Reckon they must build these EBows out of the stuff they make the airplane black boxes out of.
I must've had this one for at least 20-odd years, and it reliably does the thang every single time. The battery seems to last forever too.
Should use it more, really...
@DyDave I love mine (7yrs now).
It can be a bit tricky on bass and it definitely needs more practice time than I'm willing to throw at it but it sure does add the savory sauce with the right amount of reverb and/or echo/delay.
Yeah, they're fun eh?
I find you can almost never have too much reverb. This is through a Korg SDD-3000 delay in 'KOSMIC' mode into a Fender Princeton with the onboard spring reverb tank turned up to 7:
Gamechanger Light pedal and/or EH Cathedral (before the Light pedal - stereo out to number 2 amp).
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TC Electronics ND-1 Nova delay.
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The sound of knee deep smoke.
Amp 1 is my tried and trusty Acoustic 136. Amp 2 is a Marshall Code 50 in the cleanest setting I can find on the thing).
Yeah, that'll do it!
I've only ever seen vids of the Gamechanger but it seems cool!
And I see you've got the other Edge from U2 delay going there. I'm told he flipped between the TC 2290 and the Korg SDD all the time when he did the Joshua Tree sessions, so we're very much on the same page.
A clean amp does seem to be the way to go. All the Princetons I've ever played seem to do their thang with the volume somewhere between 3.5 and 6, and that's basically bedroom volume 🤷♂️
@DyDave Back in the 80's I was in a band where I played one of those things (they wanted to sound like KajaGooGoo) but the guitar part had to switch to a syncopated line in a hurry, so I always just dropped the damned thing and grabbed a pick taped to my mic stand..
Still have it. Still works.
Right? Solid as a rock.
I remember I got mine to play the synth lead bit in that bit of 'Don't You Forget About Me' by Simple Minds before the awesome drum fill when I was playing in a cover band.
I only managed to put it back on top of the amp without dropping it most of the time 😬
I even let a battery corrode in there once, but I cleaned the points off and all's well 🤷♂️
Ah, found it!
This is a cover of Simple Minds' Don't You Forget About Me we recorded many years ago now in which I used the EBow to do the synth lead part.
#CosoGuitar