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Topic: How many use their E-bow?
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Frank Parish
Member From: Nashville,Tn. USA
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posted 30 June 2006 08:32 PM
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I've had one of these since I first heard The Big E play Once Upon a Time in the West and Mansion on the Hill on the 77 live album but seldon use it anymore. Tonight at rehearsal we were working on the new tune Jesus Take the Wheel and somebody said we need an Oboe so I reached in my seat and the light came on for the first time in a good long while. It works really good on that tune and I'll have to work on that sound for a while but I was wondering how many here have one and how often do you use it? There's a bunch more tunes out here that we could use it for but probably never think of. What tunes could you think of? |
Jim Sliff
Member From: Hermosa Beach California, USA
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posted 30 June 2006 08:40 PM
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I had one for years in my gig box. I changed the batteries more often than I ever used it.Sold it this year. It was one of those things that for the first hour was "wow, this is SOOO cool!", and then became the musical equivalent of the Popeil Pocket Fisherman, Vegamatic, Ginsu Knife...a drawer paperweight. |
mike nolan
Member From: Long Island City, NY USA
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posted 30 June 2006 08:50 PM
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I use it all of the time... for cello or violin type parts.... also works as a theremin simulation. |
Bobby Lee
Sysop From: Cloverdale, North California, USA
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posted 30 June 2006 10:01 PM
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I've worked it into certain songs that my band does. Haven't recorded with it, though. |
Leila Tuttle
Member From: Wheat Ridge, Colorado, USA
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posted 30 June 2006 10:04 PM
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Educate....what's an E-bow? |
Mike Perlowin
Member From: Los Angeles CA
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posted 30 June 2006 11:45 PM
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When I was gigging, sometimes when I didn't know the song at all and was hopelessly lost, I'd stick the E-bow on a string and just slide the bar up or down till it landed in a spot that sounded in tune. I'd do that every time the chords changed.Both the audience and other musicians fraquently thought it was the best playing I'd do all night, and that I was some sort of genius. Little did they know I was faking it and had no idea what I was doing. There's a lot of E-bow work on this piece, on both steel and 6 string (Warning- it's 12 minutes long.)
http://www.perlowinmusic.com/DebussyAfternoonofaFaun.mp3 ------------------
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Cliff Kane
Member From: Long Beach, CA
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posted 30 June 2006 11:59 PM
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"Educate....what's an E-bow?": www.ebow.com BTW, if anyone has one of the "steel guitar models" with the double string activators (as oppossed to the standard single string model) that he/she would like to sell, please let me know. Thanks![This message was edited by Cliff Kane on 01 July 2006 at 12:03 AM.] |
Len Amaral
Member From: Rehoboth,MA 02769
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posted 01 July 2006 12:29 PM
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I use my E-bow once in a while. I use it on the 5th string only as trying to move it string to string is not user friendly. My unit is also the older model and I prefer it to the newer unit with the duel switch. |
Twayn Williams
Member From: Portland, OR
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posted 04 July 2006 03:57 PM
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I use one all the time on electric, but on steel??? I have a hard enough time just holding on to the bar!  |
Damir Besic
Member From: La Vergne,TN
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posted 04 July 2006 05:51 PM
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I use my elbow pretty often tho,almost every day..makes life much easier  Db ------------------
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Ricky Littleton
Member From: Steely-Eyed Missile Man from Orlando, Florida USA
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posted 04 July 2006 06:32 PM
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I use mine for certain songs when I need to do a fiddle line like in "Seminole Wind".I also use it as a tool when maintaining my guitar. Kind of like a "tone generator for strings". Ricky... ------------------
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Darvin Willhoite
Member From: Leander, Tx. USA
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posted 05 July 2006 07:35 AM
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I haven't used mine in a year or two. For cello or violin parts, I use a Tubeworks Tube Driver and single strings. I can also use multiple strings for power chords, or rock style distortion. I place the Tube Driver next to my volume pedal so I don't even have to take my hands off the strings to kick it in or out. This unit sounds as good as a Bosstone in my opinion and is a lot more versatile. You do have to pick the string occasionally, where you don't with an Ebow, but the Ebow drone get old ot me after a while anyway, and as stated before it's hard to switch to a different string quickly and cleanly.------------------
Darvin Willhoite
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Boo Bernstein
Member From: Los Angeles, CA
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posted 06 July 2006 04:30 AM
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I also used to use it for string parts. Many of us remember (before string machines) that we would use a BossTone, roll off our tone controls and play the same note on two strings to get a "string sound." I use to use the E Bow the same way -- put the tone control into the circuit on my Emmons and roll it all the way off; put the BossTone on; and use the EBow with the reverb turned way up. It can be really effective. (However, now that synths are so good and so prevalent, there's not much call to do it anymore Boo |
mike nolan
Member From: Long Island City, NY USA
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posted 06 July 2006 07:13 AM
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This is the kind of stuff that I like the ebow for... it is like having an old analog mono synth... The steel part is the wacky drone sound.....
The Different Ones[This message was edited by mike nolan on 06 July 2006 at 07:14 AM.]
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Bobby Lee
Sysop From: Cloverdale, North California, USA
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posted 06 July 2006 07:48 AM
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We do a song where the original recording had a guest musician on cello. I cover the cello part with the E-bow. I also use it whenever I want a "spooky" sound. |
John McClung
Member From: Los Angeles, CA, USA
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posted 11 July 2006 06:40 PM
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Cliff, I still have a dual-string model that I always have handy onstage, but hardly ever think to use. Nonetheless, I'm keeping it, ha!It was essential in the early 80's when playing the intro and solos for Roseanne Cash's "Seven Year Ache." (Bruce Bouton on steel?) And I've used it primarily for violin sounds, and fuzzy rock solos. ------------------
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Mark Krutke
Member From: Tomahawk, WI USA
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posted 12 July 2006 12:14 PM
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I love my E-bow, and use it on "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald".------------------
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Nathan Delacretaz
Member From: Austin, Texas, USA
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posted 12 July 2006 08:28 PM
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I love the eBow, but its usefulness on steel is kinda lost on me. There's already so much to do on PSG, so many llittle pieces and parts to keep track of...and a little extra sustain on an amazingly sustaining instrument doesn't do much, IMHO. Where an eBow really shines is on a 6-string with old-school humbuckers, in the neck position.... Imitating a cello or backwards-tracked Hendrix-style licks.[This message was edited by Nathan Delacretaz on 12 July 2006 at 08:33 PM.] |
Jim Cohen
Member From: Philadelphia, PA
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posted 12 July 2006 08:47 PM
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I just used it on one song on my new CD. |
Earnest Bovine
Member From: Los Angeles CA USA
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posted 12 July 2006 08:54 PM
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I've had about 4 of 'em, and they all broke down. But they did come in handy a couple of times when I was really stumped about what to play on a song. |
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