EBow Plus : It's an E-Bow.....what more it there to say? :-p

The first E-Bow I saw and briefly tried belonged to a guitarist friend who bought when they first came out about 40 years ago.

I've wanted one ever since but never got around to it.

The E-Bow is a distinctive sound and has to be just one colour you have available on your palette - it is not a "main tone" kind of device It is icing, not cake.

It is however good fun and even more useful in the world of todays mixing and editing capabilities. e.g. when recording, you can play a guitar line with a sound that has little sustain but then cross-fade into E-Bow on the notes that you would like to hold.

Using the E-Bow well in order to get the most from it will take practice. Moving quickly and smoothly from one string to another is a knack that one needs to learn.

- But that is also true of the plectrum! :-)

Playing long legato lines on a single string is very easy to do immediately, so even a novice guitar-player can pick up an E-Bow and immediately get some satisfaction from it.

I bought the E-Bow i.e. original brand because after watching several demoes and shoot-outs with other similar products on YT, the E-Bow still seemed to do the job best and the amount of money saved by choosing a cheaper competing product was not enough incentive to make a different choice.