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Re: Sustainiac (Was: Looper's Essential Listening revisited:)
Bought a Sustainiac Stealth Plus retrofit kit from Maniuac Music at
www.sustainiac.com a few years ago and installed it on an old super-strat
type guitar I had lying about. Installation was not as easy as they made
out. The mechanical fit was very tight. But the performance is excellent -
strong sustain. Lots of control over the strength and harmonics. Can sound
very much like natural amp feedback if you want it to. And it makes a
passable high-output neck pickup as well. I now have it installed in a
Roland G707. Only trouble is, PP3 batteries do not last very long.
It's not like having an Ebow on each string. I have an Ebow and the
techniques one uses are quite different. I look forward to looping with
both
when my EDP+ arrives.
Nik
----- Original Message -----
From: "jj 179" <jj179subs@hotmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: Sustainiac (Was: Looper's Essential Listening revisited:)
> 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.