Re: Rép : EBow - active/passive humbuckers

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:56 PM, andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk> 
wrote:
> Don't know why the top string on your active p/u instrument
> responds less well, but the top string usually gets
> difficult above the 12th fret.
> Some damping from the bridge?


Might be just because that string is so thin? I was just playing e-bow
on another fretless guitar here, one with only a bridge pickup but
thick and low tuned .013 strings. On this guitar there's no issue with
the highest pitched string. I guess that's because it still is rather
thick; actually like a regular B string, but at the E-string position
and tuned to B.

Interesting as well to experience excellent e-bow respons in this
instrument that doesn't have a neck pickup! Even the e-bow
manufacturer's manual states that the guitar should have a neck pickup
for the e-bow to work well, but this seems inaccurate according to my
experience with this bridge-PUP-only fretless.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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