Re: Sustainiac (Was: Looper's Essential Listening revisited:)

["Nik" <fluke@gotadsl.co.uk>]

Bought a Sustainiac Stealth Plus retrofit kit from Maniuac Music at 
www.sustainiac.com a few years ago and installed it on an old super-strat 
type guitar I had lying about. Installation was not as easy as they made 
out. The mechanical fit was very tight. But the performance is excellent - 
strong sustain. Lots of control over the strength and harmonics. Can sound 
very much like natural amp feedback if you want it to. And it makes a 
passable high-output neck pickup as well. I now have it installed in a 
Roland G707. Only trouble is, PP3 batteries do not last very long.

It's not like having an Ebow on each string. I have an Ebow and the 
techniques one uses are quite different. I look forward to looping with 
both 
when my EDP+ arrives.

Nik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jj 179" <jj179subs@hotmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: Sustainiac (Was: Looper's Essential Listening revisited:)


> Not sure if anybody else had this experience, but a coupla years ago I 
> went out and bought a Fernandes Sustainer. I had been using an e-bow for 
> years and had heard wonderful stories about the Sustainer.
>
> It was an extreme disappointment. The guitar itself was incredibly 
>cheaply 
> built. The Sustain didn't work very effectively at all - certainly **not 
> at all** like an e-bow. I could only get the faintest of feedback and it 
> sounded lousy.
>
> I'm sticking to my e-bow.
>
> just my 2 cents.