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Re: Sustainiac (Was: Looper's Essential Listening revisited:)
Ooop, sorry, David I meant, not Kevin.
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Music: http://www.kellycoyle.net
Blog: http://wwwquotidianme.blogspot.com/
On Feb 16, 2006, at 10:04 AM, Kelly Coyle wrote:
> 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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> Music: http://www.kellycoyle.net
> Blog: http://wwwquotidianme.blogspot.com/
>
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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
>>>
>>> The Nettles: Progressive and Exciting Celtic Music
>>> www.TheNettles.com
>>>
>>