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Re: Ebow, the son of the mission : it returns with a vengeance
Title: Re: Ebow, the son of the mission : it returns with
a venge
Olivier,
You're conflating the distorted output of the drive coil with the
effectiveness of the ebow at driving the string.
I'm trying to clarify that these two effects are not the
same.
You might try the experiment for yourself before attempting to
discredit it.
Here are some questions you might want to answer:
With the guitar unplugged, does the string vibration increase
when the ebow is over the poles as you claim?
I haven't found this to be true, you will certainly hear more
distortion and volume as the ebow's drive coil induces it's signal
into the guitar pickup.
Which coil in the ebow is influenced by it's position over the
pickup's poles when the guitar is unplugged?
At 11:35 PM +0100 11/10/13, o.malhomme@laposte.net wrote:
Hi
I don't think so in fact. If there was
pick up effect - and there is - unplugging only makes it impossible to
demonstrate.
So there is a flaw in the reasoning here
supposing unplugging the guitar will prove pup have no
effects.
What is meaningful here (and that's the
only meaningful thing eventually) is what range of _expression_ tools we
can access to.
Moving the ebow to the node of vibration
increases the volume, to the point it rattles against the strings,
which can desirable, or not.
Moving the Ebow toward the magnet
polepieces of the pick in operation increases dramatically the volume
and makes both fields interact. It produces on top of a highly
distorted tone some burst of noise. Only when just passing vertically
on the polepieces.
I can be desirable or not. Easy to avoid
then.
All techniques can then take advantages
of this palette by combining everything in wanted order. Being on top
of the bridge pup doesn't do the same as being on top of the neck
pup.
Being, say, 4 cm from neck pup toward
bridge doesn't do the same as being43 cm from the neck pup on the
neck.
And then as we all know, depending of the
fretting hand and the location of the note played, we'll bring
different sustained harmonics?.
My 2 cents
Regards
Olivier
De : Charles Zwicky <cazwicky@earthlink.net>
Objet : Rép : Rép : EBow
- active/passive humbuckers
Date : 10 novembre 2013
16:49:40 HNEC
À : Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
I think people conflate the internal distortion created by the
ebow's
amplifier with it's effectiveness at driving the string.
Here's a simple test anyone can perform: Unplug your guitar and
turn
on the ebow. Move the ebow around the pickups. Do you hear
any
difference?
Chuck
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