The EBow Challenge

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William Jacobs

Күн бұрын

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@BounceChord Ай бұрын

New favorite KZbin channel. Bing!

@william.jacobs Ай бұрын

No way man thank you so much! Very kind :)

@BounceChord Ай бұрын

@ looking forward to more snarky gear vids.

@bcornels 24 күн бұрын

Involve water somehow? Or other fluids and submerge the metal partially? A metal chain? Loving your stuff!

@MilanTehVillain Ай бұрын

My favourite unconventional (yet relatively standard compared to this) use of an ebow comes from "Kantele Bow" in the Halo 4 soundtrack; where Neil Davidge (DNA, Massive Attack) creates most (if not all) of the ambient drones, swells and scrapes you hear in the track come from said kantele. As for what other objects to try it out on? I don't know. Kettles, spice shakers, fridg magnets, those big metal drink bottles or tall medieval drinking steins, ventilation, fans, heaters, cables of some kind (as long as their ends are plugged into anything & turned on), door locks or latches. I have no clue, honestly. I'm just spitballing here.

@lookapookamusic 2 ай бұрын

super fun video, song at the end is sick too 💯💯

@william.jacobs 2 ай бұрын

@@lookapookamusic so kind, thank you!

@ruadeil_zabelin Ай бұрын

I subbed for the free metronome plugin. Stayed for the jokes

@william.jacobs Ай бұрын

Hey thanks, appreciate it!

@LaidBackApophis Ай бұрын

really enjoyed the track, cool experiment, subbed

@william.jacobs Ай бұрын

Hey thanks so much, glad you enjoyed :)

@nichttuntun3364 Ай бұрын

Did you try it on the rim of a cymbal? Great sound design btw!

@william.jacobs Ай бұрын

What a great idea! Will try 🙏

@nichttuntun3364 Ай бұрын

It's used for classical horror film sound design. I'm curious about your experiments with it. 🎉

@dartqrman Ай бұрын

great demo track

@william.jacobs Ай бұрын

Thanks so much!! Glad you enjoyed :)

@sophiew.1499 16 күн бұрын

Hello, love your videos! You could theoretically oscillate differently tuned (😂) tuning forks with it and build a super basic instrument out of it.

@hellf.o 2 ай бұрын

Wow this is one of the most interesting video I saw lately!😮 I've always wondered if E Bow could play other things a part from strings and you answered my question in such a fun and entertaining way! Subscribed for more experiments! Btw that song with samples was amazing! Thank you so much! 👍

@william.jacobs 2 ай бұрын

@@hellf.o hey this is such a kind comment, thank you so much - that really means a lot :) Yes I had great fun experimenting with it, definitely recommend that you have a go and see what you can find :)

@cefk9944 Ай бұрын

If you want your metal skillet to sound like a power metal vocalist, you reach for your trusty ebow ;)

@lainisourgod 5 күн бұрын

tweezers sounded a bit like broken flute My Heart Will Go On cover 🪈💓

@Stella18eue8 Ай бұрын

beautiful demo

@william.jacobs Ай бұрын

Thanks so much!!

@return2sender791 2 ай бұрын

I accidentally deleted my first comment. Pretty sure most of those sounds are just the sound of the ebow feeding back on itself thats why everything sounds the same. The track at the end is nice.

@william.jacobs 2 ай бұрын

@@return2sender791 this is a super interesting point and very possibly right - I’ll be the first to admit I’m no expert on the exact mechanic of how the EBow works or why it makes the sounds it does. I can say that certainly the metronome responded differently - the EBow made it visibly and tangibly vibrate, producing pitch - and there was evidence of that happening on other objects too (I.e, the tweezers moved and danced around on the EBow when I stopped holding them, indicating that they were vibrating and themselves producing the sound). Harder to say with the other objects though. Maybe the future objective should be finding more objects like the metronome that resonate in an interesting way, instead of most of the other objects that produce the same annoying squeak haha. Thank you for the thoughts and I’m so glad you liked the end track!

@gwa3584 2 ай бұрын

this is cool!

@william.jacobs 2 ай бұрын

@@gwa3584 thank you so much!!

@robintorbittmusic5930 2 ай бұрын

Great video William! Am I right the pitch change with the metronome is caused by varying length of material you are allowing to vibrate on either side of the point the weight contacts? A short length should vibrate faster, producing a higher pitch - exactly the same as placing your fingers higher up a guitar neck to shorten the length of vibrating string. Very cool!

@william.jacobs 2 ай бұрын

I think so - but what's strange is that, at least to my eye, the entire pendulum vibrates from the EBow no matter where the weight is. So it's not as though the bit of material that's vibrating is any smaller (at least that's not how it seems to be). Nor did moving the weight have any linear effect on pitch (i.e., it didn't always necessarily get higher as I moved the weight up the pendulum). I don't know whether maybe it's something more like a guitar harmonic? - that the length of the material that's vibrating stays the same, but the fundamental pitch changes and sometimes strikes a harmonic depending on where the weight is? But in all actuality - I have no idea how it's really working haha

@evansmigels7065 Ай бұрын

you could try the metal part of a light bulb

@william.jacobs Ай бұрын

Genius 🤯🤯

@0_leglesslizard_0 2 ай бұрын

would like to see it on a really BIG thing or even a really LONG thing, maybe more rich sonic possibilities there

@william.jacobs 2 ай бұрын

@@0_leglesslizard_0 thanks so much for these ideas - definitely a bias towards small / handhold-able objects in this video. I’ll try out some bigger things and maybe post them in a short! Thanks for watching :)