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Anybody know any good techniques for using one of these? I am getting one for Christmas. I have heard them, but have not used them. Anything that would help in getting started would be useful...
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had the same question because I'm getting one for christmas. Just went to the website and they have the manual that comes with it online and some soundclips of different techniques.
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- Read the directions that it comes with. They will tell you a lot.
- Don't be afraid to play with your volume and tone controls. They make a huge difference in the sound.
- Practice with it a lot - especially with string to string transitions. If you get those down, then a whole new realm of possibilities opens up.
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can't wait! my girlfriend will rue the day she bought me this.
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There's some pretty good tips in this thread
God bless, Rich
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It's like a lot of things, you can get awesome sounds from it if you spend half and hour learning the absolute basics, but if you put in the effort you can do so much more.
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If you have a delay pedal I guarantee you that the Ebow along with it will become the most obsessive tools you've ever owned. Very light overdrive and some delay will give you sounds beyond what you knew you could do. Vote for Ebow and all your wildest dreams will come true...heh. Oh, wait... Our lead guitarist got one and had a DD-3 or DD-5 Boss delay, don't remember which one. That alone was quite the experience, but he added the Line 6 Delay Modeler a few months ago, which has like 15 seconds of looping built in, too, not to mention reverse delays and every other crazy delay you could think of. It's freakin' other-worldly now. If you go to our website at www.sojourneronline.com the first song that plays in the background is an instrumental we came up with in the studio just noodling around one night on accident. There's a bit of acoustic in it that I played both lightly effected and with what was called a "spektral delay" on it that makes it sound like windchimes, oddly enough. The rest was all Ebow-ed electric with delay, a slide, overdrive and other bits and pieces played with the Ebow. Seriously one of the most tasteful and under-noticed effects out there.
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practice moving it from string to string. it sounds really awesome when you can run through scales with it.
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Try to get a good feel for how it effects the volume of your signal. You almost always have to turn the volume way down the second you pick up the ebow, since it can produce MUCH louder signals than picking. If you plan on switching between strumming and/or picked lead and ebow sounds in a given song, it's critical to get used to that. Otherwise people will either hate you when you use your ebow, or not hear you when you don't.
Like brent said... delay expands what you can do with it a lot... if i recall correctly, you have a rack delay and should be fine there.
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Originally Posted by jbm222 Try to get a good feel for how it effects the volume of your signal. You almost always have to turn the volume way down the second you pick up the ebow, since it can produce MUCH louder signals than picking. If you plan on switching between strumming and/or picked lead and ebow sounds in a given song, it's critical to get used to that. Otherwise people will either hate you when you use your ebow, or not hear you when you don't.
Like brent said... delay expands what you can do with it a lot... if i recall correctly, you have a rack delay and should be fine there.
2 rack delays to be accurate. (one is dedicated delay, the other is more effects, with delay)
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And a volume pedal...forgot to mention that. Delay, light overdrive and a volume pedal and you're set...for life.