Re: Ebow use

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:18 PM, joy_top top <joy_top@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Even though an Ebow will work on many instruments with steel strings, I 
> much
> prefer using one in the location right over a pickup and find the 
> locating
> grooves on the bottom problematic with instruments of different string
> spacing.


It seems different instruments react very different to ebow playing.
Most of my guitars tend to sound too loud if positioning the ebow
right over the pickup. I rather prefer to keep the ebow somewhere
about two cm from the neck pickup. My fav sweet spot is the position
where the string starts playing the moment I push it down with my left
hand's finger. That way you can at least be a little rhythmically
accurate (although rhythm is not the strongest side of a classic ebow
tone... LOL ). Here's an example clip where I try doing some phrasing
on a fretless guitar using such "sweet spot" ebow positioning in my
playing:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4963264/water_plateaux.mp3

On Chapman Stick I can't even make a string vibrate with the ebow.
String spacing is too close on a STick, like you are saying in your
post. Maybe the metal housing of the Stick pickups also kind of
shields them off from the ebow?

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.perboysen.com
http://www.youtube.com/perboysen