Ebow on a Bass

[Sonic_Groove]

You can actually use them on a regular Acoustic Guitar with regular strings. But it's different and You need to pre-excite the string (bending, vibrato, a slide or whatever) & like bigredx said for Bass it's not as essay or fluid as on an Electric guitar

 

 

[BigRedX]

15 hours ago, Hellzero said:

Exactly what I wrote. 😉

What I was trying to imply was that as soon as you fit the required magnetic pickup to an acoustic guitar from using an Ebow PoV it is has become no different to an electric guitar.

[BigRedX]

15 hours ago, Sonic_Groove said:

You can actually use them on a regular Acoustic Guitar with regular strings. But it's different and You need to pre-excite the string (bending, vibrato, a slide or whatever) & like bigredx said for Bass it's not as essay or fluid as on an Electric guitar

 

That's interesting. However my Ebow won't even switch on until it is in the presence of a magnetic field (like a pickup), so that won't work for everyone. Also IME having to pre-excite the string, removes a lot of the expressiveness from using an Ebow.

[Owen]

I have a sustainer pickup fitted to my Tele (guitar). It is LOADS of fun. If they did one big enough for bass I would have one of those as well.

[Owen]

https://www.sustainiac.com/st-pro.htm says they can accomodate Bass guitars, But the page looks like it has been untouched since 199HTML so I have no idea if it is a thing or not.

[BigRedX]

3 minutes ago, owen said:

I have a sustainer pickup fitted to my Tele (guitar). It is LOADS of fun. If they did one big enough for bass I would have one of those as well.

 

Fernandes do a travel bass with a built-in amp and speaker called the Pie-Zo (Nomad in the US), which at full volume and with a new battery in the amp is powerful enough to drive the strings.

 

Personally for the bass I'd be looking at getting a Gizmotron 

[Hellzero]

There's a Gizmotron for sale in Germany. I've been tempted a few times to hit the buy button, but it seems so fragile that I came to mind each time.

 

https://www.bassic.de/kleinanzeigen/gizmotron-2-0-bass.23528/

[Hellzero]

55 minutes ago, owen said:

https://www.sustainiac.com/st-pro.htm says they can accomodate Bass guitars, But the page looks like it has been untouched since 199HTML so I have no idea if it is a thing or not.

There was a Fernandes Sustainer bass built in 1995, the ASB-100.

 

https://reverb.com/item/29209055

[Jakester]

I looked at an eBow to deal with bowed DB parts in tunes I was playing, but because of the drawbacks highlighted in this thread and elsewhere I went a slightly different way. 

 

I use an EHX Freeze pedal which, when coupled with a 'violining' technique on the volume (either knob or volume pedal) gives a reasonably convincing facsimile of a bowed, sustained note.  

 

If you time the Freeze right you get a lovely full sustained note. Depending on how you want to play it you can set it momentary (i.e. it dies when you release) or latching (it holds until you switch it off). 

 

Might be worth a look?

[Sonic_Groove]

You could try this... ! If it doesn't work You can always wrap it as an Xmas present for a Friend !!! 😂