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    From Neall Mercado@6:751/321 to Sven Petersen on Thursday, April 05, 2001 18:24:00
    Quoting Sven Petersen to Neall Mercado <=-


    How does this e-bow thing function? How can it make an infinite sustain over notes?

    Actually, it is picking up the vibration of the strings, amplifying it
    and feeding it back the the string and the pickup. The sound differs

    So, is it just like a small speaker making a feedback on the guitar?

    depending on where you point the "hot spot" that is maked with a blue light spot. Depending one how you move it, you can produce sounds like
    a flute or a cello or a violin and more. YOu rarely hear it being used

    Hmmm...interesting. How much is that E-bow costs when you bought it?

    You can find a picture of an e-bow on my guitar zone website.It looks
    like a light gray, kinda u shaped thing.

    I'll check it out...

    By the way, I wonder how those tubes attached to the microphone and connected into the guitar function? I think it was called "talk box," used by Richie Sambora in the song "Living on the Prayer" and "It's My Life" by Bon Jovi. Do you have a picture of that in your guitar site?

    Take care

    Thanks a lot.


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  • From Thomas Richter@2:2480/8058 to Neall Mercado on Friday, April 06, 2001 17:33:52
    Hello Neall!

    06 Apr 01 01:24, Neall Mercado wrote to Sven Petersen:

    By the way, I wonder how those tubes attached to the microphone and connected into the guitar function? I think it was called "talk box," used by Richie Sambora in the song "Living on the Prayer" and "It's My

    The active talk-boxes (about DM 700.00 in Germany) work with the guitars line-signal, amplifying it and driving a small speaker with high pressure output to which the tube is connected. The tube ends near a normal microphone and the mouth is used for building up resonants on different frequencies depending on how wide you open it. This is then amplified using the microphone and a pa. I can remember that there are cheaper talk-boxes (about DM 300.00) which are passive, using part of the speaker-output, but I'm not sure if they work that good, never tested this types, the first type is very cool. Tried it but it was to much money for doing "living on a prayer" with original effects so i used my old CryBaby. Does nearly the same if you have time to modify the frequency-range (and cheaper by the way...)

    Take care,
    Thomas

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