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Description

The EBow is a hand-held electronic bow for guitar. This small battery-powered unit replaces the pick in the right hand letting the guitarist mimic strings, horns, and woodwinds with unbelievable sensitivity. The EBow produces a powerful infinite sustain, rich in harmonics for incredible guitar sounds. Unlike plug-in effects, the Energy Bow does its work on the string itself... Direct String Synthesis™. Infinite Sustain is just the beginning.

Owner's manual

Heet Sound EBow User Manual
PhilKeaggy

PhilKeaggy

Phil Keaggy "Amazing Grace" E-Bow Demonstration

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Phil Keaggy "Amazing Grace" E-Bow Demonstration

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PhilKeaggy

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EBOW - Demo, Review & Tips - Phil Keaggy Inspired Ebow Plus

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Nail Guitar Skills

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How To Use An EBow The Right Way

JHS Pedals

JHS Pedals

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My EBow Guitar Is Gently Weeping

Chords Of Orion

Chords Of Orion

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EBow : I Share ALL of My Secrets!

Chords Of Orion

Chords Of Orion

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The Amazing Ebow! - Ebow Plus Guitar Effect demo/review

Landon Bailey

Landon Bailey

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EBow for Ambient Guitar - String Switching Tutorial (Heet Sound E-Bow / EBow Plus)

Chords Of Orion

Chords Of Orion

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Ebow Plus Demo/Review - Top 20 Music Documentary Films - Guitar Giveaway Update

Picking and Flipping

Picking and Flipping

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eBow Player's Guide Cassette

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Audioborg

Reviews

Owner Insights

We analyzed real musician discussions from forums and Reddit to find what players love, question, and tweak about Heet Sound EBow.

Use cases and applications

  • The E-Bow is often used to create long atmospheric soundscapes with delay effects, drawing inspiration from techniques like Frippertronics.

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  • Combining the Ebow with an octave pedal and heavy fuzz creates unique drone and ambient soundscapes, enhancing musical textures.

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  • Employing the Ebow with a slide and delay pedal can mimic whale-like sounds, adding to its experimental potential.

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  • Incorporating an Ebow with clean reverb, delay, and volume swells enriches the sound, ideal for atmospheric and ambient compositions.

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  • Mixing the Ebow with a fuzz effect and using the neck pickup with tone at 10 can produce a distinct tonal quality.

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Features and functionality

  • The Ebow excels when paired with flangers, phasers, and wah pedals, offering diverse sonic possibilities.

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  • The E-Bow is effective on electric bass and acoustic guitars, unlike the TC AEON and YoJo, which struggle with weak signals on these instruments.

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Comparisons

  • The TC AEON offers a sturdier metal chassis and is more economical on battery life compared to the original E-Bow.

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Other

  • For novelty effects, the E-Bow can mimic a buzzing insect by using a dying battery and slack-tuned low E-string, adding experimental sound possibilities.

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Setup and maintenance

  • The original E-Bow is known to consume batteries rapidly and is prone to breakage if dropped, even on carpeted floors.

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4.5 out of 5

Based on 19 Reviews and 158 Ratings

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dannfeltrin

An incredible tool

An incredible tool, but I found it very limited. Transitioning between strings was not easy. I recorded one song with it. However, playing it live was awkward and for that reason I started to play with more distortion + compressor to get my notes sustained longer, which did the job. After that, I sold the Ebow. I know people who love using it, maybe it was not right for me.

davepepper

It's an ebow and does what ebows do

Yes - ebows are limited. You need one or you don't. I did so I got one and I love it. It does one thing pretty well. And that's about it really. Sustainiac is an option of course but it doesn't sound quite the same. If you want bagpipe sounds, an ebow is where it's at.

alf_andrew_pedersen

Bad build quality.

Had mine for ten years now, treated well and never dropped it in the ground or anything. All of the sudden it stopped working, and these things are not built to open up or fix. A fun gadget, but not worth its price at all.

jimmarchi1

agreed

ernie_balcueva

Great effect.

This was recommended by a friend and it does not disappoint. Great for ambient sustains and adding some real cool textures in the background.

alteredstate

Kinda Dated

Yes this thing is cool for infinite 1 string bowing. But it's dated. Fernandez and Sustainiac have made improvements on the "Infinite Guitar" Sound. Neat, but you can get better features elswhere.

bubbajones

completely agree... the Sustainiac I have installed on my Roland G202 far surpasses the ebow.

alf_andrew_pedersen

Agreed. Mine stopped workign all of the sudden, and they are impossible to repair.

courtland_adams

Sweet, sweet sustain

I use an EBow on Medicine Club's song 'Hear No, Speak No'. The ability to sustain notes, especially when combined with some delay, allows you to create incredible soundscapes which can really fill a venue/recording.

walter_t

The Ebow

I use it a lot to create guitar lines and atmospheric pads. Two different options available for different sounds.

coreyjdavidson

Something for your music toolkit

A versitile and relatively inexpensive piece of equipment to add to your music toolkit. Great for creating drones, loops, soundscapes and mimicking other instruments e.g. violin.

sorchahol

Love the Ebow!

