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   I have one.  Steve Hackett used to use it.  Now he’s more likely to use his sustainer pickup, which does the same thing with the pickup as the “Ebow”.  It vibrates all six strings so the player has to mute some notes.  The Moog Guitar that came out for a limited time in the 2000s was an offshoot of this.  Paul Vo also invented a line of acoustic guitars armed with magnetic string vibration that was digitally controlled to sense the plucking and then make the string vibrate in as a sawtooth, square wave or sine wave, and it allowed one to fine tune the amount of even and odd harmonics.  Entirely new, something he calls acoustic synthesis.  Those are no longer available, but there are several YouTube videos with people demonstrating it.  Right now, back to the Ebow, he’s working on putting out something he calls an Em-pick, which is an independent gadget that will vibrate strings to whatever timbre the software provides for.  He anticipates having additional sound modeling software available for the Em-pick in the future for additional expansion of possible timbres.

Edited by HackettFan - April 16 2018 at 12:50

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HackettFan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 20 2012 Location: Oklahoma Status: Offline Points: 7951	Topic: EBow Posted: April 16 2018 at 12:47
	I have one. Steve Hackett used to use it. Now he’s more likely to use his sustainer pickup, which does the same thing with the pickup as the “Ebow”. It vibrates all six strings so the player has to mute some notes. The Moog Guitar that came out for a limited time in the 2000s was an offshoot of this. Paul Vo also invented a line of acoustic guitars armed with magnetic string vibration that was digitally controlled to sense the plucking and then make the string vibrate in as a sawtooth, square wave or sine wave, and it allowed one to fine tune the amount of even and odd harmonics. Entirely new, something he calls acoustic synthesis. Those are no longer available, but there are several YouTube videos with people demonstrating it. Right now, back to the Ebow, he’s working on putting out something he calls an Em-pick, which is an independent gadget that will vibrate strings to whatever timbre the software provides for. He anticipates having additional sound modeling software available for the Em-pick in the future for additional expansion of possible timbres. Edited by HackettFan - April 16 2018 at 12:50
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wiz_d_kidd Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 13 2018 Location: EllicottCityMD Status: Offline Points: 1423	Posted: April 16 2018 at 06:32
	After looking again, I discovered that the EBow website has a boat-load of videos showing the EBow in action, on a variety of instruments... http://www.ebow.com/youtube.php

stegor Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: March 23 2013 Location: Minnesota Status: Offline Points: 2027	Posted: April 15 2018 at 21:12
	Can't have an E-Bow thread without Bill Nelson, The Master.

wiz_d_kidd Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 13 2018 Location: EllicottCityMD Status: Offline Points: 1423	Posted: April 15 2018 at 12:47
	Here is a guitarist for Mad Fellaz (Italy) EBow-ing a Fender Squier Stratocaster, which makes a really cool sound. (I'm not a guitarist, so yeah, it's cool to me). Skip ahead to the 2:03 mark. Any other examples of using an EBow by prog musicians? Please post videos.