EBow EBow Plus 5-stars Reviews

Great toy

It's a great toy to add to your guitar accessories. There are two options for the sound that can be produced. Both are very fun to play with and really useful to create interesting sounds especially if you work in a studio environment / ambient band. Add reverb / delay for extra depth to the sound this can create.

I love it!

What a great tool! Well worth the money. I also bought a Cello bow to sustain, but much prefer this!

Thanks.

One of a kind

There is no other product like that. Turns your guitar into an essentially different instrument. Hard to handle though.

just for geeks

I really love the modern sound it can provide, however you have to really consider how much time you'll be using this. I use it both in studio and on stage, but the performance side is reduced to one gig so far. I recommend it to sound freaks who really look for a crazy piece of sound

E-Bow

E-bow is a great little gadget for that extra spice in your tonal range. Easy to use and lots of fun guaranteed!!

Great

Good quality and sounds terrific.

Ebow, has its place in guitar heaven.

Guitarists just love messing about with sounds. The electric guitar offers many different variations of tone and texture. Blending a new sound into a mix of a song is one of my musical pleasures. The E Bow, with its sustained clear signal and moveability on the strings, produces a sound which is unique. It's like a mixture of keyboard guitar and strings. It could be that missing element in a mix which adds a distinctive hook. Yea we love messing with pedals and devices and the Ebow is a well established tool of the trade. Get one!

Exelent :-)

super eazy to use - god cuality and for a nice price .

Totally satisfied

Use this effect for guitar and discover a whole new dimension of your timbre .

The only disadvantage of this product is that it's a little hard to get the exact volume in every different note you play .Although i don't own a volume pedal , one could be useful . Use it together with reverbs too.

Takes a little while to get used to its handling but once you get it , it's totally liberating !

I recommend this effect to guitarists who want to expand their guitars sound !

My guitar is now a completely new instrument

Astonished by the sounds I'm able to pull off thanks to this thing. Plus it's super easy to use. -1 star in quality because of the plastic housing, you definitely don't want to drop it.

Creative tool for writing

The E-bow is a piece I've thought about buying for years but never got round to it. For the price, it is a little expensive, but I'd still say pick it up, look after it and you shouldn't ever have to buy another.

Overall:

The E-bow is a really creative and fun effect. It's really nice to help flesh out ideas for songs, or just add a little something to an almost finished track to help add some ambience. Seriously work the money in that regard. It sounds really cool on Bass and Acoustic guitar too, something I didn't know about when I was buying.

Cons:

For the money, it could perhaps be a built out of something other than plastic. That said, its a very durable plastic and so long as you don't plan on throwing it out of a moving car or stepping on it, it won't be breaking any time soon on you.

Conclusion:

If you're thinking about getting one, just get it and you'll have it to help you out of any creative blocks you'll ever find yourself in through the years.

Great product

Something different for your guitar.

"The Power Of Love"

Does anybody remember Frankie Goes to Hollywood "The Power Of Love" that guitar intro?

If you want to recreate that sound get one of these babies...

Open the door to a whole new soundscape!

Not just violin/cello sounds, flute, saxophone, trombone, the list is endless especially if you mix this with a good echo machine you can really fly new musical sounds and to think this thing has been around since the 1970's

The Real Tool That Should be Found on Any Musician Pedalboard!!!

I Got my E-Bow for about 2 years and i'm very happy with it!!

The E-Bow has two modes - Normal mode has more natural sustain, simply extending the note you play, the second (Harmonic mode) encourages rich upper harmonics and that's where things can get REALLY crazy!

Take a Slide and add some effects like Tape-Echos (Delays), Reverbs, Whammy pedal, volume pedal or/and vintage overdrives/fuzzes and you will find with just a little practice some cool stuff sounds - some incredible textures, modulations, rich sounds like violins, cellos, synths (lead & pads) and much more!

You can create strings-quartet/pads by recording and overdubbing multiple notes in different octaves.

I have only some one cautionary note to say - the EBow itself is made out of a very flimsy feeling plastic, so don't let fall your e-bow - the plastic casing makes the durability a bit questionable, though I'm quietly grateful for that, because when you put a battery on it feels surprisingly weighty! On the other side i only discovery "pros".

Does what it promises

Got my ebow some months ago!

Dropped it two times in gigs with small space and it still works perfectly.

If I had one drawback to mention, it would be the battery housing that is not so well designed and takes some work to fit the battery in.

Besides that, it is an E-bow, it does what it promises to do and does it well.

Great but not perfect

i got this thing here to get this feedback sound in some way or another because i do not record through an amp. While it does its job, i find that it takes a bit of time for the result, and it can be annoying trying to find the sweet spot. But once you do you will like it.

Beautiful sound, without picking

The Stuff:

Comes in a tiny paper box, but it contains a textil bag for carrying. It has some very sexy stickers.

Tone:

It really nicely plays out the harmonics from the guitar. There are two options for harmonics: a normal, and a higher octave. A prefer the normal, never use the higher one.

Construction:

Seems and feels to be ok. I have been using it for a year, and it steel has the first 9v battery.

Fantastic tool

This might take a while to get the hang of it... but its great fun

Such a unique sound added to my songs!

Love it. Love the sound. Love everything about ebow. Fills the gap of my songs and adds something special to them.

Exactly What You'd Expect, and then a Little More

You probably know already what to expect from an EBow, and it's exactly that; a simple tool for creating infinite, violin-like sustain on a guitar. It does that beautifully! I bought one to add drones and string-quartet-esque harmonies to my music, and in the process of doing this, I came to realise the EBow is a touch more versatile than you might expect. There's quite a few secrets to getting some really varied stuff out of it!

For one, the device has two modes; one encourages more natural sustain, simply extending the note you play, but there's another mode that encourages rich upper harmonics to come into play. Now that's where things can get REALLY crazy!

How the EBow reacts with the pickups on your guitar is also very interesting; I'm not sure what exactly sure what about the pickups that causes this variation, but I've noticed on my own SSS guitar that the sustain is very mellow and ambient with my middle pickup sat beneath it, and bring out much more of the rich overtones and feedback-like sounds over the neck PUP. This likely won't be the same for you, but my point is, experiment! It's also worth noting that you don't have to have the pickup you're using with the EBow selected for it to work; yet another piece of the puzzle to solve!

I have two very minor complaints; the first is that the EBow itself is made out of a very flimsy feeling plastic (though I'm quietly grateful for this, as it feels surprisingly weighty once you get a battery into it!). The second is more a cautionary note than a complaint, but I feel you should be aware that the EBow causes the string to vibrate really very aggressively, which will likely mean that you will find it quite a bit louder than you usually are on your current setup. Again, not exactly an issue, but if you're in a very grumpy-neighbour-intensive area, I'd lower the volume a tad!

All in all, however, the EBow has made a fine addition to my ambient arsenal; there aren't many options to get this kind of sound, and the EBow sells for loose change compared to a special pickup system, and is a bit more unique than the effects pedals that try and capture the sound. Recommended!