Bit of getting used to but then is awesome. Long life on the battery and hardy. Have dropped it a million times!

ebowglow

EBOW plus

I love the original Ebow but this model has a switch that "grabs" the harmonics in the notes you play...very cool effects with this Ebow!

Artist usage

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See how Dave Grohl uses Heet Sound EBow

Dave Grohl

Guitarist, Drummer

Nirvana

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Dave Grohl is seen (and is credited) as using an EBow on the sonic highways track “subterranean”. He also uses an EBow on numerous foo fighters songs, like “My Hero”, and “Gimme Stitches”

See how David Gilmour uses Heet Sound EBow

David Gilmour

Guitarist

Pink Floyd

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David Gilmour talks about it in an interview with Guitar World Magazine. It appeared on "Take It Back" and "Keep Talking" from the album "The Division Bell."

"Are you using an E-bow on "Take It Back"? Yeah! On a Gibson J-200 acoustic guitar that is processed through a Zoom effects box, then directly injected into the board. That' s a pretty bizarre configuration. Well, I guess I experiment more than I think I do! I had a Zoom in my control room one day and I was mucking about with something. Suddenly, I thought I should stick the E-bow on the strings and see what would happen. It sounded great, so we started writing a little duet for the E-bowed acoustic guitar and a keyboard. We never finished the piece, but [keyboardist] Jon Carin decided to sample the E-bowed guitar part. We kept the sample and ended up using it as a loop on "Take It Back," and again on "Keep Talking."

See how Josh Homme uses Heet Sound EBow

Josh Homme

Guitarist

Kyuss

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Can be seen using an E-Bow with Kyuss in 1994 on the solo for the song Odyssey. Can clearly be seen @ 6:21 in the video:

https://youtu.be/hqnvynVTlK8

See how Johnny Marr uses Heet Sound EBow

Johnny Marr

Singer, Guitarist

Modest Mouse

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In this photo from The Brag, Johnny Marr is using an EBow while playing live at the Enmore Theatre.

See how The Edge uses Heet Sound EBow

The Edge

Guitarist

U2

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In this article, Music Radar interviews Edge's guitar tech Dallas Schoo and details his touring rig for 2009's "360° Tour." It lists the eBow among his accessories.

See how Billy Corgan uses Heet Sound EBow

Billy Corgan

Singer, Guitarist

The Smashing Pumpkins

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In this video at 4:53, Corgan can be seen using an EBow for sustaining lead portions of the song.

See how Ed O'Brien uses Heet Sound EBow

Ed O'Brien

Singer, Guitarist

Radiohead

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The EBow is frequently used by Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien in studio and for live performances of songs such as "Talk Show Host" and "Nude"[3] and "My Iron Lung", "Where I End and You Begin" and the live version of "Jigsaw Falling into Place" -wikipedia (EBow)

You can also see Ed using this EBow to play Nude in Live From The Basement video at 1:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHbHZOcpCZ0

See how Jonny Buckland uses Heet Sound EBow

Jonny Buckland

Guitarist

Coldplay

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Jonny using the E-Bow during a performance of "Spies" at the 2000 Bizarre Festival (Can be seen at 1:30)

See how Troy Van Leeuwen uses Heet Sound EBow

Troy Van Leeuwen

Guitarist, Bassist

Queens of the Stone Age

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Visible on Van Leeuwen's lap steel guitar at 10:11 in this Rig Rundown.

See how Frank Zappa uses Heet Sound EBow

Frank Zappa

Singer, Guitarist

The Plastic Ono Band

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Used on the intro of "Filthy Habits".

See how Wes Borland uses Heet Sound EBow

Wes Borland

Singer, Guitarist

Marilyn Manson

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In an Instagram post by Wes Borland, the Heet Sound EBow is visible on the right side of his pedalboard. Wes uses this EBow at the beginning of the song "Boiler."

See how Guthrie Govan uses Heet Sound EBow

Guthrie Govan

Guitarist, Composer

Asia

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One can be seen on top of his amp at 8:07

Genre Usage

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