Electric Bow for Guitar

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!

The most fun! Can even work on an acoustic (steel strung) guitar. Use it with a slide for wild results.

My grandson was delighted with this gift. He had to demonstrate it forn me.

Great little gadget, very easy to use. I was able to use it straight away and get some cool sounds immediately. The only reason for not giving 5* is purely down to the overall product finish: The plastic case feels cheap and the connecting cable for the battery is incredibly short and it really is a struggle to fit the battery in the compartment.

The EBow is a hand-held electronic bow for guitar that vibrates a guitar string providing a long sustained effect. I first bought one 20+ years ago and didn't really make much use of it and sold it on. Recently I have developed an interest in ambient and more creative guitar techniques, and having reinvested in one and although I'm still learning I'm on my way to finding its true potential. Where I went wrong before was just expecting to sound great straightway (Wrong!). It takes some time and patience to use an eBow properly (I found some useful hints and tips online, starting at Ebow's own website) but finally with my amp set up correctly with a smidge of overdrive and some lush delay/reverb I'm starting with patience and practice to get the sort of effect I'd been after. The eBow is made of solid plastic and should easily withstand normal use. Connecting and installing the battery was a bit fiddly, but take time and make sure the wires don't get damaged. Switch the eBow off when you're not using it and I reckon battery changes will be few and far between anyway.

It is fantastic. Very pleased with this purchase.

A fantastic gift for my son. Very pleased with this purchase. Thank you very much.

Sustaaaiin !

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."

10 de 10 👌🏽

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.

Great device, takes some practice to use it.

Wer den Ebow schonmal live im Einsatz gesehen hat, weiß genau was dieses kleine Goldstück so kann! Mit dem Ebow erzeugt man einen unglaublichen Sustain, der zu atemberaubenden Klangwelten führt. Das Publikum ist immer wieder baff. Die Batterien halten sehr lange ( habe immer noch die mitgelieferten drinne nach ca. 50 Einsätzen). Die blaue LED hilft enorm, die gewünschte Saite zu bespielen. Die Verarbeitung ist hochwertig, was bei dem nicht ganz so niedrigen Preis durchaus wünschenswert ist. Würde hier immer wieder zuschlagen! Pat