Sustainer Pickup VS EBow! - The Pro's & Cons & Which Is Best For Ultimate Sustain!
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- Did you know there are devices out there which give you infinite sustain on the guitar?! From soaring lead lines to etherial soundscapes, these marvels of technology allow you to sustain the notes on your guitar indefinitely. Ranging from David Bowies 'Heroes', to Def Leppard & Steve Vai tracks, both the EBow & Sustainer Pickups have been used as secret weapons by guitarists to create mind bending sustain!
Find all the 'sustaining' products & Guitars Dagan mentions in this video at PMT Online below:
EBow Handheld Sustain Device - bit.ly/3KWzGEN
Schecter Sustainiac Loaded Banshee Mach-6 - bit.ly/3Sqdtmu
Schecter Machine Gun Kelly PT - bit.ly/48PUQ11
ALL Schecter Guitars - bit.ly/3CAWMMq
Antiquity AQ35 Semi Hollow Guitar - bit.ly/40O3KYy
In this video Dagan goes in-depth with both the EBow & The Sustainer Pickup (more specifically a Sustainiac Pickup), and pits them head to head to help you decide which one is right for you! He goes through the history of both units, describes what is artificial sustain, what does a sustainiac pickup do, what does an EBow do, how to use a Sustaniac, how to use an EBow and finally the Pros & Cons of each so you can get sustaining in no time!
00:00 Intro
01:06 What Is Sustain?
03:07 How These Magical Devices Actually Work! - Creating Artificial Sustain
04:44 How To Use The EBow
06:40 How To Use A Sustainer Pickup
09:51 Sustainer Pickup - Pros
11:59 Sustainer Pickup - Cons
15:56 EBow - Pros
18:07 EBow - Cons
20:07 Final Thoughts
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I do love me some sustain! 🤘 What would you choose, the Sustainiac or EBow? ⚡️
The Ebow and Sustainiac are cool. But when I want sustain I prefer the Les Paul from Spinal Tap.
I like both but the sustainiac wins because you can use it at any time
I’m spoiled, I have a Fernandes MG-145S with a built-in sustainer. D: I’m not sure how it compares to a sustainiac, but it can fake several different pickup configs!
Sustainiac of course
Proud owner of a Sustainiac! I went with this because of the relative ease of use compared to an EBow or the TC Electronic Aeon.
Honestly, the only con with the Sustainiac is if you’re relatively clumsy like myself and you DESPISE soldering like I do, the wiring for the control board is 18 extra wires by itself, so I’d recommend (especially if your control cavity is small like in the case of the Jackson KEXQ Kelly that I have my Sustainiac installed in) taking it to your local guitar tech for the install. MAKE SURE YOU DON’T LOSE THE WIRING DIAGRAM - THEY WILL NEED IT.
If you’re in the Brooklyn, NY area, go to the Sam Ash near Kings County Mall and ask for a guitar tech by the name of Chris Vega. He installed my Sustainiac and did a damn good job! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
It’s worth mentioning that the the sustainer pickup system was originally invented by experimental guitarist Michael Brook, who used it on albums like the amazing Cobalt Blue. He only made two, originally, one of which he gave to The Edge who used it on “With Or Without You” by U2. The Sustainac etc. are based on Brook’s designs.
Dan Lanois has an Infinite Guitar, made for him by Michael, and I'm the 4th owner/operator of the Infinite Guitar.
The Ebow tends to be more useful with a neck pickup. You can use it to interact with the neck pickup by changing the intensity of the magnetic field. Use it slightly behind the pickup for a lighter flow then slide it directly over the pickup for full on overload. It's a very useful device.
I use Digitech Freqout pedal ;)
Very cool sound. The Edge from U2 uses this "Ebow" on many of U2 songs, like "With or Without You".
Thank you for the cool reviews - Dagan should have his own TV show !
On With Or Without You, the Edge used an experimental “Infinite Guitar” created by Michael Brook, not an E-Bow.
Great job explaining sustainers. I got my eye on a couple of Schecter models with the sustainiac. The Apocalypse and or the Hellrairsser
I bought a schecter sun valley as I am heavily inspired by Steve Hackett and it nails his tones perfectly.
