EBow EBow Plus Reviews

A handy way of getting a new sound

Ok it is a one trick pony, but it does that trick very well.

I found the sound of the elbow in classic recordings

I have had my elbow plus for several years. The shape and design of the ebow is now a design classic. The led string finder helps with accuracy tracking or strumming strings. Shape allows it to be used pointing up or down the strings depending on pickups. Found it works on any metal stringed instrument for leads, pads and drones.i.e bass, guitar, dobro, mandolin, banjo as well as guitar

good

only works with electric pick ups so no use for piezo and a bit tricky to use, i got the TC electonic infinite sustainer pedal and it imo is much better solution

I wish i purchased it sooner

Use this live with bass guitar, add in a bunch of effects (panning, flanger, reverb, delay) and manually use a wah wah to keep changing the sound. Instant moving soundscape which sounds huge and psychedelic! It has become indispensable for me now.

More difficult to use than I thought

Great device but it's more difficult to use than I thought

it is what it is and does what it does...!

useful tool

takes time to learn how to use it but very cool for creating drone sounds

Great piece of kit to have in your arsenal

You may not use this a lot but it offers a great effect that if you need, you have.

dropped one point for handling because it takes a tiny bit of practice to get the positioning right

Brilliant

Don't know why I didn't buy one of these years ago, brilliant, love the sound and build/shape of the proper ebow. Brilliant on electric guitar and really cool on a resonator.

Great Piece of Kit

These EBows are great quality, sturdy, and sound great. Marked the handling as 4 stars as it would just make things a tad easier if the switch had some sort of indication of which mode you are on, ie normal or harmonic. I rarely use it so always forget which is which. But I'm nit-picking. All round it's a great bit of gear.

Best sustainer on the market

I've tried lots of variants, the Soundstone, Joyo, etc but the EBow is the best of all, especially with the harmonics switch.

Guitarists' "must have" tool

This product is not comparable as it is very unique and started it's own thing. However there are some other brands also produced similar products but none of them are a match for this.

What it does; it is basically creating infinite sustain as it is magnetically generating resonance on the strings the string will keep resonating until you take the ebow away from it.

How it sounds; Simply incredible. This is one of the products that you don't understand you need it until you have it. Without it you can still play your guitar and the songs you love. However, ebow can easily inspire the player and widen the playground.

Summary; It is not like that I'm using it whenever I play guitar. It is oftenly supporting my solo ideas and helping me to enhance them. Sometimes it is so fun to just improvising with it. I recommend to every guitarist to keep an ebow in the rig.

Practice with it and you will get great sounds with it on your guitar or bass.

I really tried it and.... Wow!!! there were moments that shocked me that i could get that out of my Bass... but practice is really needed to be very

consequent in maintaining that sound and keep going with that..it is it not easy as all the Ytube clips shows it to be....Practice practice practice ....and that is a good thing! :-))

Good device for experiments

I use it for piano expermental and modern music. Really cool thing, just sometimes a bit silent :)

Very useful

Takes a while to get used to but amazing

Just as good as ever

With the added function of an on / off switch and a second harmonic mode a classic just got better.

Infinite sustain and some more

I really liked it. It produces sounds which immediately remind me of King Crimson, Anathema, and the intro from Damage Inc ;)

What I like about it is that it allows playing melodies that are more vocal or wind-like, very different from what I would otherwise play on a guitar. It's a different kind of expression.

Some facts I didn't know:

1. It works in pair with the pickup. It can drive any string, but it produces maximum output when pointed at pickup magnet poles, and it gets really loud there. Very loud.

2. When it's close to a pickup, it produces soft and pretty overdriven tone.

3. It works on one string at a time while resting on the neighboring two and muting them. It's possible to jump from string to string seamlessly, but that takes practice.

4. It has certain upper limit - notes above high E (12th fret on the first string) are quieter and excite more slowly, and notes above high B (19th fret) almost disappear.

Great accessory for those who love ambient guitar sounds

The E-Bow is pretty much a sustainer put into a separate accessory. I haven't figured out yet all the things you can do with it, but it's a lot of fun to use and complement some sections when you are recording a song and you need to fill out the space. However, I see it as a more of a studio thing, because live you would have very little time to switch from a regular pick to this thing and vice-versa. Overall I am very satisfied

excellent

not much to say...infinite sustain, an absolute classic. Any guitar player with even the slightest appetite for experimentation should have one.

Amazing - no other words

This tools other than creating amazing overtones it influences completely the approach of composition