Vibrating pick? Anyone seen one?

[Deleted member 79588]

I was watching the Nine Inch Nails: And All That Could Have Been tour DVD and Robin Finck uses a little hand-held thing that he held on his string and it vibrated and made very long, drawn out, droning notes. Anyone ever seen one or know what it is?

 

[Deleted member 79588]

Nevermind.. it's called an E-bow. I might get one for some string-like sounds. Looks pretty bad ass.

 

[BassistFreak416]

i hear they take awhile to get used to and get good sounds from it. regardless, you can do some pretty sick stuff with it

 

[ehque]

I borrowed my guitarist's one and i couldn't get a single sound out of it. The strings may be too thick to excite.

Manring uses 2, FWIW.

 

[dmq89]

I borrowed my guitarist's one and i couldn't get a single sound out of it. The strings may be too thick to excite.

Manring uses 2, FWIW.

FWIW, the string has to be in the exact center of the Ebow (the magnetic field) to vibrate. IME, it works best if you brace the bottom of it on the next string and play passages ONLY on the string the Ebow is on.

I have one of these - don't use it much, but it does make some cool sounds - try it with a fretless, tons of chorus, a flanger, and an overdrive (all at once)!!!

 

[wetzelman1]

it's designed for guitar so the guides aren't spaced right for the bass and make it pretty hard to hit the sweet spot. Can sound awesome, just pretty hard to use.

 

[TimmyBoomBoom]

Vibrating Pick? From Jack Benny talking about his band:" Now take Clem over. He's known to take a drink or two. And he figured that since his hand was shaking anyways, he might as well put a guitar in it."