Got a Manson guitars M series with the sustainiac recently, great guitar but a con I haven't heard people mention is sometimes it's hard to get the right string to sustain properly. It takes a bit of micromanagement that isn't normal really. You have to get in the habit of muting strings that you don't want to ring otherwise it will sometimes engage on the wrong string. I was messing around a bit like doing a natural harmonic on single strings and seeing what sounds I could get out and like if you do it on the high E string it will sometimes engage the B string or G string without touching it and not the E string at all.
so glad u mentioned spinal tap
Had a Schecter with a Sustaniac. Very cool for getting some of those Satriani type sustains in his songs
You're holding the Ebow backwards, the LED light should be toward the neck. Holding it backwards makes it very hard to find the nodes. The instructions that come with the Ebow clearly show how to hold it.
I have two of these Schecters (your PT and a Strat style in black) they’re awesome!
Phil Collen of Deflepard uses Sustaniac Pickups in alot of his Jacksons
Ebow -Nazareth Love Hurts Solo? Sustainer -Joe Satriani Flying in a Blue Dream?
5:35 that sounds suspiciously like the Halo 2 theme song (tuned down) 😁
Yep, that's the first thing I heard but slightly off.
Used to be a high gain fanboi but when getting older I really start to like the cleaner Fender kind of tones.
Was to buy a little headpone amp and bumped into the EBow Plus...so I bought both 😊
Still figuring out on how to use the Ebow but it is a lot of fun. With phones and little Fender headphone amp 🤠
With the ebow you can play beautiful, amazing volume swels, that put it apart from Soustainiac and Fernandes. I decidedly preffer the ebow, i use it a lot, i love this little magic and very musical tool..
Volume knob could be used to imitate this
Gotta trademark those Sustain Smiles 😂
also the sustainiac model C, with a floorbox and mounted on the headstock. i have been wanting to order it to try.
What would you recommend among squier sonic hss, yamaha pac012 and ibanez grx40 ...1st electric guitar..really confused 😕
You definitely got the licks!
I’ve been using one for years, I use with delays and shimmer to get orchestral sounds.
Now I use it with my cloudburst pedal as well
This - using it with chords and a clean tone through compression, chorus and delay gives you an almost synthesizer type sound.
I have the sustainiac in one of my Jackson’s, it’s too much fun. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽🤟🏽
Hey I got a question about it sustainer, does it applies the magnetic field to every string or just the one that’s playing?
I didn’t know the sustainiac “turned off” the neck pickup, have never heard anyone mention that before! I don’t think I’d miss it in use but it’s good to know!
you should do a video on the p rails by symore duncan
From what I remember reading, I seem to recall Robert Fripp's sustain on 'Heroes' being achieved entirely through experimenting with amp feedback and positioning in the booth, in the studio version anyway. In live situations, such as on the Isolar II tour, I wouldn't be at all surprised if Carlos Alomar (or possibly Adrian Belew, I'm not sure which of the two guitarists) would've used an EBow to match the record.
Yeah - the feedback on Heroes didn’t use any devices. Fripp has used the Fernandes Sustainer in recent years.
Steve Hillage! :)
What is that mattblack basso on the right side
Schecter Nikki Sixx Signature Bass! 🤘
Not mentioned with the Sustainiac is that sustaining a chord all of the strings will gravitate to a single note! It does not sustain all of the individual notes.
For a moment I thought he was breaking out the halo theme!!!
do this with the FreqOut
What brand fingernail polish do you use? I heard that OPI, Essie and Sally Hansen fingernail polish is the best. Have you tried any of these? Have you ever had any skin or nail damage from finger male nail polish? I use Revlon, I don't know if that's available in the UK.
Sometimes I get confused with the black fret dot inlays and my black finger nails. I don't know which is which half of the time. Please let me know, thanks.
Can you get that same effect using pedals ?
@@LIKEFUNK awesome , thank you very much. ☕👍🏼
@@LIKEFUNK nice, auto correct makes things interesting , huh ?
@@LIKEFUNK digitech made an amazing reverb pedal called the supernatural but I think it's been discontinued.
Out the window with it!
Fernandes sustainer pickup
I’d choose a sustainiac because of synyster gates 😂
Syn is legendary! 🔥
Another inaccuracy, it’s implied that you can use another pickup along with the sustainer. This is not true! The magnetic field from the sustainer creates noise if the active pickup is too close to the sustainer. Sustainiac says the sustainer should only be used with the bridge pickup.
Ebow the Letter. New Adventures in Hi-Fi.
In short the "secrets" of the past couldn't remain secret forever. 🤘😔🎸
I’m just here for the incredible hair and great English accent.🤓
First
just develope your vibratto till you can whip the string to pitch and you never run out of sustain