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

[Kelly Coyle <kellycoyle@charter.net>]

Like Kevin, I had a Model B Sustainiac. It is cool, but not cool like  
an eBow. Since chords have a tendency to collapse to one note (and  
not necessarily one you would predict), practically it *is* an eBow.  
OK, not really, but it's less different than you'd think. Actually,  
for me, the Sustainiac shined at being *less* intense than an eBow --  
eBows for me always sound very driven, and the Model B could be  
subtle. (It could also shake the hell out of the guitar, which is cool.)

Now there's a Model C, and I have been tempted.

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On Feb 16, 2006, at 9:53 AM, jj 179 wrote:

> Not sure if anybody else had this experience, but a coupla years  
> ago I went out and bought a Fernandes Sustainer. I had been using  
> an e-bow for years and had heard wonderful stories about the  
> Sustainer.
>
> It was an extreme disappointment. The guitar itself was incredibly  
> cheaply built. The Sustain didn't work very effectively at all -  
> certainly **not at all** like an e-bow. I could only get the  
> faintest of feedback and it sounded lousy.
>
> I'm sticking to my e-bow.
>
> just my 2 cents.
>
>> 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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