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  1. Originally posted by LikeASong:[image]
    By LikeASong

    Any clues about that Bono's black guitar?? I don't have ANY idea... Brand, model, kind of guitar... And what the hell is up with that double dots on fret SEVEN?? I thought ony fret twelve has to get the double dots in order to point the harmonics location, etc...

    Thanks in advance


    Harmonics can be had at the 5th, 7th and 12th frets rather easily. Why the double 'dots' on the 7th and 12th frets of the Washburn EA40? No clue. Just a Washburn 'thing' at the time, I suppose. That and the fact that the 'dots' are red which are far harder to see on stage when the lighting is not so great.
  3. Originally posted by anstratdubh1979:Harmonics can be had at the 5th, 7th and 12th frets rather easily. Why the double 'dots' on the 7th and 12th frets of the Washburn EA40? No clue. Just a Washburn 'thing' at the time, I suppose. That and the fact that the 'dots' are red which are far harder to see on stage when the lighting is not so great.
    I know about the harmonics thing, also frets 3, 17, 19 and some others have them... The strange thing was the double dots on the 7th fret, I had NEVER seen it!! Anyway it must be some fashion stuff, not a music-useful thing... Thanks again, Strat


  4. Actually, the picture you just posted, with the white binding is a Washburn EA20. The EA40 didn't have binding.
  5. Originally posted by LikeASong:[..]I know about the harmonics thing, also frets 3, 17, 19 and some others have them... The strange thing was the double dots on the 7th fret, I had NEVER seen it!! Anyway it must be some fashion stuff, not a music-useful thing... Thanks again, Strat


    You can get harmonics at other frets. It is just easier to get them at the 5th, 7th and 12th frets. T'is where Edge usually gets them too.
  6. And to beat a dead horse, I have a EA20 like the one in the second piccy posted.



    And here is mine:


  8. It's like Jello, there is always room for e-bow!

    I use it lots - even if buried a bit in the mix - when recording my own music. And if you press down a bit to ward and the underside strikes the string, and you pull off a bit... it sounds like electronic seagulls or something. Pretty cool.
  9. I've used an Ebow a lot of times in our church network worship band when improvising over a mellow or atmospheric song. But just last week I used it for a recording which I've never done before - turned out really well. It's definitely one of the coolest guitar effects I know. I like to use it with a small slide. Sometimes I add a ton of other effects (vibe, trem, delay) on top of it which makes it very spacey.

    Alex
  10. An eBow is one of the next things on my list of things/guitars to get, along with a pedal or two etc. - I love really working up the sustain on my Les Paul (using the rhythm pickup usually) and getting some pretty killer sounds out of it, but you can only make it last so long. An eBow would pretty much solve that. Not to mention it would only fetch about £60, which seems fairly reasonable to me...
  11. Originally posted by Alex:I've used an Ebow a lot of times in our church network worship band when improvising over a mellow or atmospheric song. But just last week I used it for a recording which I've never done before - turned out really well. It's definitely one of the coolest guitar effects I know. I like to use it with a small slide. Sometimes I add a ton of other effects (vibe, trem, delay) on top of it which makes it very spacey.

    Alex


    Indeed - adding a bit of chorus, delay and/or reverb makes an e-bow sound great.
  12. ...and an ebow, with a Verbzilla for shimmer or ever just reverb but adding a Digitech WH-1 Whammy pedal... and one gets a lovely "With Or Without You" type tone.

    Good times.
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