RE: ?really exciting new ebow effect!

["Ott, John" <John_Ott@ATK.COM>]

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>     I thought some of you out there might be half way interested in a 
>     nifty little trick I discovered today with my EBOW.......
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>     I've had the same battery in the thing since december and its just 
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>     running out, so....I decided to start playing with it. Ebows make a 
>     really cool sound when their battery is about to die!!! It sounds 
>like 
>     a square wave-distorted octave box-synth-type thing. Really cool. 
>Then 
>     I discovered that you could get normal ebow sounds when you pressed 
>     the drive cannel closer to the strings. When you wanted the weirdo 
>     sound, you backed the drive channel away from the string.
>     
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I've seen this also, but I did not play around with it
I just changed the battery. At first I though sometime 
was wrong with my signal chain,  go figure.

The problem with this effect is it is short lived.  Unless
you can change at lot of almost dead batteries quickly?

later
>john
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