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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 ManualVideos
PhilKeaggy
Phil Keaggy "Amazing Grace" E-Bow Demonstration
Phil Keaggy "Amazing Grace" E-Bow Demonstration
PhilKeaggy
EBOW - Demo, Review & Tips - Phil Keaggy Inspired Ebow Plus
Nail Guitar Skills
How To Use An EBow The Right Way
JHS Pedals
My EBow Guitar Is Gently Weeping
Chords Of Orion
EBow : I Share ALL of My Secrets!
Chords Of Orion
The Amazing Ebow! - Ebow Plus Guitar Effect demo/review
Landon Bailey
EBow for Ambient Guitar - String Switching Tutorial (Heet Sound E-Bow / EBow Plus)
Chords Of Orion
Ebow Plus Demo/Review - Top 20 Music Documentary Films - Guitar Giveaway Update
Picking and Flipping
eBow Player's Guide Cassette
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
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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
Comparisons
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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
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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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4.5 out of 5
Based on 19 Reviews and 158 Ratings
1871
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.
640
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.
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.
41029
agreed
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960
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.
1312
completely agree... the Sustainiac I have installed on my Roland G202 far surpasses the ebow.
Agreed. Mine stopped workign all of the sudden, and they are impossible to repair.
201
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.
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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.
Artist usage
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Listed under Ryan's gear on Vividgreen.net. It was used in Guster's "I'm Through", a la Joe Pisapia.
In a live performance in 1992 on the UK’s 'The Word' TV show, Rat can be clearly seen and heard using a Heet Sound EBow during the intro to their song "Intact," as corroborated by the YouTube video uploaded by marsamgod titled "Neds Atomic Dustbin - Intact (live on The Word 21.11.92)."
"I developed the Infinite Guitar around '83-84. I'd ordered an E-Bow for recording Hybrid. I was very interested in some techniques used in Indian and Arabic music, where you work with a lot of ornamentation and bending notes. So I thought that maybe a E-Bow might be good for that. But for some reason they kept mislaying my order. So I started fooling around myself and pretty quickly came up with this really weird looking machine. When finally the E-Bow arrived, the Infinite Guitar worked better, so I've been using it ever since."
In this GuitarGeek rig diagram, made by Adam Cooper, Zak's rig includes an E-Bow.
Velcroed to the body of his SG2000 — an E-Bow. This small, hand held, chromed device must be one of the best kept secrets in the guitarist business. They contain a battery powered electro magnet which uses its constantly changing magnetic field to "pluck" at the strings. In the same way that a violin bow can be drawn across a violin string making it sustain indefinitely (at least until your arm drops off), an E-Bow can keep a guitar string vibrating for hours.
"They're great, I love them. On 'Too Shy...' it's E-Bow on the middle eight where a lot of people think its synth."
Giorgio Canali is seen using a Heet Sound EBow in the film "Massimo Zamboni '30 anni di ortodossia,'" as featured in a YouTube video by Paolo Bonfanti. Although this EBow is not associated with his work in CCCP or CSI, it is a part of his gear collection during other musical projects.
David Newton can be seen using an Ebow at 0:45.
Since the beggining of the video, you can see him using a e bow
This image shows Dustin using it during the tour with Lisa Mitchell
Album Usage
The Heet Sound EBow has been featured on the following albums:
Elemento Noches De Salón
Enjambre (2023)
Wrecked
Imagine Dragons (2021)
DIAMONDS & DYNAMITE
Donna Grantis (2019)
MR MAJESTIC
Donna Grantis (2019)
Too Shy
Kajagoogoo (2017)
Little Fictions (Fickle Flame Version)
Elbow (2017)
Weightless (Radio Edit)
Northlane (2016)
The Serenity of Suffering
Korn (2016)
Sonic Highways
Foo Fighters (2014)
The Suburbs
Arcade Fire (2010)
The Great Misdirect
Between the Buried and Me (2009)
Around The Sun
R.E.M. (2004)
There Is Nothing Left To Lose
Foo Fighters (1999)
Conspiracy #5
Third Day (1997)
The Colour And The Shape
Foo Fighters (1997)
The Division Bell
Pink Floyd (1994)
Through The Hill
Andy Partridge & Harold Budd (1994)
Superstar Car Wash
Goo Goo Dolls (1993)
Earth 2
Earth (1993)
ARE YOU NORMAL?
Ned's Atomic Dustbin (1992)
Nonsuch
XTC (1992)
Hybrid
Michael Brook (1985)
About Time
New York Gong (1980)
Paul Stanley
Paul Stanley (1978)
Go 2
XTC (1978)
Genre Usage
Based on how artists on Equipboard use this gear, it is most commonly found in the following genres.
Used With
Based on how musicians on Equipboard use Heet Sound EBow, it is most commonly used with the following gear.
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