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Re: Sustainiac (Was: Looper's Essential Listening revisited:)

At 02:40 AM 2/15/2006, David wrote:
>There are two types of Sustainiac. The Electro-acoustic one that
>clamps to the headstock:
>
>http://www.sustainiac.com/model-b.htm
>
>which is the one I use and which can be moved from guitar to guitar
>(and even works on electro-acoustics) and the 'Stealth' which is the
>'Guitar Pickup Working Backwards' variety:
>
>http://www.sustainiac.com/stealth.htm
>
>and which comes in Fender and Gibson versions.
>
>The Fernandes Sustainer is a version of the latter, though I'm not
>sure exactly when or how the development 'forked'.
>
>the electro-acoustic and electro-magnetic versions sound and act
>rather differently, so it's not a simple matter to choose between
>flavour of effect and convenience & tidiness of installation.

What is the difference in the flavour of effect?

Thanks,
Kevin

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