Re: Rép : EBow - active/passive humbuckers

[andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

Charles Zwicky wrote:
> At 11:03 AM +0100 11/6/13, In Mobile wrote:
> > Hi Charles

> > This is besides the condition sine qua non for speed sweeping arpegios 
> > (Frank Gambale without the right hand) on all strings with the E-bow.
> > You can't do arpeggios anywhere else than just more or less on the 
> > pole pieces (anyway I can't really, I doesn't really catch) , if you 
> > don't have prior distortion on the guitar (i.e. using a clean sound).
>
>
> Also false.  The "sweep arpeggio bowing" effect simply relies on the 
> internal distortion of the ebow amplifying the slight vibration of the 
> string and the motion of the ebow over the poles (causing the same 
> brightening effect mentioned above), the strings are not excited by the 
> ebow in this case, but *by tapping with the left hand*.

Not by tapping with the left hand, it's the shape of the base of the
ebow which gives the string a push as the ebow lines up on it.
( it works with open strings )


I agree with you 100% otherwise. Ebow is misunderstood.

andy