for Guitar

Very good

Je cite "L'EBow (marque déposée pour Electronic Bow, "archet électronique") est un appareil électronique à l'intention des guitaristes inventé par Greg Heet en 1969. Le champ électromagnétique qu'il émet provoque le mouvement des cordes, et le son ressemble à celui que produirait l'utilisation d'un archet, d'où son nom. Cet objet est surtout utilisé pour des guitares électriques, mais peut être utilisé sur des guitares folk. Par exemple, David Gilmour, des Pink Floyd, utilise un EBow sur la chanson acoustique Take It Back. Sur ce type de guitare, le son produit ressemble plus à celui d'une flûte ou d'une clarinette."

Es war ein Geschenk. DerBeschenkte hatte sich es gewünscht und sich sehr darüber gefreut.

10 de 10 👌🏽

Excellent unit, I have had one of these in the past but the new version with the harmonic setting is a useful improvement. Great purchase!

I got the Ebow in order to play a lap guitar like a synthesizer. I got inspiration from an old CD that used a lap guitar, an Ebow, a delay/reverb unit, and a looper (duplicated the set for myself). There are videos on youtube that are helpful to study to learn how to use the Ebow. The best one was a long animated cartoon that went into detail about it. The device works by magnetically vibrating a guitar string when it is held over it. The main purpose is to create a very long sustain. I found I got a much richer sound from this device than a Theremin, which I was also considering. I found that I could generate a very long sustain and modulate with careful touch on the strings with my left hand. The pressure does need to be very precise, too much dampens the sound to zero, too little can send the sound rapidly to a high volume. The device itself is also a little fussy in that if it is too far from the string there is very little sound or no sound, and if it is too close you risk touching the string and creating a metalic reverb sound that can be a little sharp and high volume. Even when you have the right distance, the string can increase its vibration and sometimes hit it, so you have to move it away a little once the sound gets going. The flip side of the coin with the Ebow, though, is that the precision and fussiness rewards you with a lot of good control over the texture of the sound. You can create highly textured long sustaining notes that change in subtle ways across its time horizon. I found with just a little practice that I could lightly touch the strings and make "notes" in the tone wave. I could also gently hold down the string and rev up the vibration to a good volume and then gently slide my left finger across the string to create gradual changes in the sound that enriched the texture of the sound, especially with a delay/reverb unit set on max. With a little practice, too, you can control the metalic shimmer when the unit touches the string (or do something similar with the left finger) and also make this a rich sound. I also could modulate the sound by dialing the tuning pins very slowly (and create an interesting tuning for the strings that maximizes the effect of the Ebow) and get an effect similar to sliding the finger across the string. I also found that the blue LED light was enough to guide the right placement of the Ebow over the string and it is centered in line with the "sweet spot". It is cool to play it in a dim room with this blue LED shining the way! I give the device five stars because it does what I hoped it would do and a little more. I find I can emulate a stringed drone instrument like an "electronic" Tamboura or Hurdy Gurdy, and even have a richer set of choices. The battery, too, seems to last a very long time.