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I concur with all below. I also added my own channels on the e-bow made of plastic and velcro for the strings guide to make life simpler. I can now use a bass with any string spacing. David Grego The Tuba Electric ================================= On Mon, 8 May 2006, ditch wrestler wrote: > Has anybody ever seen soembody use an e-bow on a double bass (you know, >the big upright ones, not the acoustic bass guitars)? Not on an acoustic upright bass, but I have some experience with E-Bow on electric upright bass which is hopefully at least tangentially interesting to your question. I use (on occasion) an E-Bow with an electric upright bass (Zeta Crossover), and have tested out an E-Bow on a NS Design full-size electric double bass. It works ok, for given values of ok: 1) given the string spacing is not a guitar, holding the E-Bow in air can be interesting. I have the same problem w/E-Bow on Chapman Stick, and my solution is usually to use the thumb as a pivot hinge to "clamp" the E-Bow. 2) Given the high amplitude of a long, heavy bass string, the string easily exceeds the "sweet spot" of the E-Bow field. So holding the E-Bow closer to the headstock, where the swing of the string is less, helps. However, that exacerbates the third issue: 3) The E-Bow is designed to work with the weight of a guitar string. Bass strings tend to be much thicker, weigh much more, and therefore take more time to get up to speed. For example, on my Zeta Crossover, it can take more than 30 seconds for the E-Bow to vibrate the E string enough to get an audible note. (As a workaround, the E-Bow site has advice on how to speed up a note's appearance, even with guitar strings, including a quiet "tap" of the E-Bow on the string, picking or tapping the string above your fretting hand, anything to help overcome the string's inertia.) I've considered building a magnum e-bow with more power, and perhaps a larger channel, for my use with bass. best, Steve B Subscape Annex http://www.subscapeannex.com/