Tapsearch Com EditorEBow on acoustic
June 10th 2007 18:59
This is a guitar post, so ignore it if you don't play.
I don't know why a company would shoot itself in the foot like this:
The answer should have been, simply, "yes." It works even if you don't have a pickup of any sort -- though they're right that the noise of the EBow across the strings is annoying then.
This answer doesn't do a good job of explaining how the EBow works. It doesn't rely on magnetic pickups to create the sound; rather, the magnets in the device make the string vibrate regardless of what kind of guitar it is. Magnetic pickups just do a good job of screening out the noise of the device scraping the strings.
I don't know why a company would shoot itself in the foot like this:
Will the EBow work on Acoustic?
If you have a magnetic pickup in the sound hole, the EBow should respond as it would on a solid body electric, though the strings tend to decay more quickly and activate more slowly. Acoustics with bridge transducers, piezo pickups or microphones will be much quieter and, of course, there is no HotSpot, which is necessary for bowing strokes and spiccato. However, you can get a very clean, natural sounding string tone. When moving from string-to-string on an acoustic without a magnetic pickup in the sound hole, you should mute the SupportStrings to reduce the noise of the EBow on the strings.
If you have a magnetic pickup in the sound hole, the EBow should respond as it would on a solid body electric, though the strings tend to decay more quickly and activate more slowly. Acoustics with bridge transducers, piezo pickups or microphones will be much quieter and, of course, there is no HotSpot, which is necessary for bowing strokes and spiccato. However, you can get a very clean, natural sounding string tone. When moving from string-to-string on an acoustic without a magnetic pickup in the sound hole, you should mute the SupportStrings to reduce the noise of the EBow on the strings.
The answer should have been, simply, "yes." It works even if you don't have a pickup of any sort -- though they're right that the noise of the EBow across the strings is annoying then.
This answer doesn't do a good job of explaining how the EBow works. It doesn't rely on magnetic pickups to create the sound; rather, the magnets in the device make the string vibrate regardless of what kind of guitar it is. Magnetic pickups just do a good job of screening out the noise of the device scraping the strings.
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